The daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 190?-1908, 1907-03-05

parishioners. This is an index OF the
growing interest in agriculture.
The United States department Of ag-
riculture through a series OF expert
ments is going to try to settle the two
important questions in poultry culture
as TO whether mash should be fed to
fowls wet or dry--a much mooted ques-
uon-and as to whether hopper" feed
ing-the placing of the feed in bins
and allowing the fowls to help them
selves-really pays. The settlement
OF these two questions by satisfactory
experiments will be welcomed by poul-
.trymen all over the country.
Prof w A. Henry, dean OF Wiscon-
sin agricultural college, advises that
only a few acres of tobacco be grown
on each farm II the fertility of the
farm is to be maintained. lie says
the remainder OF the land should be
devoted TO rotation Of crops and a
large amount of live stock kept. Dairy
ing or sheep raising GO particularly
we'll with tobacco growing. In order
that cows or sheep be prohtably kept,
let there be a large production OF
clover hay and Indian corn.
The use OF commercial fertilizers
and manures on agricultural crops
gives 50 wide a range of results from
success to failure that the many cases
is worth our consideration THE sol
utility Of all substances" says the
American Fertilizer, rs the first con-
sideratlon that should be given by the
farmer when he proposes to use them.
| Barnyard manure is sometimes a COM
plete fertilizer, but to be complete Il
must be in such condition that before
the maturity Of the crop its ingredi-
ents must be dissolved by water.
Now that the law concerning de-
naturized alcohol has gone into effect
the question is again being asked why
the farmer should not establish small
stills. The argument made against II
Is that the cost of government inspec-
tion will be prohibihve. There is no
such difficulty in Germany. The stills
are made in such a way that the tank
Is locked with a government lock and
sealed with a government seal. They
are operated principally in the winter,
when other work is not urgent. When
farmer wants to operate his still he
gives the government 80 days notice
Most of the alcohol made in this way
is disposed of through the great cen
trail selling agencies.
The Wisconsin experiment station
in cooperation with the government
agricultural department, is at worl
breeding up barley in an effort to gel
two or three good varieties to take tho
place of the 60 or 20 varieties now pro
duced IN the state. During the nin'
years of experimenting the effort hai
been to produce a rust.resisting va
riety. In the attempt 10 destroy rus
on the heads of barley the formalde
hyde treatment has been used for sew
eral years, but It was found that while
this killed the covered smut II did not
reach the loose smut, and new
method. q modification of the Swingle
method, has seemed TO correct the diff
ficulty. The grain is soaked in cold
water for IL hours and then sub
merged in hot water (130 degrees) for
ten minutes. That kills the germs
and the experiment station reports
that the fields on which that kind OF
barley was sown showed remarkable
results in the way of barley free from
smut.
The Oregon state board OF agri.
culture has ordered nurserymen to dip
trees in lime sulphur mixture instead
of the customary fumigation. Presi-
dent w. X. Newell OF the board says
that the standard mixture will be
used, that is 10 pounds of lime and 10
pounds OF sulphur to 80 gallons of wa
ter In addition to this method of
treatment to destroy the scale and
! prevent the spread OF the pest, the
state inspectors have the right to
seize and destroy fruit found on the
market which has the scale on II.
II would seem that II ever the scale
! pest is to be checked and removed,
IL must be by the general adoption
OF such drastic measures. In New
Zealand 1t is said the laws relating
to infected fruit are quite as stringent
as those OF Oregon, and appear to
have worked satisfactorily for years.
British Columbia has similar laws re-
garding the confscation of insect-in-
tested fruit
Feeding experiments carried on By
the Washington state agricultural ex.
pertinent station at Pullman during
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