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made into hay. Flowing under cow
peas on poor soil is considered as al
ways profitable.
Fruit live. .,x. ton. in nr,ssour,.


The government summary of the
ment station, under the direction of
Prof. John T. Stinson, says: During
the first years operation of this sta
ton about forty acres of land were
brought under cultivation, twenty of
which were planted in test orchards.
Experiments in crossing strawberries
have been undertaken, and some
spraying experiments on commercial
scale for the control of apple scab and
bitter rot carried out in a neighbor-
ing orchard. Eighty varieties of ap-
strawberries We're set out. Apple scab
on the varieties Ben Davis and Hunts
man, was almost entirely prevented by
spraying with Bordeaux mixture. Bit
ter rot was more difficult to control
with Bordeaux mixture. In one ex-
pertinent on Ben Davis sprayed five
times, so per cent of the fruit was
free from bitter lot. while on control
trees only III per cent was free from
ii. In another part of the orchard rs
per cent of the fruit sprayed four
times was free from the rot, while on
unsprayed trees all but IA per cent
was affected. The variety Huntsman.
which was sprayed three times during
the season gave SO per cent free from
bitter rot and % per cent free from
apple scab, while on unsprayed trees
but As per cent was free from bitter
rot and 6S per cent free from apple
Scab.
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"All winter long" said a West
Philadelphia man. Il have had q
cricket in my house. In my sitting
room 1 have an open fireplace, in
which l have been burning logs, and
every time started this fire going the
cricket would begin to chirp. Recent
ly | haven't been using the fireplace.
and the voice of the cricket has been
stilIed | rather missed his CHEEKY
song. although l had never seen him.
but last night as l was sitting In tho
room reading he started up again,
but this time his voice seemed pitched
in a higher key, as though he were
actually in the room.
In few moment | discovered
that he actually was, and I was still
further surprised to find that he was
an aibino. OF course | couldn't swear
that he had pink eyes, but his body
was perfectly white. He was sitting
at the edge of the fireplace, and when
| made movement toward him he
disappeared down a crack. All dur
ing the evening he would chirp at in
tervals, but he refused to come out
again. It's the only white cricket
ever saw, and I don't believe / ever
heard of one before"
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Rate Siloa.

We do not advise any farmer to
build second-class silo. A poor silo
not only disgusts its owner, but after
it is abandoned becomes a monument
in the community discouraging others
from building them. A visitor at the
Office of the Farmers Review last week
said that the farmers in his locality
were using no silos and had no par
ticular interest in them. There is, he
said only one silo in exiStence there.
and that has been abandoned. OF
course, he added, it wasn't well-buiH
in the first place. That tells the story
But some one will say, Buff Jersey"
has only a stave silo and he has used
it for years and before that he built
and used other stave silos, and he Is
satisfied with them" Yes, and Buff
Jersey" will make a success OF any old
silo, for he is a natural Investigator.
a natural scientist, and makes study
of everything he works with. But for
the average man we advocate silo SO
well built that it will stand lot OF
neglect and still keep silage.
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Last Thursday the oleomargarine
bill passed the senate by a vote of SO
to 81 The ten-cent tax on the colored
product went through without change,
as did also the provision for taxing
uncolored oleomargarine one-fourth
cent a pound. The bill places under
the provisions of the police powers of
the states and territories all oleomar-
garine, butterine, process, renovated,
adulterated, or imitation butter or
cheese, or any substance in the SEM
blance of cheese or butter not the
product OF the dairy and not made of
pure unadulterated milk or cream.
Some slight amendments were made in
the senate, and this will send it back
10 the conference committee of the
house and senate.
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Andrew NJ. Soule says: It Ii evident
that the middle south il capAbla OF
maintaining from 100000 to 1000 90
more beef cattle annually on the pres
ent basis OF production than she now
owns; whereas. there are probably be-
tween one and two hundred thousand
being fsd now. There is only about 40
per cent Of the land cultivated and less
than 20 per cent highly improved.
