The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1910-04-04

should be mixed with dust or litter
while accumulat ting. and even then one
should spread the stun sparingly. We
have known Of mature apple trees be-
ing knocked out by too much kind
ness In the application Of this fer
tilixef.
Treating seed corn with coal tar by
stirring small quantity Of it In Z
peck Of seed at q time 80 that each
kernel Is smeared with little Of the
tar il said to keep the crows and go
pliers from touching the corn after 1t IL
planted. II the kernels are inclined to
stick together more corn should be
worked In and possibly little nour,
which win tend to keep the kernels
apart.
The sooner soil IL narrowed after
being plowed the more completely will
it retain the moisture at and near the
surface, for the blanket Of tine, mellow
earth thus made checks q rapid evap-
GRAFTON Of the moisture. Since this is
SO delaying OF the narrowing win
serve to more quickly dry 4 soil that
contains more moisture than is re-
quired for the proper termination Of
the seed which Is to be placed there
in. In sections Of the west where
moisture Ia at q premium strict atten-
ton is paid this fact Of moisture con-
servation.
II the truth were known 1t would
probably come to light that the in
creased cost Of living is due to a sub
stantial increase in freight and express
ton of the circulating medium and
scarcity of some staple food supplies.
This advance in transportation rates
has been very quietly made, but the
increase has been considerable, and the
middleman and distributor In order
to come out whole has had to add this
advance to the prices he had been pre-
viously asking for his goods, which
were already high.
There is nothing calculated to check
milk dow in a dairy COW more effec-
tually than being chased around yard
by a cursing. loud mouthed man or
boy and being ever and anon pounded
over head or rump with club or milk
stool. Not long ago we saw pretty
likely looking heifer put through this
kind of mill by couple Of little heath
ems, whose treatment would be sum-
Gent to cause a cow to give skimmilk,
sour milk or no milk at all. 1t may
suffice to say that the father Of these
boys wasn't in the dairy business for
profit or he would have got busy on
the boys with big slat.
OF all shortsighted initial economies
there is none worse than the buying
Of runty and unthrifty fruit trees just
because they can be got cheap, and
this is true whether one is setting an
orchard for himself or expects to turn
1t over to some customer at bearing
age. 1t is the start tree gets, as in
the case of calf or pig, during the
first three years that largely deter
mines not only its later beauty, but
utility rs horticultural thing, and
hence every reasonable precaution
should be. taken to see that the choice
Of the y66ng trees e. web ms the care
givep Should be Of - best.
A fellow may not suffer anything
more than physical discomfort II be
orders his undershirt and prunes from
q distant mail order house, but he had
better pass the practice up when II
comes to grass seed and order from q
home man who he can bat with q
stuffed club IL the seed ID not pure
and as represented. Not as yet II
there in force an adequate federal pure
seed law; hence a fellow has no re
course for damages IL he orders from
a firm outside Of his own state and
gets worthless or even pernicious grass
seed. A number Of states have effec
tive pure seed laws, and where sellel
and buyer reside In such states thu
latter's rights are amply safeguarded.
While there Is big discrepancy be
tween the prices which It was claimed
could be got for ginseng in the crazl
which swept over the country four Of
Eve years ago and those which arr
quoted today, the returns are never
theless sufficient to give good In
terest return on the money invest