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CAMPFERE SKETCHES.
GOOD SHORT STORIBS FOR THE
VETERANS.
I.aaralaa; taw Ckaraa f taw
f Tapa'" A SaUHar TeUa What
Abast Thai Call ha
" Laaraled.
Back from the streauons wars be comes
to me.
He is my son, grown broum with
strange scarred hands;
The months, of blood and death in alien
lands
Are in his face; his boyish will to be
Is four-fold won. I glow and weep to
see
The trodden meadow blackened with
the bands
- Of bearded, marching men whom he
commands. ' '
With being rearranged he comes to me.
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I, small beside him, try to utter
prayers;
I, honored for the laurels that he
.. prayen
honored
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wears;
God knows God knows I stand with
.. empty hands.
And lonesome heart.no meed of praises
- - warms. -I
crush the laurel branch. Oh, God,
Lmiss; - 4
The soft-mouthed baby I can never
'kiss! ' ; -' k ?
rf Zona Gale in Bookraam.
Effect ef Tapa Cpea tha Soldier.
"Taps" is the name of the last bugle
call in the soldier day. It is the last
tribute to the dead, also, and is held
in peculiar reverence and respect by
all soldiers.' When that call sounds
all revelry ceases, and when its half
sacred tones are unnoticed by the tur
bulent spirit of a recruit, who has not
yet learned that nameless feeling of
the soldier for it, h'e is quickly taught
a lesson which he never forgets. Dur
ing the great strike in St. Louis I first
learned the charm of the music of
"taps." Strike duty is intensely disa
greeable to the regular army. Stern
discipline makes the army most effect
ive in quelling the riots attending a
strike, but "It's not what I enlisted
for," is a common comment of the sol
dier. Nevertheless the duty is some
times before the soldier, and his train
ing has taught him to fulfill it So it
was with us when we were ordered
from Fort Supply, I. T., to S Louis
on strike duty. Many other commands
were sent in from all over the great
West All was turmoil .and excite
ment among the citizens, who more
than half sympathised with the strik
ers and made our work of the hardest
kind. We were quartered in a church,
the best our jolly gray-headed old cap
tain could procure for us. The officers
of several other companies found sleep
ing room in our spacious domicile. We
had a fearful day, and the men, dead
tired, were lying around the pews and
In every way trying to gather strength
for tomorrow's trials, which we knew
would be hard. A small kerosene lamp
upon the pulpit cast a weird glow over
the sleepers. Suddenly a crowd of
young officers, five or six of them, who
had been out having a good time, came
In and they were not as quiet as the
time and place would naturally sug
gest The cavernous depths of that
great church echoed their ribaldry.
They went on toward the end of the
church occupied by their companions,
fully intent on rousing out other fel
lows and making a night of it Sud
denly, out of nowhere in particular,
but apparently from somewhere, came
the low, sweet, pleading tremolo of a
pipe organ, playing, as never played
before "Taps!" Ere the first strain
had died away the turning of an un
easy, dreaming soldier was distinctly
audible in the far corner of the sacred
room, and not another sound, save the
most angelic music, could be heard.
Being on guard, I stole forward to see
who was playing and came upon our
hands upon the keys of the-organ,. At
last the faint notes died away and he
saw me. "It's all right, .sergeant I
could not sleep and thought I would
play a little." said he, which were the
last words spoken in that church that
night Russell Frances, in Kansas
City Star.
Gaaw Crook's Jake.
Crook, the Indian fighter, was a sol
emn man, but he loved a practical joke,
says Col. Joseph Her, who knew him
well. Back in the '70s, soon after he
was made a brigadier general and sta
tioned at Omaha, Gen. Crook organized
a wildcat hunting party among a lot of
us, and one moonlight night we start
ed across the prairie from Omaha for
the fort The plan was to sleep at the
fort and at daylight start for the wild
cats. After we were all asleep Gen.
