The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965, January 05, 1928, Image 2

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“One-can reckon on your ex
travagance,” Ogilvie remarked
in an ironical voice and ad
1 dressed Lawrence. ‘‘1 thought
you had some business qualities;
anyhow j’ou can’t run Fairholm
on sentimental lines. Unless
you use sound economy, the farm
will break you.”
“Perhaps I’m not much of an
economist, but I doubt if one
can handle men as if they were
machines,” said Spiers. “For
the most part, we arc not a me
chanically logical lot. At all
events, 1 imagine Larry’s gang
will work for him where yours
will slack.”
Ogilvie gave him a scornful
smile and fixed his eyes on Law
rence.
“Well, I reckon I’m up
against you another time, and
I surely hate to be heat. Your
partner doesn’t count. If you
and Mrs. Spiers can carry him
along, you arc smarter than l
think, but that’s your job. The
important thing is, you are
willing to go hack on your neigh
bors. We aim to run our farms
as farms should be run; we are
not going to he robbed ami
bullied by our bands. We cal
culated to get your support, but
you turn against your friends
and boost the other side. Well,
nobody lias much use for a man
like you.”
rue dioou came to uawrence *
skin, but lie said quietly, “All 1
'your neighbors are not with you,
sir.”
“That is so,” Ogilvie ad
mitted. “Some are fools, and
some have not got much grit.
Anyhow, the farms are ours; we
broke the prairie and we risk
our capital. The boys risk noth
ing. When the wheat is frozen
we bear the loss, but now the
crop is good they talk about
their share 1 Yet you will stand
for the slobs’ bluff. You have
no use for economy. You haven’t
the gall to fight.”
“1 rather think ours is the
true economy,” Lawrence re
joined. “At bottom all co-opera
tion is built on a square deal.”
Ogilvie laughed a scornful
laugh. “Then, the hoys’ agree
ment ought to stand. They hired
up for a stipulated sum, and on
the plains a farmer pays when
bis wheat is harvested. When
mine’s at the elevators I'll hand
the gang their wad.”
“If your men don’t stay with
you, you mean to keep the pay
they have earned?” Helen in
quired.
“You get ine, ma’am. Fann
ing’s a business proposition, and
I’m not. a sentimentalist like
your husband and Lawrence.”
“If Geoff was like you, T’d
divorce him,” sad Helen firmly.
“The Crossing is yours, Mr.
Ogilvie.” said Spiers. “Since we
• are taking an independent line,
your arrangements have nothing
to do with us: hut if you hold
up ihe boys’ wages, I imagine
you’ll play a risky game.”
“I am willing to take some
chances,” Ogilvie rejoined dryly.
“Anyhow, there’s no use in talk
ing You back the ’wrong lot.
It’s a sure thing the gang can’t
put their bluff across.”
He started his horses and
Spiers smiled.
“You have a stubborn an
tagonist, Harry, and I expect he
wees a plan. All the same. I
doubt if he has properly weighed
the chances he is willing to tnke,
and if he hits an ntvkard snag,
I don’t suppose I’ll grieve.”
They got in the wagon, and bv
and by Spiers resumed: “My tal
ent for business is not remark
able. but l rather think greedy
people of Ogilvie’s stamp are
sometimes a little blind. They
clutch at two hits and miss a
dollar. For example, when one
has got a crop ns large as his,
eoced’a worth much, and by com
parison. the small extra sum his
men ask is not worth a fight. You
AMERICAN LEGION’S
1928 MEMBERSHIP IS
200 PER CENT. BETTER
Indianspotiv tod - The nilldiul
■ambership at the American Legion
a** than. aa shown by the report at
Ulv Kmms It adorn national treasur
er aa cf November 30th, la 33JM
more than tor last year and the ad
vsnet payment of due* fee IMS is
JM per tent barter than tar a similar
period a year ago Forty seven de
partment* and the Unit of Parts.
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see, you cannot hustle an un
willing gang. In fact, if my pay
was cut, I believe I could under
take to cheat the boss.”
Lawrence thought it possible
and he smiled, for he Tinew
Spiers.
“Perhaps greediness does not
altogether explain the old fel
low’s holding out. He hates to
be bluffed and no doubt feels
he stands for the farmer’s right
to stick to all that's his.”
