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GET SILO READY
FILLING
Paint Interior at Least Once in
Three Years and See That
Roof Is Water-Tight.
DOORS SHOULD FIT TIGHTLY
Hoops of Stave Structures Should Be
Tightened and Any Defective Pieces
of Wood Replaced Air Will
Spoil Silage.
(Prepared by tlin United States Depart
ment of Agriculture.)
With the approach of the time for
lilllns the silo, experts In the United
States Department of Agriculture call
attention to the deslrnhlllty of put
ting silos In shape and making plans
for filling which will &uve valuable
time in the rush of work. Silos are n
comparatively new feature of farm
management, and in many cases have
been built less substantially than some
of (lie older forms of farm structures.
Silos Need Occasional Attention.
Even the best constructed silo will
need some nttcntlon occasionally. Con
crete silos, which are among the most
expensive of construction, require the
least attention as a general rule, but
theywlll give better service If the In
side Is given a coat ot special palni
nhout once in three years. Paint for
treating the Interiors of silos is easily
made of raw coal tar mixed with gaso
line and applied with a tar brush. The
roof should be inspected to see If it is
water-tight, and the doors may well be
looked over. They need to lit tight.
Wooden silos, either stave or board
construction, require additional atten
tion. The hoops of stave silos should
he tightened and any defective pieces
of wood replaced. In wood silos, par
ticularly the cheap'er ones and thosu
of home make, there Is always the llke-
llhood of Inlets for air, which will spoil
the silage.
Careful attention should bo paid to
seeing that the machinery to be used
In harvesting and storing the silage is
In working condition. Corn harvesters
and silo-fllling machinery are frequent
ly owned In partnership by several
farmers, and of course arrangements
need to be made In advance to see that
all the owners get their corn in at the
season when It Is in best shape. In
using the corn harvester the bundles
should be made rather small. While
"tills takes more time, the extra expense
Is more than oltset by the ease in han
' tiling the bundles and feeding them
Into the silage cutter.
The corn ordinarily is hauled to the
cutter on common, Hat hay racks. The
low-wheeled wagon Is much prefer
able to the high one. An underslung
rack can be constructed with compara
tive ease and will save much labor.
If the silage cutter and lifting ma
chinery have not been selected, every
effort should be made to get machinery
which has sufliclent or excess capacity.
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A Low-Down Flat Wagon Saves Labor
In Handling Corn When Filling Silo.
The mistake Is often made of getting
nn outfit that Is too small, thus mak
ing the operation of filling the silo very
slow and Interfering with the continu
ous employment of the entire force of
men. A number of satisfactory silage
cutters are on the market. The chief'
features to be considered In n cutter
arc that it Is strongly made and will
out fine.
Harvest Corn Before Fully Ripe.
Ordinarily corn should lin harvested
for the silo about a week or ten days
before it would be cut for shocking;
that Is, when about 90 per cent of the
kernels are dented and nt least 75 per
cent of the kernels nro hardened so
that no milk can be squeezed out. At
this ttmo the lower leaves on the stalk
are turning yellow and the green corn
fodder contains 0." or 70 per cent of
moisture, which Is sufliclent for silage.
Sllago mnde from corn containing mois
ture enough for proper preservation Is
more palatable than that made from
corn so mature as to require the addi
tion of water.
CARING FOR ASPARAGUS BED
Good Plan to Clean It Off and Apply
a Coating of Manure to Pre-
vent Freezing.
If the uspnragus bed lias beon
cleaned off it will be In better jihnpa
In the spring If a good coating of ma
nuro Is put on. This will keep the
bed from freezing and thawing nnd
till work in the fertilizer and got the
olt In better sliupu for the plantB in
aprlng.
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POTATO PRODUCTION
IN SOUTHERN STATES
Crop Commands Better Price
Than in the North.
Owtng to Wide Divergence of Season
al Conditions, Coupled With Long
Growing Season, Tubers Can
Be Planted Any Time.
(Prcparpil by the United Slates Depart
" mout of Agriculture.)
