Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1905-05-17

is no reason why they should not eat
the fruit.
Use Prizetaker or any of the large
globe kinds for the new onion culture
Sow in flats. hotbed or greenhouse and
transplant to the open as soon as the
ground is in good working condition.
For the new potato Noroton Beauty
1t Is claimed that it is 1.-The earliest
potato ever grown, being sixteen uays
earlier than the Old Early Rose, Of
which 1t Is "a lineal descendant, and the
best all round potato in existence"
Bear in mind that the new soil in
oculation by artificial cultures is Just
rs applicable to garden beans, peas
and sweet potatoes as to field crops.
Some wonderfully good things are al
ready told about its work by those who
have practiced it.
DIR. A. ID. Hopkins, in charge of the
forest insect Investigations. Depart
ment of Agriculture, in recent lee
'ture, said that the average annual loss
from insect work on forest trees and
their crude and finished products
amounts to at least $1OO,OOO,OOO.
Clark Standfford, former we'll
known grocer of Sacramento, Cal. is
preparing to engage in the cultivation
or rhubarb on an extensive scale at
his ranch near Chino Mills, Butte
County. Five tons of roots have been
shipped to him, and they will form the
basis for his enterprise.
A fancier who has done much ex-
perimenting says he has splendid re-
suits from feeding young chicks on
Johnny cake. His recipe is: Two
quarts of bran or shorts, two quarts
OF coarse cornmeal, one quart of wheat
middlings. one handful of good, pure
beef scrap, one handful of good chick
en- grit; mix with milk, bake in slow
oven, and then feed.
A rather novel theory about the on
Ion root maggot is advanced BY C. NJ.
Weed of the New Hampshire Station.
lie finds that the pest is very numer-
Gus OH the roots of the yellow mustard.
ana that In seasons when the mustard
Is numerous the maggots give the
onion crop little trouble, but when the
mustard winter kills, the flies lay the
eggs Of the maggot upon the onion
plants, thus leading to the tremendous
damage done certain years.
Inc potato crop In Germany of 1904.
though the smallest since 1897. was Of
excellent quality, the unsound ones
amounting to only 1.3 per cent of the
crop, the smallest proportion in many
years. This crop is of far greater i'm
portance In Germany than in the Unit
ed States. because of the very large
consumption for Industrial purposes in
the manufacture of starch and alcohol
in the former country. The acreage
In l0O4 was nearly three times that in
the United States in the same period
and the total production was four
times as great. The yield per acre in
1904 amounted in the United States to
11O.4 bushels; in Germany, to 1874 1
bushels.
The last experiment station record
OF the Department of Agriculture
prints brief synopsis of the bulletin
on milk fever in cattle and the new air
treatment, being simply the Injection
OF filtered air into the udder. The use
OF atmospheric air In the treatment Of
milk fever was first adopted by An
derson Of Skanderborg, but has re-
Gently come into general vogue and has
given uniformly satisfactory results.
In preventing the development of milk
fever it is usually recommended that
means be taken to Offset the bad re-
suits Of the plethoric condition of the
animal. This may be accomplished by
keeping cows on small rations for about
two weeks before calving or by ad-
ministering large doses Of EPSON salts
for two or three days previous to this
period. The same result may be
brought about by abundant exercise.
Recently 1t has been suggested that
he occurrence of milk fever may be
prevented by allowing susceptible
cows to retain most of the milk in
the udder for period of twenty-four
hours after calyIng.
yetch for Forage.
The common vctch makes one of the