NOTES
MEUXMBROOK
FARM
Prune the tomato plants.
The making of good hay Is an art.
_ Sheep are good stock to have on the
farm.
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' The cow test association Is a great
thing for any dairy locality.
Brood sows as well as cows should
be selected for their milking qualities.
The manure that washes away and
is wasted represents an actual money
loss.
Milk Is an excellent food for the
young fowls , but requires skill in
i'eeding.
It takes two years or more for the
white grub to reach maturity from
the egg.
The comb Is as sure an indicator of
the health of the bird as the tongue
is of the person.
Young pigs need perfectly dry quar
ters , especially during the first weeks
of their existence.
If In milking a part of the milk Is
bloody , stringy or unnatural in appear
ance the whole should be rejected.
The March pullets are the ones
that will begin to lay in November
if they have been given proper care.
A hay cap will shed a reasonably
heavy rain and keep the larger part
of the cock of hay from getting wet.
It is a great thing to know just
when a plant needs water. It is a
matter that requires close observa
tion.
The very best kind of a pen for
ducklings is one that can be easily
moved from one part of the yard to
another.
The condition of your neighbor's
field makes little difference to you.
Your attention should be centered in
your own.
Old orchards can be renewed in
such a way as to produce good fruit
for the family while the new orchard
'
is coming on.
The silo enables the dairyman to
keep more live stock on the same
number of acres and at less cost in
fead and labor.
Shropshires are very hardy sheep ,
their wool brings a good price and
they seem to be healthier than some
of the other breeds.
Naturally the cow that gives the
greatest profit is the one that gives
the most milk during the winter for
milk is then highest priced.
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Never give drugs to a horse any
more than you would to a baby unless
he is downright sick. Shutting off
his feed will cure all minor ills.
The size of the tile to be placed in
a drain will depend upon the length
of the drain , the depth of the dis
tance apart the drains are placed.
The high grade draft horse , the
product of a pure bred sire and a good
mare , has mads one of the most prof
itable industries upon the American
farm.
A hen may cease laying if not prop
erly fed before she uses up all her
stored energy , and it occasionally hap
pens that a hen dies by overegg pro
duction.
Veal calves in hot weather will
grow better if kept during the day in
a dark , cool stable , but the stable
must be cleaned out and well venti
lated.
If English farmers can afford to use
pure-bred draft horses that are worth
$500 for ordinary farming operations ,
why cannot our farmers afford them
as well ?
A really good horse is never of a
bad color , but some colors , such as
perfectly dappled grays , pure blacks
and blue roans , command better
prices than others.
It takes some grit to say "No" when
the butcher gets his eye on the nicest
lamb you have the one you wanted
to save for yourself but that very
lamb will by and by bring you a great
deal more than the meat man will
give you for it now if you keep it
A sick cow is the hardest of all
farm animals to treat , owing to her
complex digestive appartus. At the
*
* . first signs of a derangement the rem
edies should be administered in order
to reach the seat of trouble by the
time it will probably become serious.
Handle cows carefully in summer.
Cows are annoyed by unnecessary
delay and noise.
Labor saving equipment on ttie
farm earns more than it costs.
With the silo , an acre of roughage
will teed a greater number of animals.
It Is well to keep grit and lime
within reach of the chickens all the
time.
It Is well to remember that chick
ens cannot thrive if infested with
vermin.
Don't leave your valuable farm
machinery standing unprotected in
the field.
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Peat soil which produces poor corn
generally does so on account of lack
of potassium.
It Is false economy to shut your
poultry up to keep them from damag
ing your gardens.
Watch most carefully during the
heated term that the chicks have well
ventilated brood coops.
Plant early and late so that the
supply of crisp vegetables can be
maintained for months.
The bedding of a sow at farrowing
time should be sufficient only for
cleanliness and dryness.
The work Is evenly distributed
throughout the entire year on the
best organized dairy farms.
Almost any one can succeed with
sheep in winter time , or In early
spring or in the fall months.
It Is much better to use a medium
season , heavy straw variety of oats
when they are grown with peas.
If the man who has no silo would
watch his neighbor feed and watch
the results he would soon have one.
Never allow the cows to be excited
by abuse , hard driving or by dogs , and
do not expose them to codl or storms.
Success does not depend so much
upon the number of cows a man keeps
as upon the number of good cows he
keeps.
Strawberries should be cultivated ,
the weeds eradicated and the mosi-
ture conserved for late summer
drought
The egg is manufactured by the
hen from the food that is consumed ,
hence her feeding should be carefully
considered.
