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The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1907-01-02
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We paid the American farmer over
$50 100000 for his berries during the
short summer season of 1905, and put
ting the latter in the lists with fruits.
we enriched the producers of the va
rious fruits which found the American
markets within the time mentioned
above, nearly $17O,OOOOOo.
The packing, shipping and retail
sale of our fruits and berries give en-
ployment to thousands of persons and
create numerous related industries of
no mean size.
The idea of selling berries from at
tractive quart baskets found express
sion less than thirty years ago, and up
to a very few years ago orchard pro-
ducts and grapes never found the
markets packed temptingly in individ-
ual packages. But just think how the
idea has expanded into it's present
universal practical adoption! Why,
the manufa cturing of fruit and berry
baskets alone bring to the various
factories over 100000 annually and
the ultimate annual cost to the fruit
and berry raisers is, with the middle
mans profits added, between nine and
ten millions. This branch of the car
rier business produces a billion and a
quarter berry baskets, over a hundred
million four-quart peach baskets, and
over hundred million eight and four
pound grape baskets.
The making of crates is almost, and
in some sections wholly, a separate
branch of the carrier industry. The
manufacture of baskets is carried on
in from five to eight thousand ''factO-
ries' situated all over the United
States, and ranging in size and i'm
portance from a single workbench to
a vast establishment with wonderful
equipment and employing hundreds of
persons.-Earnest G. Rowe in Leslie's
Weekly.
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cattle feeder, although there is NJ
Other way in which storage room fo1
an equal amount Of feed can be pro
vided as cheaply. The average farm
er does not want storage room; the
field is his storehOuse.
~. It is absolutely necessary t.
have good sheds and barns to make
a success Of feeding beef cattle or
silage. Silage furnishes no bedding
while corn fodder does Besides corr
itself furnishes all the heat the cattle
need, which silage does not. The feed
ing of silage, therefore requires better
sheds, more bedding, and solid floors
of some kind.
The third objection is the difficulty
of getting labor at silo-filling time
where a large amount is to be done;
because when the feeder is ready tC
fill his silo, the neighbors all want tC
cut UP corn. This objection would
not hold in large portion of our ter
ritory, where cutting up corn is a
novelty and frequently a mere expert
ment
The conclusion to be drawn from
this evidently is that not every man
who handles beef cattle should build
silo and fill it; some because they
have more feed than they care tC
handle, and need more cattle rather
than more feed; others because they
do not care to incur the expense neces
sary to properly feed it; still Others
because they do not care to assume
the additional expense and labor Incl
dent to SO per cent increase in the
number of live stock, which is posi-
BILE where the silo is used.
If, therefore, our correspondent has
good sheds, we would advise him tt
fill the silo, feed all stock cattle or
silage and clover hay, giving them al
they want of each, and no additional
grain feed. We doubt whether he
could follow Mr.. Jones' method OF
feeding his beef cattle so pounds OF
silage per day; first because corn and
soy bean silage contains more protein
than corn silage alone; and second, be
cause the lower price of corn in Iowa
as compared with Ohio might render
it advisable to feed that rather thar
cottonseed meal. Therefore, while we
feel perfectly sure that it will pay
to feed his stock cattle on silage, pro
vided he has sufficient protection ir
the way of sheds, and plenty of bed
ding, we would experiment with the
beef cattle, giving them 10 pounds Of
silage per day, 10 pounds Of clover
hay, and sufficient cOttonsted meal tt
balance UP the corn ration, say one
pound of cottonseed meal to five or six
of corn. Having the silo already, oul
correspondent should be ABIDE to pro
duce beef very cheaply in northwest
ern iowa.
Orr Fondness for Fruit
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Rockledge, Fla, Feb. Sd, 1907

