The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1906-03-16


two distinct types Of agricultural civ.
ilization all through the west, and the
desirability of any town for residence
location can be accurately determined
by ascertaining whether there are more
cans of cream shipped out from the de.
pot than there are kegs Of beer shipped
In.
One Of the new and interesting facts
of the year is that Europe takes 6,0O0.-
600 bushels of macaroni wheat grown
in this country, the first wheat of this
sort which has ever been exported from
the United States. Another good thing
about this is that this wheat was raised
upon land in this country which was
not counted fit for cultivation five
years ago
The changed conditions which make
the farmer wholly dependent upon the
local butcher for his supply of meat is
all wrong. No man can afford to sell
animals at Wholesale prices and buy
his meat at retail prices. Every man
should make his own salt and smoked
meats and by cooperation with two
or three neigabocs supply himself with
all the winters fresh meat
Don't get the notion because you live
out in the country that it is out Of
your line to be an intelligent voter
The country neesls The votes of its
best citizens, and the lack of them
gives rise TO most of the political rot
tenness which curses the present age.
Your forefataers saved the country by
leaving the pillow In the fields and car
rying the Elasket to war You can DO
4 like service by leaving your plow or
corn liusking AMI casting your vote for
The cornfell has good many pests.
though probably not any so destructive
as the blights- or rust which often
devsstates the cat and wheat fields
There are, to start with, the gopher, the
crow and the cutworm, which three
will often work to greatly injure the
stand of the corn. Then there are the
wire worm and the root worm, the
crow again as the corn begins to hard
en- and the bad work of the field mice
after corn is shocked. The blackbird
pest has, however, mostly disappeared.
Then there is the work of rats and mice
In the cribs, the fact being that some
thing or other is after part Of the
corn crop nearly all the time.
The question OF vigor In seed corn is
a matter to which little attention has
been paid. while as matter OF fact 1t
is Of Just as much Importance as is the
same quality in the breeding of our do
nestle animals. There is lots of seed
corn which viii terminate. but which
is so lacking in strength and vigor that
it can never under any circumstances
make healthy and productive stalk
of corn. Such seed produces those
stalks which never mature an ear Of
corn and which are as matter of fact
the worst weeds In the cornfield, for
they rob the more vigorous stalks of
moisture. light, fertility and sunshine
and besides scatter lot Of their
worthless pollen to further degrade the
field. Seed corn which can only just
barely make a live of it is even worse
than that which will not terminate at
all.
The Introduction Of the farm sepa-
rator is working out complete revolu
ton in the creamery and dairy busi-
ness all through the west. With the
farm separator it Is easily possible to
secure a high grade of creafn from the
average farm. something which Is not
always or even generally possible
where the cream IL raised by the gray-
ity process. The new method has made
the organized creamery
company and the erection Of an expen-
sive plant and made possible the tax
ing up of the dairy business by any
man anywhere who Is within reach OF
q depot or cream receiving station.
The shipment Of cream by express to
the city creameries has become one Of
the big lines Of business and Is grow
ing every dag. This is probably true
However, the butter product OF such a
Is not Of quite 80 high
grade a. where the milk b delivered
It Z local creamery and separated. but
because of the plan being 20 very
adaptable IN its workings to SO large
! number of people It has evidently