Crook came down stairs without any
shoes on and took from our rifles the
ball cartridges, replacing them with
blanks. On the way to the woods the
general indicated the order in which he
wished us to fire on the first wildcat
in case we should tree the beast We
had hardly reached the woods before
Gen. Crook rose in his saddle and said:
"By thunder, boys, there's a cat right
in the crotch of that fir! Drop off your
wagons and bag him!" We were on
the ground in a twinkling, and in less
time than it takes to tell it we were
blazing away at a monstrous big wild
cat which was hugging the limb of the
tree. The cat never stirred as the suc
cessive shots were fired, and the hunt
ers looked at one another with open
mouthed astonishment We looked
around for Gen. Crook and found him
behind a stump laughing away to beat
the band. At once it flashed on us that
we had been hoaxed. The general had
just straightened up and was begnning
to explaia the joke, when the driver, a
hired man at the fort, pulled from un
der his blanket in the wagon a double
barreled shotgun, loaded with buck
shot The general didn't see him fire,
but he turned around just in time to
see tufts of fur and hair fly from the
wildcat as it dropped from the tree. Off
went the general into another fit of
laughter. But this time the laugh was
on himseslf, for the hired man had
poured both charges of buckshot into
a beautifully stuffed wildcat, complete
ly ruining it, and the general subse
quently paid the saloonkeeper from
whom he had borrowed it about $15.
AH that Crook said was: "Boys, it
was worth $100 apiece to see five good
marksmen miss a wildcat in broad
daylight at 30 paces."
Tha Kativeaaaat tw.
It is generally agreed by the best
friends of the army that the law
should be modified to say 68 years a?
the best, subserving both the interests
of the government and the army. The
theory of the retirement law is that
at the age of 64 an oflcer has largely
If not wholly los hit capacity tor.we.-
Mmb. Very few htiHtary authorities
longer beUere anyssh mim;; Its
ostensible' object is wholly negatived
by the foregoing raspla, and what
is patent on every hand. The real ob
ject: to to expetftepromoiMm. &If Gen.
Clcus servlceVwere needed and likely
to be valuable why should he be nut
out;of the way and another put in his
place? If there, were still critical iu
ties -which only he could successfully
perform -why supersede him with an
other who could not perform them?
So, in the case of Gen. Shatter and
other retired officers whose active ser
vices are still required by the govern
ment The law as it stands is in high
favor with the -young subalterns, and
for" very obvious reasons! ""'ita beauties
and .utility grow more and more doubt-:
ful, however, as they near the 64 year
milestone. When that fell day arrives
they are to a man most decidedly "agin
if-for reasons etptlly obvious. There
is an old story that the original act of
June 30, 1882, for compulsory retire
ment was conceived and engineered
through Congress by1 the late Senator
John A. Logan. The gossips had It
that it was a shaft aimed at William
T. Sherman, then general of the army,
for whom Logan had a bitter, antipa
thy, as Is well known, for displacing
him from the command of the army of
the Tennessee before Atlanta in 18(ft.
New York Sun.
Rath Frayera Answered.
Gen. Joe Wheeler is good to the in
terviewer. He talks out without re
serve, as if speaking to a friend. He is
modest in bis manner, even meek-looking,
and certainly no one at first sight
would imagine that this gentle, genial,
kindly man was a hero of some of the
bloodiest, rimmest battles of modern
times. Gen. O. O. Howard, who com
manded one of the wings of Sherman's
army on the famous march to the sea,
and who bore Lee's first shock at Get
tysburg, is another of precisely the
same type. No one could be simpler,
kinder or gentler. In fact, It seems
to be the rule with men as with steel
that the hardest knocks produce the
best temper. Old army officers and
old physicians are apt to have a
broad-minded charity and a hopeful,
sunny love of their kind which is rare
elsewhere. They reverse the rule of
the witty French cynic: "The more
I know about men the better I like
dogs." The last time I interviewed
Gen. Howard it was on the subject of
answers to prater, and I thought I had
him. In his famous fight with Stone
wall Jackson the Union forces were de
feated, so I inquired of Gen. Howard:
"You prayed before that battle?"
"Yes," he answered. "And Jackson
was a praying man. He prayed also?"
"Yes," he answered. "Then how was
it that he gained the victory? Did that
mean that the Union cause was
wrong?" Very gently the good old gen
eral replied: "Both our prayers were
answered. Jackson prayed for imme
diate victory and I for the ultimate tri
umph of our cause. We both got what
we prayed for."
Rosecraaa aad His Clear
Gen. W. S. Rosecranz, for a long
time previous to his death register of
the Treasury, never smoked and knew
nothing about cigars. Yet he had no
objection to others enjoying a smoke,
and when he first assumed his office
he determined to have a box of good
cigars handy for the benefit of friends
who might drop in the register's office.
