Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1902-06-27

nts and purposes clover ensilage, a
.ry paIatable and nutritious dairy ra-
on.
MANY a farmhouse cellar could be 8
UGH improved in cleanliness and COM \
ut by plastering the walls, eementing a
le floor and putting more light in t
The cellar when properly arranged t
one Of the most useful rooms in the \
ouse, but too often it is little save {
eathtrap.
The condition of the public school
rounds whether in country or town
S very likely to reflect the home sur
Of the people Of such com
nunity. Where the schoolhouse is
made every way pretty and attractive
inside and outside there will be found
lice homes.
AS we note it. the English sparrow
will on an average hatch three broods
during the season, and the first brood
hatched will raise one brood Of their
own. This is a frightful rate Of propa.
CATION and easily explains how, in
spite Of all their enemies, these pests
increase in number as they do.
we have an elm tree in the door
yard which seems to be a fayorits |
nesting place for the birds. Durins |
the past four years the crotch in the
tree has been occupied in rotation by the
bluelays. robins, catbirds and mourn
ing doves. This year a grosbeak want
ed the place. but failed to get it.
So many want to know how to kill
auack grass in the fields, squirreltail
grass on the lawn, burdocks, squash
bugs and aphis, borers, cankerworms.
chicken mites and flies, how to cure
self sucking cows, sick hogs and lousy
calves. that it seems as though almost
every man on the farm had some trou-
bic or other.
One aggravating thing connected
with the automobile is that even
should the public highways be so i'm
proved as to permit of high speed with
the machine the law will so limit the
speed in the interest Of public safety
that running a machine will seem like
making but twenty miles an hour on
a fast mail train.
A young friend Of ours has started
this season to lay the foundation for a
future herd of fine cattle. He has
bought three registered Polled Angus
heifers and 4 bull. If he viii take
proper care Of these animals, he will
have herd inside OF ten years which
he viii be proud Of and which vii
make him a lot Of money.
A Minnesota man sowed four pound
of rape with crop Of early sown mil
let and claims that it is a success, tn
rape making a new growth after tn
millet was cut and affording an abI
dance Of good sheep pasture till fros
came. We should think that ther
would be trouble in curing the mile
with more or less of the rape in it.
The greatest loss to those sections {
the Mississippi valley which have bee
visited with such tremendous flooC
this season has not been in the crops
bridges destroyed, hut rather in Il
loss in sod fertility by erosion over M
lions Of acres of choice farm land, e
. cry farmer contributing not a little
: the best part of his farm to the rushiI
: waters which carried it oft in soluti'
: to the ocean.
Experiments made by the depal
ment Of agriculture in Connecticut
the growing Of Sumatra tobacco pro
= that this choice leaf can be produc
= IN that state under cover at a cost
" % cents a pound and a yield Of 10
pounds per acre obtained As t
product is worth $1.25 per pound in
6 market very handsome profit is re
rs lied. It is not likely that the growi
g Of this leaf need be confined to O.
- necticut either.
The writer personally cares for
n vegetable and small fruit garden c.
do tanning a little over one-half acre
ct ground. The seeds are all sown a
IL the land well cultivated and kept Fl
from all weeds by the use Of Plai
Junior cultivatOr. So adaptable a
90 useful do we find this tool and so "
he does it do its work that we had rat
We have it to use in our garden than
he best man we know Of working
Ter nothing with hoe.
An interesting case of unselfshn
came under our observation a few d
w ago. A robin was busy digging cal
~ worms on the lawn. A cock SPAR
.is who had a family to provide for n
'' by would follow the robin up, ;
when a nice fat worm was uneart
i, he would grab it before the 70
-iie could swallow it and carry it off
~ the young s5arrows. The funny til
ieu was that the robin did not seem
~ ~ mind this sort Of work in the least.
We occasionally pass through a W
a.. pasture lot the entrance to whicl
49, closed by a pair of bars-old fence I
~ and these rails are Of the straigh
-, and choicest black walnut, cut
,gs fifty years ago. when walnut tin
g sold for SIS per thousand feet and
made into fence rails because it
- the most easily split into shape. S
then the old stumps of those splel
D trees have been dug out and sold
more than the tree would bring W
was slaughtered.
L Another Crank at White House
~ Washington, June 25.-James K
80 years old, a Canadian, who
g spent 20 years of his life at T
{ wanda, N. Y, was arrested at
White House yesterday and held
examination into his mental condi
He said he wanted to convince
!, president that there were four {
~ tiers of the globe, and he wante
pair of diyiders" to locate the u
9.OS States.
- Three Men Crushed to Death at
$50 Girt, N. J.
~; Sea Girt, N. j., June 24.-The
. ~. TALLY completed rifle range cave
6.o6 yesterday, catching three men
were trying to escape, between the
!, 6.S IS ping front walls and the rear