The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1909-11-29
Of Interest TO the Farmers

} the Farmers
The field was a complete failure ex-
ceDt for quarter Of an acre. ON which
the alfalfa grew luxuriantly. He was
at loss to understand this. but after
doing considerable thinking he remem.
tered that some thirty-five years be-
fore his father had attempted to grow
| some alfalfa (then caller lucerne) on
this particular spot While the stand
was not very good, enough Of it de-
veloped to inoculate the soil with the
necessary bacterial life. 1t is more
than likely that many a failure with
alfalfa IS traceable to paying no atten.
ton to the matter OF soil incubation.
Sponging the back Of an animal with
crude petroleum will tx the ticks.
If there happens to be q woman's
club in the neighborhood, encourage
the good wife to join it 1t will widen
her outlook on life and furnish q much
needed variety.
The two or three n1esses OF green
lima beans which come from the home
garden are such a rare treat that they
pay we'll for the trouble taken in rails
ing them.
Michigan and Wisconsin cranberry
fields at picking time ruined the crops
OF many growers. AS a result Of this
the festive berry will be high at
Thanksgiving time.
The natives of Hawaii can't 60 out
in the back yard with big slice Of
watermelon and enjoy it with the
same zest as we do in America, If they
are fnicky at all. for the melons grown
on the islands are likely to be infest-
ed with maggots, which appreciate
good thing as much as folks do.
One Of tho surest as well as most
profitable crops for the Pacific coast
horticulturist is the English walnut.
The trees are remarkably free from
the insect pests and fungus which so
often attack fruit trees, while the crop
is one that il much less perishable and
can thus be held If prices are not sat
isfactory.
II the little people who come into the
home are to reach a respectable ma
turity, scalding water, fly poison. rough
on rats and headache tablets should so
far as possible be kept out of their
reach. Hardly q week passes but one
sees chronicled in the daily papers the
death Of helpless little babies who run
afoul Of some one of these things.
A town the writer visited the other
day was an improvement over many
others in that considerable number
OF its vacant lots were busy growing
alfalfa instead of being allowed to pro-
duce a rank growth of burdock, mus
tard or what not 1t furnished a good
bite OF nutritious hay for COW or horse
and was quite an advertisement Of the
possibilities Of the soil Of the locality.
While lime is in no sense q substi-
with this thought in mind. it does serve
as a corrective of soil conditions
sweetens sour soils and puts them in
shape to furnish food for growing
plant life. A ton Of lime per acre is
usually sufficient to set things right.
and it may be applied to the land with
manure in the shape Of the freshly air
Stacked product or it may be put on
alone
Ventura county, Cal, produces three
fourths Of the worlds supply Of lima
beans. the output last year being S.
100000 pounds. worth s2,70.OOO to
the growers. This is one Of the spe-
cial agricultural interests which i'm
press the traveller through southern
California. fields OF beans in the dis
trict devoted to growing them stretch
ing as far as the eye can reach. The
fields are planted to permit OF horse
cultiv alton and are kept remarkably
clean.
One of the many interesting exhibits
In the forestry building at the Seattle
exposition was section of a pile taken
from Galveston bay last year which
had been doing service for thirty
three years That it was able to with
stand the attacks of the teredo, a mol
tuscan borer, during this long period
was owing to the fact that 1t was
treated with creosote before being
driven Had it not been 50 treated it
would have been riddled and worth
less in 4 very few months.
The high prices which have prevail
ed for small grains for the past two