Putnam patriot., 1910-05-20

roads are found in townships and towns whose road supervisors or street commissioners are drawing good sal aries for taking care of the highways. while the equipment for keeping them in order is acquiring coat ofi rust in some vacant lot -or alley.
 With a view to doing some advanced work along the line of developing im- proved strains of standard American varieties of potatoes and to develop new ones the experiment station at Fort Collins. Colo, ;a state where the Irish potato finds a remarkably .cc0- genial home. is seeking to learn the history of well known and established varieties for the purpose of knowing of the inheritance which lies behind them Blanks will be furnished to any person who is able to give the in formation. while those who aid in the work will be given copies of the pub lication on the history of the potato.
 Not one of the numerous spring veg etables is more toothsome than aS- paragus. small bed of which will be sufficient sto furnish all family will want and some to spare. In start ing a bed snall plants may be used or portions of the roots of an odd bed secured before fhe sprouts setart The plants should be set to a depth 0f about eight inches in soil made mel low and enriched with . good supply of well routed stable manure Aspara- rus is . gross feeder, and the ground can hAftily be made too rich. The bed shouh be Mell watered. and if the rafRfall is not enough it should be irriented during the growing seq con.
 Statistics which have been compiled Ly the department af agriculture at Washington contain some interesting figures relative to exports of farm products during the past sixty years. They show that these exports. consist ang chiefly of cotton. grain and grsfH products and packing hsuse products have increased in value from an aver sse of s15O.O0O.o00 a year in the five year period from 1851 to 1855 to an average of $s750oo,0o0 a year in the perfod 1901 to 195. while in two sub seauent years. 1907 and 1908. they have exceeded in veine the above av- craze. tofaling s1 .OO0O0o00o- The sta tisffes show that the increase in the volume and value of agricultural ex- ports has far outstripped the inereans in the eountry's populati00-
 4 whcie lot of farmers win hs pno~ ing on tse remarkable stunt of hoak~ ing two crops of corn in lS10 Thb does not mean that conditions have changed se that they are producing two crops . year, but only that they got balled up In their husking opera tons last fall
 Recent invesuestions into the life hebits sl ths oeee shsw that h1s ea1s1 diet. vAen hs eaD Dst t. eoossets q the large whits eyab and she aarvee1 of the Juns bug. whtcb Ao much dam- ere C lawns, noWesD a1d sesawberry planeA O this aeeount aleoe he mole . entitled ts mans peotecttoaL
 Ths disk dfi1l is eeasEally secog- ntsed as the standard machine for towing small grain. Not cnly does if mean economy In the use of seed. buf 1t puts the grain at an even depth. covers all of 1t and thus insures . uni. form germination and even stand which means uniformity of growth and ripening. The end gate seeder Is q relic of bygone era and should De relegafed to the scrap pile.
 As a result of the heavy freeze of last December IL is estimated that lo.- 0DO cars of oranges were damaged in southern California. This is about one-fhird of tbe annual output and will constitute very heavy loss to the growers Where the fruit was pot eptirely ruined it's quality vas v in