When rs per cent Of the land is inn
proved, as in the central west the mid
die south will be able to maintain and
fatten at least two-thirds as many cat
tie as the central west. This means
the doubling of our stock interests or
the maintenance of more than 40eo,-
600 head of beef animals. Considering
all things, is it not surprising that
such a splendid showing is possible in
a section of country comparatively I'M
known and wholly unappreciated as
stock country by the stocEmen OF
America? The people of the south are
not altogether to blame for the present
status OF the stock business, put they
are at fault for not appreciating the
potential stock carrying capacity of
their country. They are alive to this
matter ROW and they deserve the sim
cere and hearty cooperation of the
stOckmen of America in their endeavor
to redeem a wasted birthright. 1t is
evident that the people of the South
must keep their stocIers at home and
feed them there and thus become man
ufacturers OF their raw products. They
can thus build up the soil, they can
save their fertilizer bills, they can util-
ize their food products at home, and
they will get the full potential power
out of their cotton products.
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From Farmers Review: My meth
cd of raising turkeys is to first fix good
Races for the hen to nest in, an old
y rel laid down on side, or big box
upside down with a good, big opening
inside, with some brush thrown over
and around them. In fixing such
places you are NEST sure to get them
TO nest in them. Then you are not
bothered with crows taking eggs. If
cold. l gather the eggs. and when hen
wants to sit l give her Is to IS eggs
When she has Matched l put her in
large coop or pen so she can't get out.
ard let the little turkeys run out and
in at their pleasure. l keep hen in for
two weeks and feed little ones some
milk with light bread soaked in it.
with some millet seed. Then if
weather is good / turn hen out and
feed about the same till they are large
enough to catch grasshoppers, then
they will take care of themselves.-A.
q. Copeland, Vermilion County, Illi
nois.
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It required about 100000 gallons
Of milk to supply the city of New York
during 1901, and an additional of A.
500, 900 gallons of cream and condensed
milk. 1t is interesting to note the
variation in the milk used in the diff
terent months of the year, which was
as follows: January (gallons). 1860,
300; February, 6,SSO,000; March, 1860,
300; April, 100000; May, S,420,0oO;
June, 100000; July, 9,46o,o0o; Au-
gust, $500, 600; September, S,070,000;
October, 100000; November, SOLO,
300; December, 100000. The small
est supply was in February, and in
that month the supply of cream
ind condensed milk was also the
ymallest, being 242,e0O gallons The
greatest consumption of milk was in
July, as was also the consumption Of
cream and condensed milk, which
reached COL zoo gallons, more than
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From the Farmers Review: have
written to several agricultural and
poultry papers asking for information
in regard to intestinal worms in tur-
keys. In every instance l have had
a courteous reply, but almost devoid
of practical points. Last summer l
lost half of flock of so young turkeys
from three to five months old from
intestinal worms. By giving areca
nut l managed to save the rest, but
they We're 50 stunted that they were
small at maturity and did not fatten
readily. They had the run OF a farm
Of $40 acres. My turkeys this year
Will Of necessity have the same runs
VIII you please answer the following
questions by number, as all to whom
l have written answer only one:
/. Do you know Of any powder on
the market Except Blakes which was
not enectuaD which may be fed to two
weeks old turkeys as n preventive?
>. Does areca nat stunt the growth?
Please do not recommend turpentine.
for they Will neither drink tie water
nor eat more than one mOuthful of
food containing it, The treatment rec
commended in reply to my last letter
required the dosing individually of
the entire flock. four days in the week
occasionally" l have studied govern
ment bulletins, poultry books, and ev-
erything I can find, and as all are
agreed that the worm eggs live from
year to year in the ground, and none
give a remedy simply enough admin
istered to be practical. l am almost in
despair Of raising any turkeys here
after.-L. /. Phelps.
We urge our readers that have had
experience with the above mentioned
trouble to send in their suggestions,
The case is a difficult one, and the
usual remedies seem to be ineffective,
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To Sell ia City or Creamery.

The milk supply of New York dur
ing February OF this year was about
ZOO, 600 gallons, against 6,SS0,000 in
the corresponding month last year.