Painting an old buggy or wagon or
farm implement is not a very difficult
task , but it adds a great deal to the
appearance.
Keep up the warfare on weeds in
.the cornfields these hot days , when
soil moisture needs to be conserved
to its utmost limit
It is a mistake to pasture young
clover for the cattle are apt to kill
the plants as much by tramping on
them as by feeding.
During the warmer months horses
doing the ordinary farm work derive
much benefit and comfort , if given a
pasture lot at night
Pigs at birth have two sharp point
ed teeth , one each side of their jaws.
If not removed they are apt to make
the teats of the mother sore.
Plow and harrow the ground before
sowing fall turnips. Turn under the
weeds and make the seed bed as fine ,
clean and smooth as possible.
As the new corn gets dry and hard
it is safe to feed more than when it
was soft and green. It is more easily
Digested and gives better results.
The cows should have some protec
tion from severe storms ; that is , there
should be some place where they can
go if they want to during a cold rain.
The best way to obtain good cows
is to raise the heifer calves from your
best dairy cows , thus in a short time
you are the possessor of good young
cows.
Lettuce may be had for table use
till late in winter by starting the
plants now and protecting them with
a cold frame when cold weather
comes.
Pie plant is a good commercial vege
table. The demand for it on the city
markets is good. It is little trouble
and can be shipped well , standing al
most any distance. '
Bookkeeping is well adapted to gar
dening and fruit growing. The bees
will appreciate your skill as garden
er and show their appreciation by
paying tribute in honey.
It has been found by observation
that in every instance noted the hen
that molts last has the biggest record
behind her. The later she molts the
higher the production. You can select
your breeders with safety at time of
molting.
Every dairy farmer who keeps a
dairy herd should know , with reason
able accuracy , how" much milk and
butter fat each cow in his herd is
producing ; this can be ascertained by
regularly weighing the milk from oarh
cow and testing for butter fat
DRY FARM RESEARCH
Much Money Appropriated for
. Investigation in 1911.
Shows How Interest in "NewThought"
Agriculture Has Advanced Ne
braska Leads All States With
$100,000 for School.
*
Dry farming , the "New Thought" In
agriculture , received more attention
from legislators and more money was
appropriated for Investigations In
1910-11 than ever before. This demon
strates how the International Dry
Farming congress , which was organ
ized five years ago , and which meets
at Colorado Springs In October next ,
has advanced its propaganda. States
that a few years ago never hoped to
have agriculture now are organizing
farming commissions and establishing
experimental stations.
In some of the states having dry
land , that Is where farming must be
done with less than 20 Inches of rain
fall in the growing season , the legis
latures did not meet This was true of
Arizona and New Mexico , which were
expecting statehood. Dry Farming ,
the official magazine of the congress ,
has gathered the following informa
tion :
The United States congress made
the following appropriations for 1911
and 1912 :
1D11. 1912.
Dry land agricultural in
vestigations $31.730 5 70.000
Crop physiology investiga
tions bearing on dry-land
problems 17.000 20.000
Alkali and drought resist
ant plant breeding inves
tigations 17.500 18.140
Dry-land grain investiga
tions ' . . 18,000 21.000
Total $84.230 § 129.140
California appropriated ? 15,000 to
be devoted to fundamental work in
the improvement of methods of grain
production and gluten qualities of
wheat. This applies to dry land farmIng -
Ing , but the money cannot be applied
to demonstration farm work.
Colorado's legislature appropriated
$8,000 to the state board 9f agricul
ture for dry farming experiments , but
the governor cut down the sum to
$3,500 before signing the bill. The
board will be able to continue the
work begun at Cheyenne Wells sta
tion , but will not undertake anything
new.
Oregon failed to make an appropri
ation , but the counties have taken up
experimental station work. Harney
county has set aside $1,500 for such a
station and Crook county is about to
do the same.
The sum of $10,000 was appropriat
ed by the state of Nevada to con
tinue the experimental station work
in Elko county. The law reorganized
the state board of control , placing the
work in charge of two practical farm
ers of the county and an agricultural
college teacher.
Kansas appropriated $970,000 for
agricultural school purposes , of which
the dry farming portion may be said
to be as follows : Kansas station ,
$44,500 for the biennium ; branch at
Hays , where the 3,500-acre dry farm Is
located , $46,300 , of which $27,500 is to
be spent the first year.