“His sort call it standing for a
principle,” Spiers remarked
with a grin. “Anyhow, he will
put up a good fight. When he
saw he could not persuade you
he was annoyed, but I sensed a
touch of grim humor, as if after
all, he had a joke on us.”
Lawrence concentrated on his
driving. He would sooner have
indulged Ogilvie; particularly
since it looked as if Margaret
had hoped lie might, and he
wondered whether he had exag
gerated the importance of their
dispute. Tt was possible, but
had he agreed, he would have
felt himself shabby. Well, he
had refused, and he imagined he
must bear the consequences.
At noon they stopped by a
little creek and brewed some tea.
The sun was very hot, and when
they set off scorclftd silver grass
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<11111 oijuuicn ui i v\* »»
shone in dazzling light. At the
settlement dust blew along the
street. Three or four ears and
some wagons were parked in a
vacant lot by the livery stable,
shouts and the rattle of billard
balls indicated that the pool
room was occupied, and groups
of strangers loafed about in the
shade. For the most part, the
men were brown skinned a«d
muscular, but, when Lawrence in
quired none seemed keen to take
a job.
“If we get all we want, you
can hire the crowd, but we don’t
mean to jump,” said one. “I
been three days on the.cars, and
I guess I’ll take a rest and watch
the pay go up.”
“Then I imagine you take
some chances,” Lawrence re
joined. “I was willing to be
just, but you’re extravagant.”
“It looks as if our lot had put
them wise,” said Spiers. “The
boys, however, have not yet got
up against Mr. Ogilvie. I’d
rather like to know’his plan.”
They went to the hotel. The
veranda at tlm top of the steps
was a sort of farmers’ club, and
a number occupied the hard
chairs and rested their boots on
rail. Some talked in languid
voices, some smoked and med
itated, and a few frankly slept.
Cigar ends and burned matches
were scattered about the dusty
boards. Swarming flies crawled
across the shiplap wall.
So far, the farmers’ luck had
turned and they had grounds to
1iav\a tliA titliAnf wauIiI i'rnn f liam
from their embarrassments, but
they knew the northwest, and
rejoiced soberly. The most part
perhaps used Ogilvie’s point of
view, and when Lawrence joined
them one said:
“I don’t know as I’m greedy,
but I like a square deal. I’m
paying the sum I fixed, and I
sure don’t see why the boys ask
more.”
“You can pay,” remarked an
other. “You ought to be glad
you got a bully crop and give
thp gang n share. Anyhow, to
meet their bill won't cost you
much, and the main thing is to
get your wheat off the ground.
So long as my lot see me through,
I'm not going to fight about a
few dollars.”
“Then, why don’t you go get
them!” inquired the first man,
and indicated a group on the
sidewalk, “T allow thev’re a
pretty good hunch of (fntnrio
harvesters end all they want is
double pay.”
“Double’s too ranch,” said the
I France, had exceeded their highest
membership eg itag, Forty depart*
ments had exceeded their highest
membership of former >• rs.
Mississippi lias offict. » served no
tice on the "forty seven .her states,"
and the world at tar » that It has
hot the remotest In ten n of reltn*
luuhing title, at any thm In the near
future, to any one of *nr four mem*
bershtp trophies. V 4 OUphant.
Towne, MrKissick or liubart trophy
!n point of early rene U, Mississippi
Holds a record that U unique and un
rivalled In Uw history sf the leg ton
and auxiliary Before the ckaee ef
farmer; and his audience
laughed.
“Now you get it,” agreed an
other. “I’m all for a square deal
and Avhen my wheat is froze I
pay. The trouble is, if you give
the boys something, they want
some more. They don’t know
where to stop, and if they think
us easy, they’ll take the lot.”
“The argument's old,” said
Spiers Avith a twinkle. “I expect
King Pharaoh talked like that.
Well, perhaps nobody is alto
gether satisfied, but what all the
boys earn does not see them
through the winter they have
some grounds to grumble. As
far as possible, I’ll humor mine.
You see, I can be generous be
cause Larry’s my banker.”
“He has some gall,” a big
fellow whose face Avas deeply
lined observed. “Well, at length,
T guess Ave’re going to shake
the mortgage jobber and the
wheat will pay our debts. May
be Ave must pay the gang more;
you can’t keep all you get.
That’s so, Lawrence?”
“I have not kept much,” said
Lawrence., “My wallet’s flat,
and all I have is the crop. I want
to see it at the elevators and I’m
willing to pay for help. Then
there’s another thing; the trac
tors, cars, new railroads, and so
forth, will carry us Avhere the
old timers never thought to go.