This is an increase of over 100000 gall
Ions. This increase was made in the
face of a short and high-priced feed
supply. How was it made? By pay
ing more for milk. The average price
paid the producers in February, 1901,
was 2.75 cents per quart. During Feb
ruary 1902. it was 3.25 cents per quart
an increase Of one-half cent a quart.
Without this increase, it is safe to say
that the extra amount of milk could
never have been obtained. AS the
great cities grow they must reach out
further for their milk supply, and must
increase the price they pay for it.
This fact always initiates against the
creamery. OF the two ways Of dispos-
ing of his milk the creamery is gen
orally the most profitable to the farm
er-not at once, but in the long run.
When farmer sends his whole milk
to the cities, the manurial value in ii
never gets back to the farm. When
a man sends his milk to the creamery
and gets back his skim milk. he can
produce out of that skim milk veal.
pork. poultry, meat and eggs. Men
should take this into account when
figuring milk prices.
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Home-Growu Clover Seed Best.

Owing to a controversy in Europe
regarding the relative value of Amer
lean and European clover seed, the
Department of Agriculture has under
taken some comparative experiments,
the initial series of which was con-
Quoted at Washington. Many samples
of clover seed OF known origin from the
different countries of Europe and from
different parts of the United States
and Canada were grown under like
conditions. Cuttings of hay were made
at suitable intervals, the product of
each plat being carefully weighed.
These experiments. which have now
been under way for two years, show
conclusiyely that under the conditions
existing here the European red clover
is decidedly inferior in productiveness
to the American. Apparently the
American strain is better adapted to
the conditions of bright sunshine, pc
riodic heat, and dryness that exist
here. For the purposes of our farm
ers, therefore, a decision of the ques-
ton whether to use American or i'm
ported seed is easily reached. During
the past year a series of supplementary
experiments has been started at typi-
cal selected areas in different parts
of the United States. to see whether
these results hold in the principal
c1overgrowing states.
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Some Experiments with Wheat.

At the Tennessee Experiment sta
ton the results Of fertilizer expert
ments with winter wheat after bare
fallow show that the cost of the in
crease per bushel was 10 cents, with
ESQ pounds of acid phosphate per acre
in two applications, 20 cents with ten
tons of barnyard manure applied In
1900 and tons in 1901, and 81 cents
with an application of so bushels of
lime in 1900; while accompanied by
crop of cowpeas plowsd under, so
bushels of lime applied in 1900 reduced
the cost of increased yield per bushel
to 16 cents, 250 pounds of basic Stag 90
II cents, and the same amount of Ten
nessee and South Carolina acid phos-
pilates to 10 and 20 cents. Where bare
fallow was followed for two years the
cost of the increase with these phos-
pilates was 42.39 and "a cents per
bushel respectively. The phosphates
gave good results in all cases, but the
application of muriate of potash alone,
of blood and bone, and 100 bushels of
lime alone were unsatisfactory. The
complete ready-mixed fertilizers were
Improbable and the complete home
mixed fertilizers were not SO econom-
ica1 as either phosphates, lime or barn
yard manure. On impoverished soil
home-mixed application of so pounds
nitrate Of soda, 100 pounds acid phos-
phate and rs pounds muriate OF pot
ash gave the best results. Cowpeas
"a an the land. and the next best when
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Growing wheat continuously on land
depletes the nitrogen and humus in it
in addition to what is taken up by
the crops themselves. Just how this
depletion takes place we do not know,
but it does take place to a surprising
degree. This fact largely accounts for
the rapid deterioration of lands de-
voted exclusively to wheat growing
and to summer fallow. This latter
practice though hoary in age, is a
greater waster OF nitrogen and of hui
mus than is even wheat growing. At
st. Anthony's Park, Minnesota, plat
of ground that was used in the grow
ing of wheat continuously for eight
years lost 100 pounds of nitrogen.
OF this only 800 pounds was taken up
by the wheat crop. -Four times as
much nitrogen was lost by soil and air
as was used by the wheat. That
meant loss of ], 400 pounds, which
was more than one-ffth of all the nj
trogen in the soil at the time the wheat
was first grown. What then would be
the result in five times as many years
forty years? The land would GER
tainly become useless for the growing
OF wheat and would reach a condition
in which the recovery Of its nitrogen
would be extremely difficult. In ad-
dition to the loss of nitrogen there
was a yearly loss of 1000 pounds OF
| humus, through chemical action.
