ivMl tc, wwqtMowMn WWtWWtHW MtMMw -t ?& ; -Aj ?"B -" , mm ate .w Jjj3fcJUrmn -nir VI .''( si h "iwj ppjirvHji' vv,,piTpvs rl. ? ' to F It ! w I I A ft i u I it ft. I. ? ? i '- Wy w v' The, Use Machinewv- hay V BmBUBmsafflzmWEw ,. a Has made, Hay Making easier lloymnklng la nn art which a great nauy farmers have not yet learned. The niodorn method or making hay Is far different from that of tlio old days when KraBB wna cut with scythoB, turn ed with pitchforks, If tlmo permitted, and stowed awny In dork, musty bartiH, or stneked In the open field to keop or spoil nn might he. In modern haymaking, tlmo Is onsen. tlal. If tho crop should ho cut a dny too soon It will cattily spoil. If a day too Into Its quality may bo impaired y Its dry, woody growth. If It 1b al lowed to llo on tho ground 24 hours too long before being toBBcd nnd cured Its quality may ho reduced one-half. Modem buying machinery makes haynmking easier, but even with all the appliances that Ingenious manu facturers linvn Riven us, tho propor tion of farmers who mako a "euro thing" of their hay crop, every yoar fli all too small. There has ulwayB been a great deal ef trouble In curing the clover-hay crop. Much of Its valuo Is lost because cf tho lack of help necessary to prop erty euro It and tako caro of It after ft has been cured. Tho hay-tedder has helped greatly, and this kicking ma chine Is now scon on every good farm whero tho best modern methods aro employed. Tho sldo ruko la another flno ma-, chine which helps us In saving the crop, nnd 'If clover Is cut In exactly the right tlmo tho ubo of these two machines will enable any furmor to savo all their Is of his crop, with at least 00 'per cent, of Its feeding value. Heretofore, much of tho buy of this country was lost through allowing It to stand In stnclts In tho Hold. Tho kay burn is now a necessity on every good farm where tho moat Is made of everything. Whore hay Is still stack ed canvas covers help a great deal, but tho only way to properly caro for clo ver hay 1b to put It Into a well-ventilated, clean barn. Tho valuo of tho hay crop doponds largely upon tho man who makes It. llo must havo exact knowledge of tho tlmo to cut It, Just how It must be cured in all kinds of weathor, nnd how to storo It. Ho must thoroughly andcrstnnd tho ubo of nil haying ma chinery nnd know how to mako tho Boat of every hour of tho haying sea son with his human help' ns woll. Tho proper use of machinery Is tho most Important thing. Too many farm ers In their haste- to get tho crop off the ground crowd their mowing ma chines boyoml their capacity, which always results In consldcrnblo loss. Nothing Is moro Indicative of a poor farmor than tho sight of a hayflold In which little rows of grass, varying from two to six inches, aro left stand lag, tho result of trying to mnku a seven-foot cyclo-bar cut a soveu-foot six Inch swath., - Tho machlno Bhould bo set and so driven ob to cut ovory spear of grass slick and clean, nnd lay It down even ly. Then, when tho raking comes on, there Is another sourco of loss In tho careless way In which tho ground Is covered, or rather not covered. Lit. tlo bunches of hay left hore and thero count largely In tho aggregate, and can largo monoy lost. We know of many good farmers who are particular about the way In which taoy handlo ovory crop on the farm except tho hay crop. They mako out ef this a sort of side Issue. Thoy fall te Bake proper preparations, and whon tho season comes upon them thoy dash hurriedly Into tho work, rush It from start to finish, tako Binall note ef weathor conditions, and thereby lose from 10 to 25 per cont. of Its value. V ' Tho up-to-date farmer who produces timothy hay ob a rulo raises It for tho sasrkot and not for tho consumption ef bis own stock, becnuso clover and alfalfa are so much better, Timothy for the markot should-tao allowed to get rlpor boforo it Is cut thun If It Is to bo Btackod and fed on tho farm. All arrangements for tho baling H G ac y Moiw; TOO OLD fOT" BMMSftftHmimH mraffifol 0 THETxDDER (CgrV - v-v;:l .'"S HayLoader5 m Operation 2,,r F fe',aAVE'nMft ad Backache. Sw&et Clovej? Just Right or Cutting for May should bo inadu In advance, so that the mower can bo started and kopt ahead only a few acres ut a tlmo. One man can operate tho mower nnd ted der. The tedder Bhould bo started an hour or bo before tho hay Is to bo taken up, und this Is work which re quires greut caro If tho crop Is to bo saved In tho best condition. If tho hay crop Is lurgo