The general accordingly purchased a
box of expensive cigars, put them.in a
drawer and forgot all about them for
some time. Then, one day when a
friend was calling the general remem
bered the cigars and brought them out
"I know nothing about cigars," said
Rosecrans, "but I am told that these
are very fine." His friend lighted a ci
gar, and a look of pain and horror in
stantly overspread his face. He tried
to conceal his feelings and puffed man
fully at the cigar for several seconds.
Then Rosecrans, noticing that he was
growing pale, asked what was the
trouble. "General," said the visitor, "I
don't waqt to be ungrateful, but I'm
afraid of this cigar." "Impossible, ex
claimed Rcsecranz. "Why, when I
bought them I was told that they were
the finest cigars In the market" "Well,
general, you were deceived. The cigar
tastes and smells exactly as if it were
made cf camphor." "Camphor!" stam
mered Rosecranz, looking chopfallen.
''Why, r never thought but perhaps
camphor does injure a cigar." And
reaching into the drawer he brought
Into view several garments filled with
camphor balls. "Do you suppose that
can be the trouble?" he inquired.
Losing an Arm In Battle.
Some one asked Capt. Lucius D.
Creighton of Missouri in the Arling
ton lobby last night how it felt to hate
an arm shot off, says the Washington
Post Capt Creighton served during
the civil war between the United States
in a Confederate regiment, and his left
sleeve hangs empty at his side. "It
doesn't feel at all," the Confederate
veteran answered. "It 'is chiefly in the
lack of feeling that you know you have
been hit I lost my arm at Gettysburg
and when the bullet struck me I could
not imagine at first what had hap
pened. There wasn't the slightest
pain, only a slight tickling sensation
which soon gave way to numbness. In
a few minutes my arm seemed to have
an enormous weight hanging to my
shoulder, but it was not until after the
amputation had been made that I suf
fered actual pain. The after effects
of losing an arm are not altogether
pleasant, you sort of come to miss it
in time, but so far as suffering is con
cerned I would much less rather a bee
would sting me."
New KaaM-Flre Flatafo.
The board of ordnance has adopted a
new magazine pistol which fires 116
shots per minute as against 40 fired by
the best Colt revolver, which has been
up to the present time the standard
weapon of the army. The new pistol
is also said to fire .far more accurately
than the Colt It costs, however, $15
when bought in lots of 1,000.
Aha Told the Doctor.
The following story Is told of a pre
cocious little girl of 10. She is the
daughter of a well-known lady of con
siderable charms, whom the family
doctor was visiting for influenza. He
felt the pulse gravely and tenderly,
holding her wrist after the orthodox
manner of a ladies' doctor as he sat
beside her in the drawing room. As he
did so he became aware that the child
had her great grave 'eyes, full of In
quiry, fixed upon him. "You don't
know what I am doing?" said the nied
ical man, lightly, to the young lady.
"Yes I do," was the portentously
solemn reply. "You are making love to
my- mother! "Exchange.
The orchestra conductor should nev
er get in front of more musicians than,
he can shake a stick at .
FAEM AND GAEDEN.
MATTERS OP INTEREST TO
AGRICULTURISTS.
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Save tha Tarea,
.The preservation of the forests has
become a live question with the
American public Everyone that stud
ies the question at all must be con
vinced that something should be done
and done at once. Forests are of slow
growth, and an area denuded cannot
be. reforested In a generation. There
re few big trees that are not older
man the men around them. Careful
estimates on the growth of the spruce
shows that the trees now having a di
ameter of 18 inches cannot be replaced
by trees of the same size in less than
150 years. It takes a spruce seedling
22 years to attain a diameter of 3
inches at breast high from the ground.
To gain the next inch in diameter re
quires 17 years. The next inch of
growth is made in 14 years; so that
in 53 .years it has attained a diameter
of only five inches. The diameter of a
foot, and a half will be reached when
the tree Is 154 years of age. .We look
upon a young forest of spruce without
realizing its value. We see trees 5, 6,
7 or 8 inches in diameter without sus
pecting that they represent decades of
growth. They are cut down ruthlessly
and sometimes set on fire for pastime.
Yet the 8-inch trees are more than 80
years old, and more valuable because
of age. A tree that Is 17 inches In di
ameter makes another Inch In 6 years.
This fact indicates that the larger the
tree the more rapidly does it increase
in diameter. The time of waiting Is
while the tree Is small.
