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INTEREST IN POULTRY No Visible Sign of Over-Supply ' in Products. Farmers’ Wives Study Details ot Busi ness and Are Eager to Learn of Better Way* to Caro for Fowls—Conditions Changßw J. WELDER.) The farmer’s Ideas of poultry-rais ing have changed considerably from what they were a few years ago. Everywhere on the farms a more In telligent Interest in being taken In the subject The farmer at last has realized that the poultry in a good source of income, and is willing to take some trouble and spend a little money to make It even more so Instead of leaving the womenfolks to struggle along with the fowls as beat they may, without any help or conven iences. Not much In the way of eggs was expected of them, and they fully real ized these expectations. Usually they A Pure-Bred. did not supply what eggs were need ed In the farmer's family, ami the farmer often remarked to bis wife: "Your chickens are a perfect nuis ance. 1 can't set a thing down but they are into it,’’ (poor things! it was that or go hungry!) "and they don’t lay an egg." Conditions are changing. The most of the responsibility for the poultry on the farms still rests on the worn en, but instead of being considered a nuisance, the fowls are treated with respect and consideration, as an im portant part of the business of the farm. They have neat, comfortable houses, and yards, and scratching sheds, where they can be contented and happy and keep industriously at work in cold as well as warm weath er. The farmer and his wife both now feel it to be a reflection on their management if the hens do not lay more eggs than the family uses, in winter as well as summer. It is a common thing to see a beau tiful flock of pure bred poultry on a farm and when fanners or farmers’ wives meet, it is seldom they part without asking; "How are your hens doing? Are they laying well?" and unless it is already known, they are sure to ask each other: "What breed of hens do you keep?" They are studying the poultry bust ness In all its details, and are eager to learn of better ways of caring foi their fowls and of conveniences to use about the work. In some neighborhoods the women of the farm meet on certain after noons, to talk over their experiences with their poultry: to discuss the questions of feeding and caring for them, and to read together the poultry helps to be found in the agricultural sections of the newspapers This interest is not confined to the farms, but is also felt in the small towns and villages At the meetings of the aid societies you will hear dfs cussions on how to care for the hens to make them lay, and many a woman living in a small town helps out her husband s income by nearly, or quite paying the grocer'- bills with eggt and poultry from a small flock ot pure bred fowls kept in the yard. A good cow is the best milk ma chine. • * One of the farm teams should be brood mares. 0 0 0 It is best for the average farmer to handle the draft breeds * * • Strong, vigorous cows are more re sistant to disease than their weaker sisters • * * Protein may now be bought cheaper in cottonseed meal than in any other purchased feed. ♦ ♦ • Spasmodic salting, a handful in the manger when you happen to tbink of it, is not the best way. ♦ • * Much depends upon the early train ing of the colt. Teach a rapid walk the first thing when the colt is put in harness ♦ * • In the cold parts of the country, every window should have a tight board shutter to close over the win dow on cold nights Why Eye* Sparkle. Merriment causes a frequent move ment of the eyelids up and down, and as It is the function of the eyelid to release a tear each time it comes down, the repetition has the effect of covering the eye with considerable moisture. The light shining on this moisture hdves the sparklfiiF effect. as the merry appearance is caused by tears, we ire them from laughing us crying Tears are Inti <■ d with our merry and mnm m WINTER WORK IN ORCHARDS When Ground Is Frozen Is Favorably Tima for Haulinj and Spreading Manure—Add Sons Meal. The winter when the ground IB frozen hard is a favorable season for hauling out with Hart or sled the ma nure needed. In spring the ground is too soft to haul over and other work Is too pressing; the result is this important matter is put off for another year. The manure should be hauled and spread evenly over the ground. Do not place directly around the trunks; it only affords a harbor for