a loader Is almost lndlspcnanblo, becauso It will do tho work much faster than any two men, and do It hotter. As It Is always dltllcult to get help In haying time, It Is a good plan 'for several farmers to buy and operate a loader and other haying machinery on tho co-operativo plan, ny a llttlo careful figuring and good Judgment n group of farmorB can, In this way, holp one another to Bavo their crops, with less labor and less oxpenso, nnd with more certainty of bucccsb than could bo attained In any other way. Timothy hay mny bo baled directly from tho swath without much danger of heating, nlthough It is safer to havo thp hay thoroughly cured before be ing baled. If hay Is baled directly from the swnth it must bo entirely frco from rain or dow, nnd this pro cess can bo employed only undor tho best of weather conditions. Upon tho weather depends almost entirely the safety of tho clover drop. Tho best time to cut clovor Is when It Is In full, rich bloom, and boforo nny brown heads uppear In tho field. Many farmers claim that clover should not bo cut at this stago, but tho experience- of tho writer Is that nlno times out of ten the crop will bo saved in hotter condition than If allowed to stnnd longer. Start tho mowers enrly In the morn ing, becauso dow will not hurt tho clover, provided tho weathor Is fine; run tho machlno until about ton o'clock, and then stop for tho day. If tho weather Is bright tho toddor should bo started about noon, and the hay raked In smull windrows, nnd theso can bo allowed to stand until tho hay Is ready to bo drawn Into tho barn. If tho weather Is Just right tho hay will bo ready to bo taken from tho field within 24 hours, and put up In that condition It Bhould retain all of Its leaves and succulenco, nnd mako excellent hay, If evon u slight rain falls, or If the hny is allowed to romaln In tho Mold' moro than a day, tho small piles should bo turned ovor. Tho hay must bo porfoctly dry when It Ib put Into tho Darn: If it la not trouble will quickly follow. If the hay boglns to heat In the barn there Is not much to be dono for It, To fork It over and stir it up only In- HW fmsj MniLLim creases tho trouble If clover hay Is properly cured and put Into tho mow in first-class condition, and the mow well vontllntcd, there 1b not much dnngor of heating. In order to muko a good clovor-hay crop wo must thoroughly understand tho nnturo of tho plant. When tho crop Is ripening tho water 1b constant ly passing out of tho soil up through tho roots, tho stalk, and Into tho alt through tho leaves. Tho plant Is be ing built up and matured in this way. When the blossoms begin to turn brown, that is n sign that tho connec tion between tho wnter and tho' plant is being lessened, and this is tho tlmo whon tho crop should be cut, becauso it completely severs the connection and reduces tho amount of water In tho plant. Clover cut at this period has about 75 per cent, of wator left In tho stalk, nnd tho problem Is how to got rid of tho most of It without drying out tho plant too much, thereby rendering It loss palatable and less valuable as a Btock food. When clover hay Is put Into tho barn in exactly tho right condition It has uhout 25 per cent, of moisture, which It has absorbed from the soil. In the west, whero tho ucrcago Is generally much larger than In tho eaBt and south, muny clover ralsors find It a good plan to cut their hay In tho evening, turning It over next day after tho sun is well up with tho tedder. Tho sldo delivery rako Ib probably used moro In tho west than In other soctlona qf tho country, and this Is found to bo a practicable aud UBeful machlno. Tho best time to make clovor hay Is on a cool, clear day with the wind blowing, for tho wind cures tho hay J better than tho sun. A very hot sun, particularly It there Is much humidity In tho air, kills the leaf structure and prevents It from evaporating the moisture. When hny Is tossed Up loose In the windrow, or In small cocks, tho air can pass through It, aud this absorbs the mois ture moro rapidly than tho sun. Good hny Is not dried grasps, a dis tinction which many farmers havo not learned. When clover hay Is put Into tho barn It ought to havo somo mots uro In It, not tho moisture produced by rain or dew, but tho natural' molsturo which tho plant has absorbed from tho soil, It clover Is not cut until all tho heads aro brown, It can easily be cured, but It will not make very good hay. Again, It the hay Is raked up Into cocks when It Is perfectly