The importance of the potato crop
In the South is due to Its market
vplno rather than its magnitude, for
owing to the season in which It is
harvested It commands a better price,
usually, thnn the Into crop in the
North. The wide divergence of sea
sonal conditions In the South, coupled
with a long-growing season makes It
possible to plant and harvest, potatoes
In some locality In practically every
month in the year.
Owing to vnryinjt climatic condi
tions, due to both latitude and alti
tude there are three distinct potato
crop seasons in the Southern states.
These are the early or truck crop, the
late or main crop, and the fall crop,
Grading Potatoes In Southern Field.
whleh last may be dlylded Into a sec
ond crop and a fall crop proper. The
early or truck crop Is confined largely
to well-defined production centers. Be
cause practically all the early crop
Is marketed directly from the field
when It is In more or less immature
condition, the question of packages
nnd of shipping facilities is Important.
This subject, and others of interest
nnd v&lue to southern potato growers,
are discussed In Farmers' IJulletln
1205, entitled Potato Production In
the South, just issued by the United
States Department of Agriculture.
This bulletin may be obtained freo
upon application to tho Division of
Publications.
DURABILITY OF FENCE POSTS
Not Much Difference Between Split
and Round If Heartwood and
Sapwood Equal.
Some people bolievG spHt fence posts
last longer than do round ones. Prob
ably as large a number hold the oppo
site view. The forest products labora
tory of the United States Department
of Agriculture says that one will last
about as long as the other If the per
centage of heartwood and sapwood Is
the same In both. If the percentage of
sapwood Is Increased by splitting, tho
split post will be less durable, while
if the percentage of heartwood Is in
creased it vlll be more durable than
the round one. Exceptions to this
should be mnde If the posts nrp of
spruce, hemlock or any of tho true lira,
whose heartwood and sapwood aro
about equally durable.
If the posts aro to be treated with
creosote or some other preservative,
the round post is preferable to tho
split, because of tho comparative easo
with wlileh the sapwood can be treated.
Experiments at the laboratory demon
strate that tho heartwood faces on
split posts do not, as u rule, absorb
the preservative tis well as does tho
sapwood.
COOPERATIVE EGG MARKETING
Encouraged by Extension Workers and
Is Saving Money for Farmers of
Nebraska.
Co-operative marketing of eggs,
which is being encournged by exten
sion workers of the University of Mln
ne$otn and county agricultural agents,
is saving money for farmers of Ne
braska. According to the extension
news service of the Nebrnska college
of agriculture, six cents a dozen, or
a total of ?885, was the gain made by
farmers of Hamilton county by mar
keting their eggs co-operatively dur
ing April and May. The county agent
and thu farm bureau helped to collect
tho eggs at a central point and there
grading, packing and shipping them.
CRICKETS CUT GRAIN TWINE
Insect Is Reported In Great Numbers
and Doing Much Damage by
Loosening Sheaves.
A warning against the crickets
which chew the twine on grain sheaves
nnd thus cause loss of the grain Is !
sued by Stewart Loekwood, extension
entomologist ut tho Agricultural col
lege of North Dakota, who says the
Insect Is being reported In great num
bers throughout ills suction.
Use new sisal twine, Jf possible,
snys Mr. Loekwood. Otherwise, soak
the twine in a solution of ono part
turpentine and one jwrt pine tar, two
I or three day before -isiug. '
SEPARATE SKIRTS FOR FALL
ADD TAILORED ORNAMENTS
W1TII Its advantages In tho use
of clothes thnt employ beauti
ful color combinations nnd are
varied bymany pnttcrns In stripes,
plaids or checks, the separato skirt
finds Its neatness another grent asset
The precision of plaits, and their man
agement, wins it ninny ndmlrers.
Manufacturers are adding to this fine
tailoring tills season, small touches in
tailored decorations, thnt call atten
tion to the perfection of workmanship
thnt is the glory of the tailor's art.
