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FARM LEVEL IS ESSENTIAL
IT HAPPENED SUDDENLY.
Most Successful Work Cannot Be
Done Without Aid of Instru
mentBrings Returns.
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TIME FOR HARVESTING GRAIN
If Left Uneut Until Dead Ripe Many
Varletlea Loaea Both In Quality
and Quantity.
(By ROBERT H. CAHOON.)
' Among; the numerous mistakes that
lead to enormous wastes cn the farm,
few are more worthy of attention
than that of letting train, oats, wheat,
rye, corn, etc. ,get too ripo before bar-
Testing.
. No one can ride about the country
In summer without being struck and
amazed at the prevalence of this er
ror.
You will notice field after field that
period of dead ripeness, and that ought
to have been harvested several days
before.
The loss arising from this source is
more appreciable and more easily es
timated, perhaps in wheat, of which
we cultivate comparatively little, than
It Is In other grains, like oats and rye,
but the same general principle applies
toalL
If wheat Is cut two weeks or so be
fore it fully ripens, it contains more
gluten and starch and a bushel will
weigh more, and It will make a larger
quantity and a better quality of flour,
with a less quantity of bran or mid
dlings, than if it were allowed to ripen.
This Is by no means a matter of
theory. It is the result of careful ob
servation. The straw will begin to change color
slightly two or three weeks before the
grain comes to complete maturity.
In the best and most favorable sea
sons It will begin to ripen and change
color at the bottom. In some less fa
vorable seasons the upper Joints turn
first
In the great wheat-growing sections
of the far EaBt, where wheat-growing
1s carried on to a much greater extent
than It is here, they have studied this
-point more carefully than we have.
The best farmers begin to cut while
portion of the stalk is green, as soon
as the kernel has passed from the
milky" to the "doughy' state.
The stalk has then begun to change
color, sometimes from the bottom,
-sometimes for three or four inches be
low the head. '
A most careful and accurate experi
ment was made to ascertain the dif
ference! taking wheat, first, when It
was green; second, a week after, when
1t was changing color; and third, when
luHy ripe. 5r
The result was in the first case 19"4
"bushels an acre; in the second, 23K;
In the third, 23; and the -same dif
ference was found in the straw.
The total value an acre was: in that
cut green, $62.30; in that cut one week
after, when the stalk was yellow be
low the ear, $61.61; in that cut one
week after, when fully ripe, $56.13.
The first two productions had more
fine flour and less bran than that cut
last, showing that gluten is converted
Into starch in standing to get fully
Tipe.
When either end of the stalk turns
yellow, the sap ceases to flow, and the
covering or shell of the kernel thick
ns and becomes hard, and of course
gives a larger proportion of bran and
less fine flour.
Beside, in early cutting there is less
"loss from shelling out in handling, and
from high winds, which involves a
-very heavy loss in ripened grain.
Now what Is true of wheat is, in the
main, also true of other small grains
oats and rye. If we raise them for
seed to sow again, they ought to be
allowed to ripen fully, but if for grind
ing or for feed for animals, they
should be cut early, if they would bi
in their best and most nutritive condl
tlon.
HANDY DEVICE FOR GRANARY
Contrivance for Holding Bags 8o Thai
They May Be Filled Quickly Is
Cheaply Constructed. .
There are various kinds of devices
to be made quickly for filling bag!
when one has to do it alone, but 1
think it is wise to have a contrivance:
. In your granary all of the time, write
. A Useful Bag Filler. .
Ha!ph Hertey la Farm and Home. 1
tad a blacksmith make me one that
vorl3ery welL ' - . -I
cut the bottom oat of a large tin
raa ni bad this mounted on an iron
rod as Ehown In the drawing. Email
5 o. '- 3 are placed ' around this. The
X is hung on tlieee hocks and the
r !a ishovek-d in at the top.
Uslnj V.'aste Land.
"'stern I Taers are p!ast!t
I in:.' "7 trees tJ t a vi
Ili!i!l:liil'"t
It is usually found difficult to es
tablish a grade, plan a ditch, or lay
out a drain with the eye only to sug
gest or some cheap device to assist,
says a writer in Orange Judd Farmer.
I have tried it several times, and have
never been satisfied, nor have I been
able to do the most successful work
without the aid of a real leveling in
strument If all of us were engineers
Effective Farm Level. '
and owned costly levels, these simple
matters would be easy. Fortunately,
there are on the market simple, in
expensive levels made purposely for
the farmer; $16 will buy one, and so
Invested will bring in great returns.
