The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1886-09-30
COUNTRY LIFE AND WORK.

COUNTRY LIFE AND WORK.
''OUR FIRST GRAY HAIR.'.
Az the first big patterinr drops that fall
With . splash ON the lattice pane
Make No SILVER and start - they warn 10 all
OF storm, or Of coming rain,
SO 1t 10 with life, when We gre growing old,
And age steals unaware,
We SILVER and start IL the truth were told.
At the sight Of our hrrt gray hair.
We mark not the liz ht Of our MONDAY hour,
Like the hrst streaks the dawn doth bring;
We hail not the birth of our summer flowers
As We do the first snowdrops OF spring;
On the bleak winter wind We look not with grief.
Though it howl through the branches bare,
But We sigh when We witness the brown autumn
Leaf,
And behold nature first gray hair.
Gray hairs may come when the beaming eye
Has none of its brightness lost,
When with buoyant heart we would fain deny
Youths Rubicon has been crossed;
Yet the ivy-cad tree looks young and green,
Though sapless trunk may be there,
And naught Of decay on our cheeks may be seen
When we witness our first gray hair.
Come early, come late, like knock At the gate,
IL that arst soft silvery thread;
AMI 1t JOINS with it, silence the years that await
With the years forever fed;
1t silently questions-Where9
o! faithful milestone,l were the truth but
Is seen in our first gray hair.
HEssIAN FLY.
The London News of Sept. 4 has an editorial
on the appearance Of the Hessian fly in England.
The name was given 1t in America, it having
been introduced into Pennsylvania supposedly
in the straw used ~ forage BY the Hessian
troops during the Revolutionary War. The
name given to this insect by entomologists 10
cecidomyia destructor. The only English name
by which it seems to be known is Hessian fly.
The News states that an insect resembling the
Heseian fly settled down in England in 1900,
but it proved not to be this dreaded pest of
American grain-nelds. The probability IL that
this insect will not severely ecourge Great Brit
ain, since vet weather is iDimical to its breed
sufficiently to produce widespread disaster ex-
cept In rather dry seasons. The present season
has been favorable to it., and in many localities
there has been considerable destruction from ito
ravages. If the winter is favorable-and the in
sect will stand any amount Of cold. dry weather
next season it may be expected to show itself
In force. In this country, however, it has many
enemies and parasites.
The insect in the United States reproduces
twice in. favorable seasons. The pups in the
state 1t winters in resembles email f1axseed and
il found In the sheaths enveloping the lower
joints Of grain and some Of the grasses. The
stalk of Indian corn 10 one of the places for the
insect to hibernate, 1t has been seen in Indian
corn stalks As high Is the fourth joint 1t also
harbors in stubble, generally in the first and
second joints. Also in meadows and in accu-
mutations of traeh about fences. II suspected,
all etubbles Of grain and Indian corn ehould be
burned on before blowing, and so should be
meadows and also all trash where the insect
may be liable to accumulate. The Hessian fly
is destructive to fall wheat, and also to all
spring grain. The English journal is quite COR
rect in advising the burning of stubble a. prop-
er in England, as it has long known to have
been in the United States. 1t is not certain.
however. that blowing the stubblc under will de-
etroy the paper.
PROTEST FROM THE oLEoxArGAR1NE MEN.
Some manufacturers of oleomarparine have
protested to the Treasury Department agains,
the construction placed by the Internal Rev
enue Bureau on the second section of the act
The law imposes on ''oleo oil,' ..neutral. and
other articles of like nature "a tax Of the came
amount az 1s imposed on oleomargarine. 1t ap-
pears that there are number of firms engaged
in the manufacture Of oleomargarine whose b1si.
ness is to purchase and combine various inRredi-
ents into the marketable article, and il the
component materials are subject to tax. as has
been held by the Revenue Bureau. the resul,
will be to compel these manufactures to nav q
double tsx, they are also required bv the law
to place stamps on the finished article when
compounded. 1t is also stated that certain firms
are making large quantities Of what is known as
''oleo oil, which is sold and used solely as 8
lubricant for machinery. If the strict construc
ton already given to the Law by the department
s adhered to this material will also be snhiect-d
to the tax imposed on oleomargarine The mat
ter ls now under consideration by the Interna
Revenue Bureau. and it is believed that wher
Commissioner Miller returns the construction
that has been placed on the second section of the
act will be modified 90 rs to relieve the materia
OF TAX circulars have been sent to all Collectors
requesting Information as to the number Of
oleomargarine factories in each district. the
average production, and other information will
view to adjusting the clerical force Of III.
OF the bureau to meet the demands of the busi
ness when the act shall go into operation.
sANBoRS's sY0rEx.
The following is given by the Rural World al
Pro1. Sanborn's system Of Rotation of crops o,
the College farm at Columbia, No. 1t is a eoot
system for naturally good soil, like those O.
the Mississippi Valley. On poorer quality o.
soil it would take too much out of and put no
enough into the land, though one dressing Of
stable manure and one crop of clover turned
unoef every Elk years is more in the way of fer
tli1zers than most of our farms get: t.He begins
say with timothy sod. Manures and blows II
tue fall for corn in the spring. The corn is en-
carry and taken from the land as sooh as cured
the land pioN ed and in the spring sowed to oat,
and seeded with clover. The oats are moved
carry Tor nay, thus giving the clover a chance t.
come com on ana make second crop for hay The
nrst crop OF clover the next season s cut for hsy
out II the land needs improving the second GRO,
10 proved uder and the wheat sowed II the lane
Is In good heart it can be cut for hay or saved
Tor seed. With the wheat is sowed tj.noth,
winch is allowed to remain two years blowing i
up IN tae 1al OF the second year to plant to corr
ag4'n Inc next spring, thus bringing Us back K
the beginning Of the rotation again. This is .
SIX years rotation and in the six years one get,
seven crops. or II he saves the second crop o.
clover he gets eight. The land is manfred
every six years. Under such management in
kteAd OF the land becoming exhausted it will be-
come stronger and more fertile as has been pro
ven on the College Farm and thousands Of othe,
cases. ~'
SHEEP FOR MILK
Prof Long, II England, says: 1.-THE bare ide,
OF keeping sheep for milking purposes would
probably shock the vast majority of these who
are engaged in agriculture in this country, and
yet, strange to cay, the eve ia keptin enormou.
numbers in one district of France, where an i'm
portsnt industry in the manufacture of sheen,
mix cheese. we'll known to Englishmen unde,
the name of RoquefOrt, is carried en- and which
employs considerable amount of labor % well
as capital There cannot and there should moi
be anything to smile at in a fact like this. how.
ever ridiculous and impractical it may seem to
us in England, who are accustomed to large
hocks OF sheep, which arc reared and fed for
the production Of mutton. do not int nd to be
sufficiently bold in this instance to urge. or even
to suggest, that milking ewes should be kept on
English farms: but we cannot get over the fact
that the system is both practicable and profita.
bic, and those Of us who are willing to nav a
high price for the recherche cheese referred to
contribute largely to the maintenance of the
farmers who produce the milking ewes"
IRRIGATION IN THE WHIST
People who live in the we'll watered region of
the Mississippi Valley car have little conception
of the extent to which artificial irrigation il
being carried in the arid regions Of the Far West
ha n,lso