But the separato skirt appears to
need n new name It will soon be the
"contrasting" skirt. There are many
suits among the new showings In
which the coats are plain and the
skirt in a checked or plaid' or striped
pattern; the coats and skirts are in
tended for each other nnd will spend
their days together. There Is an ad
vantage In owning nn extra skirt of
the same mnterlnl as the coat be
BLOUSES DELIGHT THE EYE
WITH NEW ENCHANTMENTS
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ALL womankind Is straying shop -
ward these days, limiting endless
Journeys aud excursions among
the new displays of hats and blouses.
The milliner has a rival now, for
blouses grow and grow In Importance
and delight tho eye with new en
chnntmeiits of beautiful color or ex-
qulslte, Intricate garnishments, fiolng
shopping Is about as Inviting as walk
lug in n garden of wonderful flowers,
hut not so bafo for tho pockutbook.
However, It Is tlmo now to make a
choice among hats and blouses for fall
tbere never was n better time and
the first showings nro apt to bo the
best.
Crepe do chine and other crepes ap
pear to have seized upon tho Imag
ination of women almost to the ex
clusion of other materials, wlit-n they
consider blouses. These lovely fab
rics make all the fancy blouses and
many of tho plainer ones, It Is always
summer In their realm; at least there
Is nothing about them that betrays a'
concession to wintry weather. But
inoy manage nevertheless to be gn
harbingers of the new season by flaunt
ing Its colors and Its embellishments.
Many of tho now blouses combine
two colois nnd two materials, ns can
ton crepe nnd georgette ot crepe ile
cause coats usually outwear skirts,
but that Is an after thought, tho coat
renlly belongs to the contrasting skirt.
One of the new skirts for fall is
shown above, mndo of striped serge
and box plnltcd so that tho light
stripes are revealed between the plaits
of n solid color. Tho light stripe
mnkes tho ncnt folds that form smnll
ornaments nt each side of tho front
and dlnmond-slinped buttons, in two
colors, mntchlng tho colors In tho
skirt, finish off the folds. A flat bolt
Is made of the materlnl and fastens
with a button near the front.
Tailored and lingerie blouses con
tinue to benr" the separate skirt com
pany. Those liigh-collnred ones of
crepe do chine, worn with tuilorcd
bows or tics at tho neck, arc among
those present this fall and Reassert
ing their perennial churin of neat
ness. 1 chme and georgette. This last anion
' of beautiful materials appears Ir. tho
hluiise pictured, of sapphlro blue crepe
I '' ''bine and black georgette. Like
ii" irly all thu fancy blouses It Is cut
with a peplum which In this cyi.se Is of
tin- georgette and extended above the
wilstllne where It Is Joined to the
I body of the blouse under n, row of
1 reach knots. The peplum is clnho-
ruled with slashes and Ingeniously
tiimmnd out at the bottom, across the
front, where head fringe calls atton
Hun to It t'ccentrlcltles. Beads with
brnld embroidery and a little extra
stitching of silk in ike this a splendid
hit of finery. It Is a slip-over model
cut In the kimono style and has n
narrow sash of the georgette,
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conriiotiT it wmitN nivwami umoa
Particularly Youthful.
Tho straight 'bodice, with very little
decoration mid attached to a full
skirt Is n fancy of the moment for
frocks of dark silk. These nro "par
ticularly youthful.
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BERGS DRIFT FAR
Immense Masses of loe Often
Found in Mid-Ocean.
Certain Conditions of Sky and Light
Make Them Practically Invisible
to Ship's Lookouts,
Early summer Is the rcnl season of
tho Iceberg in the North Atlantic. It la
then thnt these frozen masses are set
free in great abundance in the Poinr
regions nnd arc drifted Into inld-occan
by favoring winds and currents.
They have been found several hun
dred niiled below tho southernmost
latitude of the British Isles and prove
a very serious menace to vessels which
have to cross their truck. The terrlblo
fate of the Titanic has been thnt of
many another noblo vessel, though hap
pily, without proving so disastrous to
human life.
Can nn Iceberg become Invisible un
der certain conditions of sky and light?
It Is claimed that it can on a clenr,
starry night, when tho conditions mako
the berg nearly the samo color as tho
sky.
But night-time, under nny nttnos
phciic conditions, is usually a bnd ttmo
for seeing bergs at a safe distance.
