The Wahpeton times. [volume], December 11, 1913, Image 2

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The farmer, especially the corn
belt farmer, often has lots of spare
.time on his hands during the winter
months. He may take a trip to Chi
sago and attend the International
CONCRETING IN WINTER
Stock Show, after which he sort
of settles down for the winter. This
-is a good time to study up on ad
vanced methods of farming, but it
is no reason why he should not fol
low the example of the big contrac
tors, in Chicago and New York, and
construct a few useful articles of con
crete.
According to the technical maga
zines these are the essential points
to be considered when concreting in
winter. First, the bank run gravel
must be separated into two piles, by
lie use of a sand Screen preferably
these piles should be placed after
Seating and screening indoors. The
gravel will very likely be frozen with
many hard lumps. It must first be
l:catd and the frost taken out of the
material. This is accomplished as
shown in the picture, by using part
of
an old boiler—a piece of old iron
Reach through the front two
strings pulling forward the two rear
strings, place a second ear of corn
ia the saw-buck thus formed.
The rear strings are now the front
strings. Reach between them and
frail the back strings through to the
front, placing a third ear, drawing
the string tight with each ear.
Place the tip of the first ear to the
fight, the second ear to the left, the
third ear to the right, and so on.
iFill your string and leave hanging
lo save handling.
Fourteen good ears will be seed
«arn enough for one acre, but hang
op plenty, as you may need it an
other year. Always test each ear in
a wet cloth (rag doll test), or wet
sawdust box before planting.
SETTLERS FEEL SAPE.
national Crop Improvement Servlce.1
Fifteen counties of west central
Minnesota have their County Farm
Bureaus, and fifteen County Agents
work shoulder to shoulder. Several
hundred
Farmers Can Use Spare Time in Cold Weather to Good Ad*
vantage by Doing Concrete Work Then. Must Be Done
Properly, However, to Avoid Damage by Freezing-.
to the engineering maga­
zines. a number of big buildings were
boilt, during the winter of 1912, of
reinforced concrete. Of course, as
•every farmer knows, concrete is dam
aged by freezing. On the other hand
if the contractor can safely and profit
ably build during the winter months
Ae would save time and money for
.himself and for the capitalists who
"fre erecting large office buildings,
families of farmers moved
into these counties during the past
few months, as the result of their
work, from Iowa and Nebraska.
GOOD &OAD* PAY.
By Wo. G. Edens, President of 111.
Good Roads Assn.
{Kational Crop Improvement Service.)
We favor federal aid in the con
struction and maintenance of post
roads and national highways, and we
request representatives in Congress
to work towards this end.
We recommend the designation by
the Governor, or by the Legislature,
of an annual Good Roads Day, on
which the attention of the whole peo
ple, especially teachers and pupils in
Abe public and normal schools and the
state university, will be directed
loward the importance of improved
highways.
Improved roads mean better
-schools and larger attendance better
health and quicker medical attention
better farms and more cultivated
land better crops and cheaper trans
portation better economic condi
tions and more producers better so
cial conditions and less isolation bet
ttcr church attendance and better citi
aeas better postal service and closer
friends better business and more
oawmeri better industries and more
employment abetter State and a bet-
pips, etc., piling the gravel over
the ts$v in tne railway construction
work, illustrated, pipes were run
through the fire so that the cold
water which flowed from the faucet
or water plug through one pipe (an
ordinary kettle would accomplish the
same purpose) was heated, and forced
by pressure into the barrel. The
warm water in the barrel was used
to mix the cement, sand and gravel.
The sand and gravel were first heated
on top of a piece .of old iron pipe
or boiler a wood fire being built in it.
Then the sand and gravel were
screened through a quarter inch
screen. Everything up to a quarter
of an inch in size being called sand
and the material from one-fourth
inch up to
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JfANGIN6n$EED CORN "TOO MUCH HAY!'
Bow One IIUKCU DO the Work of
Two in Stringing Up Seed Eats
and Save Handling Besides.
.(National Crop Improvement Service.]
Take 15 feet of binding twine, tie
tihe ends, making one continuous
String. Hold the knot in the left
land and the center of the string in
the right hand. Hang the string on
a .nail, or throw- 'over a beam, high
enough so that the bottom ends of
ihe loops clear the floor. Place an
ear of corn in the double stirrup thus
formed (parallel with the wall) at
the bottom of the string. Keep
strings 6 inches apart on the ears.
inches being used for
gravel. Then a 1:2:3 mix was used, one
cubic foot or one sack of Portland
cement, two cubic feet of sand and
three cubic feet of gravel. The work
was protected for four or five days
and by that time the concrete had
set sufficiently so it would not be
damaged by freezing. In the case
of fence posts, for example, this warm
sand and gravel could be brought
inside the barn and mixed there with
the hot water. In ordinary weather
the temperature in the bam would
be above freezing point and after five
days or a. week the fence posts could
be taken outside, laid on the ground
and by spring time they
v.ould
be
well cured. Of course they .would
have to be put where cattle could
not tramp on them.
M. L. Mosher, Agent, Clinton Co,
Iowa, Tells of Success of a Clin
ton Co. Parmer with Alfalfa.
[National Crop Improvement Service.]
The alfalfa which was sown on
ground, which was put into proper
condition has come on nicely, con
sidering the very, dry season which
we have had.
The alfalfa which was sown on the
field which had been neglected
throughout the summer is only up a
little ways and stands very little show
of living through the winter.
Mr. Frank McDen.iott living 3
miles northwest of Clinton seeded
5 acres of alfalfa in August, 1912.
