The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1905-02-16

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meat feeds. ioae fnv0r and ave tntnvad
by being placed in cold storage. TO
freeze fish is to spoil IL.
Japan raised the largest crop OF rice
last year which she has had for many
years, Providence 9hus smiling on her
effort to protect her liberty.
In Denmark the farmers have
large cooperative egg marketing con-
cern, and every member working or a
bad egg ia fined $1.25. II such rule
was In vogue In this country 1t would
bankrupt the farmers paying the fines.
1t is always q risky business to try
| to make grain field out of meadow
tract unless 1t is properly drained.
| While such land Is all right In dry
years, 1t is terrible aggravatlon In O
wet one. Lots Of men know this only
too well.
A COW that will make 300 pounds Of
butter in year Is better worth $40
than one that will only make 100
pounds is 500. for the reason that the
last named COW will hardly pay for the
food she eats, while the first named
will give her owner handsome profit.
| A New Jersey market gardener has
| 100 rods of fence around his garden.
| On this fence line and growing right
under it he has planted pieplant, and
from this 1870 rods of pieplant he sells
every year enough to bring him from
| $3.50 to 5000, his returns last year being
1902.
| Many women like to drive a spirited
horse, but q man never does a more
foolish thing than when he let's his
| wife take the chances ON managing a
runaway or high strung animal. The
average woman's nerve and physical
strength are not usually equal to the
risks of such proceeding.
There is much benefit to be derived
from frequent changes Of seed-wheat,
oats, barley, corn. 1t always pays for
man on O sandy farm to get his seed
from grain grown on clay farm, and
vice versa. With potatoes, wheat and
oats and barley 1t will always pay to
get seed from those more northerly
sections where these things attain their
best development.
A grove of soft maple trees planted
twenty-five years ago was cut of last
winter and fifty-five cords of four foot
wood per acre was secured from 1t. AS
the land was worth an average of $50
per acre during that time and the wood
netted the owner So per cord, 1t Is easy
to see that he ut least lost no money In
planting the grove and in addition had
enjoyed its protection and beauty.
We have it from the Iowa expert
mental station that If alfalfa is given
the benefit Of a good supply Of horse
manure when sown it will do much to
insure the success Of the plant This
fertilizer furnishes an available sup
ply of nitrogen for the young plant
until 1t can develop the bacteria which
will furnish it a supply from the at
mosphere. This Is good point made.
The pocket gopher and sweet clover
seem to like to work together. The
rights of way Of the railroad through
the west are quite largely occupied by
this queer combination. and q curious
thing about 1t is that, while the gopher
will honeycomb the entire strip be-
tween the track and the fence and the
clover grow there most luxuriantly,
neither Of them ever crosses the fence
line into the cultivated field to any ex-
tent.
The very novel method of spreading
agricultural information among the
farmers by sending out special trains
carrying instructors and stopping in
each town on the line for half an hour
and holding a meeting in the car is
being taken up by many of the western
roads with great success and profit to
the farmer. All the trunk lines In
Iowa will run these special trains this
winter, while Missouri, South Dakota
and Nebraska are following the fash
ion.
The blue joint grass which was SC
abundant on the western prairies when
they were first settled has disappeared
as a result of settlement and cultiva
ton. All efforts to propagate 1t have
failed, for, with the wild game and the
Indian, it resents civilization. This Is 0
fact to be regretted, as no better hay
for the horse can be found than tina,
made from the blue joint grass. There
is but little of it left save as 1t may bt
found along the rights Of way Of the
railway companies.
Many of the most successful and ur
to date farmers of the country now
SOW clover with every acre of small
grain sown ON their farms. They find
that 1t pays, even If the whole business
is turned under in the fall for a croI
the next year. lust for the fertilizine