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FARM AND GARDEN.
MATTERS OF INTEREST TO AGRI.
CUlTURiSTS.
Some Up-to-Date Hints About Guilt
walton of the Soil and Yields
Observation-Disclosures vitioultare and
ElOEiculturA


W. H. Wylie, Ohio: The outlook for
fruit is fair, as the trees went through
the winter well.
H. M. Dunlap, Central Illinois: The
outlook for tree fruits is good. This
applies to apples, pears, cherries and
plums. Peach buds are dead.
r. L. Holman, Ohio: The prospect
for fruit is poor and the general crop
will not be over SO per cent of an
average. Peaches are entirely gone.
There Will be some plums and cherries
and part crop OF apples.
Prof. H c. Price, Iowa: From pres
ent indications the prospect for fruit
the coming season is very good. The
apple, plum and cherry blossoms are
in good condition. Peach blossoms
are killed and some of the more tender
varieties of plum aud chorry, but on
the whole, l think tie prospects are
very good.
t. e. Goodrich, Southern Illinois:
The outlook is good for all tree fruits
except peaches. The peach crop will
be light. A few buds are ready to
break out into blossoms, but not
enough for crop. Pears and apples
promise well. Trees are leaving out
Warm rains during the past two days
(March &c, 20 are bringing out the
grass and Frightening the color of the
wheat.
Professor John T. Stinson. Missouri:
The prospects for an apple crop in
South Missouri are good. reaches are
killed over Central Missouri, but as
far south as Koshkonong and also in
the southwestern portion of the state
they promise a good crop. At some
points, for instance Kashkonong, the
report is that the crop promises to be
full.
Professor Albert Dickens, Kansas:
Apples promise very we'll, except in
some old orchards which bore extra
heavy crops in '01; young orchards
generally in good condition. Cherries
and native plums promise we'll; Japan
csc plums considerably damaged. Apri-
cots badly damaged. Peaches in
northern part of the state, buds killed:
conflicting reports from the southern
part, probably seriously injured.
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The American Shropshire Registry
association will offer NUMBER
of special prizes at shows this
year. divided as follows: In
ternationa1 Live Stock Exposition,
Chicago. 1888; Toronto Industrial
Exposition, 500; Ontario Winter Fair
at Guelph, 500. At the Indiana State
Fair, the Registry association will pay
ons-third of the prizes offered for
Shropshires, whl"h will 1un ~12, So, Sc
and SIS in each class. Only recorded
sheep are eligible to these special
prizes.
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Professors of the Vermont station
have been investigating the orchards
of Addison county in that state. In
part their report states:
The statistics of culture, however,
show more strikingly the condition OF
the apple growing business in Add
son county. Out of 40 representative
apple growers whose orchards We're
personally examined by the agent OF
the Experiment station, only eight, or
less than one-fifth, give any cultlva-
ton to the ground. The others grow
their apple trees in grass, and often
pasture or NOW the grass at that.
This is altogether wrong and unprot-
table. 1t was once a debatabIe ques-
ton whether an apple orchard should
be cultivated or not; but it is debata-
BILE no longer. The cash returns set
tied that. BY way of comparison it
may be said that there is hardly an
orchard. large or small, in Grand Isle
county which is not now annually Gull
tivated with the pillow and harrow.
Probably the greatest reform to be
made in Addison county apple grow
ing lies in the cultivation of the land.
Apples can be grown in sod, to be
sure; but it is absolutely certain tnat
in ninety-nine cases out of hundred,
better fruit can be grown and a great
er profit realized if the soil is properly
cultivated. Proper cultivation, accord
ing to the generally accepted doctrine
of the time, consists of blowing the
land early in the spring, and in lol-
lowing this with a surface cultivation
with spring-tooth or cutaway harrow
every ten days till July first. BY that
time the wood is done growing and
cultivation should be stopped. Then
a cover crop of clover, eight pounds to
the acre, or of peas, two bushels to
the acre, or of buckwheat, one bushei
10 the acre, should be sown. The cover
crop holds its place untouched till the
following spring, when it is turned
under at the annual blowing.