dry, and thon becomes soaked, much of Its value Is lost LiST P r K iSi Mixed timothy and clover Bhould t cut Immediately after the bloom be gins to fall. Closo watch must be kopt of the meadow at this period, as tho timothy blooms and sheds lta blossoms in a very short time. When tho bloom Is on full, tho heads are full grown and the seed firmly set, so that thoy do not shatter easily In ban dltng. Cut Just af this time, tho nu trition of the hay Is retained and It makes a fine selling product. ' If tho grass is allowed to stand un tlll a bit overripe, tho Beeds will shat ter In handling, and much of its sub Btanco will bo lost. Tho stomB, too, becomo hard and loso much of tholr succulonce so greatly relished by the live stock, because tho molsturo leaves tho stems "Very quickly aftor tho grass has reached maturity. If cut after thoroughly rlpo tho most deBlrablo portion or tho hay Is lost. Many of the blades are entirely lost In handling, nnd what remains on tho steniB Is tasteless and unpala table to stock. Whonever you observe much hay left In tho mangers be sure It has been rejected by the Btock becauso It Is unfit for tholr needs. Sometimes stock will eat this woody, dry hay out of necessity, but it does them no good. On tho other hand, tho early mown, mixed hay possesses all of those ele ments so necessary to th6 building up of animal tissue, and live stock will eat It up clean. Tho farmer who finds it difficult to obtain enough waste hay to supply bedding for his animals muy be sure that ho Is getting about all tho benefit thero Is to bo had from his hay crop. Whllo It Is not wIbo to, cut too early, still It is better to err on the sldo of early than of late cutting. The amount of good hay secured by early cutting Is usually greater than that when cut after tho crop has thorough ly matured. One thing In favor of early cutting Is the faot that tho drain upon tho soil Is stopped. The ripening process of tho hay crop exhausts the soil very rapidly, and It Ib important that the elements necessary to produce good hay should bo kept In tho soil as long as possible Renewing and maintain ing soil for hay Is anothor story. I)y mowing meadowB early In the season the grass will spring up and form early and succulent fall graz ing at a period whon there Is usually shortago In pasture, and when the live Btock need It most. Of course, it can be drlod out apd present tho appearance 'of protty good haybut all the samo It is safe to count that about halt of Its value has been destroyed by the rain. The use of canvas caps is thereforo to be recommended. (Copyright, 1913, Shulti Syndicate Press.) It takes somo grit to thin a field of corn. Wo hate to pull up nice, thrifty stalks, and yet, when wo do it, we may be adding a good many bushels to the crop wo cut nost tall. Too thick corn cannot ear as well, nor ma ture as well quickly. If the boy wants to attend the ag ricultural college, and you can afford It, don't mako the mistake of keep ing him away. The day will come when you will be sorry, lUffjlillurvi 620 OHIO AT FORT GREGG Thlrty-Stx Men Were Lost Directly In Front of Fort Losses Other Reg iments Suffered, The First division, Twenty-fourth corps, was near Hatcher's Run tho evening before the battle at Fort Orfgg, and nil night, In line In a clo ver field. Colonel West, commanding the SJjc-ty-second Ohio, about ten o'clock that night naked that I be detailed from Compnny K to report to General Ob bom's headquarters, when one from each regiment of tho brigade was es corted outsldo of the lines to And out If it was posslblo for men to crosB a ewamp reported in our front, writes T. R. Shaw of Coin, la., In tho Na tional tribuno. After about four hours', time, having located tho en emy's workB and getting the informa tion wanted, I reported to General Os born's headquarters. The general thou wroto me a pass, excusing me from duty for flvo days. About that tlmo a terrible cannon ade began towards Petersburg and lasted until daylight About sunup tho Sixty-second waB ordered In line in advanco of the First brigade, First division, Twenty-fourth corps. I took my place In the ranks, and wo double-quicked about five miles, when we formed lino of battle and were or dered to deploy as skirmishers. .Our right was on tho rebel line of works facing Fort Gregg, some two miles away. There wasn't a man. of any corps ahead of us, except a disorganized mass of rebels in the ravines and be hind the stumps, which we drovo beforo ub, regardless of