Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1905-09-20

grass and insects which they are able
to secure adds materially to supply
them with varied diet.
Nitro-culture is doing more for the
South than any other agency at this
time, because 1t is making alfalfa and
clover grow where 1t never grew be-
fore
Forty thousand two hundred and
ninety-nine cattle, valued at 1928
$50. an average value per head Of
1920, were exported from the Unit
ed States in January, 1905.
Do you know how much milk and
cream each cow produces? II not,
why not? Some milk so lightly that
they do not pay for their kecp-better
swap" and pay boot IL necessary.
A diversity of crop generally makes
the farmer safe against total failure,
yet after all, 1t is often well to give
special attention to one money crop to
which the land is best adapted, and
with which he has become most fla
mlliar.
The man with good flock Of sheep
now is the. most fortunate man on the
farm. Dressed lambs are wholesaling
Mt 15 cents pound and retailing at
80 cents for chops and outlets. And
there is no apparent expectation of a
reduction of price.
Wilmington, n. c., Is one of the
greatest strawberry sections. in the
world, and growers find the business
very profitable. In 1888 the savings
banks Of Wilmington had $4,000 on
deposit. To-day they hold more than
$2,0O0,O0O, 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 hut one Of the
cities In the United States of over
10000 population now have public
parks with an aggregate acreage of
6O,S22, maintained at a total expense
of $s,3O4.247 and employing over lO,-
600 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 a neighbor who picked from
eight acres about 1000 quarts a day
for three weeks. This was good
commercial crop, but not near the
possibilities of production.
You will be the gamer IL you mar
ket the hens when they are two years
old. While 1t cannot be said that hens
can no longer be kept at profit after
that age, 1t may be accepted as fact
that there is an advantage in giving
their places to younger birds. After
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 driven 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 commercial scale
should do his best TO maintain the
quality Of the kind lie plants. Pota-
toes ought not to run out. II every
one would go through the patch and
select and mark the best hills and use
only those for seed the chances are
that the quality would be maintained,
II not actually improved.
Melon growing Is an attractive form
of fruit production for those who have
a market near by and 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
best, are very productive and, being
small, can be sold cheap. 1t is better
to have large number of low-prIced
ones. Ten times MS many people will
pay nickel for a canteloupe as will
pay quarter for watermelon.
According to an English scientist,
the breaking strain, in grains, of hui
man hair is 1.461, of mohair $50, of
Lincoln wool SOP, of Southdown wool
sc. and of Australian Mcrino SO. 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-
tween the two. Australian Merino is
superior i'll elasticity to Saxony Me-
rino.
Another Good Word for Alfalfa.
For feeding purposes there is no
plant that is 80 promising as alfalfa
first. because Of its high feeding
value; second. because of its rapid
growth and consequently large yield,
and, third, because it is II perennial
and NAV he harvested from year TO