The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-09-04

will conserve the vital forces of our trees and make conditions that are most favor able to the production of choice fruit.
 SALIENT FARM NOTES.
 Feed Clover on the Farm.-A Missouri farmer has a lot Of clover hay in stack, and asks if 1 think 1t would be better 10 buy a few head of young stock and feed them than to sell it at the low price of fered 1 would not sell pound of it. Buy young stock feed the hay on the farm, and return 1t to the land in the form of manure Wherever possible, 1t is vastly more profitable to convert clover into meat right where it grows than to make hay of it. If 1t is pastured with pigs one saves all the expense of making 1t into hay and stacking or storing 1t.
 The Hog Fenee.-This naturally brings up the matter of fences. To enable one to pasture ais clover he must have the fields fenced and fences cost a good deal or money. One good farmer of my aequain- tance says it is more profitable to mow the clover and feed 1t to pigs kept in a yard than to fence the fields. Another says there Is too much labor and waste in this practice. He prefers to build fences and have the pigs do their own moving.
 He is satisfied that they grow faster and are healthier when they have the range of the fields than when confined to small yard. He builds his fences three feet high, using the best posts he can obtain, setting them twenty feet apart and driving a stake halfway be- tween The fence is woven wire. and Is drawn tight and securely stapled to the posts. and at the top and bottom to the stakes He never had his hogs to root under. because he is careful to keep them n niIE1 Dl1t because they have an abundance of green food and water where they are, are fed a little corn once every day. and they are content. The posts he uses are four and one half feet long, and are set in the ground eighteen inches. When building the fence he makes a thorough job of 1t, and it stands for years with very little repairing If the posts are heaved lit tie by frost he takes a maui and drives them back just after the frost Is out and while the ground is still soft.
 MILK AND TUBERcULOSI5.-1 the matter of fattening pigs on buttermilk or on clabber milk 1t would appear to be good idea to know that the cows are healthy. Swift & Co. report that they bought a carload of hogs that had been fed and fattened largely on buttermilk, and seventy-five of the eighty-two head were condemned by the government in spectors. They were badly affected with tuberculosis, and investigation showed that some of the cows from which the milk came were affected with the same disease. Without a doubt there are hundreds of milk cows affected with this disease, and Is feeding the milk from such cows transfers the disease to hogs as now seems to be the case, milk Is not altogether the grand pig feed 1t has been cracked up to be. An Indiana f.,, lo tf4l-- I efuhf al raising hogs on clover and corn. It has paid him well, and he will continue to follow the practice. But" he asks, what are we going to do for our fall pigs?'
 There Is no clover In winter, and they won't do well on corn alone" I am tempted to ask him if he thinks or knows that 1t pays to raise fall pigs. In small numbers it probably does because a small number can be given extra care required during the winter months, and can be kept thrifty and growing; but summer Is the time to grow pigs, An early spring pig turned on clover as soon as he Is able to eat 1t needs no coddling, and If he Is given sufficient corn to keep him solid and growing lively he will be just the sort of pig that buyers want before snow files. He has been made at low cost. and he brings the top price and there Is pro- fit in him. A friend of mine who raises a good many summer pigs says It pays him well to raise twenty or thirty fall pigs to follow his cattle.
 OUTINGS.-I note that quite number of farmers propose to take an outing of from one day to a week this season. Some are going to spend the time visit ing the state fair. others are going to the chautauquas held in various sections of the country. while still others are go- 4I& r;t ,,,d lakes These latter will be apt to have the most restful time if they keep the mosquitoes, wood ticks and chlgoes off their persons. and flies, ants and bugs out of their soups and stews In some local ities there are societies" and Hodges" of various kinds, and the members have a regular outing every year. They send a man to inspect two or three of the near est resorts" two or three weeks before the date set, and go to the one where the most favorable conditions for pleas ant time obtain.
 VISIT THE STATE FAIR.-Every farmer that possibly can should send his wfe-or what is better take her--to the state fair The railroads give such low excursion rates to these fairs that at least one or two members of every farmers family can attend them for rom TWO lO lOuF udyS. IT one BOeS Wlli a desire to learn what progress is being made in agriculture, horticulture stocn breeding, etc., he can find lots to interest him.
 If he goes merely to see the races, he will see lots of fast horses and learn nothing that will be of any service to him. Whenever 1 see two or three young men moving leisurely along through the implement and stock buildings, carefully inspecting things and asking questions, I am certain that they are progressive and stand in the front ranks of the farmers in the locality they come from. The management of the fairs in the leading states is gradually getting Into better hands. The liquor seller has been elim- mated, and the vaudeville show and other like "attractions'' will follow sooner or later, and the fairs are becoming clean exhibitions of all that pertains to ad- vanced agriculture. When this has be- come an assured fact 1t will puzzle the managers to provide room for the exhib- it's and visitors. When people learn that they can take their children to fair with the assurance that they will not bo