the shells of tho rebel forts. We could not see Fort Gregg at this tlmo, It being be yond a ridge, but thero was a three gun battery nt a bend In the line of works that shelled us, and aa we got near It gave U8 canister, but our left flank advanced until they could get a croBSflro on tho battery and took It when we drove everything over tho ridge and came In plain view of Fort Gregg. We kopt driving their men, until we finally made a rush for an old road in our front running parallel td the fort and a splendid position for a skirmish lino, whero we annoyed the fort, and kept tho gunnor down Tintll some time after noon, when wo were recalled. The troops were then massing for a charge. As I was near Colonel West a staff officer told him to withdraw his men behind tho ridge and let them go to dlnnor, and, they need not go In the charge, as they the (Sixty-second Ohio) had done enough. Hut when the chargo was formed Colonel WeBt called to all that wanted 'to follow him to fall In. Most of tho regiment responded and ad vanced up to the front of tho fort. Captain Griffin quotes Capt H. L. Carr as saying that no part of Os horn's division struck Fort Gregg. Now, the Sixty-second Ohio lost 36 men directly In front of the fort The Thirty-ninth Illinois had a heavy loss, also tho Sixty-seventh Ohio. None of Turner's men ever wero ahead of these regiments. Captain Griffin says tho colors of tho Twelfth West Vir ginia and the One Hundred and Six tenth Ohio were planted on the south sldo of tho fort. They never were In that position, and the reason they (tho Twelfth West Virginia and One Hun dred and Sixteenth Ohio, Osborn's di vision) Went In at the northwest anglo was In a hand-to-hand encounter at' the south, and, as the captain admits, held tho garrison at that point. Tho Twelfth West Virginia, tho One Hun dred and Sixteenth Ohio aud others went in nt that corner of the fort, whllo Osborn'a men went in at tba same time at the front Optimism. v Admiral Schley once tried to have certain reforms Instituted in the navy. He found at headquarters a good deaf of the optimistic or lazy spirit, how ever, and so he rebuked a headquar ters optimist with a story. "You remind me, sir,'1 ho said, "of old Jimmy Traddles. Jimmy wbb a laborer. Noon Bounded one day, and be sat down and felt In his pocket for his lunch. Dut the pocket was empty. "'Boys,' he Bald," 'I've lost my lunch.' "Their he gave a cheery laugh. "Ts a darned good thing I've lost It, too,' he said. '"Why so, Mate?' a man astod. "'Because,' said old Jimmy, 'I left my teeth at home.' " The Very Kind. "What's your name?" asked the re cruiting agent. "Fish," replied the applicant "You'll do. We'll mako you a 'sword' fish." Foolish Questldh No. 77,632. Dr. Kindell of the Fiftieth- Illinois, jWhllo In camp at Rome, Ga., In 1864, Answered almost every possible foolish question, but a now one was sprung on him by a young man of Company B. He came to the doctor with an In Iflamed eye. The doctor fixed him up 'some medicine to bo dropped Into th eye threo-tlraes a day. The young mas "left the office, but roturned In a few minutes, slightly disturbed. "Doctor," said he, "shall I drop this is my eye before or after meals?" HOW COCA COLA REFRESHES. The remarkable success which has attended the sale of Coca-Cola has been explained In many different ways. Some have attributed it to "good advertis ing;" others to "efficient management," others, to its "delicious flavor" and still others to the fact that it was the first in the field of "trade-marked" soft drinks. In this connection, the opinion of a manufacturing chemist who has analyz ed Coca-Cola and studied Its history for many years, win prove Interesting. He attributes the popularity of the drink in large part to its quality of refresh ing both mind and body without pro ducing any subsequent depression. He points out the fact that the chemical composition of Coca-Cola is practically Identical with that of coffee and tea (with sugar added) the only material difference-being tho absence of tannic acid from Coca-Cola. Ho points to the laboratory experiments of Dr. Holllng worth of Columbia University and of Dr. H. C. Wood, Jr. of Philadelphia which provo conclusively that the caffeine-containing beverages (coffee, tea, Coca-Cola, etc.) relievo mental and mus cular fatigue by rendering tho nerves and muscles more responsive to the will, thus diminishing tho resistance produced by fatigue. 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