Warren sheaf., 1910-02-10

A gardener living near Long Beach.
CAL, imposes on folks credulity in the
claim he makes of having picked three
gallons Of blackberries from Logan
valley vine set out last year. when it
was but two inches long.
During the winter months, when |
green food cannot be had, the hens
will relish a head of cabbage, hung
where they have to jump for it. or an
occasional feed of raw beets or ruta-
bagas. Clover and alfalfa leaves they
will also eat greedily.
Landlord and tenant get along best
together when each does just bit
more rather than trifle less for the
other than the terms of the lease re-
quire. The same kind of spirit will
60 long way toward taking the kinks
out Of many other relations in life.
The very heavy fall of snow in the
mountain states Of the west is causing
very heavy loss in both cattle and
sheep. as much of the forage they sub
sist on in the valleys is deeply COW
cred with snow. Some flockmasters
are Offering at 81 per head sheep that
two months ago they would not have
sold for Sc.
In Germany and some other Euro
pean countries oleo manufacturers are
required to add to the fatty mixture
10 per cent by weight Of sesame oil,
whose odor enables the purchaser to
detect the nature Of his purchase much
more readily than is possible in the
United States, where butter fat is
added instead.
We saw lantern the other day be-
longing to a pretty bright fellow that
one would say was relic Of the dark
ages-wick small, draft poor, chimney
smoky and the whole outfit calculated
to induce dubious thoughts relative to
the gumption and snap of the fellow
who owned it. With lanterns and lu-
minants as cheap as they are today,
there is mighty little excuse for this
type Of mediaevalism.
Final estimates as to the 1909 cotton
crop place the total production at
4,S36, $4,000 pounds, equivalent to 10,-
OSS,OOO bales at 500 pounds each. The
five leading states in the production Of
cotton are as follows, the output being
expressed in bales: Texas. 2,570.OOO;
Georgia, 1,8OO,OOO: South Carolina.
1,O95, 900; Alabama and Mississippi,
each 100000. Next to corn, cotton
was the most valuable crop produced.
An effective warfare may be waged
against the lice and mites in the hen
house by squirting kerosene into the
cracks and crannies near the roosts
and by turning the hens outdoors and
scattering handful Of sulphur into
kettle Of live Goals. The doors and
windows should be shut tight, and the
operator should vamoose as soon as
the fumes begin to rise. To make the
job effective this process may be re-
peated until a pound Of sulphur has
been burned
There is no fruit tree that will stand
or should receive more heavy pruning
than the peach. The pruning done
the first spring following the setting of
the trees should include the taking out
Of all limbs except four or five, which
should be left to form the frame of the
young tree, and these should be cut
back to about eighteen inches. As the
tree gets older the top should be kept
we'll thinned and the new growth cut
back to give sufficient sturdiness to the
branches. To properly ripen, peaches
should be exposed to the sunshine, and
this means that the tree should be CIV,
en- an open top. .5@ .. ~
A whole lot Of farmers sled along on
bare ground, tiguratively, year after
year as result of not keeping such
track of their operations as will enable
them to know just where the leaks are.
The loss may be in the grain raised
and sold, it may be in the dairy, it
may to some extent lie with shiftless
and careless hired men, or it may be
in part traceable to careless handling
of the farm made fertilizers; but,
whatever the sources Of loss in the
management Of the farm, a set Of
books, not necessarily elaborate, would
be of great assistance in placing re-
sponsibility for the trouble.
Z. The first denatured alcohol plant to
be built west of the Mississippi river
Is located at Marshalltown, Ia, and
starts up Feb. I. The outfit consists
Of seven buildings and will cost com.
.pleteda $4,000. Operating day and
night, it will have capacity of 5000
gallons Of alcohol, which will consume
5000 bushels of corn daily. The out
put will be pure grain or ethyl alcohol.
and the denaturing agent. which must
be mixed with it to make it unfit for
drinking purposes. will be added as