The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1909-08-20

and poor and improvident dairyneD
are so often to be found on the same
premises.
Peas. beans or any other legume
plowed under not only contribute
supply of available nitro
gen to the soil. but add supply of
humus in the shape of decayed veg
etable matter.
The poorer stick of tenant a fellow
is the oftener he has to move. and the
poorer stick the landlord is the oftener
he will want to move. These two
sticks are often found near together
and are responsible for heap of
mighty slovenly farming.
Any man who is able to walk for a
living. as the Weary Willies do, can
usually muster enough energy to do a
little work for the meal he calls for
at the back door. If he isn't willing
to do this, introduce him to the dog
and show him the highway.
1t Is estimated that it would take
200 or more of the poor dairy cows to
be found in most any state to give the
annual profit from their milk and but
ter yield that is realized from the one
COW Jacoba Irene. Besides this, there
is the job of milking the 200.
The average farm implement man
can hardly view with aught but feel
ing of satisfaction the carelessness
which so many farm owners exhibit in
the matter of putting their machinery
under cover, as it means an increased
trade in repairs and new machines.
The Kansas fruit grower is in trou-
BILE from the operation of the pure food
laws of the state. which require,
among other things, that quart berry
box shall contain a quart of berries
and not seven-eighths of q quart. I'm.
der the new regulations the growers
will be compelled to stamp seven
eighths of a quart on the short meas
ure boxes.
There are thousands of farms the
country over which would be trans
formed and the life thereon made i'm
mensely brighter If eight or ten dairy
cows were purchased. Il silo installed
and clover or alfalfa grown. Thi
trilogy might well be called the faith
hope and charity of the agriculture
world and will do more to save sol
sinners from the wrath to come thai
any other virtues in the category.
Pure Food Commissioner Wright @
Iowa has had an interesting probler
showed at him for whethe
the sticking of a pin point through tn
shells of eggs. practice followed b
poultry fanciers to prevent the egg
they sell on the common market frol
being used for Matching purposes, is
violation Of the state pure food Law
This would seem to be getting til
pure food law down to pretty fir
point.
New and old potatoes have been on
good deal of soar the past couple {
months. Spuds that were priced at {
cents hundred last fall brought ST.
by spring. while this years crop who'll
sailed in May for s1.55 per bushel. tt
local grocer charged about 8 cents
pound. or close to So per bushel. Th
years higl, prices are the result OF
. 40 per cent shortage in the Texas ere
) and bclated spring which delayt
) three weeks the marketing of the ne
r grown crop.
n Kansas dairies seem to be sufferir
p from transportation rates which are
r adjusted as to give decided adyanta!
r to the big centralizer plants throu;
n less rates for long hauls. Twel
h years ago there were 300 creameri
in the state. while there are at pre-
ent but SO. In contrast to this sta
Of affairs. low rates ON short hauls
:, the state of Minnesota have been
j, part responsible for an increase In t
: number of creameries from 300 to
in the same period.
q Those orchardists who are receivi
n the largest returns quite generally +
Ir low the practice of hand thinning
II fruit on overloaded trees. This I
J. only relieves the heavy pull Oh TIRE
Is which set too heavily. but insures
larger and mere uniform size and
ter quality OF fruit. This thinnil
~ which is done when the apples ;
o. about an inch through. makes pos
~ BILE the elimination of dwarfed a
10 defective fruit and reduces the We
~ Of picking by Just so much at harry
in time. In the thinning process no c;
IN is required in the handling Of the
81 pies. and the work can be done rapid
err -
It One of the chief reasons for the
il creased wealth Of the Danes is
is fact thar they have increased the
d. erage yearl.4 production of butter
of in their dairy herds from l12 TO
lis pounds per COW in the comparativ
m. short period of twenty-three years.
this period the people have advan