The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1913-04-18


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This matter must not be reprinted with
out special permission.l
It may be just as we'll for us to rec.
oncile ourselves to lemonade with one
peeling next Fourth of July and IN ciI-
Gus day.
The hyacinths, narcissuses and tulips
will make the better growth and pro-
duce the larger blossoms If they are
not exposed to direct sunshine.
Domestic animals enjoy a clean, dry
place in which to sleep in just the same
way that human beings do, and they
should by all means have this accom-
mediation.
American agriculture will be on a
good deal better footing than it is to-
day when more farmers make a def
mite plan of increasing to a maximum
the output of homemade fertilizers.
It's worse than useless to talk con-
%servation of soil fertility to any land
lord or tenant who Is a party to a one
year renting plan. They usually work
on the plan Of skinning each other,
and eventually this means that both
Of them skin the land.
The row Of sweet peas may be put
In just as soon as the frost Is out of
the ground, being planted In a trench
about six inches deep and about an
inch apart in the row. The germina.
ton process will be FASTENED II the
seed is soaked overnight in tepid water.
The Belgian farmer grows chicory
salad, pays freight IN 1t across the
ocean and sells 1t in this country at 8
cents a pound after paying a rs per
cent ad valorem duty. In view Of this
showing 1t would seem as If there
ought to be good money for the Amer
lean gardener in growing the same
vegetable.
The benefits of the agricultural course
In the writer's home town school are
being multiplied greatly by the plan
Of giving the boys in grades below the
high school a couple Of lessons a week
In corn grading and corn testing. As
there are many tuition pupils from the
nearby country districts, the plan has
a definite and practical bearing. Both
town and country boys are interested
In the new work and take it up eagerly.
1t has always seemed to the writer
a mighty poor adaptation Of means to
ends, this having a big strawstack or
two encumbering the pillow land at
some distance from the feed lots and
yet not enough straw flooring the barn
yard to prevent 1t from becoming a
very wallow with the spring rains.
This is not only mighty poor manage
ment, but it makes it fearfully nasty
for both nan and beast when there is
really no need for it.
The farmer the writer read Of the
other day who received a check for
$9S.S0 for two weeks cream from
tw~enty-siX lows has some, exacting
work in the care of these dairy cows,
but he has the farming proposition
down as nearly right as it is possible
to get it. He is not only getting a big
revenue that m in in regular in
stallments during the year, but he is
following a type of agriculture that
reduces the pull on the energies of the
soil to a minimum.
When a small gasoline engine can
be bought for from $40 to $50 there Is
no reason under the sun why in the
home of a prosperous farmer there
should not be one at hand to do the
churning, run the washing machine,
the sewing machine, the cream sepa-
rator and to do any other similar work
that can be done by gasoline power.
Woman's work on the farm Is hard
enough, so that a c~Onsiderate husband
will do everything that he can along
the line suggested to tighten 1t.
The United States secured title to at
least 25,OOO.OOO acres Of very valuable
timberland when the Philippine Is
lands were decided to the government
by Spain. Hundreds Of varieties Of
trees grow on the islands, and of these
several are among the most valuable
woods known. Experts sent out by
our federal department of agriculture
report the Philippine forest. lands as
four times as valuable. acre for acre.
as any timber that Is now growing or
has grown in any other United States
territory.
A farmer friend. with whom the
writer was talking the other day, last
wear worked a ouarter section farm