Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1909-06-22

Sick folks and milk utensils are the
better for being exposed in the open
air and sunshine, which are the great
est germ eradicators known.
As soon as the period is over in
which eggs are to be saved for hatch
ing the flock of hens will do better
and their eggs keep longer If the roost-
ers are sold or put into a fatten1ng pen
and made into potpie.
A load of wheat was recently mar
keted at Junction City, Kan, which
brought $91, said to be the largest
amount V e paid for a single load in
the state. It graded No. 2 hard and
brought 1924 per bushel.
The story is told Of an Ohio rat
which was Gagged and gnawed his way
through eighteen inches of solid oak.
If the rats elsewhere have as effective
gnawing outfits it is not strange that
they have easy access to loosely con
structed corncribs and granaries.
Viticulturists in California have TAX
en- to feeding the poorer grades Of
raisins to their hogs, It being esti-
mated that a ton Of raisins worth $35
have a feeding value equivalent to a
ton of barley at $50. The raisins are
fed in a ration containing two parts Of
grain to one Of raisins.
The frail little woman we heard of
the other day who is drinking two gal
Ions Of water daily on the recommen-
dalton Of the family physician is GER
tainly deserving of success In her eff
forts to gain good health. Many a
husky man has fallen down in the
face Of a less obstacle than this.
One Of the great advantages OF the
hand separator is that 1t makes it
possible to feed the calves the warm
skimmilk under conditions which en-
able them to utilize its full feeding
value. Allowed to become stale and
sour, conditions which so often exist
under the hand Swimming system, the
food value Of the milk is greatly
lessened.
Agriculture intelligentfy followed is
a vocation which will always offer a
healthful and remunerative occupa-
ton for those who will enter it with a
fair knowledge Of its requirements and
a determination to succeed. In its spe-
cialized lines there is such demand for
Of the country can't turn graduates
out fast enough.
The quality Of eggs which are pro-
duced on the average farm and their
value, too, since the passage of pure
food laws in so many states, could be
greatly improved during the summer
months if all sitting hens and those
that were broody were given a small
house and yard by themselves, which
would keep the flock of laying hens
from mingling with them.
Potatoes do not mix by planting diff
ferent varieties in the same hill. 1t is
from the small seed produced in the
potato balls on the vines above ground
that new varieties are originated. The
first season the seed Is planted tiny
potatoes appear on the roots in the
usual manner about the size Of beans.
The aso following these are planted
and a larger potato secured whose
quality and yielding ability can In a
measure be determined.
Patrons and stockholders Of farm
ers' cooperative dairy enterprises
should be very slow In biting at the
bait Of higher prices for butter fat
which is * often thrown out by the
larger centralized plants, but only long
enough to accomplish their purpose,
which always has in view, though not
expressed OF stated in any literature
which they send out, the knocking out
of the home concern, when prices a
be manipulated to suit the concern
which pays and not the patron who
receives.
There are all too many farmers level
headed in most respects who will slop
over in the matter of buying catalogue
house grass seed from firms Of no re-
liability in other states just to save a
few shillings in first cost and in the
end, like as not, befoul their fields
with noxious weeds to eradicate which
they have to pay ten times what they
have saved in price of seed. This is
nothing more o. less than the worst
kind of agricultural horseplay, and
any man who will look the matter
squarely In the face will have to admit
1t.
A plan that might well be carried
out by the merchants Of any town who
have the comfort and welfare of their
country patrons at heart is the equip
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