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These small but old trees will, In a
few decades, be very valuable for lum
ber, if preserved. Yet how often are
they sacrificed without thought The
big trees fit for lumber are cut down
and trimmed. The branches are left
on the ground where they fall and in
a few years become as dry as kindling
wood. They are kindling wood spread
out over hundreds of square miles of
so-called young growth. The day is
sure to come when the fire gets a start
in this material and when the wind is
in a mood to work mischief. Then the
tiny fire becomes a demon of flame,
rushing through the slender forests
and devouring as it goes. Even green
wood will burn when the heat around
it is intense. We all know the stories
of the recent great fires in the west
that have had their origin in the rub
bish left by the companies that had ex
ploited the forests and then left them
a public menace. The record of loss
of property and life is long. Whole
villages have been obliterated, miles
or railroads destroyed, trains caught in
the fiery vortex and abandoned, herds
of cattle and flocks of sheep smothered.
All this has occurred because men or
companies have been given free hand
to conduct their operations with the
sole idea of profit to themselves, and
with no idea of the profit or even
safety of others.
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There is only one solution to the
problem. The states must secure as
much of the land now in forests as
possible. In some cases this can be
done without expense. In other ap
propriations should be made for the
purchase of forest areas. New York
has already taken the lead In the mat
ter and is showing what can be done.
By an act of the legislature the state
has entered on a system of forest pres
ervation. In the Adirondack region
the forest preserve amounts to 1,290,
987 acres, and In the Catskill region
to 79,941 acres. This large public res
ervation was set apart to "be forever
reserved, maintained and cared for as
a ground open for the free use of all
the people for their health and pleas
ure, and as forest lands, necessary to
the preservation of the head waters of
the chief rivers of the state, and a fu
ture timber supply; and shall remain
part of the forest preserve." Addi
tions to the preserve are made by the
Forest Preserve Board. The superin
tendent of state forests has "charge
of all work connected with the care and
custody of the forest preserve."
It is perhaps well for the other states
that New York has taken so vigorous
a lead; for they can profit by her mis
takes. In their haste to further the
movement for the preservation of the
forests, the people of New York in the
year 1894 adopted an amendment to
their constitution as follows: "The
lands of the state, now owned or here
after acquired, constituting the forest
preserve as now fixed by law, shall be
forever kept as wild forest lands. They
shall not be leased, sold or exchanged,
or be taken by any corporation, public
or private, nor shall the timber there
on be sold, removed or destroyed."
This is certainly overshooting the
mark, and leading foresters are recog
nizing the fact It is believed that the
amendment will be modified at the first
opportunity. It is manifestly absurd to
permit the state to sell no lumber, as
the annual removal of a portion of the
trees is a benefit to the forest, and the
revenue thus secured woufd be in time
considerable. To demonstrate this the
state of New York has made an ar
rangement with the United States For
estry Commission by which one town
ship in the Adirondacks is set aside
for experimental work in scientific for
estry including the annual removal of
some of the trees.
Remedies for Chlaeh Baca,
The chinch bug disease, which .the
experiment station at Columbia, Mo.,
has been sending out, is effectual only
when the weather is warm and moist
When it is hot and dry, this disease
will not take at all, and it is useless
to distribute it in the fields at this
time. Furthermore, the disease may
be found in the fields naturally, and
when proper climatic conditions occur,
it will "take" and kill the bugs without
the special introduction of diseased
germs from the experiment station.
There are two things which can be
done to lessen the ravages of the bugs
and to kill them, that are under our
control and should be used when the
weather is dry. In the first place, by
plowing for a space of ten feet around
the corn field, harrowing and dragging
brush after the harrow, so as to make
as much dust as possible, it will be
found that when the young bugs begin
to migrate from the wheat to the corn
they will not as a rule be able to cross
this ten feet of dust When the in
sects develop wings, they may fly over
the plowed space (this will happen
about once in ten times) and if they
alight upon the first few rows of corn
the second method may be used for
destroying them.
Second, when the insects collect, as
they frequently do, upon the first few
rows of corn, the best way to kill them
and prevent their spreading through
the field is to spray-immediately with
kerosene emulsion. This will not In
jure the corn, and will kill the bugs 1
readily. Kerosene emulsion is mad
as follows: Dissolve one-half pound of
hard soap In one gallon of soft boiling
water,, add two gallons of kerosene
or coal oU, and then by means of the
force pump with the spray nozzle re
moved, churn this mixture for ten
minutes by pumping it back into Itself.
