The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-03-22
BnoME GRAss AND RArE.

we again nave several Inquiries as to
rape and the bronze grass. While we
have quite fully answered these in
quiries in former issues, we will do so
once more to inform new readers of
this matter. Bromus inermis is n grass
specially suited for scmiarid regions
and in our opinion has no place wher-
ever the clovcrs and timothy will grow.
1t makes good permanent pasture on
dry and sandy soils, the toughest sod
of any Of our grasses, responds quickly
to the action of moisture and warmth
and as hay has a feeding value about
equal to timothy. 1t has Il place in all
the territory bordering the dead line
in longitude-the line where other
grasses fail for want of sufficient mois-
ture, but not where the average rain
fall is 80 inches and over. Rape is Il
new forage plant for this country,
though old as the hills in England. 1t
has much promise as Il late summer
and early fall forage crop for hogs and
sheep. 1t may be sown in the corn at
the time of the last blowing or with
any cereal crop and be then pastured
after the crop is removed. We think
that it has special value for all hog
rasers, and it is well worth a trial by
all such. We regard it as the most
promising of any of the new forage
plants. Sow the Dwarf Essex variety,
one and a half pounds Of seed to the
acre, either in the corn or on the oat
or barley field. If sown with small
grain, it should be Sown about ten days
after the grain sowing, brushing the
field over with a light harrow.
one tor OF commercial fertilizer,
worth SOS. is required for each acre of
farm land on Long Island in order to
insure a crop. And there are thou
sands Of men in the fertile west who
grow three tons of worthless weeds in
each acre of their corndelds who would
not know what a commercial fertilizer
was if they were asked.
Two million seven hundred thousand
Frenchwomen are reported by the last
census of that country as employed in
outdoor wo"e on the farms and gar
dens of France This condition would
theoretically imply large families Of
children, but the same census discloses
the fact that the nation as whole is
barely holding its own in point of pop
Llation.
The dust and fine chaft from ma.
chine thrashing flax were carried by
strong wind over on to piece of land
a quarter Of an acre in extent which
had never grown n crop of fax This
field soweG to flax next 'ear produced
n fine crop with the exception of this
one-quafter acre, which was so poi.
soncd by the dust that the crop all
died off when it was two iucht ugh.
CHEAP BUTTER MAKERS.
We are prompted TO speak of i'll adj
vised economy practiced by many co.
operative creameries in selecting the
cheapest man for butter maker, There
is probably no other business where
cheap and incompetent men can lose
so much money for their employers as
here. Take a big creamery making a
ton Of butter day in June and allow
the product to be off just enough to
sell for cent under the market, and
away goes $50 into a hole. The butter
maker, if an expert, is cheap at 500
per month, for such a man can save his
wages twice over. Brains cost money,
but brains must go into the cream vat,
the starter, the tester and the churn
and are just as important as salt. We
have known cases where $40 month
saved on butter makers wages repre-.
cnnfnd n daad loss of G100 each month