Warren sheaf., 1905-04-20

Silos being successfully con
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-J/3eA IvNl4 structed OF cement and cheaply at
@:9 that We question if better material
4S2SN2N for this purpose can be found.
kVlV It takes about fourteen ears of corn
~ ~ to plant one of ground II one
~ ear of the lot is poor there will be
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.-A6A~ from 500 to 700 defective seeds plant
ed.
Essd2.ssa Il II you are getting annual poultry
EAsEf:S!s3 product from the farm WORTH say, $780,
xMEINH you can double 1t just easy roll
E1QQ1 ing off a log. Every farm should sell
poultry products worth 5000 each year
It is poor policy to let the stock
TNxA tramp over the cornstalk fields when
V q the frost is coming in the spring
-..-429 Such tramping either field mead
, h oW at that time is always injurious to
, .r the soil, yet most men do it.
N, to the benefit -
wers as we'll If a will give average Of
twenty pounds OF milk day for 300
noa,-o -, h,i days she is worth 500 Of any mans
. hi ~ ot money. This would make her milk
or oita hiIs product worth $780, which would repre-
hroa aI. sent net profit the of at least
oieu uonesu' $25
=. Beef men have had to work out the
- ~A ,.4 ~ pA"". problem the past winter of feeding
seems foolish not fortv cont corn 70
' en eAi VI feeders to sell 81. IS So market
= 'e'ioo'e 'nu u Some have made trife and many
- have lost money in doing it. Only the
best type of feeders will show profit
IS always CRATE under such conditions
to good culture
S peopie are The agricultural college Of one of our
-" he' nAo '.oi. western states has had less than
eile1S nesAo0' 5000 samples Of seed to it
during the past winter for the purpose
oro,, +h,, OF having it tested to its germinat-
MIA % orn i Ing power. This all unnecessary,
ntiro1 ,nn for every man could have just as well
w. or rofsos have tested his right at his own
~ =; a, h;et home
The demand for iron and steel may
. always be accepted reliable evidence
" e 4ues'ion Of the business prosperity Of the
- ~ SUI VIII try. The demand for steel means con-
nc ~ le ciops structve work. this employ ment
un , piouuceu for labor and this good de-
'''Aon 10 -. mand for all farm products. The
ated crops The ,,o,a for .+oo1 10, .o,ao.s 49,. ~.0
"a.e,eu Will pressing than hence another pros
o'eo' porous period is in sight
~ ~, &C. 49,, 11 We never could understand why any
~ - - .es, ~ ~ man should consider it a thing to brag
w. o - ~ over that he had been able to raise
W .o a the field for twenty years
1 .t: .t In succession. SuppOsing he has, he
.A ~ Ecu still has not raised two-thrCs as good
% -. W l ouA a crop he might have done by using
N A ' Oo a sensible system of rotation in work
ing his land This sort of Dragging is
M ~ - like that of the who boasted that
III h 7taa he had swallowed two dozen eggs
= 80 $1,000 aoa at time bet
last of the trips
over five trunk At this spring season everybody is
cOnfdentv and busy rakng and burning the leaves.
that this good Ihls IS all wrong for leaves are too
better stand and valuable fertilizer to be thus wasted
Rake them up and put in compost
pile, where they will later decay and
,d sheon s tho afford leaf mold which is just what
al kent on tho the flowers and garden vegetables de-
RI boof ,nd nor light in else rake them up and
lilo wool is heino them mulchng for the rosebushes
ent prices. The eraPe'hes auu curah anu raspperr!
III ths 1oor ro bushes Don't burn them.
uct and lamb
SO when nine Ihe fertilizer most needed on the
ch sheep can be farm is brains. One will shin
red by one COW, along eighty farm and grow
g to be done. poorer each year, with unpaid store
- bills and compound interest mortgages,
domestic an until he gets small for his equity
protably farm and strikes out to try the miserable
re and up The business all over again. Another
ain or hay can will take the farm and by com
is too costly for bning brain and muscle will not only
or mutton or get first class living from it, but
a byproduct of money every year. Farms often
on beled when it is the alone who
pit poultry Cows is to blame.
Ugh priced lands
while the farms The why so much trouble is
are mostly given associated with seed and rarely
any with cereal grains is that bar
ley, wheat rye and oats mature early
, a very marked In the season and, besides, small
10 in tho nrice of in kernel and not attached cob
and must he pot Is cOrn while the needs quite Of
ducve state If ten the entire frostess in which
greater advance to rpen and at that grows spongy
do not look for fbrous cob retenve Of moisture This
farm nroducts fact emphasizes the need of securing
!, worth more il and thoroughly drying intended
dce more and for seed before the hits it. this
speculative val being the prime for defective
almost minus seed corn
er and we'll set
ntrv and fnture AS the result Of long series of
unon what the permentation in hybridzing the frost
proof but worthless oranges of Japan
= and China with the valuable fruits of
tvDa Of hard