The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1907-06-14

seed was sown. The wheat crop used
as foster crop was nearly destroy.
ed by the fly, and with the mower
cut both wheat and young clover.
Coming on rapidly moved it again
in September. The next season it
cut six loads of fine hay, and this
year l cut four large loads and have
some excellent pasture left. If the
soil of this piece is as well filed
with roots as the surface is covered,
it will certainly produce a good crop
of corn or potatoes when plowed neGE
year. A piece Of young clover that
is not very thick, owing to the spring
drought, received three quarts Of TIM
othy seed per acre.-Richmond Times
PLAN FOR LAWN GROUPS.
A very good arrangement is to put
a large bed of ricinus on the most
remote space of the lawn-four plants
in the center of twelve-foot bed
surrounded with a row Of saliva
splendens edged with little Gem
sweet alyssum. Nearer, an eight-foot
bed of the large-fowered cannas may
be introduced and edged with coleus
or the second size of caladiIms, while
six-foot bed of ornamental grasses
-Arundo Donax, Erianthus Raven
nae, Eulalia gracillima univittata--
will make a satisfactory third. Such
beds are rich in tropical effects and
give more distinction to lawn than
any other class of plants.
Where there is an ample water.
supply these beds may be elevated a
few inches above the lawn to make
them more conspicuous; but where
the seasons are hot and dry and water
must be carried, it is better to set
them slightly lower than the lawn,
so that all the available moisture may
| be utilized.
| A few inches of margin must be al.
lowed around the edges of beds on
the lawn so that the mower may run
close to the beds without injIring
! the plants, though even then it will
be best to use the lawn-shears. Such
beds call for carefully trimmed lawns.
Unless the grass can be properly
cared for, it is better to exclude flow
ers from this part of the grounds en-
tirely.-Washingto Star.
THIRST. NOT FROST, KILLS.
Plants do not freeze to death in
winter, but perish from thirst. The
process is simple. The cold causes
the withdrawal of the water from
the cells of the plant, forming ice
crystals outside of the cells. The
frost, cooling and contracting the
surface, acts as sort of pump and
as soon as the cell is emptied of it's
life giving fluid the plant dies. The
truth of this theory has been proved
during the past fall by numerous
careful experiments. Great variation
was found in the amount of cold
necessary to cause the death of vege.
tation, says the Chicago Tribune.
Some plants dry out quickly and are
killed before the freezing point is
reached. Many plants will survive
zero weather and some die only at 20
degrees below. Certain vegetable
growths never freeze. There are
forms of bacteria that even when i'm
mersed in liquid air, tine intensest
cold available, come OUT of their bit.
ter bath as clipper and lively as ever.
RATIONS FOR THE COW.
Through repeated experiments it
has been proved beyond question
that a dairy COW will use about two
thirds of full and balanced ration,
as ration of support, while the 9TH
er and last third of full ration is
called the ration of production. How
evident is the fact that If from neg
| lect or otherwise the feeder does
not include the last third in the ra-
ton, there is no production, conse-
quently the dairy is kept at loss.
1t is not extravagant to assert that
through unbalanced rations and de-
ficiency in quantity the waste is fully
| twenty per cent.-G. Gordan, in the
| Country Gentleman
INCREASING THE FARMERS
PROFITS.
1t is estimated that there is a pos
sible gain of five-fold in the earning
capacity of each farm laborer above
his present income. Practically the
whole gain is due to the following
plan-fill the soil with humus; pre-
pare a deeper and more thoroughly
pulverized seed bed; better seed;
proper fertilization more cultivation;
the use of stronger teams, better ma.
chinery and tools; and utilize the idle
lands by grazing.-Dr. Knapp.
CIeveland's Odd Attire.
Visitors to Princeton have noted the
complete Indifference of Grover Cleve-
land to what he may wear. During
one of the Yale-Princeton games play
ed at Nassau a reporter from a promi-