The windmill pump and gasoline
engine Avill sweat for us, life
will be easier, and its standards
higher. Well, the boys will claim
their part and I think they must
be satisfied, for unless they pull
their proper weight all Ave plan
falls down. The harvest has
given us freedom, and at Fair
holm we are not going to grum
ble about our Avages bill—”
The station agent came up the_
steps, ana stopping ior a mom
ent, inquired: “Have you hired
all the men you want?”
“The hoys are putting the
Rerew on us; they reckon they’ll
wait,” a farmer replied,
“Then, I’d let them wait,”
said the agent. “We got a wire
from Winnipeg that a loconist
special’s on the line. She’ll come
through about 5 o’clock, and I
guess she carries a bully load of
harvesters.”
He gave the group a meaning
smile, for in Canada the colonist
cars are used by emigrants
laborers who cannot buy seeonM
class tickets. Perhaps a crowded
steamer had arrived at Montreal,
but Lawrence thought the rail
road officers had advertised a
harvesters’ cheap excursion.
About 5 o’clock he and Spiers
waited by the track. In the dis
tance a dark smoke plume rolled
across the plain, and by and by
metal sparkled in the tossing
dust. Then the black locomotive
began to get distinct, the smoke
blew away, and the long row of
grimy colonist cars rolled into
the station. Pushing figures
blocked the vestibule steps,
heads were thrust from windows,
and when the locomotive stopped
at the water tank a sweating,
dusty crowd, eager to escape for
a few minutes from the hot cars,
flowed across the track.
For the most part, the men
were not Canadians; Lawrence
noted their pallid skin, their
shabby clothes, and their jaded
look. They were tired, impover
immirvfointo O Tl/1 nnri'lPil
the stains of the steamship
steerage. A number, embar
rassed by awkward bundles and
battered handbags, obviously
meant to remain, for they sat
down on the sidewalk and for
lornly looked about. At length,
they had reached the golden
west, hut all they saw was a
wheel torn street, bordered by
mean wooden houses, and a
dreary sweep of gray, scorched
grass. Then the station agent,
pushing through a group by a
baggage car, gave Lawrence a
nod.
“The company means to see
you out. Another special will he
along in the morning.”
“Ogilvie’s plan; he’s beaten
the boys!” said Spiers. “I ex
pect be wrote the railroad and
immigration offices about our
wanting harvest bands. I think
we’ll look up the fellow who
declared he’d wait. lie’** an
Ontario man, and no doubt has
stooked sheaves before. ’
The man end two or three
last year the state had a 1977 mem
bership paid up at national head
quarter* greater than Its entire 1030
membership. Mrs. Louis N Julienne,
department president, haa reported
10 units aa being 100 per cent, renew
ed for I90s
The department of Minnesota teed*
the country at this tint# in the num
ber ot advance due* for 1939.
liRtVR INACCmUBU
Columbia. ■ C < UP*—The grave
at Francis Marion the Hwamp Fot."
U almost inaccessible to tourists, ae
gurdtpg to those who recent!v tried
others were smoking in the
shade, but when he saw Law
rence his grin was philosophical.
“You have us beat, but my
bunch are harvesters and the
other mob are not,” he said.
“What are you going to pay?
And how many boys do you
want?”
Lawrence told him and lie
looked up with some surprise.
“We did reckon to get more,
lint you’re not cutting rates all
you might.”
“I want you to work,” said
Lawrence meaningly.
“When 1 like my boss I don’t
slouch,” the other rejoined and
turned to his companions.
“What say?”
“You can fix the deal,” said
one, and Lawrence sent them to
the hotel.
The locomotive snorted and
the bell began to toll. Crowded
figures swarmed about the steps
and the platform rails ; the dusty
cars jolted and rolled ahear
Men shouted and waved greasy
caps, but the cheers were flat,
and the song somebody started
was drowned by the throb of
wheels. Shipmates and train
mates got indistinct, and the im
migrants sitting by the track
looked clearily about.
One got up and stopped Law
rence. “A mate o’ mine from
England is in these parts. Do
you know Tom Heath?”
“If you are Heath's pal, your
luck is good,” said Spiers. “I
don’t see how you tracked him,
but he’s at my farm.”
