The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-07
EpON OTHER PENS
THE MODERN FARMER,


| The modern farmer must plan his
campaign years ahead so that he may
carry on such a rotation of crops that
his soil fertility may be built up while
at the same time he is obtaining the
most profitable yields from his land
! He must know that corn. for instance,
exhausts the nitrogen from the soil,
while alfalfa consumes the mineral
| elements. He must plan accordingly
so that his farm shall not be used up.
Extreme care must be taken all this
time so that the rotation shall not put
the farm some year into crops that
cannot probably be produced He
ought to keep cost sheets so that he
can buy his corn more economically
than he can produce it.
In deciding on what live stock to
maintain he must have cost figures so
that he may know just the most pro-
fltable number OF sheep or hogs that
| he can raise. If he is keeping cows
| he ought to have data to enable him
| to decide whether it is better for him
| to sell the whole milk and deplete the
| fertility of the soil, or to dispose only
of the b. ter. feeding the skim milk
to hogs and building up soil fertility.
Happily agricultural information is
now so abundant and so systematized
in the United States Department of
Agriculture and in the state agricul-
turaI colleges and experiment stations
that every farmer may receive expert
advice on any problem of farm man
agement that is likely to arise.-Kan-
sas City Star.
THE PROSPECT IN ENGLAND.
To all iptentS and purposes the re-
cent election in England was dead
heat" and the race for supremacy will
probably have to be run over again.
No one issue that was discussed in the
canvass can be said to be settled. The
budget cannot again be passed without
the positive support of Irish Nation
alists who originally either refused to
vote for it or actually voted against it.
The abolition of the veto of the House
of Lords, on which Mr.. Asduith, at the
outset, unQualifedly staked the for
tunes of his party, cannot be carried
in the Commons without the support
Of the Nationalist, and the price of
their support may be a home rule bill
which would split the Liberal party. |
On the other hand the Unionist doc
trine of protection was left undecided |
by the election, since the Unionists are
in minority. The Nationalist are
protectionists in principle, but on a def |
mite issue the Unionist free traders
would nearly Offset them.
But the British mind Is not logical
and some modus vivendi will doubtless |
be devised to keep the affairs of the
nation going Until new election comes |
around, probably sometime in the late |
summere 1t is even barely possible |
that some form of comprimise may be |
reached as to the House of Lords and |
the contest be deferred.-New York |
Times.
NO HUNTING ALLOWED.
Rural delivery carriers who have
been doing little hunting on the
side will be required to fcut it out"
The Postoff1ce Department has issued .
an order that carriers must not stop
to shoot game while in pursuance of
their duties. In other words. Uncle
Sam insists that there shall be no loaf
ing on the job.
Carriers who have formed the habit |
of taking along the family shotgun
when they start over the route and |
taking an occasional pot shot at a |
squirrel or a rabbit will feel keenly
this curtailment of their privileges.
To those whose routes lie in regions
where any game is left this order of
the Postofice Department is likely to
be q rather serious matter. Carriers
who have been able heretofore to sup
plement the household larder with the |
trophies of their Workmanship will be
compelled to join the anti-meat boy
colt or to lay out a larger amount
than usual for the family food supply.
In the case Of carriers who have large
families the amount saved in meat bills
by bringing home a well-fiiled game
bag is considerable. Carriers salaries L
are not large and many of the farmers
are not educated up to giving tips
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