Rockledge, Fla, Feb. 3d. 1905.
Mr. L. 0. Painter,
Dear Sir
l beg to advise you that yesterday 1 for.
warded you via express prepaid one box of or
anges; this box was taken from one young
tree three years old; the fruit is all like this
sample box and was grown with the aid of
Simon Pure No. l. My trees are all healthy
and thrifty and I cannot too highly recon-.
mend your fertilizer. Joseph Dassey.
Mgr Manhattan Grove.
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Si1age for Stock Steers and Fatten-
ing Cattle

ing of silos for the economical feeding
OF cattle. A question and answer, in
Wallace's Farmer, gives some figures
which ought to be interesting to stock
men. To the. concluding sentence we
would add, and also in any part of
Florida
A correspondent from northwestern
Iowa writes:
II am DESTROYS of obtaining all the
information possible as to- the mer-
it's of silage as feed for stock steers
and fattening cattle. | have already
constructed silo for the purpose of
feeding milk COWS, but find the ques-
ton Of hired help in the way, so have
sold the COWS and am handling steer
stuff exclusively. Will it pay me to
fill my silo? If so, to what shall I
feed the silage, to the stock cattle or
to fattening steers? In an article in
the Farmer a few months ago it was
given as the writer's opinion that
silage was valua BILE as a feed for milk
COWS only; that the acid of the silage
destroys the fat deposits. Is this true
or not? Have the experiment stations
made test Of the matter?''
This is a peculiarly interesting let
ter, especially at the present time We
are confronted with a short hay crop
in the greater portion of our territory
and have the promise of a splendid
corn crop, which, large as it may be-
will all be needed at a fair price, The
question arises, whether under these
circumstances it will pay to build
silos, fill them, and thus be able to
sell timothy hay, if SO desired, at the
prices possible and carry our cattle
through on the produce Of the corn
This correspondent already has the
silO, and we would say to him: By
all means fill it and feed the silage to
both the stock steers and cattle on
full feed. It has long Ueen conceded
that the silO is almost indispensable
to the dairyman, and absolutely indis-
pensible to the dairyman who wishes
to produce milk at the minimum OF
cost. The value of silage for steer
feeding is, however, comparatively a
new phase of the subject and is
worthy Of very serious consideration.
Sufficient experiments have not yet
been conducted at the various stations
to make the profits as absolutely GER
tain as in the case of the dairy COW
The Michigan Experiment Station re
ports the results of an experiment con
Quoted in 1908, which we briefly sum
Marie:
Twenty-four steers were bought al
the Union Stock Yards, which when
the experiment began weighed 94C
pounds. They were fed from Novem-
Der Goth to December 18th as follows
An equal area of corn was put in the
silo and in shock; and a third piece
of the same size after being shocked
was husked and fed as corn and cob
meal. The cattle were divided into
F~ree lots to consume the corn on
these areas, and were in each case
given a supplemental ration consisting
of four pounds of clover hay, five
pounds of corn and cob meal, and
Of dni1u
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results are not conclusive.
In our issue of April %, 1905, Mr.
Humphrey Jones, Of Fayette county
Ohio, one Of the largest cattle feeders
of that. state, gives the results of his
experience, covering number of
years, in feeding silage to stock steers
and feeding cattle.
He has three silos 26x42, with a ca
pacity of $50 to 600 tons each, and a
fourth silo Of cement, 36x52, which
actually holds 1000 tons. His silage
is composed of ripe corn and nearly
ripe soy beans, in the proportion OF
three parts of the former to one Of
the latter In connection with this he
feeds clover, alfalfa and oat hay.
He finds that cattle will eat about
five pounds Of silage daily per hun
dredweight up to 1000 pounds weight,
and that this is about all you can get
into a steer, no matter what size or
weight. His ration is fifty pounds of
silage, no corn, but five pounds of cot
tonseed meal, and four pounds of
clover or alfalfa hay for each 1000
pound steer on feed. Fed with silage
made of ripe corn and soy beans in the
proportion above mentioned, his
steers get about fifteen pounds of
grain per head per day, ten of which
is in the silage. He finds also that
while corn cut somewhat green will
make from ten to twelve tons. fifty
bushel crop will yield about eight tons
of silage as taken from the silo, and
that this fifty pounds of silage, con
tanning ten pounds Of grain, and five
pounds of cottonseed meal gives him
one and one-half pounds per hundred
weight gain on a 1,OOO-pound steer.
He sums up the advantage as fol
lows:
"W. Corn put into the silo has a
greater feeding value than when dry
"(2). Gains can be made cheaper
with the corn plant fed in the form
of silage than when fed dry as shocked
corn.
"(3). Silage is especially well
adapted for carrying stock through the
winter; and cites the following as an
illustration:
A and B bought together a carload
Of Texas calves about November 1,
1908, and divided them by picking turn
about. A put his ON a ration OF corn
silage and clover hay, giving all they
would eat of each. B fed his all the
fodder and clover they would eat, and
in addition fed them what was esti-
mated at three or four pounds OF
shelled corn per head per day. Each
bunch of calves had open sheds and
good bedding May LIST, 1904, AS
calves had gained 800 pounds and then
weighed $50 pounds. BIS calves had
gained but $50 pounds, weighing 500
Mr. Jones adds:
81 am now feeding 1000 Texas-bred
Hereford calves on all the corn and
soy bean silage, clover, alfalfa and
oat hay they will eat, and two pounds
per head per day of cottonseed meal:
and I have never seen such a thrifty
lot Of youngsters"
"(D. Silage enables us to store a
large amount of feed in a small space
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This tale teaches us not to tamper
with dead bears. says the New York
American.
When the two little Alaskan cubs
that K. II. Hartman donated arrived
at the Bronx ZOO recently, both we're
suffering from gastriosis. DR.. W. Reed
Blair fed the cubs on peptonized
milk and lime water all night and
all day, but despite the treatment the
female cub stiffened--to all appear
ances dead
Keepers summoned Dr. Blair again
and all bent over the stricken anil
NAL Suddenly the dead" bear jump.
ed to its feet hit DR.. Blair a blow
with its paw that sent him reeling.
attacked all the other keepers at the
same time and cleared the cage in
less than a minute.
Nobody was badly hurt. The cub
is still sick, but DR.. Blair is certain
she will recover.
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Better Mind Her P's and o's.