Then add to" this emulsion nineteen
gallons of water; stir thoroughly and
use as a spray. The Important thing
to be noted in the! use of this kerosene
emulsion is, that it should be -sprayed
just as soon as possible and before the
bugs have scattered through' the corn;
otherwise It will be impracticable to
reach them by spraying. This spray
kills, only by contact, and hence one
must actually touch the bugs with the
spray In order to" kill 'them. J. If.
Steadman, Entomologist of Experiment
Station.
Care aad Breadlas of Sheep.
John Howat, at the Iowa State
Farmers' Institute, spoke on the breed
ing and care of sheep. In part he
said: ,
In breeding sheep the first necessity
is a knowledge of conditions and an
understanding of what market demand
you want to meet If you expect to go
into business as a breeder of fine stock
to supply the market, for breeders, then
you, need the best there is to be had
at reasonable figures. If you expect to
raise fat lambs for the market, then
you may be satisfied to get your ex
perience with common sheep. Good
natives make a very satisfactory foun
datapn. But be sure and use a good
mutton ram of known family. Avoid
buying a cheap rain; We have seen
men pay $408 for a bull and $25 to $75
for a boar pig, and $5 for a ram. The
longer the leg, the poorer the wool,
the more mongrel the appearance, the
better he suited. We have never seen
the arguments for breeding to good
stock so thoroughly fortified as in
breeding a half hundred native ewes to
a Shropshire ram and having every
Iamb bearing on its face the image of
its sire.
I will say that in personal experi
ence the April lamb is the lamb for
Iowa conditions. The early lamb needs
too much feed before the grass comes
and the late lamb gets the stomach
worm and the hot weather. Breeding
sheep is a simple matter, but caring
for them is different They need the
closest watching.
In building sheep barns or sheds, we
always have the doors In the ends and
never less than eight feet wide. Sheep
are the most gentle and docile animals
on earth, and yet an .ae biggest fools
in creation. It makes no difference
how well fed and cared for they may be
they will wedge themselves in a door
way or a gate and strain and pull and
cause abortion. We have never been
able to go through a season without
some cases of abortion, especially In
young ewes.
We rarely shut our breeding ewes In
the shed, except at lambing time.
Unless the wind blows hard the coldest
nights will find the bulk of the flock
in the open yards. Avoid close sheds;
sheep must have an abundance of air.
If a man will go into a close shed
where a flock 'of sheep has been penned
over night, the stench will almost
sicken him. Even in the open yards,
in moist muggy, heavy weather the
smell is foul. Fresh air is the first
great requisite.
In going around among your sheep,
go quietly; don't hustle things and
make them jump and run. We often
go through our sheep with a lantern,
and scarce a sheep gets on its feet, but
if a stranger be along they get on their
feet with a bound. We have lain
among them by the hour, watching
lambing ewes, but a quick movement
will get them up In an instant The
lambing season is a delicate time with
the shepherd. Where it is possible it
is profitable to have some one with
them all the time, especially at night
Lambs are apt to come at all hours.
We have heard men say at stock
breeders' meetings that sheep were safe
from 10 p. m. till 4 a. m., but we have
to confess we have never in our ex
perience had the pleasure of handling
sheep possessed of such capabilities or
good' manners. We have sometimes
thought that daybreak was the most
popular time with the ewes, but we get
experiences that confirm us in our
opinion that a ewe drops her lamb
whenever she gets ready. On one oc
casion we had seventeen lambs dropped
between the hours of 12 midnight and
1:30 a. m.
When the lamb is dropped it is nec
essary to see that the ewe milks freely.
A black, stringy matter fills the teats,
and in many cases the lamb cannot
start the milk. It should then be done
by hand. The long ends and tags of
the wool surrounding the udder should
be clipped so the lamb won't get them
in its mouth. We let our lambs run
with the ewes till August, when they
are weaned.
Kape aad Taralps aa Greea Maaare.
