Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1909-03-25

Of the hobo who asks hand-out at his
back door. In both cases he would be
going 1t bird ard could hardly escape
being dubbed fool.
One can hold a penny or nickel 80
close to his eye that 1t will obscure
the distant dollar OF gold eagle. The
fellow who scrimps on the price of his
seed grain is victim Of this very
illusion when he ought to know better.
Wise parents should keep the title
of a good portion of their hard earned
property in their own name as long as
they live. Consideratc children should
not only acquiesce in this arrange
ment, but should In good faith see
that it is carried out.
Experiments conducted by the ami
NAL husbandry department of the New
York experiment station ut Cornell!
give value of 81 cents per hundred
weight of skimmilk fed to growing
pigs. If these figures are correct, one
of the common byprodurts of the aver
age farm has been grievously under
estimated IN past years.
Before the small grain Is put into the
secder 1t should be given Il good blast
Of air in the tanning mill In the gran
airy or taken to the elevator, where
still more thorough job can be done.
This treatment will remove dirt and
dust. shrunken kernels and a great
majority Of the weed seeds. This will
insure q more even stand and will
mean less weeds and more satisfac-
ton In every way from the growing
crop
The secret Of the prosperity and
contentment to be found In sections OF
the country largely devoted to dairy
ing lies in the fact that In the market
ing OF ton Of butter but 90 cents
worth Of sell fertility is removed from
the farm premises. More fertility Is
marketed In the shape Of live stock
and still more when the raw cereal
products are sold which makes the
last named the most Spendthrift type
of agriculture which can be followed.
1t IS hard to understand why so
many sections of the country which
are already well embarked in Il dairy
and stock raising type of agriculture
should be SO slow in adopting the silo
as one OF the best possible means OF
utilizing economically one Of the most
important home grown products OF the
farm 1t would seem that silo and
enSilage gospel needs preaching in
good many benightcd sections OF the
country which agricultnrally at least
are not living up to their opportunities.
Where locality is especially favor
able to growing of apples or other
kinds Of fruit 1t Is well for several to
unite I'm the growing Of the same well
known standard varieties. This makes
It possible to handle fruit of one kind
in car lots. while buyers will come
from a distance If a considerable guam
tity of given varieties may be had.
More than this the spraying. pruning
and cultivation Of similar types OF
fruit in the same ucighhorhood would
be much the same. ard enc fruit grow
er could learn from his ncirhbOrs and
perhaps In turn help those OF less eX-
perience
About the only argument which we
have heard urged against the growing
Of alfalfa is that this responsive
legume produces so many crops IN one
season. sometimes five or siN-that II
keeps n fellow at home cutting and
curing It almost rs closely as If he
were Il widower and had family of
eight kids and weekly washing on
his hands. A feature that makes the
matter somewhat worse is that alfalfa
REQUIRES more attention In the curing
than do most other kinds of hay. \
thought that may give general consola-
ton, however. Is that the closer most
fellows stay at home the more circum-
spect citizens they usually are.
A conception that is quite general
among people Of eastern states Is that
the horse raising business of the
Rocky mountain and Pacific slope
states Is still in the hron"ho stage. The
picture Of the provCrbial cowboy
mounted on his mustang, so common
in the newspaper and magazine Illus
trationsr Of the day, Is doubtless IN
large measure responsible for the mis-
conception referred to. but very diff
fercnt status of the horse raising bust
ness Of the west In the case. Many or
the large farm and ranch owners have
been buying and shipping in the best
types Of speed and draft horses which
could be secured, with the result that
some of the finest horses which the
country produces are raised west OF
the Missouri river, ard a number or
western cities are already taking n
high rank as horse markets, which are
frequented by big eastern buyers.
The success of many a farmers CO.
operative enterprise is jeopardiZed If
not made entirely impossible because
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