A little girl had been to Sunday
school for the first time, and had been
much interested in the lesson, which
had as its foundation the text, Put
your trust in the Lord. and place no
trust in princes"
About a week later when she re-
turned from kindergarten she found
her mother busy helping the cook pre-
pare fruit to make jelly. She sat
down to watch-they were too busy
to let her help-and presently she
heard her mother give an impatient
exclamation.
What Is 1t, mammag she asked.
"Oh, every one Of those ounces IS
bad at the core and I'm very much dis
appointed for had counted on them;
wanted to finish my jelly to-day"
q wish had known" said the little
girl with he wisest little air. i could
have told you better mamma, for It
was only last Sunday that Miss Hol-
brook warned us to put our trust in
the Lord and have no confidence in
uuincesi"
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Work Of Eleotro-Masnet.

In engineering works the electro
magnet is taking a very prominent
place. This device dispenses with
hooks. slings and other lifting appa-
ratus. BY throwing a switch control
ling the current the magnet is ener-
gized and thereby attaches itself to
the bars. castings, scrap or pig iron
which it is desired to lift. The magnet
poles are shaped according to the ma
ture of the material to be raised. For
heavy rails they are oblong and are
slung from the crane hook by a short
chain. Castings weighing over two
tone are successfully handled by cleo
tro-magnets. Another use to which the
electro-magnet is put is in breaking
old castings so that they may be melt
ed and utilized. To accomplish this
the magnet is made to lift and drop
a steel ball weighing from one to six
tons.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1907-12-26
NEW METHOD OF ECONOMY.
Exsuse Made by Mr.. caudIs Was Real
Iy Rather Neat

