Mexico weekly ledger., 1916-02-10

". II. Parker y ASa AAtNN
and stoekman Of ADdrain county, Ne,
haa q load of real good quality heavy
hogs Of his own feeding, g head that
averaged $40 lbs. and they brought The
tor Of the market, ss25, and this price
was the same as the top Of the mar
kee Monday in Chicago. Mr.. Parker
frequently sends in hogs Of his own
raising and they usually sell at the
highest price Of the day. They were
purchased By Of the shippers and
sent East for slaughter-Live Stock
Reporter.
Missouri farmers probably lose
about two million bushels Of cats a
year from the decrease in yield be-
cause Of smut At the 1915 farm
price Of about t~hirty-seven cents a
|bushel, this amounts to a loss Of
$4,000 & year which is easily pre-
vented By means Of the formalin
treatment Of seed oats. The seedlike
spores Of smut pass the winter IN the
grain and when the untreated kernels
sprcut in the spring the spores be-
Gin to grow and develop q little plant
within the cat plant The smut plant
remains near the top Of the growing
cat plant and is ready to replace the
kernels with black dustlike spores
which give the heads the black ap-
pearanee which they present in the
fields and blow TO other oat plants to
infect the young grain from which
next years seed must be selected.
The best method that the Missouri
College Of Agriculture can recommend
for preventing this loss is the for
malin treatment Mix with forty or
fifty gallons Of water a pint Of for
malin (forty per cent formaldehyde) ,,
which can be secured at any drug
store. The oats may be sacked and
dipped in a barrel Of this solution un-
til they are thoroughly soaked, 81
piled on the barn floor and thoroughly
sprinkled with it. After treatment
they should be covered with blankets
or sacks for four or FIVE hours 80 that
the formalin will not evaporate too
! quickly, but they must be stirred fire.
~auently until thoroughly dry in order
that they may not heat. Some mex
pensive machines now on the market
for treating wheat and oats give very
good results. They pass the grain
: through a tank containing formalin
and dump it out on the floor to dry,
Although formalin has a very I'M
pleasant effect upon the eyes and is
very poisonous, it is not really dan
gerous to handle in such q weak sol
ution and any left over seed may
safely be fed to any farm animal at
? ter it has been thoroughly aired fol-
some time.
Their are few places where manure
shows better returns than in toI
dressing wheat during the fall anC
! winter. This is particularly true OF
thin land where wheat starts slowl.
in the spring and where clover an'
grass are apt to fail. The readil!
. available plant food from the man
: ure gives a quick thrifty growth
while the surface protection ofere'
aids materially in preventing freez
ing out. A top dressing Of this kim
almost insures a grass or Glove
: stand on land where these crops ar
inclined to fail. The manure shoull
:. be applied at the rate Of five to sever
loads to the acre with a manur
spreader. 1t may be scattered b,
hand but it is difficult to get it Of
evenly in such small quantities. |
is best to set the MANURE spreader il
! the lowest notch and make the sup
: ply Of manure cover as much grouni
> as possible.-M. r. Miller. Universit,
: Of Missouri, College of Agriculture.
More & Huddleston win hold a BIZ
stock sale at the DR.. Black place
: miles northwest Of Hatton, Februar.
18th. Their advertisement in tn
Weekly Ledger offers some splendi
= stock.
+ s. P. Emmons & Son will sell Short
L. 49, ~ an