A Pennsylvania farmer recommends
a combination of rape and cowhorn
turnips as a green manure crop for
the renovation of soils deficient in
humus. He sows it broadcast in his
corn field the last time he cultivates
the corn, scattering 'the seed in ad
vance of the cultivator. When sowing
on an unoccupied. field he harrows in
the seed. The rape and turnips ma
ture in the fall' and may be plowed
under then or in the spring, at the con
venience of the farmer. By this plan
he incorporates with his soil several
tons of matter that is Immediately
available as plant food.
Pruning Old Apple Trees. Prof.
Taft of the Michigan Agricultural Col
lege says it is well to go slow before
sawing off the lower limbs in a neglect
ed orchard sufficiently high to permit
of cultivation. The injury might be
greater than the benefits that could be
secured from cultivation.
Ordinarily the best time to prune
old trees is just before growth starts
in the spring, but, as this is generally
a busy time on the farm, the' work
may be done. in the late fall or win
ter. If the branches are not frozen
when the pruning is done the injury
will be slight If the trees are making
a rank growth and are unfruitful, it
will often be found advisable to delay
the pruning until the last of May
when, the trees being in leaf, they will
be subjected to a check and the for
mation of fruit buds will be promoted.
G. W. Franklin: The goat has
asked for a portion of the honors be
longing to sheep. Not being satisfied
with the peculiarity of assisting in
clearing brush lands, it is asking for
a part of the demand for flesh, and un
scrupulous dealers are palming off
large numbers of them for mutton.
They go into the 'stock yards at Chi
cago and other large market centers
as goats, but no goat- meat is 'ever
brought out of any of the killing es
tablishments.
Pawnbrokers prefer customers who
have no redeeming qualities.
They also serre wbo sit down and
wait.
From the Farmers' Review: Tho fn-
dorsr snb-soil pump has been
spoken of so stuck in fans papers ana
Institute lectures that it seems to bats
gotten beyond the stage of a mere ig-
nre of stench, As a matter of fact,
clovers havf no more power to draw
plant food from the sub-soil than
vy other erop of an equal root area;
furthermore, there is always '. great
deal store plant food in available form
In the top soU'than in the sub-soil. In
many cases the penetration of roots
into the sub-soil is of very doubtful
value to the plant Plants take up
moisture through their roots and draw
moisture from depth just as a wick
draws up oil in a lamp. This moisture
towing as it does over and around soil
particles, dissolves a very small quan
tity of mineral matter, and in this
manner in the aggregate, n great deal
of plant food Is brought to the plants,
but this supply is too scanty aad too
irregular to be depended, on for profit
able culture. If such plant food sup
plies seems all that Is needed, there
never would have been any need of
what is called modern agriculture.
Clover makes growth where such
crops as corn, wheat and timothy fail
because clovers have the power of sup
plying their own plant food nitrogen,
taking it from the air. Of course, they
must have potash and phosporlc acid
to do this. Soils after many, years un
der cultivation lose a great deal of
plant food which they contained as
natural soil, and are apt to be short
of at least one of the three elements
of plant food. As nitrogen Is subject
to more losses in the soil than potash
and phosphate, soils are most com
monly short of nitrogen, hence, clovers
which supply 'their own nitrogen will
make a good growth when non-legumes
fail. They are the potash' and
phosphate and addTto their own nitro
gen. This is about all there Is to the
famous clover "sub-soil pump."
We have often read that quick act
ing chemicals fertilizers are injurious
to the soil because they stimulate the
soil to the quick use of all the availa
ble plant food "in sight" Really, the.
clovers are much worse than chem
icals. Chemicals can go no further
than an equal'balance to the plant food
they contain, while clovers supply all
the nitrogen needed to draw out of the
soil every bit of its soluble potash and
phosphates. As 100 pounds of nitro
gen acting through clovers takes out
about 105 pounds Of potash and 25
pounds of pbosphorlc acid, the speed
of this exhaustion becomes apparent
If a soil contains say 400 pounds of
soluble potash per acre, the clover will
furnish nitrogen to take up all of It,
and ho more, just as It will do if there
are but 100 pounds of soluble potash
present Hence the exhausting nature
of clovers is very severe and lasting
In its effects. We are all pretty famil
iar with clover sickness and know that
it means nine times out of ten simply
soil exhaustion.
