The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1909-11-03
Vigilance is the price Of safety.

cows for year. Try it.
| You cannot grow q good crop oil
grain and good crop of weeds on
| the same ground in the same season
The farmer who gets the best re
| suits from the cows is not in the
habit of supposing everything to be
right.
| When the rain makes the ground
soft. dig out all the brush in the patch
Of useless ground and plant frui'
trees. They will soon grow into
money.
A little brain work in planning short
| cuts in dairy work will save an i'm.
| mense amount of time and big work
| and time is money on the farm. as it
Is elsewhere.
The farmers of Kansas plant 9.O0O..
600 bushels of wheat every year. from
which they harvest about 100000
bushels. most of which is ground up in
| to flour in the home mills.
"Dry-land" alfalfa is merely the
common alfalfa which through contin.
Gus culture without irrigation on arid
land has acquired more or less
drought-resisting qualities.
AS a rule, it is better to set out fruit
and ornamental trees, shrubs, vines.
perennial roots and bulbs in the fall
than in the spring. OF course. the
work often can be done as well In the
spring as in the fall. but many times
the soil and season are unfavorable,
and the proverbial spring rush comes
on so quickly that the job must be
sighted.
If the soil in which the plants are to
be set has been prepared and the
holes dug, set out the plants as soon
as they are unpacked, but if the soil
is not prepared. Immediately prepare
a deep trench, set the plants in it
spreading them out well-and cover
the roots deeply with fine soil. If the
soil is dry, moisten it SO that it will
not extract any moisture from the
roots.
For setting out trees, shrubs and
any plants at any season, spare no
time and labor in preparing the soil
and digging spacious holes for the
reception of the roots of the plants.
for upon the successful starting of the
roots depends to a very large degree
the future success of the plant. Pre-
vious to setting, cut off any injured
or decayed roots and settle plant in
the hole prepared for it, so that none
of the roots will be bent or cramped-
Two or three weeks time will be re-
quired to complete the blanching of
the early celery varieties, and the
boards must be kept in position until
the crop is removed from the ground.
after which they may be used again
two or thre times during the season.
# the celery is allowed to remain in
the boards too long, after 1t has
reached a marketable stage. it loses
in weight and flavor and is liable to
be injured or even destroyed by the
attacks of blight.
Silage to keep well must be cut so
that it will settle evenly. The leaves
must not be in one place and the
coarser parts of the stalks in another
1t must be thoroughly mixed. and
nothing will do this mixing so well as
a man. The silage must also be packed
tightly next the sides of the silO, as
that is where it is likely to lie so light
that it will permit the air to enter.
The top of the silage should be COM
posed of corn that is as green as pos
sible, as this will decay and seal the
whole. thus keeping out the air. Too
dry silage can be improved by adding
water at the top.
Pasture lands receive too little at
tention from the majority of farmers.
If the pastures thrive and produce
good growth. all right. and then, II
they run out, and grow up In weeds,
the man thinks he hasn't time to look
after and improve matters. These con.
ditions are often allowed to exist till
the land has to be broken up and
put to grain of some sort in order to
fight the weeds successfully: and
while few realize 1t. such lands have
lost their owners from two to three
dollars an acre every year they were
left to run as they might. The stitch
in time" saves all this trouble and
loss.
In a recent experiment to determine
the relative value of oats as feed for
horses, six mature grade Percheron
geldings we're fed on a basal ration nj
clover and timothy hay, three receiv.
ing oats and the other three corn as
a supplemental ration Estimating the
corn to be worth 40 cents per bushel.
oats 80 cents per bushel, and hay a
per ton. 1t was found that the average
cost of food per hour of work was AZ
cents for the corn-fed horses and "a
cents for those fed oats. The use of
corn to the exclusion Of other grain
for period Of 4s weeks was found
not to be detrimental to the health Of
work horses. and they endured hard
work during the hot weather as well
as those receiving oats.
A distinct advantage in winter