The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1909-06-02
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The worlds two-year-cld butter rec
orr. the seven day period. IL held BY
a Holstein heifer belonging to II. A.
Meyer OF Syracuse. n. Y. she having
produced :4.4S pounds Of butter In
that time.
The husband who weathers the
housekeeping period without losing
his church standing and who Is fairly
| attentive to the summer garden when
there nre periodical baseball games In
| the neighborhood should be put down
as a pretty decent sort OF fellow.
This Is pre-eminently the day OF
specialization. In no field OF activity
does 1t fetch larger returns than In
agriculture. The agricultural colleges
Of the country running full blast can
not turn these specialists out fast
| enough to supply the demand. and that
| at remunerative salaries from the
| start.
The mission which countless billions
| Of earthworms perform in working
| soil over mellowing and enrkhing Il
| and In reducing raw natural fertilizers
and decayiny vegetable matter into q
homogeneous and disable soil mass can
| scarcely be estimated. The use OF
them for the small boys fish bait and
as food supply for bird life II minor
| aspect Of their value.
The North Dakota experiment sta.
| ton has been making a series Of tests
| with the gasoline traction engine In
farm operations and finds that with Il
and a gang Of plows attached two men
can pillow from twenty-five to thirty
acres Of prairie per day at an average
| cost OF so cents an acre. This Ii N
much as would be done by twenty five
horses and Eve men. Such an outflt
would be too expensive for the aver
| age small farmer. but q half dozen
| neighbors could without difficulty Join
in the purchase of 1t.
1t Is questionable II the court rec
ords of any other state furnish q par
allel to Iowa's celebrated Jones county
calf case. which was first docketed IN
twenty-one years. There were seven
| prosperous farmers who lived I'm the
southern part OF Jones county. Six OF
them accused the seventh OF stealing
four six-dollar calves and brought suit,
which resulted In the defendants &C.
Quittal. He then brought suit for dam
ages for malicious prosecution, and Mt
the end Of twenty-one years he secur-
| ed q verdict but not before all the de-
PENDANTS were bankrupt and most Of
| them dead. The case was tried by IA
jurymen and nineteen Judges, while
the court costs aggregated $4,000.
What the attorneys fees were one can
imagine. The case IL said to have
knocked land values within radius Of
ten miles SO per acre. interfered with
the schools and played smash with the
churches and all around has been
worse than . pest1lence.
The work on many farms where
stock II kept could be made immensely
easier and cleaner and q sight more
sanitary and comfortable for the stock
which have to frequent the barnyard
II some plan were carried out to do
away with the miro Of mud and ma
nure to be found within q good Jump
Of the stable door. This muss IL in
part due to an improper handling Of
the manure. which should be put on q
spreader at once and not allowed to
accumulate. leech and lose its strength
exposed in rain and shine. The mire
IL also tho result Of the fact that an
the rain on the slope Of the roof to-
ward the barnyard runs into the mire
and aggravates things many fold. This
phase Of the trouble could be remedied
BY equipping this slope OF roof with
spouts. II the mudhole persists when
this n done the laying Of a cement or
hagstone door IN those parts Of the
yard where the travel II heaviest
would do the business. II this plan Il
too expensive. from ten to twenty i've
loads Of gravel. with q top dressing of
coal ashes. win make q satisfactory
UNDERMINING.
The Nebraska experiment station has
lately issued bulletin No. ZOE, telling
OF crop production at the substation in
North Platte. In western Nebraska,
and the principles Of cultivation which
were followed In the experiments The
annual rainfall at this point for thirty
four years past has averaged 1873
inches. which places 1t well within the
semi-arid belt. On the experimental
plots during the years 1907 and 1908
the yields for winter wheat ranged
from 20.S5 to 06.9 bushels per acre, Of
spring wheat from 226 to 4O.5, OF oats
from "a to 823 and Of barley from
1920 to 67.7 bushels per acre. Spring
cmmer yielded from 25 to 52.5 bushels
and varieties Of corn suited to the
country from . to 50 bushels per acre
The methods Of handling the land were
surface cultivation, clean summer til
lage or summer fallow and subsurface
packing. By means Of summer tillage
It found that fully eight inches Of
water which the plants could use
might be stored in the soil under aver
age conditions AS a means Of pFepar-