mice and insects. The manure should be rotted and from grain-fed cattle or horses. Straw and corn stalks, mixed with a little animal ma nure, in poor stuff and Is only valuable as a mulch This kind of manure should be hauled out to tbs orchard and piled Mix a half-bushel of raw bone meal in each two-horse wgon load of manure as it is piled and make a compact heap, which will soon rot down, and when well rotted, should be spread. About one to two bushels is the proper quantity tor each larg* tree The manure should be spread in a circle as far out as the branches extend. Practical growers are now using from 400 to 800 pounds of animal hone niul potash fertilizer per acre. The fertilizer is drilled in with r ye m tha early fall, the rye is turned under in April—for green manure This Hgth od is found to be the cheapest etui best method of fertilizing the orchard. SPRAY FOR SAN JOSE SCALE Best Remedy for Pest Is Thorough Treatment Wtth Lime-Sulphur Mix ture Late in Winter. IBy C. P. GILLETTE. Colorado Experi ment Station.! San Jose scale Is one of the worst pests attacking orchard trees in this country. It is extremely Important that orchards should be so treated as to exterminate the scale from them and prevent its spread to surrounding orchards Undoubtedly the best remedy foi this scale is a thorough treatment with lime-sulphur mixture late in the winter or early in the spring, before the buds begin to open on the trees. If the commercial concentrated lime sulphur mixtures are used they may be diluted in the proportion of about one part of the concentrated prepara tion to ten parts of water. If home made lime-sulphur sprays are used probably there is no better formula than the following: Good lump lime, IB pounds; Flowers of sulphur, IB pouuds; Water, 60 gallons. The lime should be slaked In warm water and, as soon as the slaking has been well started, the sulphur should be added and enough water kept in the receptacle to keep the mass thin md sloppy. Roll for at least forty- Preparing Mixture for San Jose Scale. five minutes, or until the liquid Is a deep brick red In color; then dilute to fifty gallons and apply at once. IN LINE WITH “DE QUALITY* Mr. Eli Brown Felt Himself Entitled Considering Hie Position, to Let ters After Hl# Name. Bill Brown, an impressive ebony fig ure In bis long, black, clerical coat and collar—gift of the rector of St. James’ —had come In answer to a post card of mine, asking him to call and whitewash my back fence. “Use done moved, Miss Ma’y,” he said, when he explained to me that he could not undertake the work that day, as a noon service at St. James’ necessitated his presence at the organ bellows, “and I reckon I’ll jes’ leave my card so you can know whar to sen’ for me when yer wants me ag’ln ’’ With an expression of dignified grat ification he unfolded a scrap of church announcement leaflet, which be had pulled out of his vest pocket and handed me a card with the words: Ell Brown, E. O. 8., B0 Fenchurch street. "What do these letters stand for?” I asked. “Why, Miss Ma’y, all de quality In our congregation has letters after der names. Doctor Price he has D. D.; Doctor Simmonds has M. D, and dere's LL. D. for some of 'em, and U. S. N. for dat Yankee off’cer; and coase I naterally has ’em, too.” "But what do they mean?” 1 Insist ed “Now, Miss Ma’y, don’t you know? E. O. B. —Episcopal organ blower, dat what I Ib."—Harper's Magazine. TESTS OF DAIRY PRODUCTS Apparatua Constructed at Suggestion of Wisconsin Experts Will Show Amount of Dirt in Milk. (By S. M. BABCOCK and E. H. FAR RINGTON.) There is a growing demand among milk consumers as well as dealers and manufacturers of high-grade dairy products for a new test that will show the cleanliness and purity of each lot of milk received. The testing of milk at creameries and cheese factories is Usually confined to a fat determination by the Babcock test. The acid is also used more or less for Inspecting differ ent lots of milk and cream. A fairly good idea of the extent to which each lot of milk has been con taminated may be obtained by a test that will show the amount of dirt contained In a definite quantity pf mjik. A milk sediment teat, Which wag constructed by E5, H. Horens, Madlpon, Wls.. according to suggestions made by the writers, ta herewith described This test may be used for testing a large number of lots of milk. Samples of one pint of milk will filter through It Is fast as each lot is ready. The Inside cylinder