Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1906-10-03

ma says that every green thing near
Debreczin has been devoured. Crops
on 10000 acres have been consumed
| and the ground left bare. All at
tempts to stop them have fat ID, even
| the use OF IL steam rollers. A storm
carried clouds of them over the Thesis
river, and they practically devoured
all the grain standing in sheayes, ruin
| ing what remained
The passage of the free denaturized
alcohol bill will tend to establish a
brand-new kind of farm industry, the
small still. Beets, potatoes and other
vegetables Twill he turned into alco-
mol by a cheap and easy task. It
will be less expensive than the old
method of turning rye into whisky,
and for this reason there is likely to
| spring up on the farms of the United
States tremendous number of little
distilleries. which will do a more or
| less local business.
The Cooperative Live Stock Com.
mission company has just been incor.
porated under the laws of Colorado
for period of 20 years by producers
and shippers of live stock who aim
to transact a general live stock bust.
ness. The principal office will be at
Denver with branches at Chicago,
| East st. Louis, Kansas City, South
Omaha, South st. Joseph, Sioux City.
Fort Worth and South st. Paul, and
such other places west of Chicago as
the needs of the association seem to
warrant.
One of the greatest pests of the gar.
dener is the cutworm, for his work of
destruction is so complete and is done
In a night. Here is the method of a
Minnesota farmer in fighting the pest:
Immediately after setting out cabbage.
tomato or any plants likely to be in
Jured by the cut worm, he covers the
ground lightly with wood excelsior,
such as is used for packing, for eight
or ten inches in diameter about the
plant and presses it closely to The
ground. The excelsior not only keeps
the worms away, but acts as mulch.
keeping the ground moist and in good
condition for the young plants. Worth
trying. Remember it next year when
setting out your plants.
The horticultural branch of the ag-
ricultural department is achieving
some noteworthy successes. A new
species of lime is>is said has been de-
Veloped by crossing the West Indian
variety with the Sicily lemon The
fruit is almost seedless, natures early
and has a flavor which particularly
commends it to discriminating palates.
Another hybrid, the ''citrange," resem-
bles the grapefruit in taste and in the
facility with which it's pulp may be
removed with spoon. 1t promises to
be cheaper, however, and to be harder
than either the grapefruit or the COM
mon orange. 1t is asserted that cit
range trees have been subjected to a
of Is degrees above zero
without injury
Don't take too much for granted in
respect to the hired man, about whom
you know little or nothing. All too
frequently carelessness as to the con-
tact of this individual with the BOYS
or girls Of the family has resulted dis
astrously. Don't put your crops be-
fore your children. Don't, because of
the stress Of work or the overcrowded
condition of the house, let the BOYS as.
sociate or room with the hired man.
60 into any community and it will
not take you long to discover cases
where the mind Of some growing bow
has been filed with foul knowledge
and he has received his first lessons
in vile habits through the hired man.
Can't be too careful these days when
farm help is so scarce and the farm.
er is obliged to take almost anybody.
The principle on which dry farming
is based is that rain is not needed in
the growing season, if hard work and
intelligence are applied to conserving
the moisture deposited in the soil dur
ing the wet months. The method of
crop raising is something like this:
The dry farmer begins his prepare
ton for next years crop as soon as
this years crop is off the land. He
sends his plows into the field as the
harvester leaves it. A seven-inch fur
row is turned, then the plowed soil
is Immediately packed firm by a SUBJ
soil harrow, or series of cutting disks.
From that time until planting begins
every rain that falls calls for a fresh
stirring of the soil by an ordinary har-
row. The winter season is not a
season for rest and recreation; it Is
rather the real harvest season, when
moisture enough is stored in the earth
to force the crop to maturity after it
is planted.
Treatment of trees by vaccination
is the latest method in Europe. Sci
entists there observed that the roots
of fruit trees frequently become ex-
hausted while the trunk and branches