Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1909-01-12

Twice DIS lar ana does more good b 4
that scattered by the old ~pitchfork
method.
There is probably no flower of the
unpretentious order that will give a
larger measure of satisfaction than the
fragrant English violet. A pot of VIC
let's will furnish sweet fragrance and
blossoms we'll through the winter if
placed in a sunny window in a room
just above freezing. They are hardy
and do not seem to mind the cold.
Experiments which have been con-
Quoted show that when cheese is sold
from the farm or milk from which
cheese is made a much larger amount
of fertility is taken from the soil
b in the case of butter or cream.
This is to quite an extent responsible
for the fertility and productivity of
those farms on which buttermaking is
the chief occupation.
A fact quite generally known, yet
sometimes overlooked, Is that red
clover is a b~iennial-that is, its length
OF life is out two seasons l~ong-whieh
means that if the second growth is not
allowed to mature seed in the autumn
OF the second season the crop will die
out. This variety of clover as it
grows along the roadside seems to have
a perennial habit, but this is due to the
f1nt fhot II n,,o11on, eool of+o, o,o,,~l,
to perpetuate itself.
According to reports issued by the
department of agriculture at Washing
ton on Nov. 10, the average yield of
corn In the country for the present
year is 26.2 bushels per acre, while
he estimated total production is 2,642,-
6Sl 1000 bushels. This is a better show
Ing both in yield per acre and total
production than last year, when the
average was $50 bushels and the to-
tai yield was 1902 ,3320,O0O bushels.
The quality of this years crop is $50
per cent, while IN 1907 it was SIS.
Any upward movement in grain
prices which makes stock raising and
dairyfng Improbable and tempts the
farmer to sell his cereal products in
the raw state rather than in the finish
ed form of beef, pork, mutton, butter
and cheese can only be viewed as a
misfortune from the standpoint of a
permanent agricultural prosperity,
which from the very necessity of the
case depends upon an intelligent MAIN
~tenance of the fertility of the soil. 1t
is likely that many will disagree with
this view, but a careful consideration
of the points involved would seem to
verify it.
So long as the average yield Of corn
per acre for the whole country re-
mains in the neighborhood of twenty
six or tWenty-seyen bushels, and nu-
merous instances are on record where
enterprising farmers have secured a
yield Of from So to 120 bushels per
acre, it will be entirely in place to
continue talking and writing about
the possibilities Of agriculture in the
United States. Had the average yield
per acre been twice what it was (2G.2
bushels), OF 52.4 bushels-a moderate
yield-the total corn production would
have been $780, 74 600 bushels, while
at so cents a bushel $1,321,343, 500
would have been added to the value
of the crop.
The average housewife would much
prefer to burn hard maple, oak or
hickory, as she may have done years
ago or as her mother did, but a great
many in sections where the hardwood
supply is gone have to use soft coal in
it's stead. With this the SCOT and dirt
are the chief drawbacks. The former
nuisance may be reduced to a mini
mum by breaking the coal into small
pieces before putting it into the stove
and putting on the fire only small
quantities at a time. If the fire is fed
in this way it will burn brightly and
consume the SCOT and a good share of
the black smoke, which is simply an
aggregation of sooty particles, as soon
as it is formed. More than this, there
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method of stocking which should not be
overlooked.
Professor John Merriam, associate
professor Of geology in the University
Of California, has created quite a SEN
satiOn in scientific circles and among
students Of paleontology throughout
+ho void NV tLo I;oonrorr Of n ,,r
Der of prehistoric animal species in a
tar pool or asphalt bed located not far
from SaWtelle, Cal. From this once
sticky death trap, which became the
grave Of numberless animals hundreds
of thousands of years ago, have been
taken the remains Of rare prehistoric
animals, including the enormous
ground sloth, larger than a common
OK; the huge prehistoric mammoth, a
great extinct camel, a strange and IN
known species Of deer, besides the
saber toothed tiger and huge antedi-
luvian wolf, which were evidently
lured to the death pool by the strug-
giles of the h~erbivorous animals al
ready entrappcd and which they in
tended to devour. In addition to the
larger animals, there have been discov-
cred many remarkable and extinct spe-
cies Of hawks. eagles and ducks which
went TO the pool in search of food,
only to be caught and held fast and
finally imbedded
Mrs, Df, Moore will be in Dr.. Fox's