The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-03-22

tendency CT cOlu ar 10 ldll are rcSDOn-
sibe for all phases of the varying
winds and also for all types of storms
Ii the willow post is cut seven feet
long it may he made to double its
period of usefulness by invcrting the
posts as they begin to show signs of
decay.
Every professional man. men in all
branches of manufacturing mining
and numbering, the butcher, the baker
ana the candlcstick maker, each and
every one has special trade papers
which he finds it profitable to take and
read. Now, why should not Il farmer
do likewise?
We met a poultry man lately who has
brought the egg product of large flock
Of hons-Leghorns-up to an average
Of 200 eggs per hen per annum. We
did not ascertain how long a hen would
wear worked at this rate. but should
Lot think she would stand it more than
one year.
One of Americas great fortunes
awaits the diScoverer OF process
which at Il low cost will convert the
upper six inches of a prairie dirt high
way to q width of six feet into frost
and rain proof strip. Here is problem
for inventors and scientists to work on
With the certainty that the fortune is
theirs when the problem is solved.
Everything points to another pros
porous year for the agricultural in
forests of the country. The mines,
mills factories, railways. will be work
81 to their full capacity and all avail
able labor given employment at re-
mHcrativo wages. This insures Il de-
maud for all farm products. for the
American laborer is always good
liver when he is earning good wages.
Three men, neighborS, owned adjon-
Ing farms through which passed Il
small creek. Each kept many hogs.
II came to pass that the man farthest
up The creek lost all his hogs by
cholera, as did the man farthcst down,
the man in the middle losing none.
When the latter told us of this singular
fraaa, we advised him to go and cut off
an inch from the tail of every one of
his pigs in the full of the moon and
thus start new hog cholera remedy.
Willie an advocate of early seeding
for all our small grains, early sown
grain maturing before the excessive
heat Of the midsummer. We still never
did believe in "mudding" the grain in,
bat would always rather wait until the
soil became III Il fit condition to work
The disking, dragging and tramping of
all clay or gumbo lands rs the frost is
going out in the spring is to put such
lands in the worst possible shape for
the proper development of the crop
sought to be raised upon them.
Climatic conditions are far too often
charged up with the loss of fruit trees.
There are other things aside from
climate Which ruin the orchards of
t.o country. One is pasturing the Or
cIaId with stock, another is the work
OF ue borcr, another is permitting the
trees to overbear, and another is
Drought and the failure to properly
conserve the moisture in the soil Blue
grass sod, pasturing, borcrs, ovcrbear
lg and general neglect have killed
more fruit trees ten times over than
were ever destroyed by climatic condi-
lions
All the rich prairie loan soils of the
west ana northwest should be stirred
with the pillow once in every six or
seven years to depth of not less than
eight or nine inches. SO treated, such
So.,S will produce good crops if plowed
NOT over four inches deep in the inter-
Vehing years. This periodical deep
pioWlng will further be invaluable as
moisture conserver for the crops in Il
ofy season. -Four horses on n 1G inch
pIo" will do this special blowing in
good shape, and it should be done
Ju>J as early in the fall as possible,
July ana August being the best months,
auH It should never be done in the
spring.
We came across q public spirited
nan lately who had set a row OF apple
.IeeS IN the street outside the sidewalk
iof shade trees. OF course the boys
Will get all the apples, but no man has
i1od III vain who has helped the boys
u AlS town TO have a good time.
late experiment conducted at the
Kansas experiment station in the feed
inE Of young calves showed that u
bunch of calves raised on sweet sepa-
Ialo' skimmilk made u daily gain of
1904 pounds at a cost of $342 per 100
pounds Of gain; bunch fed whole
nllIN made a gain of 1.95 pounds per
Jay at a cost of $6.G4 per 100 pounds,
ana another bunch allowed to run with
'neif dams made gain of LIZ pounds
per day at cost of SAL per 100
pounds.
liy patch of rape this Year. Plant
TWO acres of sweet corn and sow ~
pounds of rape seed to the acre at the
'ille Of the last blowing When the
,ofh begins to harden, fence off half of
" ana turn the hogs in. Let them alone
ana 80 and lean over the fence as the
sun goes down and just laugh to see