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good swinging farm gate Directions For Making One That Will Not Sag—Old-Fashlonsd Eyebolt Hinges Used. To make a gate that will not sag, set a heavy post a few Inches more j than twice the height of the gate when j set solidly In the ground down to spade length, tamping earth, gravel or small stones firmly In around the post. Old fashioned eyebolt hinges , are previously put Into the post about 12 Inches from the top and the same distance from the ground, says the ! Wisconsin Agriculturist. Cut two pieces of heaiy scantling, , one six Inches shorter than the height of the gate above the ground, and the other twice the length of the first. .Cut the rails from six Inch stuff and ! let them Into the heel and head posts j their own thickness, so that the gate j Is flush on one side. Before nailing j up the gate, set In a brace four inches In width, from the top of the head post to the bottom of the heel post, on the side of the gate that is Hush. Mall down the rails and brace onto A Good Farm Cate. tlia bead and heel posts, and nail where the brace crosses the bars Mall on cleats over the bars at the head and heel posts and on both sides the middle of the gate. Fasten cue end of a three eights rod to the top of the heel post and the other through the nead post with a nut and waaher to draw the rod tight. After It Is tightened, cut the rod ofl oven with the nut. Wedge the guie up In the position lu which It Is to hang and mark the position of the hinges on ibe heel post. Taka the gate down bore the holes for hinges and block *ip Into place again. Have the top b'nge bolt so threaded that It may be taken up by turning up the nut il any sagging Is noticed. But bolt-* through the post of the gate, both above and below each hinge to pre vent splitting. SECURING STAND OF ALFALFA {.Excellent Argument Presented In Fa vor of Spring Seeding With Oats as Nurss Crop. A seven-acre field of alfalfa on the 'Ohio state university fai.n, at Colum bus, presents a good argument in fa vor of spring seeding, with oats as a sitK'se crop. This field was seeded April 11, at a rate of 1f pounds ot ealfalfa and a bushel of oats per acre, both sown In the grain drill at the 'game operation. On Jjpjy IB the oats ■were cut for hay, making % yield of a little over a ton and a half per Acre. Hy September 10 the alfalfa was ready for the first cutting, and the ‘yield of field-cured hay on the seven acres was 18,380 pounds, or a little ■<over nine tons. It is rather unusual -to secure a crop of bay the first sea -•on after seeding, but good seed prep aration and favorable weather condi lions this past summer are partly ac countable for this excellent stand. The field, which is level and welt /drained, was In potatoes In 1010. That fall It was sown to rye. which eras plowed under the following spring and the land planted to corn iLast fall this corn ground was plow ed ■with a deep tilling machine, and left •for the winter. In April It was thor ■ougbly disked and harrowed, before ithe alfalfa and oats were sown. APPLES ALWAYS IN DEMAND ®ur Highest Grads Cannot Be Dupli cated on Face of Earth, Leaving Us World Market for Fruit. islx hundred and thirty boxes of applet* constitute a carload, which mtane that this season will market 12,000,000 boxes of apples as near perfect us nature, sunshine and wa ter can make them, says the World 'Today. In regard to overproduction. It should be said that this Is not a new | question Fifty >ears ago a pessi mistic wall was going up that the ap- | pie business would soon be overdone, .nod would cease to be profitable. At that time, not more than one-tenth as many apples were raised for commer iclal purposes in the United States as are raised today. One hundred years ago apples were "but little raised for commercial pur poses; now, tralnloada and shiploads move from these orchards to our *reat centers of trade, and across the ocean to England end other parts of Europe. Asia is calling for more. Our highest grade apples cannot he dupli cated on the face of the earth, so we have the world for a market for our best fruit Cutting Crops. Considerable loss Is occasioned on many farms every year by allowing crops to become too ripe before har vesting. This I* especially true of ; grass or clover, or any crop intended for hay or as a substitute. With grasses when the seed begins to form well and with grain crops when the grain begins to hai ion Is the best •tage to harvest It does not require any great abll I Ity at figures to show that there Is a (great waste In selling hogs when Ihcv are but half fed Salt, hardwood ashes and charcoal | are Meal to keep In hog pasture, and If there Is any other one tfaiag peed ed It Is pure water Never whip a balky horse Sell him If you can't manage him and let I the other fellow match his temper j against that of the horse. | NOTTS mbuxwbrook FARM I j Young pigs like vegetables. The warm and hi ay hen Is the best 1 winter layer. Use few words with a horse, but have them undorsttod It Is as easy to teach a colt good manners as faulty ones Desirable eggs are said