“He left notes for me at the
immigrant sheds. If you let me
look him up, he might put me on
a harvesting job.”
Spiers gave Lawrence a mean
ing glance. The fellow wTas
. i II . 1 T . _
strongly nuiii aim jjtnucuuc
know tiie sturdy Lancashire type
and could use another man. Be
sides, he noted the stranger’s
eager look and imagined his
money was gone.
“I will give you a job; at all
events. I’ll try you out,” he
said. “I don't suppose you ean
drive a three horse team, but if
you can stook the sheaves behind
the binder, you will get—” He
stated a sum and resumed: ‘‘At
Fairholm. however, we have not
an eight-hour rule. We begin
soon after sunup and sometimes
we don’t stop at dark. Your
board, of course, is free, and I
think the food is pretty good.
On Sundays, if you wanted, you
might go across and see your
pal.”
‘‘I’m your man,” said the oth
er. “I don’t know much about
horses, but when you’ve carried
coal bags up a bending plank,
stacking wheat sheaves looks an
easy job.”
Lawrence smiled. Easy jobs
are not numerous in a Canadian
harvest field. He ordered the
man to go with him, and, joining
the group at the hotel, gave them
some money.
“My t#am has had enough, but
you can put your bundles on
board the rig,” he said. (let
supper, and in the morning take
the Fairholm trail.”
A few minutes afterward he
and Spiers started across the
plain.
“Perhaps we were extrava
gant,” Lawrence remarked in a
thoughtful voice.
“Oh. well, saut Npiers, smil
ing. “I have known extrava
gance pay. Ogilvie. no donbt,
will cut his men’s wages, hut he
has yet to get away with it.
Sometimes economy like his is
expensive.’
(TO BE CONTINUED)
French Fortunes Small
But They Are Numerous
Paris. (AP>—A thousand dollars Is
the average fortune left by will In
France.
This Is the country of many but
small property owners. The division
of an estate among the heirs is ob
ligatory. in obedience to Napoleon’s
idea, incorporated in the "Code" that
still is the basis of French law. It
was intended to break up great land
holdings and to make France a nation
of property owners, a result that has
been accomplished.
All but 1*4 per cent, of the people
who die leave more than enough to
pay their debts. The average fortune
left is 23,000 francs. Only one estate
in 35 exceeds $4 000 Less than 1 000
fortunes of 1.000.0UO francs are left
each year.
to vUlt the tomb of the famous gen
et a 1 of the American revolution.
Orneral Mr rim's grave la a' mile
off the main highway, and plans
are now under way to widen the
narrow dirt road with its encroach
ing trees which make difficult
automobile passage to the shrine
of the Carolinian.
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Q Do persons In Argentina rida
about the streets on steers? T H O
A. Outdoor life in ArgrnUna li
very much like outdoor life In out
western state* People ride horse*, use
motor ears, and now and then some
may be seen on steer*.
| OF INTEREST TO FARMERS |
BIBLICAL BUTTER
Butter wherever it occurs in the
Bible is chemah. signifying curdled
milk. In Deut. XXXII, 15, we find,
among the blessings which Jeshurum
had enjoyed, milk of kine contrasted
with milk of sheep. Butter was much
in use among the Hebrews and was
prepared as is done today by the
Arabs and Syrians, but it was not
used by the Greeks and Romans ex
cept for medicinal purposes.
The Arabs of Hejaz put milk in a
large copper pan over a slow fire and
a little sour milk or portion of the
dried entrails of a lamb is thrown in.
Milk then separates and is put in a
goat skin bag, which is tied to one of
the tent poles and constantly moved
back and forth two hours. The but
tery substance then coagulates, the
water is pressed out, and the butter
put into another skin. In two days
the butter is again placed over the
fire with the addition of a portion of
burgoul (wheat boiled with leaves
and dried in the sun) and allowed to
boil for some time, during which it
is carefully skimmed. It is then found
that the burgoul has precipitated all
foreign substances and that the but
ter remains quite clear at the top.
This is the process used by the Bed
ouins, and is also employed by the
settled people of Syria and Arabia.
The chief difference is that, in mak
ing butter and cheese, the towns
people employ the milk of cows and
buffaloes, whereas the Bedouins, who
do net keep these animals, use that of
sheep and goats. The butter is gener
ally white, of the color and consist
ency of lard, and is not much relished
by English travelers. It is eaten with
bread in large quantities by those
who can afford it, being taken in a
mass with a morsel of bread and not
spread as with us.
