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NORTIT PLATTE SEMI-WEEKLY TRIBUNE. Id W 1 - I ".11 " A '"4. - - ? - 4, ! 8 ''.& TO DISIBMOOISH COM GRASSES Not Many of Wild Species Are Abundant or Valuable in Any One Locality. STARCHY EARED CORN SUSCEPTIBLE TO ROT TIMOTHY IS MOST IMPORTANT It Grows All Over Northern Half of United States and South to Do ginning of Cotton Belt De tails of Seeds. (Prepared by the United States Department of Agriculture.) Although there are probably 0,000 distinct species of grasses in the world, only about GO of these arc Important cultivated plants. Not inoro than 20 wild species are abundant or valuable In any one locality. With an Illustrated guide to help, one can easily learn to distinguish many of the grasses, both cultivated and wild. Elaborate In struments or detailed knowledge of structures of the grasses are unneces sary. To aid In making these dis tinctions, the United States Depart ment of Agriculture lias prepared a A Load of modes Grass, Baled and Ready for Shipment new farmer's bulletin, No. 1254,' "Im portant Cultivated Grasses," by 0. V. Piper, agrostologlst, In which 20 well known grasses are described and lllus trated. Timothy Most Important. Timothy Is said to be the most Important hay grass cultivated In America. It grows all over the north em half of the United States, and about as far soutb as tbe beginning of the cotton belt Kentucky nlue- . grass, In spite of Its fame, Is not a native of this country, but was un doubtedly brought over from the Old World by early colonists, In mixed grass seeds, and grew well In the new soil. Kentucky bluegrass Is well known for the excellent lawns It makes, and for the highly nutritious pasturage It furnishes. Details of Seed. The bulletin gives the weight per bushel seeds of various grasses, num ber of seeds to a pound, and the usual rate of seeding to the acre. Itedtop, Bermuda grass, Orchard grass, Carpet grass, Canada bluegrass, Napier grass, Rhodes grass, I'nru grass, several "fescues," and millets, rye-grasses Sudan grass and others arc described fully In the bulletin, and their principal uses Indicated. The bulletin may bo obtained upon upllcatlon to the United States Department of Agriculture. WAREHOUSE LAW IN EFFECT Department of Agriculture Co-operat Ing With Bankers In States in the Northwest Efforts to put the "United States warehouse act In effect on a large scale In the Northwest are being made by the United States Department of Agriculture In co-operatlcn with the banks of that section. Grain ware housemen who wero licensed under the act last year have Indicated their Intention of renewlug their licenses this year, and It Is expected that a number of other warehousemen will come Into the system. GREEN MANURE HELPS SOILS Government Has Collected Much Val uable Information in Regard to Practice. Many of the poorer soils can be lm proved by plowing under a green ma nure crop. The government has re cently collected the available lnforma tlon In regard to the practice Into n farmers' bulletin, No. 1250, on "Green Manuring," which may be obtained free on application to the United States Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C. Every man Inter ested In soil Improvement ought to havo a copy. VENTILATION DURING SUMMER Good Plan to Remove Windows From Houses and Substitute Muslin or Fine Meshed Wire. in the Bummer time It Is well to re move tbe windows from the poultry hmiKPs nnd substitute miifilln-covereU frames, or nno meshed wire. The wide mesh wire nllows tho entrance of spar rows, and with sparrows come mites and often chlckenpox. They are ron Iters of the masli box, and pests. Ono of Most Useful Discoveries Recently Made. cans Provided In Selecting Seed That May Do Away With Neces sity of Testing Each Ear How to Distinguish. (Prepared by the United State Department oi Agriculture.) In tho study of root, stalk, and car rots of corn, one ot' the most useful discoveries that has been mudo Is a ery noticeable difference between starchy curs and horny curs In tho fre quency of Infection und In the vigor of plants produced. These differences are discussed In Department Bulletin 1002, lleiutlon of the Character of tho Endosperm to tho Susccptlbllty of Dent Com to Root Hotting, by John P. Trost, assistant pathologist. Tho Investigations were carried on Jointly by tho United States Department of Agrlculturo and Purduo university agricultural experiment station. Ears of tho dent varieties that havo starchy kernels hnvo been found to bo Infected with root-rot organisms tnoro frequently than ears In the sumo seed lots that have horny kernels. This provides a means of selection that may help to do away with tho necessity of testing every ear to deter- mino whether from the standpoint of root-rot Infection It Is desirable to plant. Starchy kernels are easily dis tinguished from thoso with horny endosperms. Tho horny kernel Is more or less translucent; that Is, It lets the light pass through In tho samo way that oiled paper docs. Starchy kernels are opaque like a piece of chalk. Starchy ears of dent varieties .pro duce larger numbers of weaker grow ing plants, more susceptible to root rots In the field, than do ears of more horny composition. There is an Impression among corn growers that the depth of the dents Is an Indication of tho starchlness of tho kernels, but this has not been shown to be true. Chaffy kernels oro usually very starchy, but starchlnessf Is not necessarily