The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1911-09-29

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The housewife can thank her lucky
stars that the sugar trust did not get
its jackscrew under prices when she
was canning strawberries in June.
While the practice of getting manure
from most any place IL commendabler
it is a good idea TO see to it that fer
tilizer il not spread On the land which
contains the seed Of noxious, peren-
NAL weeds. such as quack grass
1t does not require great stretch Of
Imagination to foresee the time when
moving pictures will be used as regu'
lar adjunct in the teaching Of geogra-
ply, natural history and some other
branches in which individual pictures
are already great aid
The fellow who carried a package
along the street the other day about
the size of two bars of soap had just
bought " quarters worth of sugar III
the trust keeps on boosting the price oil
the commodity inside Of couple 81
weeks a quarters worth OF sugar Will
look like one bar of soap.
A London physician recently drank
a glass OF Thames river water said to
have contained 25O,OO0.O0O typhoid fe-
yer germs, but did not seem to suffer
any i'll effects from i'll The layman
will be pardoned for the inference that
immunity from the disease may have
been due to an overdose.
"A point decidedly In favor or the silo
Is its capacity for holding large
amounts of fodder in limited area
A silo having a size Of IA by 80 feet
will receive into its capacious NAV all
the way from fifteen to twenty acres
of corn, depending. of course. on the
size and stand iii this one point OF
economy in storage space the silo Is
worthy Of consideration
Some medical authorities still stout
ly maintain that bovine tuberculosis IL
not transferable to human beings, but
even more authorities contend that 1T
is and point to numerous instances
where the milk from tubercular cows
ing it. The individual has the choice
OF holding whichever view lie pleases,
but if he is sensible be will err on the
safe side
The several railroads running
through the western counties OF Kan
sas have offered to transport seed
wheat to the farmers there free of
charge in order to help them out Of
The straits into which they have been
forced as q result Of the protracted
drought As further aid bankers and
others are loanin= On easy terms mon
ey with which the seed wheat may be
purchased
Were the facts known doubtless
many d mysterious barn burning
might be traced to spontaneous COM
bustion of nOws of clover hay slowed
away without proper curing. In such
cases the fire is the result of a fermen-
tive chemical reaction similar to that
which takes place in a manure pile.
"a close watch should be kept on all
mows OF clover hay where there Is
a possibility that such a condition
might exist.
While it l. somehow contrary to the
idea that most Of Us are used to-that
cows should be in pasture during the
growing seasonal good many tests
that have been made show that they
will do just AZ well Oh better and will
keep healthy if kept housed during the
entire year, 30 far as their supply Of
feed i concerned. OF course this il
not the case where the quarters in
which the cows are kept are poorly
lighted and improperly ventilated.
The answer OF the average agricul-
tural paper to the frequent query,
ttWhat l. the best dairy breed?" Il
just about as evasive and elastic as
the answer to that other famous poser,
SLOW old is Ann?" However, most Of
the papers are correct in at least one
point, and that il that the Individual
will do best to pick out the breed he
likes best, a. after iii success depends
more upon the man and the care than
upon having this or that breed of cows