The butter of the Hebrews might
have been sometimes clarified and
preserved in skins and jars as at the
present day in Asia, and, when
poured out, resembles rich oil (Job
XX 17.) It acmiires a rancid taste
that is liked by the natives. All Arab
food considered well prepared swims
in butter and large quantities are
eaten independently of other food.
Butter and honey were used to
gether and were esteemed among the
richest productions of the land (Isa.
VII, 15) and Arabs use cream or new
butter mixed with honey as a princi
pal delicacy.
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RAISING WINTER LAYERS
Prices of farm eggs as well as of
live and dressed-poultry are usually
highest during fall and the early win
ter months. Profits from the farm
flock can be materially increased by
taking advantage of this market situ
ation in handling the flock. Timing
production to the market demand can
be accomplished best by hatching
early and by having early maturing
strains.
Most of the revenue from the farm
flock is obtained from eggs. It is im
portant, therefore, to develop the
flock from good laying strains. This
requires careful selection of hens that
mature early, that lay best after they
begin, that seldom go broody, and
that lay well throughout the late
summer and fall.
The size of the flock is an import
ant factor to consider also. Main
taining about 200 or 400 birds enables
the flock to be devided to advantage
for breeding purposes. A flock of
200, for instance, can readily be di
vided into two units—50 yearlings and
150 pullets; and a flock of 400 into
100 yearlings and two units of 150
pullets each. The pullets are used
primarily for egg production and the
yearlings for breeding purposes. Year
lings are preferable to pullets as
breeder because usually they lay
larger eggs which hatch into bigger
chicks. Moreover, the yearling hens
have gone through a molt the preced
ing fall, and thus have had a rest
prior to the breeding season, and for
that reason they usually produce
stronger chicks than pullets. A still
more important reason for using
yearlings as breeders is that they
should be only the best birds of the
millet flock of the preceding laying
year, and the continuous selection
from year to year should assist great
ly in improving the quality of the pul
lets raised each year. Farmers should
give more attention to the selection of
their breeding stock every year and
flock units of about 200 or 400 birds
will enable them to do this to ad
vantage.
Since pullets normally do not be
gin laying until they are six or seven
months old it is important that they
be hatched early enougfr to permit
laying during the season of high
prices—from October to February.
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VALUE OF GINSENG
There are a number of plants grow
ing wild in our woods, whose roots or
leaves are of commercial value in
the manufacture of drugs, but none
have so great a value as the roots of
the ginseng, which sells as high as
$12 a pound. It Is chiefly exported
to China where great value 13 attrib
uted to It for the curing of many
diseases, although our own doctors
do not think much of it.
Ginseng grows from onp to two
feet tall with five leaves to the stalk.
It has small white blossoms, from
which grow red berries. It grows on
ly In shadowy places. It can be cul
tivated and this is the method prac
ticed in Ctdna. but since continuous
shade must be provided and It takes
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GOOD CALF FLED
Powdered skim milk or powdered
buttermilk are growing In favor
among dairy men as a means of rais
ing strong, healthy calves cheaply
The powders may be used if natural
skim milk U lacking or as a substi
tute for part of the whole milk which
would otherwise be used. Good calves
can be rai-ed to six montns of age on
71 pounds of skim milk powder, about
ISO pounds of atiole milk. 400 pounds
alfalfa hay. and 400 pounds of grain
The sktm milk should be mixed at the
rate of one pound of powder to nine
pounds of water, and the water should
, ¥
seven years for the roots to mature
so they can be used, it is not a very}
profitable crop to grow after all. Be
sides cultivated ginseng is not as val-t
uable as that which grows wild.
The roots should be dug in the fall'
after the leaves are dead, or in the
spring before they start to grow. Of
course, they would have to be located i
during the growing season. After
they have been dug they should be
cleaned without washing and dried
in a room above one in which heat J
is kept. They should never be dried 1
in the sun. As soon as they are
thoroughly dry, they should be packed
in a box and kept from the air as
much as possible until disposed of
They can be sold to some of the large
wholesale drug companies.
