The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-08-04
The Farm and the Farmer
BY William r. Sanborn

out the Charcoal. Ashes are filthiar
IMAM dust as a wallow If allowed TO
get wet ashes will form a I've, and
may cause sore feet and legs. Pro-
pared charcoal is cheap, is easily oh
famed and the price so little that il
is not even worth while to sift our
wood ashes"
Mrs. Forest Neal, an Indiana farm
woman, tells the Farmers Guide thar
she owns two pullets that were
Matched on January II and that both
OF them began laying on May "a and
have been laying ever since. She does
not tell the variety of chickens refer.
red to.
Fruit to be Plentiful
Secretary Cruikshank of the Ohio
horticultural society is our authority
for the statement that while the ap-
pie crop OF that state is to fall below
the average of the last five years. it
| VIII be a larger crop than was grown
IN 1921. This, he adds, applies to all
the apple-growing states east of the
ROCKIES. A little more than a third
OF the commercial crop will be grown
n the western states this year" Prof
Crulkshank continues as follows:
| The total apple crop is estimated
at 100 million bushels. Last years
crop was 9S million bushels, and the
| average crop of the five years pre-
cedlng was 179 million bushels.
! Peaches, taking the country as n
whole, will probably make a hummer
crop, and pears a normal crop of
about Is million bushels. Except
oranges. lemons, and grapefruit ali
kinds of fruit appear to be better than
tney were last year, as to total crop.
THE Pacific Coast States expect n
commercial apple crop of about a mill
ION less barrels than they had last
year. New England will have 100000
more barrels than last year, and New
York will have 100000 barrels. dou-
Bile its last years yield.
i Wayne County Has Rich Soil
J. b. Newman, a Pulaski county
farmer, complimented Wayne county
IN his talk to farmers on Wednesday
night by stating that he had seldom
seen better farming country than
this. Mr.. Newman's talk was devoted
TO telling farmers how to mix their
own fertilizers. He advised the buy
ing of the various ingredients desired.
and stated that the mixing can be
done here at home as well as any
where. The speaker did not give the
exact analysis he recommended for
/, Wayne county, but did say that a COM
plete fertilizer should ordinarily be
used here and that of the highest pos
) sible analysis
Sweet Glover a Main Crop
; Sweet clover has been established
as a real crop in Atchison County,
Mo. It now ranks next to corn in
/ acreage. Last year about five thous-
and acres were grown in the county
and this year county agent Slaughter
has knowledge of enough seed being
sold from three different towns In the
county TO seed a total of twenty-five
thousand acres This crop has gained
a foothold apparently because of its
: value as forage and fertilizer and also
because it fits very well into a short
. rotation. 1t is being used for grazing
mainly and in connection with the
: feeding of cattle, says the report from
the Missouri agricultural college,
which says:
"On the Durham Rankin farm near
Tarkio one-quarter section has been
in sweet clover pasture for two years
Y
2 hundred steers on this quarter Sec
: ton their total feed being corn and
sweet clover pasture From $50 to 500
! head of hogs have also been fed on
U this field. This great number of ami
mails did not result in a shortage of
pasture in fact the sweet clover stood
+ throughout the season from two to
l eight inches high and could have sup.
D ported much larger number of live
stock. Mr.. Rankin reports that the
amount of corn eaten by the steers
was considerably less for each pound
of grain as compared to grains made
with a full feed of corn on blue grass
D pasture It is Mr. Rankin's plan 10
pillow this pasture this fall and plan.
2 in corn next year. The soil will
! have then not only the nitrogen that
3 has been added but the additional
S fertility caused by having every
!, pound of feed produced on the field
G for two years returned directly to the
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