Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1907-02-13

The labor of the dairyman is new
er-ending one. He feeds the COW to
make the calf and then feeds the calf
to make COW, and thus 1t goes on
forever.
1t does not take as long to scoop out
load of corn as it does to husk it,
but 1t requires more back muscle and
greater endurance than it does to gath
er in the ears.
The condition of fellows bank
account Is often quite accurately in
dicated by the manner in which he Gull
tivates his corn and the care he gives
his home premises.
Look for brains as we'll as feet, limbs
or body when buying horse. An anil
NAL that is sound in every member but
has not level head Is never pleas
ant horse and seldom 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 we'll, IL
1t is not to be blanched, between boards
Gather the stalks together in your hand
or tie string loosely around them and
chen draw just sufficient soil to the
plants to keep them upright and slight
~ compact.
In the matter of raising a 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 II
given chance, but 1t does not have
reasoning powers that will enable 1t
to escape the extremes Of heat and
cold usually found in straw-stack
bed.
When the orchard trees begin to lock
horns one is at a loss to know what
to do. 1t Is hard work to cut out trees
where there are too many, and vet that
seems to be the cure. There are sew
eral ways of cutting them out. The
rows may run regularly, dlagonally or
any way to keep them from locking
horns"
A simple nail puller can be easily
made from one-quarter-inch fiat file
that has survived its usefulness. A
quarter inch thick and one foot long.
1t should be heated ad formed like
hammer claw. One Of Its chief 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 as good as bright fodder. If yor
have several ricks of good, bright fod
der on hand you can feel that you are
blessed great deal more than somt
Of your neighbors.
A garden owner says: have Otter
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 {
neighbor recommended salt water
which proved success. Put cup OF
salt in a pail Of water and when dis
solved, wet the cabbage with it ant
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 Agriculture
Department to transplant them wher
sufficiently grown to other national
parks where conditions are right fol
their growth.
Japan controls the camphor produc
ton of the world, and as camphor is
an important ingredient in the manu-
facture of smokeless powder, she would
have great advantage over other ma
tons in event of a world-war. Elk.
periments by the Bureau of Plant In
dustry have established the fact that
the 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, 500 million, 961 thou.
sand feet-this was the total cut OF
lumber In the United States during
1905. These figures were compiled by
the Forest Service in cooperation Will
the National Lumber Manufacturers
Association, and are believed to be as
nearly correct as is possible to gather
1Hcy NeiC 5toinpilcu lloui tLe ietuEL
Of 11,G6G establishments. The esti
mated value of this product is five hun
drcd million dollars. In the kind OF
lumber yellow pine led, and walnut
foots the list, the total cut of the lat
ter being only 29,S51 feet.
Pruning Peach Trees.
| AS the result of experiments at the
Massachusetts experiment station, the
following would seem to be the best
method of peach tree pruning:
!. Prune peach trees moderately, re
moving not more than one-third to one
half the previous years annual growth
when the wood has been injured by
freezing.
2. When only the fruit buds arr
! killed., the weed being tVninjured aRt