"Ah. hal" said Mrs. Caudle H. lady
who had lost little Of the bloom OF
girlhood as she pointed her bony fin
ger at her weakened husband. "You
have been drinking again. Don't deny
1t. smell sensen on your breath"
But, my dear"
"That'll do. Some are born to gov
ern and some are born to be governed.
was born to govern, although just
now I'm not governing much"
Caudle II. threw an apoplectic grin
at his wife, swallowed two or three
gasps and endeavored to explain.
II tell you, my dear, my present in
hibitions are the result Of precon-
certed arrangement between us
whereby we were to economize." He
found 1t necessary to stop here and
wait for his grandiose statement to
sift through his wife's pompadour.
(How Nine. Pompadour must writhe
in her grave to know those hideous
deformities are her namesakes.)
"You see, madam" he continued.
"we--I--you-we both agreed to econ
omize, did we not?"
we did, and a pair Of SIS false
teeth snapped tight.
We'll" said Caudle H., getting
little more self-confidence as he con-
tinued, "it is this way, madam. Drinks
are is cents apiece. For the first
time to-day l ascertained these same
drinks sold two for a quarter He
waited minute to see II his logic
were soaking through the rat.
"Since they were two for a quarter,
I saved five cents by buying two, hence
my present conditionl"-Denvor
Times.
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HAsKELL's CHRISTMAS GREET
ING

"It is customary in many
states at Christmas time to ex-
tend executive clemency to many
state prisoners, but on this oc-
casion ! find no application for
pardon ready for hearing under
the law, upon which I am at all
satisfied that the pardonine
power should be exercised; but
after a conference, | am fully
convinced that there is an op-
portunity to a certain extent, to
aid in liberating eight million of
people.
For many years there has been
much talk concerning the cleo
ton of United States senators
by direct vote of the people, the
same as we elect the governor
and other state officers. This
talk avails us nothing, and the
time has come when we should
quit talking on the subject en-
tirely, or take appropriate ac-
ton to secure definite results.
To elect United States sena-
tors by direct vote of the people
the constitution of the United
States must be amended. We
find there ssare two proposed
amendments to the constitution.
One is for the United States con
gress, by a two-thirds' vote of
both houses. to provide for sub
mitting the question OF amend
ment to the several states of the
Union.
The other method of securing
the submission to the states of
an amendment to the constitu-
ton is for two thirds of the states
of the Union through their legs
iatures, requesting congress to
call a convention of the states
for submission Of amendments
to the constitution. Whereupon
the constitution Of the United
States says that congress shall
provide for such convention Of
states, and the submission of the
amendments to the constitution
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Rescued by Yellow Jackets.

A coyote hard pressed by a pack of
hounds in the northern part of Clarke
county, along the north bank Of Lewis
river, ran into yellow jackets nest.
according to the Seattle Times. When
the hounds reached the spot the angry
yellow jackets attacked them so fierce
" that they turned tail and gave up
the chase.
The hunting party in charge Of the
hounds was composed of Harry. Edwin
and James Rowland and II. Webb. all
Of Lewisville They had wounded the
coyote and were sure of their quarry,
when the latter loosed the yellow jack
cts on them. It was heroic treatment,
but the coyote thereby made good his
escape.
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Er.noh soIentlst,s pIseovery.

The French scientist. Or. Forlin,
has discovered that the light from
mercury vapor lamp. passipe through
two sheets Of blue glass and rehecreS
into the eye by a large lens, reveals
the internal conditions infinitely bet
ter than the ordinary white light. By
placing a screen with pin hole be-
tween the light and the eye a mag
niticent image Of the vessels at the
back Of the retina, which have hith-
erto been almost invisible. has been
obtained. The capillary value, the di-
ameter OF which is only two-thous-
andths Of a millimeter, are seen to
distenG with each heartbeat. aGd it is
even possible to count the blood
globules.
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ENDS BIG HOLDINGS
EFFECT or RULING BY INTERIOR
DEPARTMENT.
oregon Journal Welcomes II as Her
aiding the Day OF Small Farms
and crowdlng Out the
"Wheat Kings"