Nebraska did best of all , setting
aside $100,000 to establish a school of
agriculture in the western part of the
state and $15,000 to establish a sub
station in the western part of the
state , contingent upon the location of
the college. For maintenance and im
provements at sub-stations already lo
cated the following sums were set
aside : At North Platte , $30,000 ; Val
entine , $15,000 ; Scott's Bluff , $5,000.
A bill was adopted in Utah provid
ing an annual appropriation of $5,000
for dry farming investigations. It Is
to be continuous. Also an annual ap
propriation of $10,000 was made for
extension work by which the results
of dry farming are to be carried to
the farmers. This was done by unani
mous vote.
There was no direct legislation In
Washington for dry farming , but the
board of regents of the State Agricul
tural college set aside $5,000 from the
maintenance fund for such investiga
tions.
tions.Wyoming
Wyoming established a board of
farm commissioners who are to direct
experiments in non-irrigated or dry
farming lands. The sum of $5,000 was
appropriated for the work , of which
$2,000 is for the salary of a director
of experiments. Also the sum of
$8,000 was appropriated for the ex
perimental stations located near
Cheyenne and New Castle.
Allowing Lettuce to Head Up.
Lettuce is at its best when the
plants form a head , as does cabbage ,
and to do this they must have room.
The most satisfactory way to get a
fine head is to scatter a few of the
seeds of a good variety broadcast ,
then when the little plants have put
out their second or third leaf trans
plant them with a little earth at
tached to the roots in a bed , setting
them about eight inches apart each
way.
way.The
The job is best done during a spell
of wet weather , though it can be done
in the evening , and the newly set
plants given a good watering Let
tuce is a succulent plant , and requires
abundant moisture during the grow
ing period.
Oldest Churn in Country.
A citizen in Sheffield , Mass. , owns
the oldest churn in the country. It was
made during the war of 1812 for the
purpose of churning goat's milk -on
ship board. It has two small barrels
of wood in which plungers are oper
ated by a sort of walking beam
SUMMER FALLOW AS AN AID
Man Who Is Thorough Enough to
Treat Land While Idle Will Be
Able to Secure Annual * Crop.
I am not an advocate of summer
fallowing for wheat except in regions
of very scent rainfall. In most years
and in most wheat growing sections
the rainfall is sufficient to produce a
good yield when the ground is prop
erly handled. The man who Is thor
ough enough to conduct a good sum
mer fallow will give his soil proper
preparation for annual cropping , says
a writer in the Kansas Farmer.
There are exceptional seasons when
the rainfall is insufficient to grow a
crop of wheat. The land can be thor
oughly prepared early and if at seed
ing time conditions make it Inadvis
able to sow , seeding can be put off
and the land can lie fallow for the
season. Land that has become very
weedy , seeded with mixed varieties ,
or where the volunteer crop becomes
seriously detrimental , may be sum
mer fallowed to advantage.
In some states , where the average
annual rainfall is ten inches or less ,
the rainfall of a single year is sel
dom sufficient to produce even a
small yield of wheat There the
farmers sow wheat once in two years ,
giving the land thorough tillage dur
ing the fallow year. ' This results in
a yield of 20 to 40 bushels of wheat
in alternate years , making the cash
returns in each alternate year much
more than twice as great as in many
sections of good rainfall , where wheat
Is sown annually. Alternate crop
ping and fallowing collects all the
moisture that can be saved from two
years' rainfall , greatly increasing the
available plant food in the soil and
doubling the efficiency of this mois
ture.
ture.While
While this plan has been frequently
advocated for much of the winter and
npring wheat territory , I believe that
better results are obtained here by
proper handling of the ground under
an annual cropping system. I do not
believe summer fallowing is neces
sary in anything but an abnormal
year in any section where the an
nual rainfall is above 15 inches.
BENEFITS OF DRY FARMING
Methods Rapidly Gaining in Popular
ity in Regions Where It Is Impos
sible to Irrigate.
Dry farming is gaining ground rap
idly , because where it is impossible
to irrigate , dry farming methods must
be followed in order to conserve mois
ture.
ture.For
For small grains I double disk the
land immediately after harvest , says a
writer in the Orange Judd Farmer.
If rain comes between the time the
ground is disked and plowed , it is
well to harrow to maintain a dust
mulch. After this the ground is
plowed and the use of the subsoil
surface packer is practiced. la some
cases grain fields are simply disked
as soon as the crop is cut and then
left undisturbed until the next spring ,
either in May or June , when it is
plowed about eight inches deep. It
may not be necessary to plow old ,
well-cultivated land to this depth.
