The Democratic advocate., 1908-05-22

a slow rain of from one-half t.
three-quarters of an inch, which soak'
into the ground as it falls, does more
real good than the three inches which
comes down in buckets full in tht
average thunderstorm.
The thing that makes the bur oak
hard tree to transplant is also respon
sible for its standing more drought thar
many other varieties of trees-a tap
root which goes down deep until il
strikes q stratum of permanent mois
ture.
The broad gauge, patriotic citizen if
he does not have heavy load aboard
will drive his team in the center of the
newly graded road. 1t is very natural
to leave this preliminary travel on a
new road for the next fellow who
comes along
The blue grass pasture furnishes an
almost ideal and properly balanced ra-
ton for stock. This is indicated not
only by the relish with which they eat
the grass, but the good it does them
in the matter Of growth or in milk or
meat production.
1t is questionable whether it pays to
try to veal a calf that can only be fed
a skimmilk ration during the first three
or four weeks. After this time the but
ter fat in the whole milk ration may
be in part substituted by shelled corn
and boiled faXseed meal.
! 1t is estimated that the dairymen of
the state of Iowa alone lose annually
S"2,CC0,Q0O as Il result Of keeping un-
profitable cows IL their dairy herds
and through not giving the cream that
is produced the care which will pro-
,duce the highest grade of butter.
. Up to 1878 not more than $4,000
was invested in orange groves in Cali
fornia. AS a result of the introduction
of the navel orange in that year the
industry has developed until today
there is invested in the culture of this
same navel orange $1O0,O00,O00 in Cal
ifornia alone.
Unlike most other members of the
clover family, alsike does we'll on wet
soil. 1t should be sowed in late sum-
mer or early fall when the ground can
be worked to the best advantage and
when a maximum work shall have
been done in the matter of killing weed
seed in the soil.
Good feed. kind treatment and re-
Iiably made cream separator are pretty
sure to mean success with the dairy.
Of course it is taken for granted in
this statement that the members Of
the dairy herd have been tested and
that only those that are paying their
board bill are on hand.
1t is due to the children in the home,
but particularly to the good wife,
whose view of the outdoor world is so
often circumscribed by it, that the
front yard should be utilized for some
thing beside a chicken ranch or hog
lot. Hogs are all right in their place,
but that is out back of the barn.
Some one has said that the forests
of the country are one of natures saw
ings banks. Accepting this statement
as substantially correct, it is fair to
state that a whole lot of bank wreck
ing is going on in the suicidal and short
sighted forest policy which is being
followed by the commercial interests
of the country.
In the mammoth wheatfields Of the
Pacific coast states harvesting opera
tions are done on a scale to correspond.
A machine called the header and
hauled by from twenty to sixty head
of horses or an immense gasoline trac-
tion engine and cutting swath four
teen feet in width heads, thrashes,
cleans and sacks the grain in one
process.
Very few enemies Of the rose bed
will be able to do it harm if it Is
given q thorough spraying every morn
ing with the garden hose with the wa
ter under good pressure. Sprayed as
often as this, the lice, slugs and other
pests are not given time enough to
prosecute their work, being uncere-