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In reading the foreign exchanges
one is struck with the slow spread Of
dairy knowledge. We have been max
ing silage in this country for more
than twenty-five years. In Victoria,
Austraiia. silage has been made by
the leading daiTymen for more than
twenty years. One of the best of
them has Lade 200 tons every winter
and has wintered 100 COWS on it, and
he has done it for twenty years with
out failure. Yet to-day the New Zea-
land papers are urging their readers
to investigate the silage question and
are telling their readers that they are
twenty years behind the times. They
are proposing that the government call
a conference, give the farmers free
passes on the railroads to attend it,
and import for speakers dairymen in
Australia or other parts that have
made silage successfully. But the New
Zealanders are not the only people
that are behind in their appreciation
of the siIo. In the great state Of ILL
nois there are few silos despite the
fact that just across the border in
Wisconsin are whole counties dotted
over with silos, and where the money
returns have been very great and the
increase of wealth due to the silos
enormous.
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twice the amount consumed in Febru-
airy. The figures are interesting as
showing the relative amounts con-
sumed, which will probably be found
to correspond with the milk supply OF
all OF our large cities. The very large
amount used in July is due to the great
demand for ices OF various kinds and
to some extent to the more rapid
spelling Of milk in summer time.
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In an average year San Francisco ex-
ports wine to the value of $685. to
the various parts of the union, and to
foreign ports to the value of 81, SOC. 900.
much of the latter export going 70 Fla
walt China. Japan and Central Anse~
tcA
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Wild onions are in many places a
nuisance to dairymen, especially where
the dalrymen are engaged in supplying
milk, butter or cream to an eXacting
market. The onions are among the
first plants to make a good growth in
the spring, and hence are eaten with
the other heritage. 1t is difficult, if
not impossible, TO take the odor out
of milk by aeration, though this odor
may be lessened by that process. Once
established wild onions are difficult to
eradicate. but eradicated they must be
if their odor is to be kept out of the
milk In blowing up a field where the
onions are numerous the blowing
should be deep and the sod turned
completely over.
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Between the white of the egg and
the shell are two delicate membranes,
one adhering closely to the shell, the
other to the albumen. These two
skins are Joined except at the large
end OF the egg, where they separate
and form the air-cavity.
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The following table just issued from
the census department at Washington
gives the total number of all kinds OF
domestic animals on the farm and in
the towns of the United States on the
1st Of June, 1900, as follows:
calves .......-........l Is ,330,333
Steers ........-......15 ,253,1Sz
Bulls ................. l,3l5,5So
Helfers .........--. I,lS2,Ol4
Cows kept for milk. II ,139. STA
Cows and heifers not kept
for milk ........-........11,5 s3.25S
Colts ...- .......-.-........ I'oIo'4Io
Horses ..-... 1882 64
Mules 80. ......&..... 1871 ,6s7
Asses and burros ..... $500
Sheep -. .......-..- .ol,ooo,oil
SWINE ..-... .-......-..... .o1'o'o'loo
Goats 1,s72,2S2
Cattle head the list with 81 so4 ,027,
swine coming next with 62, S76,1oS; OF
sheep there were 61.605,S11. Since
1890 the number of sheep decreased
everywhere except in the west The
increase there was more than sufficient
to balance the loss elsewhere and made
the number OF wool-bearing sheep for
the nation II per cent greater than in
1850. The number of horses on farms
increased except in the North Allan
tic states. The gain over the census
of 1890 was 20 per cent, if the colts
are included with the totals of 1900,
and 13 per cent if excluded. The total
value of all domestic animals on farms
and ranges was $2,9S1, 054 ,115. against
Sc, POS, 767, 513 in 1890. There was
gain in all parts OF the country except
in the North Atlantic states, where
there was a decrease of horses, sheep
| and swine, making a total decrease OF
| 8 per cent in value.
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The yolk of an egg is very nourfsh-
ing, containing a large percentage of
albuminoids. fatty organic matters. and
mineral salts.