to weigh about 24 ounces to the dozen. If hens devilon 'he feather-pulling habit send tlu in to market at once Dairying It a cash business The good cow pays for her beard every day Alfalfa will crow- on nearly all good, well-drained soils, but best on a rich, sandy loam The first big n<-e 1 of the majority of the rid' r corn bill toil/. Is limestone and legumes It ts bi'ter and more profitable to have a h< r. 1 of fiv> go; d cows than ten that at e in *♦ rlor The green food probb m In winter Isn't much of a i rob)' in if there Is any alfalfa hay on the place Muddy and unch :i’i si: ble yards are always sources ol loss b cause of their insanitary tcdlticn There are but t* w horses that can not be mude gentle and quiet by the proper kind of tr> utraent The kind of fed which the rows rat often bus an • be ••• *n the fla vor of milk and its products The farmer who mut f fit) effort to fl'l the corn crib and smokehouse each year generally succeeds. Swedish turnips grow well In the northern stales and provide a large amount o' feed lor the winter The h> st stock pea for grazing In the field Is the black Everlasting Ui d and Red Itipp* r ate also good The farmer who Is not raising le gumes has his eyes closed to some of the biggest opportunities in farming Fruit growing a; * poultry raising go well together Anyone following will do well to consider the other The sand vetch is sipaio j and more recumbent thon the common vetch, and has been tested but little in this country. Hens, when they cease laying, fat ten very easily and a fat hen Is a Itififty candidate for all kinds of poul try diseases. Penning chickens ( Jhe best way to get a fine flock, for it meyps that you are getting eggs from the best hens you have A hop fed on corn alone from the time It Is weaned from the sow un til butchered at 18 months old, seldom pays for his keep. The cows like the silage in the win ter just as well as they do the grass In the summer and It Is good ul any season of the year Hlont, livable chicks are obtained only from sturrtv parents, and pullets that have been forced for winter eggs are hardly in that clasp. Don't blame anyone but yourself If your turm won’t grow legumes They will grow for the man who knows how to make them It Is poor economy to feed spoiled food to the poultry They may con tract disease or become poisoned, (turn all decomposed food stuff at ones 1 The day bis forever passed when the progressive dairyman allows his cows to be brought, running or ex cited, Into the barn, by a dog or a Doy with a whip Sheep In the summer are gross | feeders, rapidly cleaning the land of brush and weeds, but In the barn and In the feed lot they are extremely dainty In their eating The best family horses, as a rule, ; are raised and trained on the farm i Their dispositions are then thor oughly understood, and it Is known how far they can be trusted. i It pays to whitewash, ventilate and properly light the stables; to brush and curry cows; to use clean and i well-covered utensils, to cool milk quickly and to fifty* i a cool place for : the milk. The fnit farmer can always find j something to do, either In the orchard or around the buildings This busi i ness like any other Is ruined by too j much loafing Keep the loose ends well In hand for the best results It often is your fault that hens i get to eating eggs, but after they do contract the habit, lay the ax at the 4*,')! of the tree —In other words, stop the buslu/tftUi, short off. Then change J your bill of fate Something lacking Iln the feed you have been Balance the ration. PI PROFIT IN GEESE AND DUCKS Fowl* Are Important Adjunct to Farm and Farmers Living Near Water Should Raise Them. Those living close to water should raise geese and ducks. They will get a large part of their food from the streams and swamp lands, requiring very little grain during the summer months. Toulouse geese are hardy, early layers and prolific, often raising two broods of goslings a year. The young early lake care of themselves on good pasture and grow rapidly. They should have oatmeal made Into mash dally, and afterward a few oats or barley scattered over the grass late In the evening. By careful feeding they grow very fast and by Christmas have been known to weigh 20 pounds each. Emb den geese grow to a large size and are said to be nearly equal to the Tou louse variety In early maturity. Of the four varieties of ducks. Rouen, Cayuga, Aylesbury and Peking, we give the preference to the last for size, early maturity, abundance of eggs, hardiness and domestic habits. Profitable Geese. The best location for a duck farm Is on a tidewater stream or cove, where there is a constant succession of sea food with every tide. If given a little house upon the shore and a variety of grain at the evening meal they will come home regularly every nignt without further trouble. The eggs are mostly laid very early In the morn ing. The ducks should be kept shut up In the yard until they have laid their eggs. The Peking and the In filan Runner are the most prolific lay prs. The feathers of the Peking duck are of the best quality, white, with a