The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1904-05-04

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wheatfelds Of the Argentine.
Sometimes the hired mar needs q
starter just as much as the cream does
TO At It for churning.
Hen manure may be used for q lawn
dressing to advantage if mixed with
three times its bulk of earth. 1t should
be used very sparingly.
No matter IL seeds 40 retain their
| vitality more than one year, we would
always use seed of the previous years
growth if we could. Age with seeds
usually means Impairment.
Florida produced 100000 boxes Of
pyanges h past season. The planta-
epns have largely recovered from the
disastrous freeze Of n few years ago,
and the crop will increase yearly from
Aow on.
The Frenchman has learned how to
use the culls Of American apple or
chards in the shape OF dried apples
and manufacture II dry champagne
which when sent over here graces the
boards OF our nahobS.
The Jersey two-ycar-old COW Tonona
TX. ate during the year 1908 S62.3S
worth Of high priced feed, but her milk
product sold for $3.50. She gave an av-
eraRe of twenty-five pounds of milk
| per day, but 1t was nearly all ream
We saw n ten acre field OF red clover
the other day In which there must have
| been Mt work last season n thousand
| pocket gophers, for they had literally
honeycombed the field from end to end
This fellow Is Il great pest In the clover
nelds.
A graceful trailing vine Of some sort
always adds beauty to a porch or a re-
cessed corner Of the house. The Vir-
ginia creeper, the rambler roses, the
moon flower, the passion flower and
| clematis can each be used with much
satisfaction.
The value Of a succulent ration for
stock in winter, especially the dairy
cow, the brood SOW, the ewes and the
poultry, Is conceded by all, and while
various DOT crops will furnish such Q
ration 1t still can be more easily and
cheaply secured through the silo than
in any other way.
An agricultural journal formulating
q dairy ration for one Of It's readers
advises giving the cow ali the wheat
straw she will eat In connection with
other foods. We do not believe that
wheat straw or sawdust has any place
on the bill of fare for the dairy cow.
There Is about rs much milk in wheat
straw ns there is In n fence post.
A~dulteration Of food products has
gone further in the line Of sweets from
the maple tree and buckwheat fQpf
than In almost any other thing. No
man who handles these products is e&-
pected to guarantee their genuineness,
and IL he Toes no Is not believed.
Every state should have n pure food
law not to prevent adulteration, but to
compel the selling of such adulterated
food products for just what they are.
The very finest quality Of wheat,
oats, barley and flax that we have ever
seen produced in this country came
from the far north, where 1t is nip and
tuck for these cereals to mature be-
tween spring and full frosts. The quail
ty Of these cereals is not only high, but
the yield Is immense in the good crop
years, bat Ii looks like taking quite a
risk to run the chance Of n frost when
the wheat Is In the milk or a six inch
fall of snow when the oats are well in
bloom.
A very attractive bit of lawn decora-
ton can be made with a dozen cannas,
using for the center of the bed n plant
OF the dark foliaged type and surround
Ing this with others Of medium height,
with the outside row made up of the
dwarf kinds. This arrangement Is for a
circular bed. A dozen plants are enough
for n six foot bed, and they want a
very Rich sandy soil and during the
hot weather all the water they car get.
They should not DO set out until the
last Of May, and will cost about a dol
for plants ut your greenhouse.
A friend has u dozen thrifty hard
maple shade trees with trunks SlX
inches in diameter growing where he
does not want them md wants to know
II lie can successfully remove them tc
another location. a tree as large ms
these and presumably with n heavy
and wide spreading top, as such trees
would usually have grown where they
Ind plenty Of room, could not well be
moved and have 1t live unless the tor
vas also mostly removed. AS most OF
tine feeding roots OF such n tree would
be cut off I'm the process of removal
It would be necessary to cut back the
top to correspond, and in the case Of sc
large n tree the mutilation would be
a severe shock. We have set many
shade trees out-mnples and elms-ant
have always had the best success by
trimming the top down to a bare pole.
Science is doing more for agriculture
and its allied branches today than for
any other profession. In the line of
manufacturing, mining, transportation
and engineering 1t would seem as