The simple level, illustrated here,
will meet the requirements for all
kinds . of drainage, underdralnage,
open ditches or drains, all kinds of ir
rigating work, canals and laterals,
terracing land, road building, house
foundation work, grading of all kinds,
setting out orchards, running fences,
getting angles and every sort of farm
work requiring a level. Farmers, as a
rule, have most of the common tools
and Implements for doing farm work,
the level excepted. Now that this Is
available to up-to-date farms of the
substantial farmers, this recent addi
tion to the farm equipment nay prove
most helpful In performing many of
these tasks that have heretofore been
done by guess and, therefore, unsat
isfactory.
LOG-FLOAT FOR LEVELING
Can Be Made at Home at Little Ex
pense and When Used Leaves
Ground In Fine Shays.
We use plank drags or floats out
here, but there Is a better way than
cutting logs, spend your time to draw
them to mill, pay the aaw bill, and
draw the lumber back home to make
a plank drag, says a writer in Rural
New Yorker. Any man who can swing
an ax and twist an auger can make
what you call a float or clod crush
n:ioo
Ti5
Home-Made Log-Float
er. It consists of three logs eight
feet long, the first one being four
inches in diameter, the second five
Inches, the third six inches, with two
inch holes through each log about a
foot or so from each, end. Then put
a chain through each hole, tie a knot
in the chain between each log. This
keeps them from all drawing together.
Have your chain long enough so that
it is two or three feet longer than the
logs require. This is left in a loop
In front to bitch your team on; then
It is ready for use. The logs thus
fastened do not draw rigid, but what
the first log does not do the second
one helps, and after the third one
passes over it leaves the ground In a
fine shape. I know one farmer who
never puts a harrow on his oat ground,
but uses one of these log floats.
OTHSS
Stingy manuring doos not pay.
The sharp corn plow does the best
work. - .,
Careful cultivation will exterminate
the weeds.
Rake up and burn all rubbish. . Lot
no weeds go to seed. : ,
A good corn knife makes the work
of cutting corn easier.
It's a safe guess that seed corn will
be saved right this year.
When Irish potatoes are fully ma
tured, dig them on a dry day.
Spray the asparagus tops with
Bordeaux mixture, as a preventive of
rust . .
Next to the mowing machine In im
portance In alfalfa harvest Is the side
delivery rake.
Beets In the garden are all right
where they are until the ground be-
gine to treete In the fall.
The market garden furnishes a large
amount of waste products which may
be u Ullxed for poultry food. .
The only way to decrease the
amourt of smut In corn is to pluck off
the smut-balls and burn them.
. Corn fields are unusually clean this
year and those that were best culti
vated sutTer least from lack cf rain.
Harvest the onion crop as soon as
r-rt cf tv9 tcjs have begun to tun?
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FOREST fires, the' worst enemies
to conservation that exist In
the nation, have again swept
their way through millions of
feet or vaiuanie umoer
sacrificed the lives of those who went
nut to fight them and vrotect their
homes and towns from destruction.
The recurrence of these great fires
has been so regular as to prepare the
country for like disasters almost
every year. In 1908 they reached
the forests of northern Minnesota,
Wisconsin and Michigan, and south
ern Ontario, wiping out entire towns
and killing many settlers. Within a
few years arreat conflagrations have
run through the Adlrondacks and the
forests of the south and southwest.
la there no wav to stOD this waste
of property, or to protect settlers
and small towns in the midst of the
woods? . The question is asked on
Averv hand: is hurled at the forest
service in Washington, and la-the
anblect of sreneral comment in sec
tions where true forest conditions
cannot be appreciated.
The forest service experts declare
that there are ways to prevent these
annual fires: but these methods can
not be employed with any certainty
of success with the existing lorces
of wardens and. rangers, or the
amount of money now provided by
the federal and state governments for
forest supervision.
Three thlnzs must be accomplished,
declare the foresters: The causes of
fire must be eliminated; the condi
tions in the woods which help its
spread must be done away with, and
the people who use and frequent the
forests must be educated or forced to
give up careless practises in the
handling of fire.
Protection the Only Way.
"The first measure necessary for
the successful practise of forestry is
protection from forest fires, says
Henry S. Graves, chief forester or tne
United States.