is two and one half Inches In diameter and six inches long. It is funnel-shaped at the bot tom. terminating In an opening about an Inch In diameter. A cap on .the bottom contains a wire gauze strainer on which a thin disk of absorbent cot • Jr Details of Construction of Milk Sed iment Teeter. The Central Cylinder A Through Which the Milk Is Poured le Surrounded by a Steam or Hot Water Jacket With a Half-Inch In tervening Space—The Steam or Hot Wgtpr Enters at the Lower Opening and Overflows at B—Thp Brass Cup C Slip* Over the Bottom of the Inner Cylinder and Is He)d in Place by a Clamp Rod O—This Cap Contains a Circle of Wire Qauz# K Over Which Is Placed the Disk of Absorbent Cot ton —The Csp May Bt Quickly Re moved by Swinging the Clamp Rod D to One Side and the Dirty Filter May Be Replaced by a Clean One. ton is placed. This cap Is easily at tached to the apparatus by means ot a binged wire loop. After a sample of milk has been fil tered through the apparatus, the cap containing the gauze and the cotton filter is detached and the cotton disk placed on a piece of white paper to dry. This cotton contains tbe dirt and sediment cpilected from one pint of milk. The amount of dirt obtained will vary with different lots of milk ami the disk when dry may be re turned to the milk producer as evi dence of tbe degree of cleanliness of bis milk. Each cup should have a numbei stamped in tbe metal and as fast as one lot of milk is tested the cap may be removed and another put in place for tbe next sample. The absorbent cotton disks used as filters are stamped out to tit tbe cap and wire gauze. Tbe success of filtering depends largely on the texture of these disks which should be made of absorbent cotton that con taius no starch or "sizing.” The latter have a glossy surface, but the “un sized" cotton or cotton batting cut out in tbe shape of round disks about one eighth iuch thick allows tbe hot milk to filter rapidly through It and retains the fine dirt which is suspended in tbe milk The milk is kept hot in this tester during filtering by means of a hot water jacket surrounding the inner cylinder. KEEP THE CALVES GROWING Large Barrel anp Digestive Organa Should Be Developed by Feeding Good Quality of Roughage. Calves should be kept growing con tinuously and vigorously from birth. No grain should be fed after tbe calf is six months old if it can be kept In proper growing condition without it. A large barrel and digestive organs should be developed by feeding a good quality of roughage when not on pas ture. After calves have reached six months of age they can be grown better and cheaper on good pasture or com silage and good alfalfa hay than on any other feeds, and, as roughage is cheaper than concen trates, these are the feeds from which we wish the mature animals to have the ability to get more of their nutri ment. Protect Grapes From Mildew. To protect grapes from mildew which may or may not attack them they should be dusted or sprayed with sulphur. For a few vines or the family vineyard a good way is to put the sulphur in a piece of burlap or a grain bag and shake tbe sulphur over the vines. A sprayer which will force the sulphur among tbe leaves more completely Is of course more effective. Children Cry Fflß FLETCHER’S CASTO R I A FARM MANURE IS VALUABLE Oldest and Moat Popular of Fertilizers —lmmense Lose Through Careless Methods of Management. (By E. B. HART.) Of all fertilizers, farm fertilizers—* farm manure—is the oldest and still the most popular. It consists of the liquid and solid excreta of farm stock, and the Utter on which the excrement is dropped. A well-kept manure heap may be safely taken as one of the surest Indi cations of thrift and success in farm ing. Neglect of this resource causes losses, which, though little appreciated, are vast in extent. Waste of manure Is both so common as to breed indif ference, and so silent as to escape notice. According to recent statistics there are In the United States in round numbers 28,300,000 horses and mules, 70,000,000 cattle, 49,000,000 bogs, and 57.500.000 sheep. Experiments indicate Spreading Manure on the Fields. that If these animals were kept in stalls or pens throughout the year and the manure carefully saved, the ap proximate value of the fertilizing con stituents of the manure produced by each burse or mule annually would be $27. by each head of cattle S2O, by each hog $4, and by each sheep $2. The fertilizing value of the manure produced