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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 .
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