The Columbus journal., 1909-09-22

Cut out the old canes from the ber-
~ bushes and burn them
Keep the pullets pushing ahead. Elk
ira feed now means early egg laying.
brush lot but will not make any profit
for their owners.
A tired horse is in no condition for
food or water. Give a little time to
rest and cool of before watering and
feeding.
Keep some Of the oat sheaves for
the poultry this winter. They will
enjoy thrashing out the food for
themselves.
A small grain ration every day will
be more than returned in the milk
pail il the COW is in the profit earning
class at all.
The bad habits we notice on other
members of the family are often but
a reflection of the things we do and
have taught them.
Milk should be cooled as soon as
possible after drawing from COW. It
will keep longer and have q finer
flavor when thus handled
Bees, it is said. never puEcture
grapes. They do sip the juice, how
ever, after birds and wasps have pune
tured the skins. Place the blame
where it belongs.
Unsound feet in horse are gener-
ally indicative of a constitutional
weakness which is sure to appear in
the offspring Therefore be sure the
mare and sire are both sound.
Without some system OF accounts
how could the merchant do business
safely. And yet such business &C
counting is as important for the farm
er as for the merchant.
Be sure the bit is not so narrow as
to irritate and pain the mouth of the
horse Such condition leads to un-
easiness which often may result in
the horse taking the bit in his teeth
and boiling in sheer desperation.
Here is a dust powder which is
non-poisonous and is sure death to
cabbage worms, etc: Air-slacked lime
with a good sprinkling of fine table
salt. 1t can be placed in can hav-
ing a perforated top and sprinkled
upon the plants troubled with the
worms. This is good idea to save
for next season.
A garden without fruit trees and
berry bushes is only half garden.
There should be enough for family
use in season, for canning and pre-
serving and such like for winter use,
and some to sell. Starting with straw
berries, which come in very early
and the first, fruit of the season.
there should be added raspberries,
blackberrieS, gOOseberrieS, currantS
and grapes. The great advantages of
small fruits are that they occupy
small space. are easy to grow, they
begin bearing early and the fruit is
the most delightful and the most
wholesome of all foods. They are
an ornament to any farm or home
grounds.
Prof. o. F. Hunziker, head of the
dairy department of the Indiana ex-
pertinent station at Purdue, and Prof.
G. w. Splitter. dairy chemist OF the
same institution. have just completed
experiments to determine the cause
of the low per cent of butter-fat in a
large portion of the evaporated milk
on the market as reported by chem
lists and pure-food departments
throughout the country. Although
milk containing the required per cent.
of butter fat, when made into evapo-
rated milk. and an analysis by the
usual methods made shows a short
age of from 0.5 to two per cent. OF
at, by the experiments explained in
this bulletin it has been found that
there is no less fat present, but that
the ordinary Eabcock test and the
official methods of fat estimation do
not liberate all the fat present. The
fat column in the test bottle is gen.
orally cloudy and contains charred
and curdly deposits. making accurate
readings difficult Uniformly correct
results are obtained by the use of
one-fourth dilution of evaporated milk
and of dilute acid after the first
whirling of the tester in the place Of
water. Correct results are also OBJ
tanned by ether extraction.
David Buffum has this to say in the
Atlantic Monthly regarding the mis-
sion of the land" and he is about
right: The mission of the land is to
produce and keep on producing food,
live stock. lumber and other commod-
tiles for the service Of man. He who
owns land and is Indifferent to this,
is guilty of a moral wrong; and he
who takes good land out of commits
sion and suffers it to lie unproductive
and useless is guilty of greater one
This is the only criterion by which
we can properly Judge Of the right
of an individual to own land in large
tracts. The good results attendant
upon small individual holdings are
natural The nurnoSes of nature in