The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1905-09-21

very prOuldUie. LII Looo TIC sdNlHBS
banks of Wilmington had $4,000 on
deposit. To-day they hold more than
$2,00O,OOO, most of the savings Of
truck farmers.
The first acre Of ground for public
parks In any city in the United States
was purchased in 1856, and the last
census shows that all but one of the
cities in the United States Of over
10000 population now have public
parks with an aggregate acreage of
60,S22, maintained at q total expense
Of SS,304, PAT and employing over TO-
GOO people.
There seems to be no limit to the
possibility Of strawberry production
on an acre, and there also seems no
limit to the range Of territory where
they will grow. An Illinois man tells
about q neighbor who picked from
eight acres about 1900 quarts a day
for three weeks. This was good
commercial crop, but not near the
possibilities of production.
| You will be the gamer If you mar
ket the hens when they are two years
old. While it cannot be said that hens
| can no longer be kept at profit after
that age, it may be accepted as fact
| that there is an advantage in giving
their places to younger birds. After
q hen has reached two years of age
she will never be any better, while
| the chances are all IN favor of her
| going the other way.
A remarkable instance of homing
instinct in sheep comes from Eng
land. A drover purchased thirty val
liable lambs and after keeping them
for three weeks moved them to an
other field, from which they managed
to break one evening. Although the
night was pitch dark, they succeeded
in hitting on the road along which
they had been driyea and Travelled
eighteen miles to their previous pas
lures
There has been great progress made
In potato growing, but the limit has
not yet been reached. Everyone who
is doing it on a commercial scale
| should do his best to maintain the
quality of the kind he plants. Pota-
toes ought not to run out. If every
one would go through the patch and
l select sSld mark the best hills and use
only those FOR seed the chances are
that the quality would be maintained,
IL not actually improved
Melon growing is an attractive form
Of fruit production for those who have
q market near by anG can spare land
and time to raise and sell them. The
best thing to plant is Rocky Ford can
| teloupes. They are as good as the
hest, are very productive and, being
small can be sold cheap. 1t Is better
to have large number Of low-priced
cnes. Ten times as many people will
pay a nickel for a canteloupe as will
pay a quarter for watermelon.
According to an English scientist,
the breaking strain, in grains, Of hu-
man hair is 1,461, Of mohair $50, Of
Lincoln wool SOP, of Southdown wool
sc, and Of Australian Merino go The
difference in elasticity is less marked.
Australian Merino Is the most elastic,
and Southdown is the least elastic of
woods, while human hair is more elias
tic than either. Mohair comes be-
a. se
superior in elasticity to Saxony Me-
rino.
Another Good Word for Alfalfa.
For feeding purposes there Is no
plant that is so promising as alfalfa
first, because Of its high feeding
value; second, because of its rapid
growth and consequently large yield,
land, third, because it is a perennial
and may be harvested from year to
year without expense of reseeding or
OF cultivation. Experiments thus far
conducted seem to indicate that this
crop can be grown wherever good corn
can be grown.-Dr. E. B. Voorhees,.
Budding Cherry Trees.
The sour cherry does not make a
good stock for the sweet varieties, be-
cause it sprouts very badly, and the
union is not good. The wood OF the
sweet type grows much the faster
Seedlings of the common sweet cherry,
which is known as the Mazzard, are
the proper stocks on which to bud the
sweet varieties. The stocks should be
budded when they are about the size
Of lead pencil or little larger This
will usually be the first year, but Saay
be the secord year after planting the
seeds The budding is done In July or
August owing to the state OF the
growth of the stockss-H. e. Van De-
man in Rural New Yorker.
Homesteads In Stock Regions.
Tie movement to increase the homo.
stead from 100 acres to $40 for the
stock sections Of the West has many
supporters and Il good thing. NO
man can think Of starting IN the stock