To this end the forest service has
bent every activity of recent years;
t the fires that have wiped out
timber worth hundreds of thousands
of dollars in the far northwestern
states recently, hardly paused in their
course to look at the puny protec
tive efforts of the forest rangers and
fire wardens. To stamp out fire, or
in nrevent It. a force four times as
largo as that now evlstlng Is imme
diately necessary. This is admitted
v Chief Forester Graves. In addi
tion, there is needed money enough
to permit the thorough equipment or
the forests with well-built roads and
trails, over which - the firemen can
nulcklv reach a blaze; apparatus
near at hand to fight the fires; patrol
men along all railroads to put out
sparks; a complete telephone system
so that fighters may be flurried to
the acene of any fire, and stations
t verv str&teKic point In the woods.
inhabited by rangers and fire wardens
equipped for Immediate duty.
Since 1906 the forest service has
built 4,850 miles of telephone line
through the woods. Tet In many
actions of the tie forests of the
northwest one watchman has to care
for more than 100,000 acres of tim
ber and often without the aid of tele
phone communication. In Germany
there is a fire warden for practically
every 1,000 acres or rorest
If thorough communication can te
established and fire wardens sta
tioned at frequent intervals, aid may
ultimately be close enough to the
incipient fires to prevent the outbreak
of conflagrations such as have re
cently devastated the northwestern
fata- Similar conditions must at
the same time be developed in the
private forest areas, to insure safety
from forest fires.
Protection is the slocan of the for
est experts today. They declare it Is
not surprising that great fires co
rn r when more than 75 per cent of
the private timber lands of the conn
try have no protection whatever;
less than one-fourth enough men and
eaulmnent la nrovlded for the nation
al forests, and the user of tbe for
ests are only partly educated to the
elimination of fire causes.
The Fire Watcher Work. .
"The risk from fires can never be
entirely eliminated," say Chief For
ester Graves, "for In the forest there
is always Inflammable material which
is very . easily ignited. They may,
fcnweTtr: be- largely nrevented. and
under efficient organization tholr dam
age may be kept down to a very
small arsount" .-" .
It Is a rlcturt UE!nos3. trnt 1
cf f re vti.Vr.T. as r-nciPd l" F"
Two or three men in one of the
ranger's cabins which have become
such an important adjunct of forest
guardianship, are near the summit of
some peak, from which a view can be
had over manytkalles of woodland.
In the early part of the year, be
fore the rains cease and the ground
dries out, these rangers and wardens
are employed at ordinary duties
through the forest, repairing trails,
establishing telephone lines, watching
for careless campers and lumbermen,
cleaning up dangerous underbrush
and the like. As the dry season ad
vances and the conditions develop
that are especially favorable to for
est fires, these men become the
"lookouts" of the forest protection
force. Day and night they scan the
distant horizon with strong glasses,
for traces of smoke or reflected
flames. In the woods, from such an
eminence, a fire may be seen for
miles, and the first traces of it may
be detected by these lookouts long
before it would be observed from a
ranger's cabin much closer to the
scene.
Men and Money Needed.
It is to cope with such conditions
that the forest service is asking for
more men and better organization of
the forests. At present the men on
the hilltop stations use methods as
primitive, as those of the Indians to
flash the news of a forest fire to dis
tant stations where help can be se
cured. Often there is no telephone
at the mountain lookout station; or
no telephone connection to other
points where rangers and fire ward
ens are supposed to be on duty.
moke signals such as the Indians
used, made with a blanket over a
smoldering fire, or pillars of smoke
or flame from a number of fires, con
stitute tbe methods of communica
tion used by many of the forest ranger
stations, anil with which all of the
men in the woods are expected to be
familiar. .
The heliograph, flashing the light
of. the sun; flag signals such as are
used in the army, and other systems
of signaling, also are used. In some
places where a small settlement ex
ists near tbe fire lookout, a unique
means of summoning aid Is used. A
small windmill Is erected at the look
out station, equipped with a revolt
ing ball in which mirrors are set at
evfyr angle. The watchman who .dis
covers traces of a distant fire, sets
his windmill in motion if the day Is
bright, and departs at once for the
scene of tbe fire, secure in the knowl
edge that the signal will call to his
aid every man who sees the flashing
mirrors'.
To get rid of the Are causes is the
first lesson taught the forest guard
ians, and the end toward which the
forest service is constantly working.
