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tho entire farm area of the south,
and undoubtedly much of this land
will be put to other uses than timber
growing. Nevertheless, the farmers
of the United States now own at least
250 billion feet of saw timber and
1 1-3 billion cords of cordwood, and
this timber should produce a sub
stantial part of their incomes. Farm
ers ought, to make the most of their
timber, and -the public should be in
terested in this question for the rea
son that the vast aggregate of farm
timber should be available to sup
plement the other sources of the
general supply.
WHEN TO SUSPJECT CHOLERA
When a disease that is contagious
appears among hogs, spreading more
or less rapidly, is quite uniformly fa
tal, and is accompanied by a high
temperature, it is quite safe to as
sume that it is cholera, says a bul
letin of the Nebraska college of agri
culture. Where cholera is suspected, it is
vell to get a thermometer and take
the temperature of a number of
those apparently well. The normal
temperature is from 101 to 103 de
grees in winter and about one degree
higher in summer. If cholera is
present, the temperatures will be
found as high as 105 to 107 degrees.
Make a post mortem on a hog that
has just died and examine the kid
neys for small, dark red spots re
sembling those on a turkey egg. Look
for small red spots along the small
intestines and somewhat larger ones
on the lungs. The lymphatic glands,
which are found in the flank, along
the intestines, and between the lungs,
and which are a light amber color in
health, will be found congested and
varying from a pink to a very dark
color.
Where the services of a qualifed
veterinarian can bo obtained, he
should be called to make a post
mortem and to givo serum.
CORN GRAINS IN THE TASSEL
In an effort to teach something of
the history of the corn plant, mem
bers of the Corn club conducted co
operatively by the United States de
partment of agriculture and the Ne
braska college of agriculture have
been asked to look for corn grains in
the tassel of the jcornstalks. Pro
fessor Montgomery says that the or
igninal corn plant had branches com
ing from the axils of the leaves At
first both male and female flowers
were produced in the tassel of each
branch. But the highest tassel, the
one on the main stalk, "was not well
located to receive pollen, sinc the
pollen would naturally be curried
downward, while those on the lower
branches were in a favorable posi
tion to receive pollen but not in a
position to pollinate those higher up.
Thus the female flowers on the upper
tassel were incompletely fertilized, if
lertllized at all, and due to the loss
of function gradually disappeared, so
that after a time only male flowers
were produced. On the tassels of
the lower branches, the male or pollen-producing
flowers gradually lost
their usefulness, and after a time
only female flowers were produced on
these branches.
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This can be most economically ac
complished by the maintenance of a
dust mulch."
Professor 'Keitt proceeds to explain
how to get a dust mulch and how it
does its work.
"A perfectly dry dust mulch," he
says, "does not have to be very deep
to be effective. In practice it is
found that the breaking of the first
two or three inches of surface soil
forms an effective mulch, but sand
mulches may be thinner than clay
mulches. Tho mulch should be no
deeper than is necessary for tho re
duction of evaporation to a minimum
for tho top soil is generally richer
than the lower soil and the thinner
a mulch can be made and maintained
effectively, the greater the root range
of tho plants.
"Tho principle involved in the
functioning of dust mulch is that the
capillary water is drawn from soil
particle to soil particle by surface
tension until it reaches the surface
of the soil and is evaporated. The
plowing of the surface to the depth
already indicated, by means of a
scrape or sweep, disturbs the arrange
ment of the soil particles and the
disarranged particles "blanket" the
surface and provent the loss of mois
ture to any considerable extent.
"It is necessary to renew the
mulch as soon as possible after each
rain, because dampening rearranges
the particles in such a way that ca
pillarity will be re-established."
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Individual liberty of conscience,
thought, and action, within certain
limitations, is the priceless heritage
of every American; and it is a prin
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Jealous vigilance. It is tho ideal
political state of man, but Is subject
10 one other principle,- tho comfort,
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