I do not believe In the disk plow.
This implement has been tested in
some localities and does not seem to
have given the satisfaction that the
old style moldboard renders. After the
field is stirred I generally disk twice.
Sometimes one disking is all that is
necessaryMy general practice is to
disk once before plowing and once
after. The surface is worked care
fully five or six times with the har
row before seeding.
Potatoes , alfalfa , winter and spring
rye , sugar beets and barley are all
grown successfully , according to dry
farming methods. The agitation about
the conservation of soil water , or the
application of dry farming principles ,
has brought about a great change In
farming. In fact , dry farming and
good farming are synonymous with
us.
A Green-Food Rack.
A skillful device for furnishing
green feed to poultry consists of a
frame made several inches high and
covered with netting. Oats , or any
preferred crop may be sowed and the
rack with netting placed over it when
of suitable size and the fowls then
turned loose. They seem to delight
in walking about on the netting and
snipping off the green biades within
reach. Yet , they cannot get at the
roots to scratch and the plantn have
a chance to renew their growth thus
pruned off , and the fowls are contin
ually adding fertilizing material. For
poultry kept on close range aa a
means of furnishing food the plan is
certainly commendable.
Training Young Trees.
Training the young orchard is
more needful than pruning , and
should consist mostly in shaping the
trees or keeping them in form and
properly balanced. Very often the
side opposite the direction from
which the prevailing winds come be
come heavier than the side toward
the wind , and the removal of some of
the branches and heading in of oth
ers becomes necessary.
Pruning the Tomato Plants.
Go over the tomato patch occasion
ally and prune the plants to remove
surplus growth and accelerate fruit
bearing. Train the plants to one stem
with small symmetrical latterals.
Mice in Orchards.
If you want to raise a good crop of
mice and insects that will damage
the orchard trees , let the weeds "and
grass He thick on the ground.
PREROGATIVE OF HER SEX
Bride Had But Exercised Recognized
Privilege That Is Universally
Granted.
A young couple had been courting
for several years and the young man
seemed to be in no hurry to marry.
Finally , one day , he said :
"Sal , I canna marry thee. "
"How's that ? " asked she.
"I've changed my mind , " said "he.
"Well , I'll tell thee what we'll do , "
said she. "If folks know that it's
thee as has given me up I shanna
be able to get another chap ; but if
they think I've given thee up I can
get all I want So we'll have banns
published and when the wedding day
comes the parson will say to thee :
'Wilt thou have this woman to be thy
wedded wife ? ' and thou must say : 'I
will. ' And when he says to me :
'Wilt thou have this man to be thy
wedded husband ? ' I shall say : 'I
winna. ' "
The day came , and when the minis
ter asked the important question the
man answered : "I will. "
Then the parson said to the wom
an : "Wilt thou hate this man to be
thy wedded husband ? " and she said :
"I will. "
"Why , " said the young man furious
ly , "you said you would say 'I win
na. ' "
"I know that , " said the young wom
an , "but I've changed my mind since. "
Mack's National Monthly.
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It took me mostly all over my back
and kept getting worse until finally
my back was covered with a mass of
pimples which would burn and itch at
night so that I could hardly stand it.
This condition kept getting worse and
worse until my back was a solid mass
of big sores which would break open
and run. My underclothing would be
a clot of blood.
"I tried various remedies and salves
for nearly three years and I was not
getting any benefit. It seemed I was
in eternal misery and could not sleep
on my back or lean on a chair. I was
finally given a set of the Cuticura
Remedies and inside of two weeks I
could see and feel a great relief. I
kept on using Cuticura Soap , Ointment
and also the Resolvent , and in about
three or four months' time my back
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am fully satisfied that Cuticura Reme
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Corbin , Kan. , May 26 , 1911. Although
Cuticura Soap and Ointment are sold
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a sample of each , with 32-page book ,
will be mailed free on application to
"Cuticura , " Dept. 27 K , Boston.
In the Church Militant.
Henry N. Gary , the secretary of the
Chicago Publishers' association , has a
negro cook he took with him to Chicago
cage from St. Louis. The cook is
very religious and immediately joined
a church in Chicago.
Gary saw the cook going out of the
house one evening with a large carv
ing knife in her hand.
"Where are you going , Mary ? " he
asked.
"I'se gwine t' church. "
"Well , what are you doing with that
knife ? "
"They's a religious dispute goin' on
down there , " said Mary , "an' I wanter
see myside gits de best of it. " Sat
urday Evening Post.
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