associated with normally-mntured ears that are rough. Tho bulletin may bo obtained by ad dressing tho department nt Washing ton, D. C. DEVICE AIDS BERRY GROWER DAIRY FACTS BIG VALUE OF BETTER SIRES Offspring of Scrub Cows Bred to Pure bred Show Great Increase In Milk and Fat. That purebred sires In tho grade dairy herd aro worth while is shown In tho results of 14 years of experi ments at Iowa Stato college. In tho first generation from the purebred dairy bulls used, production of milk in grade cows was Increased 4-1 per cent and fat production 38 per cent In the second generation an Increase of 110 per cent In milk over tho orig inal production was secured and 101 per cent increase in buttcrfat. This lncrcaso would more than pay for the cost of n good sire and tho fanner would have a better herd at the end besides. This work, which Is a continuation of an experiment started in 1007 with scrub Arkansas cows, has progressed Into the second generation so fnr and results show conclusively tho value of better sires. The Arkansas scrubs under Iowa conditions bad an averago production of 4,009 pounds of milk and 187 pounds of fat. The next generation following, made up of the offspring of tho scrub cows from purebred sires, had a production of 6,700 pounds of milk and 250 pounds of buttcrfat. In the next generation, where pure bred sires were again used on grade cows, a production of 8,413 pounds of milk and 370 pounds of buttcrfat re sulted. Holstcln, Jersey and Guernsey bulls wero used In this experiment. In the original matlngs of the scmb cows which were later bred to Jer sey bulls they produced 4,047 pounds of milk and 104 pounds of butterfat. From the first generation of Jersey mating a production of 4,034 pounds -of milk resulted and 200 pounds of butterfat. From the second Jersey mating 0,257 pounds of milk wero produced and 320 pounds of butterfat. Scrub cows later bred to purebred Guernsey bulls produced 4,300 pounds of milk and 100 pounds of buttcrfat. In a first mating with the Guernsey bulls 4,871 pounds of milk nnd 231 pounds of butterfat resulted. From Rolling Cutter Makes It Easy to Keep Strawberry Plants Con fined to Alloted Space. This device will be found handy In keeping tho strawberry bed In order through the summer season. It Is a rolling cutter used to cut tho runners- which otherwlso would spread out between tho rows and set plants where they nre not wanted, writes Rolling Cutter for Berries. D. It. Van Horn In the Nebrasks Farm Journal. By running this cut ter up andl down the rows ono can very easily keep the plants confined to tho Bpace desired. Such a aevica Is made, of two cutters from an old disk mounted on a homemude frame, as shown. POISON SPRAY NOT HARMFUL Heavy Coatings of Residue on Fruits and Vegetables Removed by Good Washing. Poison snrays on fruits and vege tables will not be found by consumers In harmful quantities If growers who uso them against pests nnd diseases follow the snravlmr schedule recom mended by tho United States Depart ment of Agriculture. In some in stances, because of heavy spraying or spraying late In the season, lnvestl gators for tho department have found comparatively largo quantities of spray residue on fruits nnd vegetables at harvest time, especially on prod ucts grown In dry climates. When heavy coatings of residue were found washing and wiping removed much of It, and peeling nil of It. Experiments along this line wero undertaken by the department bo cause of the possibility that spraying of fruits nnd vegetables might leavo enough arsenic, lead, or copper on tho surface to bo Injurious to the con sumer. The results, obtained by an alyzing sprayed fruits and vegetublcd from various parts of tho country nnd presented mostly in the form of ta bles, are given In Department Bulle tin 1027. Poisonous Metals on Sprayed Fruits and Vegetables. Copies may ho obtained by addressing the depart ment tit Washington, D. C. FIXING GRADES FOR MOHAIR Federal Wool Specialists Are Mak ing Careful Study of Output In Texas. Investigations looking toward tho establishment of grades for mohair are now being made by tho United States Department of Agrlculturo. Federal wool speclnllslts are making n careful survey of the various kind" r' mohair produred In Tov- Half-Blood Holstcln Which Had an Av erago Production of 0,384 Pounds of Milk and 304.6 Pounds of Butterfat tbe second mating n production of 7,271 pounds of milk nnd 370 pounds of butterfat were produced. Scrub cows bred later on to pure bred Holsteln sires had a production of 3,088 pounds of milk nnd 175 pounds of butterfat Following a Hol stcln cross tho offspring produced 0,748 pounds of milk nnd 277 pounds of butterfat. The offspring of a sec ond generation with Holsteln sires produced 10,820 pounds of milk and 800 pounds of butterfat The scrub Holstelns returned 8,088 pounds of milk and 175 pounds of fat while the first generation of purebred siring showed a production of 0,748 pounds of milk nnd 277 poundB of but terfat. The second generation in creased steadily and showed 10,320 pounds of milk and 300 pounds of buttcrfat. All these cows were kept under tho same environment and fed as nearly as possible standard rations and re ceived careful handling so that the experiment was uniform. PROPER. FEED FOR DAIRY COW Animal Should Have All Roughage She Will Clean Up Proportion of Grain Mixture. Under most clrcumstunccs, tho cow should be fed all the roughage that sho will eat up