Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1909-06-29

The prevailing price of milk in Eng
land is s cents a quart, the English
quart being one and a quarter times
the size of our measure. On the basis
Of the difference in the value Of a
penny in the two countries the price
for an American quart in terms of our
money would be about 10 cents.
The world standing Of a nation is
quite accurately measured by the eco
monte status of its rural population
the class which tills it's fields and
raises the products which sustain its
life. 1t is because of this that a coun-
try like France is more powerful than
India or the United States than Rus
STA.
Analysis shows that a quart of milk
contains as much nourishment. as a
pound of veal or beef chuck, nine
ounces of round steak, two pounds of
Goldfish or two pounds and five ounces
Of solid oysters. This would seem to
show that the milk drinkers have
some pretty good arguments to justify
their practice.
Thousands Of tons Of powdered milk
are consumed yearly in Boston, the
growth in the business being accompa-
MED by a considerable falling off in the
consumption of natural milk. What
arnr ,,n No CNtI % Tho roprdnrNd r1Jly
product, it cannot be upbraided with
having been kept too near the pump or
diluted at the creek on the way to the
creamery.
One of the recent introductions Of
new varieties Of plant life by the de-
partment Of agriculture has been a
shipment of 40 tons of bamboo plants
from Japan, which have been set out
at the federal plant experiment station
at Chico. Cal. They are to be cult
waited here and later distributed to
other sections where conditions seem
to be favorable for their growth.
Buttermaking is to be recommended
In preference to cheeSemaking as a
special phase Of dairEing in that when
butter is sold only the fats and no
protein elements are removed from the
farm, the skimmilk, containing the lat
ter, being kept and fed to the farm an
imals. In the manufacture of cheese
the reverse is the case, and this Is true
whether it be a full cream or skimmilk
product.
A breeder Of blooded cattle whom
we came across the other day in Civ
ing a description of a bunch of young
bulls which he had for sale said that
with the pedigree Of each animal will
be given a certificate of health, signed
by a veterinarian, stating that the ami
NAL is free from tuberculosis infection.
This Is a sensible plan and n that
should be universally adopted by
breeders Of full blooded stock, as they
more than the scrubs seem to be sub
ject to the disease.
The most effective blow can be dealt
NuIldul lIISllCo lldl uIty NC Ou lllC
place If they are allowed to grow and
get well into blossom, but moved
down before any seeds develop. This
takes them off guard, as it were, the
plant being engaged in a supreme eff
fort to reproduce itself and the root
systems being taxed to furnish the
plant food for the process.
Any shoots appearing after the patch
is moved should be dug out root and
branch and burned.
Kansas has recently organized a
state Audubon society, her residents,
farmers and others having come to a
realization of the value In dollars and
cents of bird life to horticulture and
agriculture and an appreciation of the
of protecting them from destruc'
ton in every way possible. Kansas
is the thirty-seventh state to organize
Audubon societies, while there are
thirty-ive which have adopted the
model bird law recommended by the
federal department of agriculture.
In some sections of the western and
northwestern states where motor pow
err for harvesting is furnished by gaso,
line tractors it has been found feasible
70 plow at the same time, the strip
from which the grain is cut being
turned over by the gang of six or
eight plows attached behind, the bun
dies of grain being delivered on the
plowed burrows outside the range of
operations. The advantages Of this
plan are economy In operation. the kill
ing of incipient weeds and a conserv-
ing of moisture, which in sections of
short rainfall is an important consid-
GRAFTON.
An agricultural journal which prides
itself on the reliability Of the firms
whose advertisements appear in its
columns not long ago carried an al
Turing advertisement Of a paint man.
whose bonanza product by an analysis
made by the South Dakota experiment
station was found to contain about 80