The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-02-07

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Fifteen cents invested in harness re-
pairs will often prevent a five dollar
runaway or perhaps a broken neck.
Persons suffering from any disease
or who have been in contact with con-
tagion, should keep away from the
COWS and the milk room.
Mating should be more than just
sending to get a rooster or some hens
If the breeding is TO be successful, the
mating should have some object in
view.
The labor of the dairyman Is lev
er-ending one He feeds the cow to
make the calf and then feeds the calf
to make a COW, and thus it goes on
forever.
1t does not take as long to scoop out
load of corn as il does TO husk 1t.
but 1t requires more back muscle and
greater endurance than it does to gath
er in the ears.
The condition of a fellows bank
account is often quite accurately in
dicated by the manner in which he cui-
| tivates his corn and the care he gives
his home premises.
Look for brains as well as feet, limbs
or body when buying a horse. An ami
NAL that is sound in every member but
has not level head is never pleas
ant horse and seldom a valuable one.
The small farm with the small herd
Is vastly better than large farm with
large herd, because the small farm
will do more in proportion than the
large one.
Celery should be earthed up well, If
II is not to be blanched, between boards.
Gather the stalks together in your hand
or tie string loosely around them and
then draw just sufficient soil TO the
plants TO keep them upright and slight
ly compact.
In the matter of raising corn crop
soils are much like men in the work
Which is assigned them. soil of mod
crate or rather low fertility giving bet
Ter results when there are two rather
than when there are three or four
stalks in the hill.
One good thing can be said Of a
strawstack hog house. 1t does not
have foul smell, as many hog houses
do A hog will keep its bed clean If
given a chance, but il Goes not have
reasoning powers that will enable ii
to escape the extremes OF heat and
cold Usually found in a straw-stack
bed.
Wien the orchard trees begin to lock
horns one is at loss TO know what
to do. 1t is hard work TO cut out trees
where there are too many. and yet that
seems to be the cure. There are sew
eral ways of cutting them out The
rows may run regularly. diagonally or
any way to keep them from locking
horns"
A simple rail puller can be easily
made from one-quarter-inch fiat file
that has survived its usefulness. A
convenient size is one inch wide, one
quarter inch thick and one foot long.
1t should be heated ad formed like
a hammer claw. One Of its CHEZ uses
is in taking down barbed wire fence
and removing tin roofing
Moldy corn fodder may be eaten by
stock if they don't have anything else
to satisfy their appetites. Nevertheless
that does not mean that such fodder
is az good as bright fodder. If you
have several ricks of good. bright fod-
der on hand you can feel that you are
blessed q great deal more than some
of your neighbors.
A garden owner says: I have often
destroyed cabbage worms by throwing
road dust over them. also with tansy
tea. but this year both failed and my
cabbage was nearly ruined. when a
neighbor recommended salt water
which proved a success. Put a cup of
salt in a pail of water ard when dis
solved. wet the cabbage with ii and
you will soon be rid of the worms.
The newly awakened desire to pre-
serve tree species approaching extinc-
ton manifests itself in respect to the
big trees of California Seven hundred
seedlings of the sequoia gigantea have
been set out in the sequoia forest. and
1t is the intention of the Agricultural
Department to transplant them when
sufficiently grown to other national
parks where conditions are right for
their growth.
Japan controls the camphor produc-
tion of the world and as camphor is
an important ingredient in the manu-
facture of smokeless powder. she would
have a great advantage over other ma
tions in event Of a world-war Elk
periments by the Bureau of Plant In
dus.ry have established the fact that
tie camphor tree can be grown in the
southern portions Of this country. and
the government has acquired three
thousand acres in florida which will
Immediately be planted.
Thirty billion, SOP million. 961 thou
sand feet-this was the total cut of
lumber i'm the United States during
1905. These figures were compiled by
the Forest Service in cooperation with
the National Lumber Manufacturers
Association, and are believed to be as
nearly correct as is possible to gather.
They were compiled from the return
of 1865 establishments. The esti-
mated value of this product is five hun
drcd million dollars. In the kind of
lumber yellow pine led, and walnut