The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1910-06-27
OF Interest TO the Farmers

make. child sick. but kilr 1t if in an
overdose.
More than one housewife saves her
self a world of hard work by having
the men of the house put OF their
muddy boots and shoes before going
into the kitchen or dining room. This
takes a little time, but the reasonable
ness of it will be appreciated by any
fair minded man who will get down
on his prayer bones and scrub the door
two or three times.
Recent feeding experiments conducted
by the Massachusetts experiment sta
ton at Amherst in the matter OF feed
ing alfalfa meal and bran have demon
strated that there is no disadvantage
in feeding the former unless it can be
got at the same or a less price than
bran. Analyses showed the bran to
have a tribe larger protein content,
while it was eaten by the cows more
readily and resulted in manures Of q
considerably higher fertilizer value.
II any Of our readers have been be-
lated, as the writer has been, in the
setting of fruit or shade trees, the
fault may be remedied in part by a
judicious watering, care being taken
to see that the ground Is mellowed
shortly after the watering Is done so
as to prevent the formation Of a crust
about the tree, while the application
of a shovelful of we'll rotted manure
through which the rain or water arti-
ficially applied can soak is an excel
lent aid in enabling the tree to make
up for the lost time.
A majority of the soothing sirups at
present on the market and frequently
| used by tired~mothers to quiet crying
babies contain considerable quantities
of morphine or cocaine, both Of them
deadly poisoAs, and many Of the so
called cures for several drug habits
contain the very drugs a craving for
which these cures are supposed to re-
lieve the drug victim Of. Farmers
bulletin No. 1893. put out short time
ago by the department Of agriculture
az w oSAAAos~Ap ooSo 'SAy SAoAoASAAy
into the subject Of these death deal
ing nostrums. There should be one in
| every homo.
Nature seems to have provided ex-
ceptional means for reducing the baby
hood-the helpless period-of the birds
to a minimum, thereby decreasing the
likelihood Of their destruction by their
several natural enemies. This safe.
guard lies chiefly in the enormous eat
ing capacity Of the newly Matched
birds, three or four nestlings keeping
both parent birds busy from daylight
until dark stuf6ng their uphfted and
gaping mouths. This large consump
and rapid growth and development
the young birds testing their wings in
flight from the nest but q few short
weeks after Matching.
Beyond treating dirt roads at the
right time and keeping them vel
crowned so as to shed rainfall quickly
there is probably no factor that will
tend better to keep them in good con
dition than the use of broad tired
wagons in place Of the narrow tired
ones which have been in so genera
use in the past. There is always {
period when a road has been worked
into shape, but has not been packed
down hard when a narrow tired Wagon
heavily loaded will undo much Of thu
work The same thing is true durin.
rainy seasons, when the road, howeve
well graded, becomes soft. Whateve
the season, the broad tired wagon ha
q decided advantage over the marrow
in keeping the roads in good condition
The Satsuma orange, introduced int
the United States from Japan twenty
five years ago and thither from Chin'
800 years prior, gives promise Of being
a valuable addition to the citrus fruit
commercially valuable. 1t is uniqu
in that it is the only citrus specie
which is deciduous. casting all 1t
leaves in the autumn, as do our com
mon forest trees. 1t is both the ear
lest and hardest variety Of orang
grown, it's fruit ripening early in DC
tober 1t is seedless, like the nave
anu me EdNOISu "a Auk tuCA 1AtcAC Coz
ing fact concerning it, recently brough
to light. is that it is absolutely worth
less as a fruit bearer unless budded o
grated on trifohate stock. This is
fact that the settlers of new orang
groves would do well to keep in MIND.
; Roses seem to appreciate an evening
!. bath on hot days as well as do mel
and animals. In addition to supply
!, ing the bushes with needed moisture
the applying Of the shower bath unde
good pressure will keep the leaves an
flowers free from most Of the slugs
red spiders and aphides which attac
them.
i. While a big ado is made about tn
high cost OF the necessaries OF life
hardly a line is penned relative to eS
penditure in the United States alon
Of 81, 600, 100000 annually for whisk
| and beer, this total not including tn
| additional enormous burden borne b
taxpayers in the shape OF crimina
court expense.