The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1910-06-25

by turning sheep into small patches of
the field set OF by hurdles. They ate
tops. roots and all. the only assistance
received being looseninS Of the deep
er rooted beets with a spading fork
The feeder commends the plan as a
successful one.
While the tomato will produce some
fruit of fair size with little or no at
tentiou. very satisfying results in the
matter Of an improvement in the size
of the fruit can be had by thorough
and frequent cultivation and pruning
Of the vines so that they will set fruit
on but three or four leaders or
branches. When this plan Is followed
1t is we'll to stake the plants in an up
right position. using strip of cloth to
fasten the vines to the sakes. Should
fruit of exceptional size be desired
this may be brought about by still
further restricting the number OF to-
matoes allowed to ripen.
While housewives are generally Of
the opinion that ii is more difficult to
make good bread from soft than hard
wheat flour. the following recipe gives
excellent results: One quart of wet
ting. including one cupful of soft yeast
Add two level tablespoonfuls Of salt
and three aud three-quarters quarts of
sifted hour. Mix aud knead fifteen
minutes. let rise. mold down. let rise
again and put in tins. Let rise again
hoE
equally good results with hard wheat
-four by reducing the quantity of -four
to three quarts. With this recipe one
can start batch Of bread at III the
morning and bake it with the dinner
fire.
Several points have been pretty we'll
learned about fencepostk - seasoning
them. their durability. etc. Among
these are that the post timber should
be cut during the summer or early
autumn. that the bark should be peeled
off at once SO that the drying process
will be fastened and that il possible
from eight months to a year should
elapse between the time of cutting the
posts and setting them in the ground.
More recent experience proves quite
conclusively that giving the butts g..
the posts a bath of hot creosote will
increase their life from two to three
times. Whether such treatment would
pay in any particular case would de-
pend on the price of posts and the
cost of creosote.
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vitality many a corn grower is just
now confronted with a stand of corn
so poor that it will hardly pay him to
| give it the care it should have during
| the remainder Of the season. and natu-
| rally he is looking for a. substitute.
| While buckwheat. cowpeas. soy bean
| and sorghum may prove the most de-
! sirable substitute crops in certain Sec
tons. millet will likely prove most sat
| OF the three varieties Of millet-com-
mon, Hungarian and German-the
| first is considered best fol-. forage
| crop. while the last will give the best
results in a seed crop. The chief OBJ
! lection to the Hungarian millet is that
| it crosses readily with the common
| wild foxtail. a near relative OF the mil
let family. The common millet and
Hungarian will do better on light soils
than the German variety. With all of
the millets which are intended as for
age crops it is important to cut before
the heads have passed the dough stage.
The North Dakota experiment station.
which has been investigating millet as
forage crop lately. recommends one
feed of properly cured millet day for
horses and two feeds for other stock
as a stimulant tending to produce a
healthy physical condition Of the anil
mails. In feeding value millet is less
palatable than timothy hay and tnfe-
rior to it in nutritive qualities.