The sun., 1916-01-09


light yellow with red throat, plants
four to five feet high.
The new rose, September Morn. is
a sport from Madam r. Euler with
beautiful flesh pink flowers. It Is a
vigorous grower: foliage large and
heavy and free from mildew.
Yellow Prince is the best Of the pure
carnations. Flowers a medium size
and even color.
The State College Of Forestry rccom-
mends the sycamore tree for street
planting. II thrives under adverse
soil conditions and where the air Is
continually filled with smoke. The
Oriental sycamore IL particularly
recommended for street planting In
preference to the native sycamore.
The fiscal year ended June 80. 1915.
the United States Department Of As-
riculture printed $50. 900 copies Of the
various Formers Bulletins. and with
the year was s.9o5. 900 copies. Twenty
three thousand and eleven dollars
worth OF the publications Of the De-
partment were sold.
Farmers burning wood for heating
and cooking should carefully store the
ashes. not permitting them tn leach. as
they are valuable az "A fertilizer. They
contain potash. phOsphoric acid. mag
nes!a and lime and increase the avail
able nitrogen content or organic mat
ter in the soil.
Ordinary house ashes contain on an
average or per cent. OF potash and
2 per cent. Of phosphoric acid. The
potash and phosphoric acid in bushel
of ashes makes II worth from 20 to
20 cents and the alkali increases the
value 10 or 10 cents a bushel. II Is
the alkali that enables ashes TO rot
weeds. The potash will he lost il the
should be taken 10 store them in q
dry place.
Wood ashes make a good top dress
Ing for grass land and pasture, en-
couraging the growth OF clover and
better kind Of grass. which will then
crowd out inferior kinds and weeds.
Ashes from hard wood are richer in
phosphorus and potash than those
from soft woods.
A significant instance of what farm
methods can accomplish is afforded
by 500 acre farm IN Michigan. For
ten years this farm failed to pay in
terest on the capital invested one
year after the owners had been in
duced to make radical changes the
farm paid all expenses OF operation
and returned 8 per cent on an in
vestment OF $4,000. Tho changes
which accomplished this revolution
were as follows:
( Four-hCrse machines were substi-
tute'i Tor tWo-horse. The unproductlve
COWS IN the dairy shed were wected
out and sold and the money received
for them Invested In better stock. A
silo was built The foreman was al
lowed. In addition 10 his salary, 10 per
cent. of the net income from the farm
| DIR. w II. Jordan. director OF the
| New York Agricultural Experiment
station. In an address before hor,i-
culturists at Rochester. y. T.. sub
stantiated the statements we have
made regarding the condition Of the
farmer:
There has been d disposition shown
hy the agricultural press to gauge our
agricultural prosperity by the magni-
tude or our production OF wheat. corn
anu cattle and other staples. There Is
"a sense In which the large production
or food supplies means national pros
perity in it's relation to our export
trade and To the cost of living. But
large production does not necessarily
predicate agricultural prosperity.
"in considering the question OF in
creased agricultural production We
must apply the same principle that
noids with any manufacturing plant
tor in fundamental sense the farmer
~ a manufacturer. We may safely
assert that Increased a0ricuHuraI pro-
auction tcfH not become permanent
unless IL is accom- plshed at profit
to the producer.
one OF the methods proposed
whereby to increase our food supply.
and this has been urged by great cap
italists as national necessity. is to
bring into use lands that are now more
or less abandoned for active agrlcul-
ture. These lands az rule are those
that are located In the less desirable
portions Of the State. where social and
economic conditions are less favorable
than in other sections. /, is fair to
raise the question whether the profits
now realized in agriculture justify an
attempt to wiring profit from the less
promising opportunities
rs there at present such an excess
OF demand Nver supply as to promise
a margin of profits from lands into
which considerable capital must be in
vested before they are brought into
a state OF productiveness? 1t is proper
to ask. II large agricultural produc-
tion is demanded, whether the promis-
Ing Held Is not the more fertile regions
Of the State where much OF the very
best land We have Is not producing
anywhere near the average crops that
other sections Of the same land are
producing. Is IL a wise manufacturer
who in order to enlarge his business
attempts to do so by entering into his
more difficult and less promising OBJ
portunities? Is not the solution OF o,i,
problem the better use OF our best land
rather than the extension of area?
What portion Of the land IL nov
utilized to tho fullest advantage,
Might II not be wise to even restric,
the area which We are now using
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