The Adair County news., 1910-08-31

the barnyard following each heavy
rain may be done away with by equip
ping the barnyard slope of the caves
with piping or trough, which will carry
the water to the corner of the barn.
Many a farm could be transformed
merely through the adoption of long
time leases, together with the follow
ing of such agricultural and stock
raising methods as the tenant would
feel justified in going into as result
of a longer tenure of the land.
There is not one farming community
in a hundred where the inhabitants
make a practice of so handling the
farm fertilizers as to get the most pos
sible good out of them. In the vast
majority Of cases so per cent of the
fertilizing value of manures is lost
before it reaches the land.
The flock of hens closely confined
should not only be given the grain,
green food and water they need, but
should be provided with a dust bath
in good sized box. Finely pulver-
lied road dust is excellent for the pur-
pose, and it will be the more effective
if three or four pounds of powdered
sulphur are added
Before selling the old homestead it
no RI in
estate agent to make a list of the
points in its favor as a selling PROPOSE
ton. 1t is quite possible when the
catalogue of virtues is completed that
you will think the farm plenty good
enough to keep, as proved to be the
case in an instance of which we heard
the other day.
1t is a mighty good thing for boys
to have vacations and just as fortu-
nate that schools begin early in Sep
TENDER, so that they can once more
receive the benefit Of system, orderli-
ness and study. Whether the summer
intermission has been spent entirely
in recreation and sport or hard manual
labor, the change will be a refreshing
and beneficial one.
Not very much in the way of mu-
nicipal progress can be claimed by
any community which allows aristo-
crat or plebeian ours to swarm it's
streets and alleys and constitute an
all round menace to the health, peace
and quiet Of its inhabitants. The levy
ing of a five dollar dog tax is usually
the first tangible sign that any town is
awaking from its long sleep.
A headland of grass at the ends and
sides of titled field usually much i'm
proves its appearance. The stuff that
might be raised where the horses turn
is usually poor stand and scraggly.
If the headland is in some good grass
good bunch of hay may be secured,
the strips are neater in appearance,
and usually this neatness will extend
to the roadside just over the fence
An interesting feature of the Spo-
kane apple show, which is to be held
the latter part Of November, will be a
display of apples on which there have
been photographed portraits and seem
ic views. Prizes will be offered for the
best specimens. The skin of the apple
is especially sensitive to light, and the
results obtained are said to be more
satisfactory than with Photographic
prints.
| All too often the fellow who wallows
around in the barnyard mire in wet
weather is the same fellow who has
straw stack or two rotting In his
fields. It's odd that such fellow
doesn't see the wisdom of scattering
the straw in the barn yard and feed
lot, getting rid of the mud and at the
same time manufacturing lot of val
liable fertilizer, which the average
farm is nightly in need of.
/ Those who are suggesting seriously
that our children and grandchildren
may lack for the food wherewith to
nourish their bodies have not taken
stock of the fact that at present but
one acre out of six is under tillage in
the United States and that this acre
is producing but half a normal crop
of wheat, one-third of normal crop
of corn, of cotton less than half
crop and potatoes but one-Lalf
The dry spell which has prevailed in
many of the north central states,
greatly reducing the efficiency Of the
pastures, is not bearing SO heavily
upon the fellows who have silos and
who are able to supplement- the short
pastures with a good ration of silage
secured last fall. Thousands of other
stock feeders and dairymen ought to
have this economical safeguard against
periods of drought. 1t would be SIM
ply a matter of foresight and good
! management
If, as is said, beet sugar manufac-
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