The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-03-13
FOR THE FARMER.


Elossidero.
With your bangles, spangles, tangles, Macy
Flossdero!
How Love reaches, how Love wrangles
For the red rose In full blossom Oh your
'''' Floss,dero!
How his heart. with quickened beat.
Hears the patter Of your feet.
Where the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. meet,
Fiossidero:
FlOssiderO!
With, rare ribbons dreaming, beamng.
brightly cleaning,
Flossidero
In the starlight streaming, streaming,
On that glorious rose victorious at your
white throat.
F;ossidcro!
Arc you phantom. arc you fay,
From II land where Love hath swayt
You have stolen my heart away,
Flossldero!
Fl0ssiderO!
Bells arc ringing, lights are swinging, birds
Flossidero!
And drowning soul Is clinging
To rose'leaf quirerlng, shiverns at your
Thank God! tits fallen there
From a storm Of golden hair,
And tits mine to weep, to wear,
Flossidero!
Flossidero!
FRANK Il. stanton III Atlanta constitution.
Drought Problem in the Northwest.
Prof. Curtiss of Iowa says: I'VE re-
gard this question of vital interest and
VIC are now engaged in introducing and
testing new and valuable forage plants
adapted to the conditions of the state.
We are paying special attention. to the
drouth and rust resisting qualities of
our grain and forage crops, believing that
great assistance can be rendered the
farmer along this line. Breeding, Sc
lection and improvement Of domestic
animals has long engaged the attention
of scientists and farmers, but it is only
lately that similar investigation has been
instituted in effecting similar improve
ment in our grain crop.
I'VE need have no fears of continued
drouth. There may be an occasional
year of scant rainfall, but the general
average will be maintained. We need,
however, to study the best methods of
conserving and utilizing the rainfall that
we do have in order to make agriculture
more certain science and insure more
uniform and reliable results. There is
generally rainfall enough during each
year to grow and perfectly mature good
crop, provided it can be prevented from
escaping before the crop needs it. The
soil should first he put in receptive
condition in order that all water that
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passing off over the surface to swell the
streams. 10 this end we must have
our fields in a good state of cultivation
and the soil porous and pliable. Subsoil>
ing is sometimes beneficial in increasing
the misunderstanding capacity of the
soil, and when resorted to should be done
in the fall in order that the benefit of the
fall and spring rains may be obtained.
Then after the soil has become well sat
urated with moisture it is important to
see that none of it is wasted. The sur
face should not be allowed to bake and
crack open and the hot winds drain the
soil of its moisture by evaporation. In
season of drouth cultivate often with
q shallow-running cultivator, keeping the
surface mellow and loose all the time,
thus reducing evaporation to a minimum
and retaining the soil moisture for the
demands of the crop at a critical time.
Canadian cheese Making.
The Canadians are finding that if they
are to retain their supremacy in cheese
making they must be continually on the
lookout for better methods and better
care of the milk, not by a few, but all of
the patrons. The thorough aeration OF
the milk for the cheese factories is now
recommended by Dairy Commissioner
Robertson, and we ask a careful read
ing of the following by our subscribers
who are interested in the cheese inter-
ests of this country This is all the
more important because now the drift
of trade is against us, and we export
less and less each year, which means
that home consumption must take the