Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1908-01-13

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II the bed Of pansies is given q Gov
ering Of cOrnstalks, straw or other
loose litter, the plants will keep nicely
through the winter and will be ready
for blossoming early next spring.
After the husking Is done the field
can be the more effectually cleaned up
II hogs can be turned in with the cat
tie. This means hog tight fences,
which will do for sheep as we'll. The
initial cost Of the improvement Is con-
siderable. but 1t is entirely in keeping
with agricultural methods that ought
to prevail on seventy-five dollar land.
The biggest tomato patch in the
United States II not in the world Ia
said to be located in Clark county, Mo-,
Just south Of the Des Moines river. It
contains ITO acres and Is exactly
mile in length and about one-third Of a
mile in width. II the rows were put
end to end in straight line they
would extend nearly 100 miles.
The wife of Wisconsin farmer re-
Gently took single to her disobedi
ent son, with the result that she Incl
dentally exploded a dynamite cap in his
hip pocket. She lost two fingers and
received other injuries In the explo-
sion. The moral would seem to be
that landowners should not use dyna-
mite in taking out stumps or that boys
should so conduct themselves that they
would not need spanking.
A friend who has lived on the same
farm for the past twenty-five years
told US the other day that he can raise
twice as many bushels of corn per acre
on his land as he could when he bought
1t. This has been possible because his
land is richer today than 1t was to
start with, and it Is richer now than 1t
was to start with because instead of
carrying on land skinuing system Of
agriculture he has rotated his crops.
raised and fed great deal Of stock.
with the result that, while he realized
the largest possible value on products
sold, he at the same time conserved
and improved the fertility OF his acres.
This man has the right Of 1t, and there
Is no need talking depleted soils or
commercial fertilizers to him or his
kind.
ln~ ~ cknvV ctnf<N t,0o
come out strongly In favor Of sweet
clover as forage crop, it being his
claim that, while stock do not take
kindly to 1t at first, they gradually
come to like 1t and seem to eat 1t with
q relish. He has had thirty acre
patch Of 1t, mixed with alsike, red
clover and blue grass, the last named
grass working III during the second
and third years. The field in question
was moved two or three times during
the season in order to get rid Of the
woody growth and to secure vigorous
growth of new und tender shoots. In
view Of the fact that this native legume
WILL grow on the very poorest Of soils,
it would seem to have claim to being
something besides a weed If stock can
be got to eat it and thrive on 1t.
An Iowa boy, Ray Bennett by name.
exhibited ten ears Of corn at the re-
cent Chicago Corn exposition. When
the award of the judges was made It
was found that this boy was the win
ner Of u 16O acre farm in Texas worth
$6,4OO besides other prizes amounting
to several hundred dollars. 1t would
be In place tn state that Ray lives near
Ames, where the State Agricultural col
lege Is located and where he had op-
portunity to make study Of thorough
bred corn and its scientific culture un-
der Professor Holden. the great corn
specialist. These ten best ears of corn
were thus not the result of chance. but
were the definite reward of careful,
painstaking endeavOr, rs things that
are worth while usually are. If the
interest os boys on the farms of the
country were directed to the raising
Of Thoroughbred corn or live stock there
would be fewer Of them leaving the
farms for the narrow, dependent exist
ence of q department store clerk or the
treadmil; existence in mill or factory.
One OF the most inexcusable gun &C.
cidents that we have noted this year
Is that of the central Iowa man who
went rabbit hunting and who In his
efforts to Hslodge a rabbit from an old
log grasped his shotgun ty the muzzle
and used 1t rs stick with which to
poke the rabbit out AS might be eX-
pected, one Of the triggers caught on
a knot or projection. firing the charge
full In the face of the owner, who was
peering into the log to sec II he could
locate the rabbit A few hours after
ward the poor fellow died in terrible
agony. This instance Is cited as one
Of very many Of the kind which occur
every season with view to emphasiz-
ing the fact that charge of shot VIII
kill or GlStigure mammals darling
young or Old. as effectively as it Will
bring down Il squirrel or rabbit, pro
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