The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1908-10-09

Domestic animals and most kinds of
poultry seem to have an instructive lik-
| ing for clover and alfalfa. While they
are not acquainted with the scientific
fact that the legumes are rich IN pro-
tein, they learn in soAe way that these
plants cause them to thrive.
| Land intended for orchard planting
next spring should be given a thorough
and deep blowing this fall. This will
pulverize and make mellow the sur
face soil through the action of sun,
| frost and rain and will mean the saw
ing of lots of work with a spade next
SDrin".
An extensive cattle feeder Of the
writer's acquaintance has for num-
Der of years fed turnips to the steers
In his feed lots, it being his view that,
while the food elements which the
turnips contained were of little actual
value they served to keep the animals
in good condition and to increase their
appetite for the regular grain ration.
The dry weather which has pre-
vailed generally over the country the
past five weeks has resulted in cutting
down materially the potato yield This
means that there will likely be good
prices for all marketable stock. The
grower who has raised q large crop
should post himself thoroughly on the
general market situation before con-
tracing his potatoes.
An inspection of different sections of
the writer's orchard at picking time
this fall shows that those portions of
the orchard which had been given a
vigorous pruning bore fruit of a much
better size and quality. 1t was also no
ticeable that the results of the spray
ing treatments were more pronounced
this evidently being due to the fact
that the spray was more evenly dis
tributed among the less dense tops.
Users of silos as q class seem at
present to be undecided whether the
wood stave or cement structure Is
going to prove the more valuable as
place for storing and preserving the
corn plant as a succulent stock ration.
AS between the two the initial cost
is about the same, but covering pc
riod of years the cement structure
bids fair to prove the more economical
because of it's greater durability.
A holding off of killing frost has
enabled many farmers in the northern
portion of the corn belt to cut their
corn with a harvester and thus save
the large amount of valuable roughage
that is for the most part wasted if
the corn is husked in the field and the
stalks allowed to stand. Well cured
corn fodder is just as nutritious and
valuable as timothy, and it is merely
matter of good management to save
as much of it as one can use or sell.
Hordes Of unemployed men from the
larger cities of the country fiocked to
the big harvest fields west of the Mis-
sissippi river the past summer in the
hope of reaping the high wages which
they had been able to command in pre-
viouS seasons. Instead of getting 81
day, as they had hoped, they had to
be content in most cases with So, as
there were harvest hands and to spare,
the situation proving to be one in
which helpers were competing for a
chance to work rather than employers
striving to get help at any price.
Many who went west to get work
were unable to secure it at all, with
the result that the close of the harvest
season in September found them far
from home, with nothing to pay their
way back.
AS a determining factor in a per-
sons success in life the importance of
good health and robust constitution
can hardly be overestimated 1t fol-
lows from this that any form Of dis
sipatiOn or excess which tends to I'M
dermine ones health or to render him
less vigorous or energetic is a bar to
the highest measure Of success Of
In ali too many cases there does not
come a realization of the force of this
truth until it is too late to repair the
damage which may have been effected
through ignoring it. Many a young
fellow who has no money at the start
is nevertheless endowed with a fine
physique, which as his chief and ex-
elusive capital stock he should hus-
band with the utmost care by clean
and temperate living.
Some few weeks ago the district of
East Kootenai, Saskatchewan, B. c.,
was visited by a forest fire which
swept over a territory fifty miles In
width, completely destroying the towns
Of Fernie, Cool Greek and Hosmer,
killing ITO people, rendering 5000 home
less and destroying property valued at
$5OO0,OOO. This disaster seems to be
traceable to slipshod methods of lum-
bering which have been followed by
employees Of the Cedar Valley Lum-
bering company. they having been
careless and left their brush or timber
slashings without burning them. Other
disastrous forest fires which have
ragged more recently in northern Min
nesota, Michigan and Wisconsin have
been the result largely of an extra dry
condition which made the forests as
inflammable as finder and liable to ig-
milton from passing trains, campfires
and other causes. The prevalence of