creamy shade. The feathers command S good price. It Is not necessary to have much water for ducks, yet It is true that ducks will get a large por tion of their living out ot the water. Ducks must have a grass range and plenty of fresh, clean water to drink, and they should also have a trough of water to bathe In it there Is no stream handy. WHICH ARE BETTER LAYERS? Poultrymen Are Debating Whether Hen or Pullet Is Capable of Greater Egg Production. No matter how successful we may become In any business we are try ing all the time to find how we may Increase oup profits. To Jncreaso our profits means, of course, an Increase In the output of our goods, whatever It may be. Poultrymen are now de bating whether the hen or the pußet Is capable of the greater egg produc tion. There Is good argument on both sides, says the American Cultivator. Some claim that while hens lay loss (pap pullets they lay larger and heav ier eggs, and because of this fact the eggs command a better prjee than those laid by pullets This la true, but In many aectlons of the United States eggs are sold without grading, and consequently the smaller egg Is able to command as good a price as the larger one. Others are In favor of pullets be cause they lay so many eggs which, they claim, possess a better flavor than those laid by hens. No one dla. pules the fact that pullets lay more eggs than hens. The question of which Is the better, hens or pullets, will never be an swered so that It will please every pile. Jt Is simply a matter of the likes and dislikeg of the Individual poultry man, Personally the writer favprg pullefa There are a very few of them that Jay undersized eggs, and If be wishes tbs poultryman can easily cull them out. The average Leghorn pullet com mences to lay when about six months of age, while many of them start at Single Comb White Leghorns, five months. Therefore It Is a very easy matter to raise pullets so that they will be laying the winter after they are hatched. The eggs of pullets do not hatch as well as those of hens. Not only that, but the chicks do not seem nearly so strong and lively as those hatched from hen eggs. For this reason, then, the writer would advise pullets for market eggs and hens for breeders. Cull out the roosters. Whitewash the stables. Balance the hen's ration After hens are through laying they should be sold to the butcher unless they are needed for breeders next season. The actual cost to keep added to the service fee of the sire, represents the amount at which horses you raise stand xpif. LITTLE GENERAL FARM PAYS Profit Secured In Poultry as Well M Horses, Mules, Dairy Stock, Sheep and Hogs. (By W. 11. SHEPARD.) A neighbor of oura makes poultry a strong side line of bis farming. He grows a great variety of plants and keeps and feeds a variety of animals. His poultry sales amount to near ly S2OO each year and he feeds bla grown chickens nothing except what they pick up about the place, but through his methods of cropping and feeding they secure an abundance, and respond accordingly. The same neighbor keeps and grows horses and mules, dairy stock, sheep and hogs. From the poultry and cows be has a constant dally cash Income. From the horses and mules he sells each year one or two animals at SIOO or more a piece. From the sheep he has wool to sell In early spring, and lambs later In the summer, and from the hogs he sells from SIOO to S2OO worth every two or three months. He grows wheat, oats, corn, hay and a variety of forage crops, besides a good orchard, truck patches, and gar den from which nearly all the family eatables are grown, with some fruits and vegetables to sell. He also sells from SIOO to S2OO worth of wheat each year, and hls dairy products amount to S4OO per year, and all from a farm of less than 100 acres. Any general farmer who plans and executes can grow a variety of plants and animals on a small farm, make good money from the crops, and at the same time build up hls land faster than by special cropping. NUB CORN BEFORE PLANTING Carefully Conducted Experiments Have Proven Advantages In Prac* tics—lncreases Yield. At the North Carolina station care fully conducted experiments have demonstrated that it Is advisable to nub corn before planting, for It has been found that, when seed from the tips and butts of ears are placed In one plot, and by the side of It another of the same ears, there Is a larger percentage of dwarfed and barren! stalks on the plot planted In tip am but kernels than from the other, anu hence less yield of shelled corn per acre. As both plots were planted on the same type of soil, and treated In the same way by fertilization and cultiva tion, It Is strongly probable that the decreased yield of the plot sown In butt and tip grains was due to the seed, as all other conditions were as nearly Identical for both as It was possible to secure, CONVENIENT AS A NAIL BOX Anything In Shape of Pan May Be Dl vldod Into Compartments to Hold Bolts and Screws. Anything from a half gallon baking pan to a six-gallon dlshpan may be used in making a very useful and convenient compartment box In which to keep