HOW HAY *IS GRADED
The rules of the National Hay asso-1
ciation recognize 23 grades of hay,}
which seem to fall into five classes
—timothy, clover, wild grasses and al
falfa. Choice timothy hay must be;
sound, properly cured, of bright nat-j
ural color, not mixed with more than!
cne-twentieth of other grasses and
well baled. Lower grades of timothy
are Nos. 1, 2 and 3 and “no grade.’*
Clover hay has two grades, No.l and
No. 2. No. 1 clover must be medium !
clover, sound, properly cured, not J
mixed with more than one-twentieth1
of other grasses and well baled. {
Choice alfalfa hay must be reasonably!
fine leafy alfalfa o fbright green col-}
or, properly cured, sound, sweet and;
well baled. Other grades of alfalfa'
are Nos. 1, 2 and 3 and “no grade.”!
These rules are used by most cities;
that have official inspection.
A large percentage of the timothy1
on the market is graded below No. 1.
The reasons are that many meadows
are cut for years until they become;
weedy and mixed with other grasses ;
and that the hay is often cut too late,j
so that it loses the bright natural
color and palability. If the farmer
would send to market nothing but
what the feeder considers good he
would get a higher price. It might J
Vw* nanoccft rtr in />opno f n nrliwm >,
the country buyer also.
Timothy has the lead, especially
among city feeders, because it is not
only nutritious, but palatable and
nonlaxative, and the horse is not
likely to overfeed. Nevertheless other !
kinds of hay would often prove bet- j
ter for the feeder. Alfalfa for in- j
stance, has high muscle building!
qualities and is especially valuable1
for draft horses. It is highly rel- )
ished, however, and the horse may j
overfeed. Doubtless the feeder will in
time learn that hay from legumes j
has great value when properly used, j
Meantime the farmer is obliged to'
include clover and other legumes in
his rotation in order to maintain the '
fertility of his land. ,
In any case the farmer who sells; I
hay should seek to produce the high-! |
est grade by keeping his meadows|
pure and by proper methods of cut-(
ting, curing and stacking.
M j A
MINERALS NECESSARY I
“In general, rations containing lib-,
eral amounts of skimmilk, tankage,)
fish meal or other protein supple
ments of animal origin will have
enough of the necessary mineral ele
ments, except common salt, to meet)
the needs of any class of swine," j
says a noted expert on porcine pro-i
duction.
“On the other hand, swine rations
made up entirely of materials from
the plant kingdom are likely to lack
lime and may also lack phosphor
us. Examples of such rations are
corn and soybeans or corn and soy
bean oil meal. Even with such ra-j
tions nothing apparently is to be
gained, except in special cases, by
adding other elements than calcium,
phosphorus , sodium and chlorine.
That being the case, the source of
these elements, their cost and the pro
portion in which to feed them are the
questions needing attention.
4< A r'VinarA vph caticfarfnrv sniirPu
of calcium is the ordinary agricultural
limestone of high calcium grade. One
of the best sources of phosphorus
is steamed bone meal, while sodium
and chlorine are added as common
salt. In case the feeding and water
will lack iodine. In these areas one
ounce of potassium or sodium iodide
should be added to each 100 pounds of
the mineral supplemennt.
“This simple mineral mixture can
be mixed on almost any farm at a
cost not to exceed $1.25 to $1.75 per
hundred pounds. If spent bone black
can be bought for less than steamed
bone meal It may be substituted for
the bone meal In the formula.”
BE OBSERVANT
A beginner, in the dairy game may
wisely be guided in his selection by
the results of a "cow census” in his
neighborhood.
heavy. Then make it an inch.
May sowings will give L :tter ger
mination than April because there is
less percentage rotted by cold and
wet.
Never sow on wet soil. Select the
drycst portions of the garden for the
earliest sowing.
A sprinkling of fine sand over a
seedbed is useful in dreventing the
surface from caking before the seed
germinate. This Is an excellent prac
tice in heavy soils.
One foot apart Is the minimum dis- b
tame for the smaller growing vege
table rows, as It is the least distance
in which a gardener can walk to
manipulate a hoe,
be warm enough to mrfke a liquid 90
to 100 F. v. lien led.
With powdered buttermilk, 150
pounds of whole milk, 65 pounds di ted
buttermilk. 400 pounds of grain, and
about 450 pounds alfalfa hay were
needed to produce a ralf of about as
good condition at the same age.
namely, six months.
The powdered product* are con
venient. unitary, about one-halt as
r> pensive as a heir milk, but they are
more nprm'vt than natural skim
mUk Skim milk powder retimed with
water is tkim milk, and calm can A
tell the difference.