This exhaustion should be guarded
against by liberal applications of pot
ash and phosphate fertilization, whero
clovers are used in rotation, and the
best time to use this is for winter
-wheat The corn has drawn heavily
upon the plant food stocked up in tho
clover, roots and stubble, so that
there is little available mineral plant
food left for the wheat, and conse
quently it is In no shape for spring
stooling. In this way clover exhaus
tion becomes a very serious menace to
profitable farming. It is useless to try
heavier seeding, deeper plowing," roll
ing, etc., when the whole trouble lies
in a soil exhausted of its soluble min
eral plant food by a rank growth of
clover. Of course the clover may be
returned to the soil as manure, but it
never pays to grow a crop simply for
manure, at least not in cereal farming.
Geo. K. Wilson.
HarreiUaa; KaSr Cora.
J. G. Haney, in a communication to
the Kansas State Board of Agriculture,
says:
Kaffir corn remains green until frost
and the seed does not shatter; so, if
grain is the only consideration, there
is no great hurry to harvest; it can
stand until after frost and the stalk is
dry. But generally the fodder is a
consideration, as well as the grain,
and then the problem Is to cut when
the best results from both may be ob
tained. The longer the fodder stands
the harder and less palatable it be
comes, while if cut too early the best
yield of grain is not secured. After
the grain is hardened so that it is dif
ficult to. mash between the thumb and
finger, and there Is little moisture ap
parently in the seed, there will be very
little shrinkage in the grain. This
would perhaps be called "just past the
hard-dough stage." If cut earlier the
fodder will be better feed, but there
will be a considerable shrinkage in the
rrain.
One thing that has kept this crop
from being more generally raised is
the problem of harvesting. There are
a number of methods and they all
have their merits. If the fodder is de
sired for feed it is perhaps best to cut
stalk and all, and leave it in the shock
until dry. The best machine for ac
complishing this is the corn binder,
which leaves it in bundles of conven
ient size for handling, and the fodder
is held together. The common meth
od, however, is to cut with a mower,
and the crop should be left to cure
well before' raking. Ordinarily it is
put into large shocks or small ricks
containing from a ton to three tons
each. This is done with a hay gather
er, "buck rake." or "go-devil," and
saves a great deal of handling. It
Itmm in ATcolIpnr condition when
treated thhv way t.nd can be hauled
when needed. It is ready to harvest
for hay in about 105 days after plant
ing, and this should be before frost,
as freezing while green is detrimental;
besides, the hay will not cure as well
in cool weather, and it is essential that
it be as perfectly cured as possible.
Mucks vary greatly in the organic
matter they contain. Occasionally a
peaty muck will have as high as 95
pounds of organic matter for each
100 pounds of dry matter, while others
will have little more than half that
amount Slnco the value of the muck
as an absorbent depends upon Its or
ganic matter. It follows that for litter
a peaty muck is better than one that
is clayey or sandy.
The use of muck as a stable ab
sorbent adds greatly to Its store of
nitrogen because of the nitrogen, of the
urine thus taken up, and the germs
always present in manures accelerate
the conversion of the inert nitrogen
into available, forms.
Labor in the south is in great de
mand and the negroes are better paid
than they have ever been in their lives
before.
Cerritos, Cat, claims to have the
largest artesian well in the world. It
is 14. Inches in diameter and 684 deep.
A party of Suffolk, England, farm
ers have gone to Denmark to secure
feints on dairy farming. 1,
Lots letters' may not be legal docu
ments, but they chronicle court pro
ceedings. Ask your grocer for DEFIANCE
STARCH, the only 16 oz. package for
10 cents. All other 10-cent starch con
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To get a few flowers one must sow
plenty of seed.
Ask your grocer for DEFIANCE
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Perfumes were Introduced into Spain
by the Arabs.
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Use Red Cross Ball Blue and make tbezt
white again. Large 2 ox. package, 5 cents.
Kindle the dry sticks and the green
ones will catch.
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Tor ealMrea teetrJac, often the jtunci, reduces fir
1. auajtpeia. cures wiaa cone zcaM(ue
Conceit may puff a man up, but it is
not a good prop.
Ara Yew rstae; Allen's Foot Kane?
It Is the only cure for Swollen,
Smarting. Burning, Sweating Feet.
Corns and Bunions. Ask for Allen's
Foot-Ease, a powder to be shaken into
the shoes. At all Druggists and Shoe
Stores, 25c. Sample sent FREE. Ad
dress. Allen S. Olmsted.. LeRoy, N.'Y.
Desiring the unattainable is not
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undesirable.
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S. C, intending to raise tea for the
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