clean, adjusting the grain ration to the milk production. Only when the cow tends to become overfat should tho quantity of rough age be restricted. A grain mlxturo should be fed In the proportion of one pound to each three pints or pounds of milk pro duced dally by the cow, except in tho case of a cow producing a flow of 40 pounds or more, when the ration can bo one pound to each three and one half or four pounds of milk. An even better rule Is one pound of grain each day for every pound of buttcrfat pro duced during the week by the cow. Feed nil tho cow will respond to In milk production. When sho begins to put on flesh cut down the grain. Sire Is Half of Herd. The sire counts for half of tho dairy herd. Remember this when you are buying n new head for your herd and don't be content with a scrub. Water Needed by Cow. A good mllk-produclng cow ought to have In the summer time at least 150 pounds of water a day, and In tho winter time about 100 pounds. Bring Small Returns. Poor rations fed to poor cows nre certain to keep the pockctbook thin. Wild Cat in Hen Coop Is Killed After Battle Now London, Conn. Capt. John Fish of Flshtown was aroused last night by tho cack ling of hens and with his dogs nnd a rifle tho captalu hastened to tho coop and found in It n wildcat Ho shot tho animal, but did not seriously Injure It Tho dogs were sent after tho Intruder. Tho cat put up n live ly fight, but was finally forced out of tho coop and escaped to n nearby tree. Captain Fish took n shotgun and riddled tho animal with buckshot until It fell to tho ground. Tho cat weighed 00 pouuds, tho captain says. SEIZE YOUTH AFTER MYSTERIOUS FIRES Dismissed From College Follow ing Unusual BlazesAnother Starts in His Home. Now York, N. Y. Tho smoke ot tho mysterious fires at Trinity collego In nnrtford, Conn., has trailed Georgo Mulligan all the way to his home In nergenlleld, N. J. After tho seventh Discovered Blaze In the Kitchen Closet. fire nt tho college, Mulligan was ar rested at tho Instance of the collego authorities on the technical charge of a breach of the peace In $1,000 ball and retired to Bergenfleld for n rest. Then there wns a very queer fire In the Mulllgnn home. Tho family had re tired. George, as If warned by n spe cial sense, got up, went downstulrs and discovered the blaze shut up in tho kitchen closet. He aroused his father, James F. Mulligan, the tnx collector, his mother and his brother Cliurled. After the fire had been put out with tho garden hose and the ilro depart ment, Fire Chief William Pape under took to ascertain tho cause of the fire. His pains were unavailing. There was a mystery there that simply Btumped him. No flro went through the closet, no electric wires und there were no matches for mice to gnaw. Chief of Police Coombs wns equally nonplussed. Tho two officials took counsel together and reached tho do clslon that the Incident was hardly worth making a bother about So there It Is likely to end. George enjoys the reputation In Ber genfleld of being a pretty bright young man, studious and quiet. Uls father Is confident ho had nothing to do with the fire. DEVICES TO TEST PLANES Record Every Move of Pilot and Machine; Will Fix Man's Ability and Technique. Washington. Devices to check up on both airplanes and aviators while In flight, making possible a detailed record of every move tho pilot made In controlling his machine, havo been worked out by experts of' tho nntlonnl advisory commltteo for aero nautics, It was announced. Valuable scientific data Is expected to be gathered through theso records A trio df recording devices makes up the system, tho record being made on a photographic film. "Tho results," the committee's state ment said, "reveal for the first time a practical method of securing Informa tion In testing new types of airplanes and for determining the ability and technique of a pilot. Wave Bathing Trunks at Ebert. Munich. Redlmthlng trunks wnved by national socialists In the path of President Ebcrt's automobile In ono section of tho city formed the only In cident of tho visit of the president to Munich, except for occasional hissing along the streets as ho passed, Tho bathing-trunk episode was n piny on a snapshot tnken of the repub lie's chief executive and Gustuv Noskc, former secrctury of war, at a seasldo resort a year ago. Had Your Iron Today? The Delicious Bread of Energy and Iron SERVE raisin bread twice weekly on your table for three reasons: 1. Flavor; 2. Energy; 3. Iron You remember how good a generously filled, full-fruited raisin bread can be. Your grocer or baker can supply a loaf like this. Insist if he hasn't one he can get it for you. Full-fruited bread is full of luscious seeded Sun-Maid raisins rich in energizing nutri tnent in practically prcdigested form. Raisins also furnish fatigue-resisting iron for the blood. Serve plain raisin bread at dinner or as a (tasty fruited breakfast toast with coffee. Make delicious bread pudding with left over slices. No need to waste a crumb of raisin bread. Begin this week the habit of raisin bread twice weekly in your home, for raisin bread U) both good and good for you. Sun-Maid Seeded RaisilXS Make delicious bread, ntei, pudding, cakes, etc Ask your grocer for them. Send for free book of tested recipes. Sun-Maid Raisin Growers . MttnberthlpnflOO Dept. N-35-1). I'Voano, Calif. 1 Blue Package Haft Jbr Economical Transportation $ . o. b. Flint, Mich. 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