"The origins of flres in the woods are
roughly classified as follows:
Sparks from locomotives, sparks
from sawmills and donkey engines
nsed in forest operations, camp flres
not properly safeguarded or extin
guished, the burning of brush to clear
land, the burning .of grass to im
prove pasturage, carelessness ol
smokers and ' hunters, incendiarism
and lightning. . -
From the last there can be little
protection except equipment to fight
the flames as soon as they make
their appearance. From every other
cause, however, the- standing forests
of America can be fairly well pro
tected with- proper equipment and
funds.
Ways of Fighting Blazes.
The firemen of the woods learn
that the night is the', best time for
their fight The damp air retards the
progress of tbe blaze. A fire that will
sweep ten or twelve miles in the day
time win eat Its way slowly at night
when there Is little breeze and ths
air i heavy. Then the fire fighters
attack It with all the energy they
possess, and often bring It within con
trol. The forest fire win burn up bin with
such rapidity that no strategy of ths
fire fighters can cope with it Sweep
ing from the bottom of a canyon, oi
the foot of a MIL it-rushes up ths
slope like a hot blaze up a chimney,
carrying the fire to the top in an In
credibly short time.. Once at the sum
mit of the hill, tbe fire burns mors
slowly descending the other side, and
the fire fighters have an opportunity
to dig trenches, cut fire lines and pre
pare other defenses to bead it off and
stop It . -
' Jre source of tbe crcr.tpjt daTi"oi
fore-:8 ii tte rrcf're or Cry to?4
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KEEPING CHEESE HARD TASK
It Should Be Kept Under a Glass or
- China Top All the Year
Around.
Welsh rarebits, cheese souffles and
other cheese dishes are convenient for
summer, if cheese can be kept in con
dition. This is so difficult that dealers re
fuse to sell certain cheeses daring hot
weather, while others spoil so quickly
as to be unsafe to buy.
Where one lives within convenient
distance of a store buy only enough
cheese for immediate use, any loss is
thus up to the dealer.
If living in the country, it is neces
sary to keen cheese on hand: thouch
large supplies should not be laid in.
cream and soft cheese in Jars or tin
foil should be kept in the refrigerator
until Just before uslnc. As the odor of
the cheese quickly taints other foods
n snouid be kept in a tightly covered
(lass or china bowl or lar. A larsre
preserving Jar with screw lid will hold
several smaller Jars of cheese.
Do not eat cheese in summer if
there is the leaat sreen mould on it
Impress this upon maids, as some of
tnem scrape it from the edges and
serve the rest of the cheese in balls
or squares.
Cheeses like Sweltxer, American or
certain of the English and Swiss
cheeses, should be kept under a glass
or china top all the year round if
brought in quantities. In warm
weather it is well to wrap the cheese
first in a clean piece of linen wrung
out of vinegar.
Care of Broome.
With the increased cost of brooms,
the thrifty housewife wishes to pre
serve their usefulness as long as pos
sible. Soak a new broom for several
minutes in hot suds; this not only
toughens but tightens the broom
whlsps. Then hang it up to dry. A
broom, when not in use, should always
be hung up. Cut a groove around the
handle and tie a cord around It, leav
ing a loop for hanging, or use one of
the patejit fasteners which screw to
a door. These may be bought for a
few cents. The soaking process should
be repeated every fortnight
Another housewife washes her
boroms in cold soap water, rinses
thoroughly in cold water, snaps off all
moisture possible and pressing the
corns into shape places where they
will dry slowly. All matting will also
last longer when occasionally wiped
up with salt and water.
Little -Date Pudding.
One pound stoned dates, one-half
pound suet one cup flour, one-half cup
sugar, one scant teaspoon Bait one tea
spoon cinnamon, one teaspoon ginger,
one cup soft bread crumbs, one cup
milk, two eggs well beaten.
Put the suet and dates through the
food chopper together. Sift in the
flour, sugar, salt and spices, add the
crumbs and mix all together thor
oughly. Add the milk to the beaten
eggs and mix again. Steam two hours
in buttered individual molds. A pud
ding steamed in individual molds la
easy to serve and attractive looking,
although a suet pudding is more moist
and really better when cooked In a
larger mold, where there is plenty of
room for expansion.
Chopped Piccalilli.
Chop one peck of green tomatoes
fine. Sprinkle with one cup of table
salt and let stand over night Drain,
add one quart of finely chopped green
peppers, first removing the seeds; one
quart of finely chopped onions and
three cups of brown sugar. -Put Into
a .small cheesecloth bag one table
spoon of whole cloves and three table
spoons of broken cinnamon, one table
spoon of white allspice and lour ta
blespoons of white mustard seed.
