Free press., 1907-01-05


Secretary Wilson says give the
they won't be so apt to leave the farm.
Dry corn cobs make a good starter
for fires. Try them. Don't forget, too.
that charred corn cobs are a good con-
dition feed for the hogs.
The title of P. F. practical Farm
er)is one which can be earned only
by thought, time, study, hard work
and expenditure of some money
Montana sheep growers hare organ
lied the Montana Wool Growers asso-
citation, which includes a wool-selling
company with capital CT s50O,0 600.
The abandoned farm is bad enough.
but how about the abandoned or
chards and the abandoned gardens on
the farms that are not abandoned.
A windmill and a system of under
ground pipes win lessen the work of
distributing water for the stock Don't
do by manual labor what you can do
by machinery. 1t doesn't pay.
Lots of good seed corn, you say,
but it is still in the shock! Remem-
Der. that one good, selected seed corn,
hanging by the husks in a cool, airy
place is worth nine in the shock.
Verify, one egg differeth from an
other in accordance with the differ
ence of the food out of which the hen
has manufactured the egg. Quality of
egg depends upon quality of food.
When you let firefang in the man
ure, caused by drying out and burn
ing from the heat caused by fermen-
tation, you are losing part of the
nitrogen, very valuable element
The two essentials to the success
full wintering of bees are plenty of
naturally arranged stores and plenty
of young bees. Some protection to
the outside of the hive is desirable
An English gardner writes that his
plot of ground measures about 80 feet
by feet and at cost of 15 cents has
produced two pecks of peas, so round
beets, 33 pounds of beans, and 80
pounds of tomatoes (302 in number.)
If your horse is troubled with
heaves do not feed too much hay
Give more oats and water before feed
ing Do not work hard for an hour
after feeding, and do not expect too
much from such a horse. Wet food is
best-and keep the bowels open.
Lumber even at the present high
prices is, cheaper than food. Lumber
put into sheds for cattle protection is
permanent improvement, but if you
depend on feed to keep them warm
you will have to keep giving it and
will have nothing to show for it in
the end.
Experiments in dry land farming in
the arid district near Caldwell Idaho
will be made by Prof. H. T. French,
of the Idaho agricultural college at
Moscow. He has a tract of 800 acres
in the sage brush country, 80 acres of
which is being plowed for dry farm
ing; the rest will be irrigated this
winter The experiment will be in
grains, vegetables and ornamental and
forest trees.
The Farmers Cooperative Business
congress, an organization in the south
and southwest formed for the purpose
of obtaining better prices for the
farmers products, recently held its
first session at Topeka, Kan. Just
how effectually this organization will
be able to realize its hopes is a ques-
ton, but it shows the tendency of the
times and that the farmer is more and
more coming to be factor in the COM
mercia1 world. He raises the goods.
why should he not have some voice
and control in the disposition of the
same?
new method of killing tree borers
is mentioned by the American Agri-
culturist and may prove of interest
and value to readers of Meadow
brook Farm Notes: '.Bisulphide of
carbon may be injected into holes
! where the insects are at work. The
best injector is metal or small cheap
/
can. About a teaspoonful of bisul-
phide of carbon is sufficient for each
hole, if injected with some force.
After injection, the holes should be
| plugged with grating wax. 1t would
be difficult to treat an entire tree by
this method, but the trunks and low
er branches can be reached"
Next years weather accurately fore
told presents an attractive idea to the
farmer. and if the aim of the govern
ment is realized we may find the ag
riculturist OF the future consulting his
weather time table to know just what
kind OF crops TO grow and just when
the work can best be done. In an ar
ticle in the Technical World Maga-
zine. John Elfreth Watkins tells of the
latest advances in weather forecast
ing and of the new United States As
trcDhysical labratory in Washington.
| Variations of the seat radiation of the
] the bocfc for tho naW coiG1ces