The Globe-republican., 1906-11-08

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is that 1t is no worse on ground which
was in melons the previous year. He
has tried some Of the rust-resisting va
riety of cantaloupe this year, but the
rust has attacked them to some ex-
tent after affecting patch Of melons
Of another variety.
Do you cook your hogs meals in the
winter time and serve them hot?
Prof. R. H. Mcdowell of the Nevada
experiment station says: Some good
authorities say that it does not pay
to cook the feed, but a farmer can
readily decide this for himself, accord
ing to the feed to be used, value of
fuel whether cooking plant is owned
and the amount of freezing weather
In cold climate pigs will eat warm
feed clean from the trough, when
portion of cold feed would be left to
freeze.
| If hogs are infested with lice Prof.
A. T. Peters declares that spraying
and dipping Is the only safe and ra-
tional thing to do. ut aids the very
best balanced ration that can be given
hog he says, las it enables him to
assimilate the food he consumes. 1t
is not absolutely necessary to procure
a dipping tank. l have known in
stances where our American farmer
with a genius for making the most OF
his surroundings, has soon improvised
dipping tank at very little cost.
Every grower of hogs should dip his
hogs at least once month II he
wishes to have the very best success.
The department of agriculture Is
about to establish an official poultry
yard to determine the great question
as to whether mash should be fed to
fowls wet or dry; and also to find out
whether hopper feeding" which en-
ables the fowls to eat whenever they
are hungry, will pay The expert
ment will be conducted with three
pens each, containing rs white Ply
mouth Rock hens, and will be contin
ued until those in charge have reached |
some kind Of conclusion. Similar |
experiments have been made at the |
Maine and Rhode Island stations, both
of which have made specially of the
various hen questions, but the depart
ment does not seem to be satisfied, and
will deal with these subjects directly,
And we venture to predict that when
the department gets through the poul-
try men will be no nearer an agree
ment than they now are. This is not
to say that such official experiments
are not desirable, for they are, even If
the final conclusion Is reached that it
makes no difference how mashes are
fed, as will probably be the case.
Apropos of the big farms of the
northwest, the Farmers Voice, makes
the Dakota farmer say, meditatively
to a circle of. eastern agriculturists
Yes, sir; we do things on rather a
stable scale. I've seen man start
out in the spring and plow furrow
until fall. Then he turned around and
harvested back We have some big
farms up there, gentlemen. A friend
of mine owned one on which he had to
give a mortgage, and the mortgage
was due on one end. before they could
get it recorded on the other. You see,
it was laid off in counties" There was
murmur Of establishment, and the
Dakota man continued: Il got letter
from man who lives in my orchard
just before / left home, and it had
been three weeks getting to the dwell
ing-house, although it had Travelled
day and night" Distances are pretty
wide up there, amt they?" inquired
one. Reasonably, reasonably" re-
piled the Dakota man. "And the
worst of 1t Is, it breaks up families so.
Two years ago | saw whole family
Frustrated with grief. Women yelling,
children bowling, and dogs barking.
One of my men had his camp truck
packed on seven four-mule teams and
he was going around bidding every
body goodby." Where was he 60
ing?" asked Gravesend man. "He
was going halfway across the farm to
feed the pigs" replied the man from
Dakota. "And did he ever get back
to his family again." 1T isn't time
for him yet" replied the Dakota man.
Fertilize your wheat field. 1t will
pay. Tests by the Indiana experiment
station show that the crop is benefited
by all three of the essential fertilizing
elements, nitrogen, phosphoric acid
and potash. OF these three elements,
phosphoric acid Is usually needed in
largest amount A fertilizer contain
ing about two per cent. of nitrogen,
eight per cent. Of phosphoric acid and
two per cent. of potash will produce
profitable results in most cases, and is
very commonly employed. II used in
addition to heavy crop of clover, the
percentage of nitrogen may be re-
duced; but II used on land that has
not been manured or clovered for sew
eral years. the percentage of nitrogen