The Charles Mix new era. (Wagner, Charles Mix County, S.D.) 1???-1911, 1908-06-19

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A high selling price docs not lessen
the ccst OF production.
The manurial value OF feeds cure
spends to their nutrittvc value.
California raised a large potato crop
In 1905. many farners clearing from
$50 to $500 per acre.
S~tock-proof, timewcaring fences are
the only kind. The worry they save is
sufncient to make them well worth
while.
The hen Is a faithful advocate OF
advertising. II you don't believe 1t
plan to be in the vicinity of the hen
house about 8 30 a. m.
In a test at the Kansas experiment
station i. has beer demonstrated that
alfalfa and Kafiir corn meal make the
very best ration for the dairy COW.
The ~50o1pound fat hog is getting to
be quite unstable at the market. He
Ii big In more ways than one. The
local buyer win take him only on a
big margin
The man who keeps his troubles to
! himself Is better thought of than he
. who burdens his neighbcrs with them
The neIghbors have their own troubles
to think about
Five unemployed men Of Monessan,
Pa, recently left with their families
for Portland. Tenn. where they will
begin farming On the community plan.
Other families are preparing to do the
same thing.
It's like trying to break an old horse
after a lifelong use Of ink and graphite,
how to wag his hands properly over a
! typewriter to produce legible results.
Some farmers are trying the trick.
Any man can afford to go to extra
expense to get his corn land plowei
early 80 az to give the weeds an OPP
portunity to grow and in turn get them
destroyed just before planting. Nothing
will beat the disk as q weed destroyer.
Every man has his own way Of rails
ing hogs, but one OF the worst ways is
Ia allow q hig bunch Of sows to run to-
gether when the pigs are young. This
results in SO much stealing that the pigs
are runted and 1t is hard on the old
sows.
The feelings OF regret that arise
! within the farmer who makes n test
OF his seed corn after it is shelled and
finds that only GO per cent of 1t win
grow must be experienced in order to
be understood. Words fail to describe
them.
The matured mind Is slow to grasp
new ideas. IL Is In the youthful mind
that the seeds Of reform along any
line can be best planted. 1t is for this
reascn that the work Of our agricul-
tural college extension departments In
! the common schools will bear such su-
perior results ever that done In the
short courses and Institutes. II the
present generation Of coming farmers
Il properly grounded h the principles
Of good farming, the change which will
take place fer improvement will be
hard to imagine.
TSeatins Corn for Crows.
The coal tar treatment OF seed eorn
to prevent crows from pulling 1t up Is
recommended by those who have tried
It The method OF application Is given
J AZ followB: Take a convenient sized
box or other vessel. In which place a
peck or cnehalf bushel Of corn Mt a
time. Dip the end OF a stick in a yes
eel Of coal tar and stir the cern with
this II stirred thoroughly It will take
very little tsA The grains do not need
to be completely biackcned, but even
n this IL done II win not injure the
seed. After stirring In the tar COM
pletely a little dry ashes or dirt can
Be stirred In to prevent sticking Of the
grains " necessary. Crows or even
hoe win not disturb corn that has
seen thus treated.
WoS0s - Planter.
Many readers may recall the surprise
they felt on reading Darwin's hook on
earthworms to ind how the great nat
uralist had lent IN irresistible charm
to % apparently unprolnising \ sub-
Ject 1t led them to entertain a re-
lspect they had previously Eel:
for the humble borers in the earth. II
now appears that earthwcrms must BE-
regarded IN useful otherwise than ~
simple ~cultivntcrs and or the
SOIL According to L. A. Andrews,
lfhev The trpp-nlnnfprs afso They draw