The ground was summer fallowed
throughout the season, the weeds be
ing kept down and a good mulch re
tained. Four or five tons of finely
ground limestone per acre were
distributed and worked into the
surface. At seeding time early
in August the ground was thoroughly
inoculated with dirt from a sweet
clover patch. After the ground
I was frozen in the winter, the
field was covered with a rather thick
dressing of straw manure. In the
spring the straw was raked up and
hauled off so that it would not be
raked up with the first crop of hay
This five acre field produced 22 tons
of hay from (he first two cuttings dur
ing the season of 1913. The third crop
which would have made at least one
ton per acre was left on the ground.
When asked why he did not cut it*
Mr. McDermott, said "That he had so
much hay now that he didn't care to
bother with it, and thought that he
would leave the entire crop on the
ground for winter protection."
WORK
The
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JF|MUJfMITER
Will
County Farm Bureau Hat
a Fine Program Arranged.
(National Crop Improvement Service.]
County Agent Grannis has organ
ized all of Will County. (111.) town
ships, having now twenty-three clubs.
Five of them have given Husking
Bees which will be continued by the
other ones unless the cold weather
freezes them out, then some of them
may li®ve them in the town or grange
This campaign will be followed by
a two day's agricultural school in
each Township which were primarily
designed for young men, but the in
dications are that the whole member
ship will turn out en masse, men.
women and children, young and old,
and the ladies of each club will serve
dinner. The program will include
seed selection, crop rotation, dairying,
and as many other subjects as can
profitably be introduced.
It will take about three months to
get around once and then it will be
time to systematically test all seeds of
the public schools by the assistance
of all the township clubs.
Crop Improvement
ttOOD ROADS TO TOWN the
Work of Every Township Club.
HOME VISITORS
TO HELP WOMEN
A Pin or
Comfy Agert's Wirt,
Ik GOOD MUSIC MASTER ALSO
Plans of Crop Improvement Commit
tee Adopted as a Whole—A For
ester and Other Experts to Pol
low.
By W. P. Kirkwood.
[National Crop Improvement Jprvice.]
A count agent.
A home visitor.
A music master.
These are three needs for coun
try life improvement, which it is the
aim of the West Central Minnesota
Development association sooner or
lateir to secure for every one of the
seventeen counties in its territory.
Already fifteen of the seventeen
counties in the association have
county agents, and the other two
have the money all ready to put such
agents in the field as soon as the
right men can be found to fill the po
sitions.
Aid for the Agent
There is no doubt as-to the value
of the county agent. He has dem
onstrated his worth to the farmer in
a thousand ways. The thing they
have in mind now is to increase the
range of his influence by multiply
ing farmers' clubs through which he
may effect much of the work he now
has to do in person. The county
agent must become more and more a
directing executive, getting at the
farmers in their clubs and leaving
them to do the field work.
Advisers for Farm Homes.
The county agent's work is with
the farmer and in the fields rather
than in the farm home. He is not
expected to be informed in domes
tic science—sewing, cooking) and
household economics. But in these
things there is need of advice in the
farm home.
The idea is not that of having a
visiting nurse, but of having a woman,
trained as to the multifold duties and
problems of' the tarm home, -who can
do for the women of the ^arms tocftk
similar to that done by the county
s:
:nts fof the men of tb*
Problems Are Mapy.
Here are iome of inem:- Devel
opment of the co-operative spirit in
the home simplification of the diet
the building of convenient and sani
tary houses providing running water
in the house, plso various mechani
cal helps good and convenient gul
dens, through women's organizations.
These are some of the larger needs,
in which a woman who has studied
the problems of farm life can be of
help. And there are hosts of smaller
things, in relation to which many-a
farmer's wife would welcome guid
ance.
Why a Music Master?'
The demand for a music master in
each county is but another logical
step. The old-time singing school
was one of the great agencies that
made life in the country in times
gone the more satisfying. It was
a source of pleasure and entertain
ment, a social bond, and a means of
self-expression.
All of this, and more, singing un
der a master meant to the farmers
of years ago. Why could it not mean
as much to the farmer of today?
"What we want," raid one of the
officers of the association, ''is to set
the whole region to singing. If we
can do that, or even approach it, we
shall do much to bring contentment
and stability to our people."
A Prairie Forester, Too.
One of the needs of farms on the
prairies of the west is protection from
the blasts which howl out of the west
and north in winter. In some of the
longer-settled regions the windbreaks
have remade the landscape.
Some help in this direction is to be
derived through the employment of a
prairie forester by the school of agri
culture at Morris, but such a man:
cannot give his personal attention to
the particular problems of the indi
vidual farmer. Consequently his
field work will be limited.
The Association a Leader.
The West Central Minnesota De
velopment association has always
been independent and progressive.' In
order to build, up its basic industry
it sought to improve conditions with
in, and make them more attractive, so
as to hold the population its terri
tory already had, before proclaiming
its lands widely to restless farmers
of other regions. The wisdom of its
course has been amply justified. The
people of both town and country
have been bound together by a splen
did spirit of co-operation, and the
evidences of substantial development
in the last two years are simply as
tonishing. The new plans are cer
tain of realization in the early future^
if the development of the district cofe?
tinues at its present pace.
Governor, Eberhart of Minnesota
says: "We ought to secure better
co-operation, not merely betweea
bankers, hot between every organisa
tion in the state."
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We have a large num
ber of them. Many
new ones just receiv
ed they range in price
15 cts. to $6.00
They are going for the hol
iday trade at ONE THIRD
OFF of regular prices. We
have them in: any size or
shape to fill any place on
any wall. Remember ONE
THIRD OFF of the regular
prices for Xmas shoppers.
FURNITURE
We have rugs for any room
—all sizes and prices-Rock
ng Chairs, Easy Chairs,
Davenports, Couches, Din
ing Chairs, Tables, Buffets,
Iron and Brass Beds, Mat
tresses, Springe, the sagless
kind, Book Cases.
Onstad & Vaughan
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