by the different classes ot farm animals In the United States P'f>ul(|, (herpfore, be for hofses and mules. $764,100,000; cattle, $1,400,- 000,000; hugs, $198,000,0011. and sheep, $115,000,000, or a total of $2,477,100,- 000. Tlese estimates are based on the values usually assigned to phosphoric acid, potash, and nitrogen In commer cial fertilizers, and are possibly some what too high from a practical stand point. On the other hand, it must be borne in mind that no account is taken of the value of manure tor Improving the mechanical condition and drainage pf soils, a consideration fully as im portant as the direct fertilizing value. It is fair to assume that at least one-third of the value of the manure Is annually lost through careless meth ods of management; and this estimate Is conservative. Even at (his figure we have the tremendous sum of $825,- 700.000 as the annual loss in the Unit ed States. This condition is the more unfortunate, because practically all ol It could be prevented. HINTS ON POULTRY FEEDING Quantity and Quality of Food Thai Would Suit One Fowl Might Do Harm to Another. (By E. VAN BENTIIVYSEN.) There can be no set rules for feed ing. Fowls, like human beings, vary In appetite. The quantity and quality of food that would keep one fowl in good condition might overfatten an other. We must approximate the amount. The quality must be determined up on according to the object in view. The plan adopted by the writer is to give a large spoonful ot mash in the morning for every- two fowls In the pen The spoonful means about as much as one would be able to pick up iu the hand. At night, a full handful of mixed grains for every fowl in the pen is about all they can eat and that amount will carry them over in comfort until the next morning. But when It is noticed that the fowls do not readily clean up their allow ance the next day the amount should be cut down and continued so until the appetite is fully restored. Some fowls can not only exist but be prolific on almost half what would be needed for others. When this is no ticed In a pan it is advisable to cut down their allowance to meet the de mand. Sudden changes in the bil> of fare very often throw fowls off their appe tite. We knew of a little experience in that line a short while ago. A fel low poultryman purchased a lot of sweepings from the grain elevators. These sweepings contained wheat, corn, flaxseed, bran and middlings. The fowls did not take kindly to the mixture and the result was there was a general decline In the egg crop. Just as soon us the old bill of fare was re sumed the egg yield increased and is still keeping up a good record. The moral is, when your fowls are doing well on your present method Of feeding, do not make a change. FOR SAFETY FROM LIGHTNING Bcient'st Tells What to Do When One Is Caught In Thunderstorm Far From Shelter. It is considered dangerous to be the most prominent object in a field or common during a thunder storm. In deed, more persons are struck and killed in this way than when shelter ing under trees. What, then, is a man or woman or child to do when caught in the open in a thunder storm? They may take shelter, says Sir Ray Lank ester, in a wood, though not under any isolated tree nor under a long high hedgerow. They should ask for shelter In any available house or cottage Failing this, they may (as goats and sheep and cattle do) get under a low-lying rock-face, or Into a ditch, or dry nole, or even. If the storm Is close round them. He flat on the ground. It ia less dangerous to bs wet through than dry, since wet clothes may, and have before now, saved a man's life, owing to the fact that they are good con ductors and allow the electric current to pass away without obstruction. LIME NECESSARY FOR SWEET CLOVER GROWTH. Dom Not Flourish In Eastern Soils That Lack Lime. NICKOLAS SCHMINTZ. Maryland Agricultural College Experiment Station Service. On our Maryland soils and most ot the soils in neighboring states, espe cially in the Coastal Plain section, it Is almost as difficult to grow sweet clover as it is to grow alfalfa. In other words, we find that In such of our soils as are worn out, outside of limestone areas require lime and in oculation for the successful growth of sweet clover, the same as Is required for alfalfa. This has been proven quite thoroughly in many instances; fop example, the writer had a notion several years ago that the heat way to Inoculate the soil for alfalfa in the