The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1910-02-11


men enter the living rooms.
a housewife who has given 1t q
trial recommends a 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 d 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 i'm 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 tho
ground if tie 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
OFF the wagon, but will likewise mean
a great many dollars more In pocket as
a result of a more economical han
ding of the farm fertilizers and from
realizing a larger per cent Of their
value i'm increased crop returns.
The English potato crop for the year
1909 averaged 23S bushels per acre as
against an average i'm the United
States of about 1O5 bushels. 1t is wei
to remember, too, i'm this connection
that the English average was secured
on lands which have been titled for
7OO or 800 years, while here the land
has not been cultivated on an average
sixty or seventy years. There ought
to be suggestion in these figures for
the American agriculturist.
Investigations which have been made
by the Nebraska experiment station
into the causes OF sorghum poisoning
show that this result Is due to the
presence Of prussic acid in the green
leaves of young and old sorghum
plants and Kaffir corn. The poisons
seem always to be present in minute
quantities, but is developed i'm danger
GUS quantities when the plant is ar
-ested in certain stages of it's growth
by dry weather. 1t is more than like
~ that to this same poison is due the
frequent death of stock which has
eaten Of the green shoots and suckers
in field Of corn following a period of
retarded development.
liz there is any ground for the state
ment alleged that many a farmer in
dairy sections is selling his butter fat |
at 30 to 30 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
kind Of fat Ill CT the time and has
none to sell. Country people should |
use creamery butter or 60 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 "a
vored steer that has q hard time fetch
ing S. per hundredweight on the mar
ket and the quickly grown, blocky
Hereford, Angus or Shorthorn grade
that weighs 1900 to 1850 pounds and
brings $3.50 per hundredweight The
chances are that the scrub, pound for
pound, has cost more to produce thar
the fat. sleek grade, yet he has brought |
311a cents pound less. Another fea-
ture Of the situation worth remember
ing Is that the market is usually food
ed with the FIVE dollar stuff, while the
good grade steer Is always at a pre-
MUM and buyers are anxious to get
them.
why does one fruit tree OF the same
age, size and apparent thriftiness ~
others i'm the same orchard tract yield |
a larger quantity of fruit as we'll as q
better quality? Many hOrticulturists
believe that such trait is due to tree
in the same way that eX-
ceptional milk capacity is an individu-
al trait in dairy cows and yigor and |
large size and symmetry traits Of rep
Of beef types. Moreover,
the horticulturist believes that, just as
characteristics may be transmitted n
the animal kingdom, 50 tree traits may
be through bud Or scion to its descend
ants. The Colorado and some other
stations are experiment
ing along this line and fin the near fu-
ture hope to furnish conclusive proof
Of what seems to be very reasonable
hypothesis.
Southern corn belt and cotton belt
states are coming to look upon soy
beans as q legume Of exceptional
value for use il crop rotations as a
soil renovater, in this respect being
a desirable substitute for clover and
alfalfa. It thrives under the same
general conditions as does corn,
though fourishing on much thinner
soils. The soy beans not only serves
the purpose well as q pasture and
makes good hay IL cut before TIE
vines are too ripe. but makes excel
lent sila-e when Sown with corn "
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