The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1910-02-14
OF Interest TO the Farmers

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started in boxes in the house and later
transplaAted to the hotbed.
Every farm worth 500 per acre
should have q herd Of dairy cows, q
flock Of fifty sheep. a silo and a ma
nure spreader.
1t is not only the height of cruelty,
but bad management, to keep an &C
tive, full lived horse, or for that mat
ter, an old plug. tied up in a stall week
after week without driving it or Civ.
Ing it opportunity for exercise by ca
yorting about in a yard.
The housewife who takes a just
pride in clean kitchen and dining
room floor will doubtless appreciate it
il the muddy boots or overshoes are
left in the back room and some light
er, cleaner footwear put on when the
men enter the living rooms.
A housewife who has given it a
trial recommends lotion of equal
parts Of turpentine, ammonia and raw
linseed oil as a ready means OF relief
from frosted feet and chilblains. The
liniment should be applied three or
four times a day, as conditions seem
to demand.
Rotation as a principle Of soil cul-
ture is not only good for the field
crops, but for those raised in the gar
den patch as well. Such rotation not
only rests the soil, but tends to check
the development of fungous and other
pests which are likely to infest the
ground if the same crop is produced
on the same plot year after year.
There are many farmers who could
have or carry out no more practical
New Years resolution than the pur-
chase and use Of a good manure
spreader. 1t will not only mean fewer
blisters and callouses on the hands
through freedom from forking the stuff
OF the wagon, but win likewise mean
a great many dollars more In pocket as
result of a more economical han
ding Of the farm fertilizers and from
realizing larger per cent Of their
value in increased crop returns.
As q result of three years Of careful
testing in the seeding of oats at the
Illinois experiment station it has been
found that when drilled oats produce
1>vrc hA1c
more than when sown broadcast in the
common slipshod fashion. The in
creased yield is attributed to more uni
form termination and stand and more
even growth and maturity. It was
also found in this connection that clo-
yer drilled with oats seemed much
better able to Withstand the dry wealth
er just following harvest.
If there is any ground for the state
ment alleged that many q farmer in
dairy sections is selling his butter fat
at 80 to 35 cents per pound and buy
ing butterine-beef suet and cotton
seed oil, etc.-at 16 to 20 cents pound
to grease his pancakes with very lit
tie enthusiasm will be aroused on his
behalf on the part of the day laborer
who is buying butter or some other
kind of fat all Of the time and has
none to sell. Country people should
use creamery butter or go without If
they expect to win public favor in
their war on the oleogargarine trust
A lot of feeders should realize more
fully than they seem to the difference
in revenue between the scrub, i'll IA
vored steer that has a hard time fetch
ing IS per hundredweight on the mar
ket and the quickly grown, blocky
Hereford, Angus or Shorthorn grade
that weighs 1900 to 1,450 pounds and
brings $3.50 per hundredweight. The
chances are that the scrub, pound for
pound, has cost more to produce than
the fat, sleek grade, yet he has brought
81 cents a pound less. Another fea-
ture Of the situation worth remember
ing is that the market is usually food
ed with the Ave dollar stuff, while the
MUM and buyers are anxious to get
them.
why does one fruit tree or the same
age. size and apparent thriftiness as
others in the same orchard tract yield
a larger quantity Of fruit as we'll as a
better quality? Many horticulturists
believe that such a trait is due to tree
individuality in the same way that ex-
ceptional milk capacity is an individu-
al trait in dairy cows and vigor and
large size and symmetry traits of rep
resentatives Of beef types. Moreover,
the horticulturist believes that, just as
characteristics may be transmitted in
the animal kingdom. SO tree traits may
be through bud or scion to its descend
ants. The Colorado and some other
horticultural stations are experiment.
ing along this line and in the near fu-
ture hope to furnish conclusive proof
of what seems to be q very reasonable
hypothesis.
Southern corn belt and cotton belt
states are coming to look upon soy
beans as legume Of exceptional