nails, screws and bolts. The pan may be divided Into four, six or eight compartments. To make the divisions, get the dis tance across the bottom and the top of the pan. secure a piece of board Just as wide as the pan Is deep, and long enough to make the piece, an vii±y Pan Nall Pox. other piece two or three Inches broader for the piece that forms the handle. Cut a notch as shown at X, this notch to be as wide as the boards arc thick. Place the No. 1 lu center of pan and nail In place, through the sides and bottom of pan. Next place No. i across No. 1 so that the notches al XX will fit lu each other, then nail ns you did No. 1. If more places ar wanted, these quarters may be subdi vided. Early Inoculation. It Is Interesting to examine young alfalfa plants and note how quickly they obtain the benefit of nitrogen gathering bacteria. Plants less than four weeks old may have two or three nodules on a single root and have a countless number of bacteria furnish ing nitrogen from the air. When land Is first Inoculated by the use of soil from an old Held one may find much unevenness in the size of plants at an early age, due to the fact that the taller plants are getting an abundance of nitrogen, while the smaller plants have few or no bacteria at work for them. It 1b for this reason that a sec ond seeding qq land that has been made tp grow alfalfa successfully it much surer than a first seeding. Th# Best Soil. The best soil upon a farm Is one that warms early in the spring and that holds enough moisture for plant growth. A soil of this kind should contain some sand clay and organic matter. The sand permits the air to enter and the clay and organic mnttoi aid in holding the molvnire. It )*■ friable ard - ” * Fall plowing is cheapest A o*4*7 thermometer pay a. No tree excels the Bartlett peef. Sanitary milk strainers are boat Neglected trait trees are wortUaem Dryness Is the mala requirement fen a sheep abed. These h ttttla likelihood of peTtafl too ataoh aoed eon. i POULTRY ■BE SMALL, MOVABLE HEN HOUSE One Found Satisfactory After Much Exparlmontlng—Built on Runners to Facilitate Moving. After experimenting with several sizes and styles of poultry houses we have decided that the small, movable house Is best of all, writes Mrs. W. H. Bush in the Missouri Valley Farmer. It is built upon runners so that a team may be hitched to It for moving, and should not be larger than 8 by 12 feet, 11 Exterior View. 7 feet high In front and B at the back. A good, tight floor is laid, and the walls Inside are covered with rubber old roofing, the same as is used on the roof. Walls thus covered are draft and mite proof, as well as warm and neat looking. Dropping boards are built 2% feet above the floor, along the back wall, the roosts being placed a foot above, suspended from the celling by wires. In front of roosts Is a canvas curtain reaching from the celling to within a foot of the floor. The door and win dows are fitted with screens end also canvas curtains, which are for use at night and for stormy days. A house arranged In this way Insures the chickens against drafts and at the same provides plenty of fresh, pure air. The floor space, being clear, Is used as a scratching pen, for bens, to do well In winter, must be kept busy. Nest baxes are placed at each end of the building or along the front be neath the windows. In summer the houses are moved frequently to fresh ground, as when chickens run continuously over the same lot the ground becomes foul and unhealthy. When winter comes the houses are moved and arranged in a row along the middle of a large yard, which haa previously been sown to wheat, and furnishes the flock with Interior View, green feed till spring. The lot Is di vided by the row of houses and a little fencing Into two parts, which are used alternately. Forty to fifty hens may be kept In this manner In a house inch as I have described. TRIAL OF HOPPER FEEDING Test at West Virginia Station Showa Egg Production at Lower Cost Than Other Byatem. In bulletin 130 of the West Virginia station a report Is given of a trial of the hopper-feeding system for poul try, which was Installed In order tp paVe Jabop. In a year’s test, with five pens of white Leghorns, the cost of food varied from 68 cents to $1.04 per fowl per year, and averaged 90 cents per fowl for the 100 fowls In the ex periment. The egg production varied from 8M eggs per en * when fed principally Upon corn, to 24.7 ip the pen which received whole grain once per day, scattered la Utter, and dry mash and beef scrap without limit In a hopper. The food cost of the eggs during year varied from 8.8 cents to 11.8 cents per dozen. Two pens, hopper fed, pro. duoed eggs having a lower food cost than the pen which received moist ened mash, and In this test there was apparently no benefit from the extra labor Involved In moistening the mash. DRAFT EQUALIZER ON TRUCKS Invention Involves Plurality of Lever* In Pivotal Relation—Plan of Device Shown. ]p describing and Illustrating a draft equalizer fpr trucks, invented by 1). M. Murken of Manhattan, N. 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