The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1910-02-04

has an itching to try to raise the same
big corn. when the chances are ten to
one that he will not reach a proper
maturity in the short growing season
where he lives. This tendency is one
Of the very few Ill effects Of corn
show, yet It Is one that every corn
show director, every experiment sta
ton instructor and every agricultural
paper should dwell on persistently.
A rather curious physiological fact
In connection with tuberculosis is that
a COW having the disease does not
transmit it to her calf at birth. This
makes 1t possible to keep her offspring
from contracting it by feeding it ster
ilized milk or putting it with COW
which is free from the disease. By do
ing this the calves Of valuable full
blooded dams have been saved for
useful careers.
While the brown Swiss breed Of cat
tie do not equal any of the four lead
ing dairy breeds in milk and butter
production, they still are making a
very satisfactory showing for dairy
purposes. They are not only docile
and easily handled, but possess large
frames and beefy quarters. Four of
these cows owned by the Michigan
Agricultural college showed a milk
yield for the past year ranging from
8,120 pounds of milk producing 406
pounds of butter to 1O,15S pounds of
milk giving 457 pounds OF butter.
In view of the killing freeze in the
fore part of October the corn belt
farmer in sections where the freeze
was heavy has no more important task
in hand during the next few weeks
than that of looking up and testing his
supply of seed corn for next year.
Maybe enough corn can be secured
from shocks in fields which were cut
before the freeze, yet there are many
who will have to send to a distance for
seed which will germinate. In any
event the job of securing seed Of good
vitality should not be postponed until
next March or April, when the scram-
BILE for seed will be fierce and when a
lot Of tail enders are going to get left.
Perhaps the largest authenticated
yield Of corn ever recorded was that
produced by John Sundberg. president
of the Iowa Corn Growers association
the past season, the amount being 15t
| bushels and 55 pounds from single
acre, or just five times the average an
nual yield. A justice of the peace
made affidavit that he personally meas
ared the acre Of ground and weighed
the corn. The patch from which the
corn was taken was an acre and hal
in extent and produced in all 224 bush
els. The owner says it took sever
| Lpars to get such a yield, the resul
being In part due to proper care of tn
soil and thick planting and as largei
to continual selection and breeding u
of the seed corn. There is something
in this record for corn growers to thin
about.
There are many towns in the NOR
recently settled portions of the ives
and some in sections not so recent
settled which pride themselves muc
on their push and enterprise that &C
all too literally upon that Scripture
Injunction, "Let the dead past bury 1t
dead" and allow their burial ground
to remain in a shabby, unkempt col
dition that is a positive disgrace nc
only to the dead. but the living chief!
There is mighty little excuse for sue
neglect, for the matter could be REM
died easily were the care of the cem'
terry placed in the hands Of an associ'
ton of wide awake. sympathetic won
en-, who, in addition to annual due
could pull on the community In on
way and another for financial aid su
, ficient to give the cemetery the care
ought to have.
The Illinois state board of healt
| has lately issued an order which pr!
{ vides that all cows in the state mu'
be subjected to the tuberculin te
i and those found affected brands
r with letter "T'' upon the right ca
The enforcement of this regulation.
: is thought, will put a stop to the ira
' fic in tuberculous cows and the sa
, Of milk from them an offense whit
r is punishable with heavy fine. On
! those animals which are provided wit
an inspection and health certifica
q countersigned by the state veterin
q rian may be kept to furnish mi
s supply. In the past the diseased Gov
). have been sold to unscrupulous dair
= men and the polluted. germ laden mi
r peddled for the consumption of lit
G children. Other states should folio
IS the lead of Illinois in this most CO.
i mendable plan for conserving the pu
q lie health.
q An experiment is being tried by t
Southwest Texas Truck Growers 8
= sociation along the line of socialist
A production that will be watched wi
much interest by people living els
II where. In brief, they have pool
- their affairs in the matter of growi
onions ond now hIIy their seed dire