East was to first grow sweet clover— at the same time this crop would be increasing the fertility—but lie found that in practically every case the sweet clover refused to grow unless the soil was limed and Inoculated. In the higher elevated section, where cuwpeas will not grow well, It may under some conditions be advisable to pow sweet clover, after liming and in oculating. and then allow the land to remain Idle for a few years in order to give the sweet clover a chance to build up the fertility. But even this could not be considered favorably where it Is necessary to derive an Income from the land while it is being Improved. For some reason, livestock in the East has not as yet taken as kindly to pasturing on sweet clover as it has in the Soutli and West. Along our water fronts In Maryland we have many farms that have had sweet clover growing on them for generations, hot it is seldom f’at cattle eat it in grazing. They may go through a wheat stubble field, eat the grass and other clovers, hut leave the sweet clover. There Is no question, however, but that they could be taught by starvation to eat and thrive on It. but it is doubtful if they will thrive any better on sweet clover than on the common clovers. Sweet clover does not cure Into bay as well as alfalfa and the ordinary clovers. In curing sweet clover the leaves shatter off very badly, so that unless a great deal of care in the proc ess is exercised the hay will he little more than steins; these, however, are usually relished by all livestock if the crop Is cut early enough so that the stems are not too tough and woody. INTERESTING THE BOVS IN A NEIGHBORHOOD SPECIALTY. Speaker At State Grange Meeting Urges Study Of Selection Of Seed Corn, J. E. METZGER. Maryland Agricultural College, It may seem a foolish thing to have children take strips of cloth 36 inches long and 9 Inches wide and mark them off In squares of two Incites each. To then take of the father's seed corn and remove six kernels from each ear in such away that there be two ker nels secured from the base of I lie ear A YOUNG CORN BREEDER. two from Hie middle and two from the part near the tip: to then take these kernels and carefully lay them in the numbered squares and also label the ears to correspond to the numbers of the squares; to place these ears In a pall of moistened sawdust, or cover them with moistened paper; to place the pall with t e folded cloths filled with corn in a warm room, and after six or seven days to unfold the little cloth bundle and see what lias happened. We call the whole thing a rag doll, but the Chicago Board of Trade, througn its representative, Mr. Bail, estimates that this little scheme which is being carried out by the rural schools will be the means of increasing the corn crop of the United States by at least one half billion dol lars without increasing the area de voted to corn a single acre. It Is not a matter without any Importance when a magazine of the standing of the Out look will give it two pages in a single issue. Not only Is it practical for the boys j and girls of the school to study the vitality of corn, but it is profitable for ' *hem to make a study of the selection of seed corn, of how to cure it. and even how to shell and grade it. They 1 will, through the study of the ear, learn which is the best corn of the lo cality, and in probably this locality, as I many have already done, will make Itself famous In the production of I particular variety of special merit. Heating Milk for Calves. When heating milk for calves it is best to place the vessel containing It In a pan of hot water, then there Is ; no danger of its being burnt or boiled, j - — , .: Children Cry FOR FLETCHER’S CASTOR 1 A ■■■nSSHHHHHHHBHD Children Cry for Fletcher’s The Kind You Have Always Bought, and which has been, iu use fop over tiO years, Las borne tho signature of ——* and lias been made under his per- s Bn-l supervision since its Infancy. yy. Allow no one to deceive yon in this. All Counterfeits, Imitations and “ .Tnst-as-good ” arc but Experiments that trifle with and endanger the health of Infants unit Children —Experience aguiiist Experiment. What is CASTORIA Castoria is a harmless substitute for Caster Oil, Pare goric, Prop’s w.-.d FoTH-hlng Syrups. It is i leasant. It contains r Opium, Morph.no nor other Karcotio subs.mice. i's .‘i;c is its guarantee. !L destroys Worms and lr, t >a Fov* rhfi ss. 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