Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1907-05-09
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The one-crop system means ulti-
mate failure wherever practiced.
Keep the young stock growing il
you would increase your profits
If it is question of the sheep or
the dog, let the sheep stay and the
dog go.
A company of Russian Christians
is to locate on a farm in Anne Arun-
del county, Maryland.
Yes, admitted Farmer Wise, the
dual purpose COW is all right, except
for the man who wants to produce
milk beef at a profit.
Collect the scions from fruit trees
now for spring grating. They may
be kept in moist sand or stuck into
potatoes and put in the cellar.
A successful onion grower uses
about 1900 pounds of fertilizer per
acre. 1t is made UP as follows: Four
parts of ammonia, eight parts phOs-
phoric acid and eight parts potash.
And now the frog is coming in for
protection. The New York State
League for the Protection of Fish and
Game recommends law making it
illegal to kill frogs between December
1 and May 81.
Experiments have shown that wa
ter glass solution properly made the
first year may be used the second
with good success. 1t should be heat
ed to the boiling point, however, to
stetrilize it before the second use.
The ideal farm after all, is not
the one that shows the greatest net
returns in dollars and cents, but the
one where father, mother and chill
dren have found the greatest amount
of happiness and growth in charac-
ter.
To destroy the little white worms
which do injury at the roots of
plants take a piece Of perfectly fresh
line as large as, an ordinary sized tea
cup, put in pail of water and allow
TO dissolve Pour off the clean water
and apply enough to the soil to thor
oughly saturate it.
1t is the man behind the manager.
and not the cattle, who is responsible
for the spread or the prevention of
tuberculosis. A good airy old-fash-
toned stable is better than science
which is not REINFORCED by the full
est supervision of all the conditions
under which the cattle are kept
While it may not be advisable on
the large farm to compost manure
the same being drawn directly to
the land as. fast as made, the small
farmer and the truck gardener can
greatly increase the quantity of avail
able plant food by having well ar
ranged compost heap.
A clay soil which has been pro-
ducing good crops for any number Of
years may be seriously injured by
one injudicious blowing in a wet
time as to ruin it for the growing ST
crops for two or three years. This
is due to the pudding of the soil
which SO modifies it's physical texture
as to lock up the plant food which it
contains.
A Wisconsin farmers method of
getting a good stand of clover is to
SOW a nurse crop in the spring with
his clover seed on finely pulverized
land worked down solid. He plants
from two to three quarts of Alsike
clover seed to the acre and from four
to five quarts of red clover seed to
the acre. After the crop is seeded
during the first year. he leaves it en-
tirely alone, keeping stock off and in
the fall the grain is allowed to come
to maturity a1 b
a campaign Of education is going
on in Missouri and great things in
the poultry line may be expected Of
that state in the near future a poul-
try special of two railway cars is
travelling to all parts Of the state,
where free lectures on poultry top
les are given in connection with the
display. The object is to stimulate
the production of more and better
poultry and to introduce more eco.
nomic and effective methods Of caring
for it.. iE5 IL.
The Iowa state board Of agriculture
at its last meeting offered over $3.50
in cash for the best ears Of corn ORR,
There were prizes for single ears and
for collections, and judges awarded
these prizes on q scale Of points such
as would be used in Judging live
stock. Some Of the ears which were
most faYorably considered were
smaller than: the best to be found ii