Drop the spices into sufficient vinegar
to cover the pickle and simmer several
minutes, add the vegetables and cook
slowly until tender. Remove the spies
bag from the pickle before sealing to
Jars. Keep in a cool, dark place.
Sweet Apple Pickle.
Twelve pounds of sweet apples,
pared and quartered, four pounds of
sugar, one ounce of cinnamon bark,
one-half ounce of cloves, one
pint of vinegar. Put spices in
a cloth, tie up. then boll vinegar,
sugar and spices well; add ap
ples and boll 20 minutes. Put ap
ples in a Jar, boll .syrup until thick
and pour'over them. Simply delicious.
Pears are also good prepared this
way. Use winter rweet applea, also
winter pears.
Feather Biscuits.
One pint of flour, two tablespoon
fuls of baking powder, a pinch of salt
one tablespoonful of lard, one table
spoonful of butter and a cup of sweet
milk. Mix flour, salt and baking pow
der, rub in the lard and butter and
molBten with the milk. Cut about
half-Inch thick and. bake in a quick
oven twenty minutes. They never falL
Cheese Pudding,
nutter liberally the bottom and sides
ri an earthenware ruddier bowl and
place alternate layers of thinly sliced
stale bread ana ana iresn caeesa.
Rflnn with salt and rea pepper ana
add at the last a cup of milk and two
beaten eggs. Bake for 50 minutes ta
afeotoven.
Fried Tematlea. -IHJce
tcrstots about cne-c."",rter
1-cb. -a.! ':, r.'l la fr.:r, trr-! ' with
f 't r-l I1-: r i 1 f:y v '.'.1 ircva
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Mrs. Fondman Fell into a pond!
Ohl oh! and with your best pants onl
Bertie Well, I didn't have time t
take 'em off!
NO HEALTHY SKIN LEFT
"My little son, a boy of five, brok
out with an Itching rash. Three doc
tors prescribed for him, but he kept
getting worse until we could not dresa
bim any more. They finally advised
me to try a certain medical college,
but lt treatment did no good. At
the time I was Induced to try Cutt
cura ho was so bad that I had to cut
his hair off and put the Cutlcura Oint
ment on him on bandages, a It waa
Impossible to touch him with the bare
hand. There was not one square Inch
of skin on Ma whole body that waa
not affected. He was one mass of
sores. The bandages used to stick to
Ms skin and In removing them it nsed
to take the skin off with them, and
tbe screams from the poor child were
heartbreaking. I began to think that
he would never get well, but after the
second application of Cutlcura Oint
ment I began to see signs of Improve
ment and with the third and fourth
applications the sores commenced to
dry up. His skin peeled off twenty
times, but it finally yielded to the
treatment Now I can say that he la
entirely cured, and a 'stronger and
healthier boy you never saw than be
la to-dav. twelve Yean or more since
the cure was effected. Robert Wattam.
1148 Forty-eighth St, Chicago, Hi.
Oct 9. 1909
Made 8ure of Death.
Japan, recently committed suicide by
Jumping into the crater of Asama-.
yama. The tragedy was not discovered
until three days afterward, when some
documents left by the suicide near
the crater were picked up.
SPOHN'S DISTEMPER CURE will
cure any poesible case of -DISTEMPER,
PINK EXE, and the like among horses
of all ages, and prevents all others in the
same stable from having the disease. Also
cures chicken- cholera, and dog distemper.
Any good druggist can supply you, or send
to mfrs. 00 cents and f 1.00 a bottle. Agents
wanted. Free book. Spohn Medical Co
8 pec Contagious Diseases, Qoshen, Ind.
Increase of Commerce.
The commerce of the port' of New
Tork has had a growth of 62 per cent
In the last ten years.
If you wish beautiful, clear, white clothes
um Red Crow Ball Blue. Large 2 oa
package, 0 cents.
Woman's sphere now seems to be the
whole earth.
Ijtrwir bingis Binder so cigar equaje
in quality most lOo cicars.
Most politicians claim the silent
vote so long as it keeps silent
A short course of
Bitters will quickly correct,
tone and sweeten any case
of "bad stomach." This
is a proven fact Try a
bottle and see for yourself.
It is for . Indigestion,
Dyspepsia and Malaria.
Indirpensobla to every ci&a
KNOWN THS
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