Q'hls dlfllculty In making them out
Is one of the rensons why their height
Is so often exaggerated.
Mist or fog, too, will magnify n berg
Immensely, just ns n fog In tho Arctic
regions has been known to make a fox
look ns big as n white bear.
Does experience show thnt a berg
has nine parts of Us mass below water
to only ono part above? It docs not.
And for this reason that the sub
merged portion is usunlly much brond
er and heavier than tho exposed part,
so that it is not necessary for nlne
tenths of the berg to bo under water
to keep the entire mass floating up
right. It Is In tho southern hemisphere,
chiefly, where fields of ice miles long
nro found. One which was reported
by u large number ot vessels in tho
year 185 1 was 00 miles long nnd -10
miles broad, with an average height of
300 feet. In these enses mnny icebergs
had como together and formed into ono
soldldly frozen mass.
Bergs sometimes enrry strnngo
freights. One of tho lint-topped va
riety, 100 feet high, was seen In mld-
Atlantic benrlng three vessels on Jts
icy summit. Another, near the banks
of Newfoundland, had several Polar
bears walking nhout on It.
It Is sad to think of tho fnto of these
ursine derelicts when their icy raft
reached warmer waters in lower lati
tudes nnd cnpslzcd or melted. One
can imagine, If tho berg turned over,
tho dislodged animals frantically swim
ming back to their uncertain and slip
pery refuge only to find, pcrhnps, that
It no longer niTordcd any real foothold
for them.
Ships have been moored to Icebergs
on occnslons when they have afforded
anything but a safe berth. Dr. Knne,
the American explorer, once got tho
Ice-anchors of his ship fixed In n berg
after several hours of very hard work,
when largo pieces of ice began to full
on tho deck. There wns just time to
enst off again before the fnco of the
berg fell In ruins, crashing down with
tho noise of henvy guns fired nt close
quarters.
On the other hnnd, tho stenmor Islo
of Mull was saved by an echo from nn
iceberg ono very foggy night In Juio,
1014, on tho banks of Newfoundland.
Ono of tho Franklin exploring ships,
also, was saved from certain destruc
tion by n berg drifting In between her
and n surf-beaten rocky shore.
In May, 1007, some gas-buoys broke
adrift from the entrnnce of New York
harbor and one of them nttnehed Itself
to the end of an Iceberg and by sound
ing Its horn nt regular Intervals,
warned vessels of the Icy danger.
Tho birth of an Iceberg has often
been seen. But who has stood by nt
tho death of one?
A Fair Warning.
"Eph," said the colored patriarch t
his grandson, "ain't you been shootln'
craps an' runnln' aroun' wjd n passlo
o' fast niggers?"
"What if I have?" asked tho flashily
dressed youth. "I ain't doln' nothln'
but Bovvln my wild onts, as do white
folks say."
"Go you' way, don, nn' sow dem wild
oats, but ef you ain't mighty careful
you's gwln to harvest; do crop wl n
pick an' shovel, an' when quittln' tlmo
comes you ain't gwlno nowhere In por
tlckler." Birmingham Age-Herald.
Race Was a Little Late.
I She was a sweet young thing nnd
i sho sat next to n young mnn who, It
1 was apparent, was her sweeteheart,
In the nmphlrhentcr at the IJnrtholo-
j mew county fair ground, watching
i tho races. The time for tho next riiiS.
j wns nt hnnd and the starter hollowed:
j "Get your horses ready for tho 2:10
i trot." The sweet young thing looked
nt her wrist wotch nnd said : "Why,
I honey, his watch must have stopped.
i It's a quarter to four now." Indliin-
npolis News.
Pleasing the People.
"Do you belluvo In giving tho pub
lic what it wants?"
"Yes," replied Senator Sorghum;
"so long ns It wants me In my present
position."
With Something to Show for It.
"Going away this summer, old mnn?"
"No j my wife has decided that she
'nn get all tired out more comfortably
by staying at home." Boxton Trail'
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MOTHER
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now I havo a nico
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How can women who nro weak and
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