There will hardly be any widespread
sorrow over the new ruling OF the
interior department, which compels
the farmers who lease Indian lands
to dwell on them, says the Portland
Oregonian. It will have the effect of
reducing the acreage held by wheat
kings and Of increasing the number
OF small farmers, an advantage toa
obvious to require explanation. AS
stated In PendIeton dispatch in the
Oregonian, the importance of this
ruling may be realized when it is un-
derstood that there are men living In
the city of Pendleton who are farm
ing as high as 1000 acres. upon which
there is not single house. It will
mean the cutting up OF the big hold
ings into smaller holdings and the in
vasion of the reservation by a more
humble class OF growers and the
crowding out of the big wheat kings"
The present season has offered an
excellent illustration of the advant-
ages Of farming on small scale as
compared with what is generally
known as bonanza farming" Prac-
tically all of the damage suffered by
the wet weather in the interior wheat
fields was on the big farms, where the
scarcity of labor made 1t impossible
properly to handle the crop when 1t
was ready. In nearly every case the
small wheat grower who was farming
about 100 acres and coul& work 1t
without much help. succeeded in es-
Gaping injury. 1t will be great many
years before diversified farming will
supplant wheat growing in many To-
calities in Oregon. Washington and
Idaho, but limitation on the size of
the wheat fields will be Of great bene-
fit to the country. In the case Of
Umatilla county it will result in a
large increase in the population, some
thing which has not been noticeable
for long time. In fact, there are
some townships in the county where
the steadily increasing absorption of
small farms by the great wheat grow
ers has resulted in decrease in popu-
lation at a time when all other por-
tions Of the northwest. outside of the
wheat districts, were showing sub
stantial gains.
In the Willamette Valley, which 30
years ago was producing nearly all of
the wheat grown in Oregon, diversified
farming has reached a stage where
not infrequently ten families are found
on single quarter section that was
once devoted to wheat growing and
each of the ten farmers is making
more money out of his small farm
than the farmer wheat growers made
out of the entire quarter section when
it was devoted to wheat growing
What the Pacific northwest needs is
more permanent residents to take the
place of that wandering army which
drifts in at harvest time and drifts out
again when harvest is over The rul-
ing of the department will work a
hardship only on the big wheat kings,
most of whom have done well enough
out of the industry to live quite COM
fortably on 100 acres for the remain
der of their lives.
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which such convention shall pro-
pose to the several states for
their ratification. and in either
even1 when the proposed amend
ment is submitted to the several
states, if three-fourths OF the
states, of the Union shall concur
in the amendment, the constitu-
ton Of the United states thereby
becomes so amended.
For years the people have
waited for the congress of the
United States to submit such an
amendment to the constitutions;
several, times the house Of re-
presentahves at Washington has
adopted the proper provision,
but has never secured the con
currence of the senate. There.
fore it is time that the second
method be resorted to, and if ac-
ton is taken in Oklahoma, and
30 other states of the Union join
therein, congress must then pro-
vide for the convention of all the
states to formulate the amend
ment."
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shrInkaae Of swIss Glacier.

Remarkable shrinkages have been
going on among the Swiss glaciers, es-
pecially in the last two or three years.
The great Rhone glacier, one of the
sights of Switzerland--at least it used
to be-has lost in the last two years
no less than $3.50 square feet, and
others have been shortened by any
where from 20 feet to 40 feet. Among
6S instances SO recessions were dis
covered, one glacier remained sta
tionary and nine had slightly in
creased. The conspicuous gain was
made by the Elger glacier, which
heightened itself ia feet last year,
but observers say that these increases
are not permanent.
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When, immediately following
the September election, The
Phoenix stated that Gov. Has
kell was looking toward the
White House, the idea was ridicu-
led. Now every correspondent at
Guthrie is writing the same thing
to his paper, and after Bryan
looses (as he wilD the third
round, the governor of Oklahoma
will be the Bryan candidate for
1912 on the Democratic ticket,
with more than an even chance to
get the nomination. -Muskogee
Phoenix. Yes, and if he gets it
he will be elected AMI don't you
for get it.
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sOne can not appreciate the
humor Of a fist fight between
John Sharp Williams andrJudge
De Almond until he pauses to re-
feet that the two together weigh
just 241 pounds. !"
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Muskogee, Tulsa and other
small towns are bowling about
poor police service. Vinita is
proud to say she has no kick
coming along this line.