The Keota news., December 31, 1920, Image 2

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PROPER TIME TO
PREPARE GARDEN
A Few Well-Cared-For Hotbed
Sashes Are Good Money Mak
ers on Any Farm.
COVER CHOP UPROVES $Ol
All Rubbish, Dead Vina* or Plant*,
6 taka* and Polas Should B*
Claarod Away and Oround
Plantad to a Orton Crop.
Whether it is conducted oo an ex
tensive scale to supply the market or
whether It is to produce food for tbe
family the garden plot is likely to be
the most profitable acres go on tbe
farm. Gardening really starta in the
fall. When the last vegetable* base
been removed and stored tbe prudent
Hotbeds Furnish tarty Vegetables at
a Tim* When They Command High
eat Market Prices.
gardener sets about to prepare the
ground for tbo next yearSa crop.
Clearing Away Ref was.
Any rubbish, dead Tinea or plants,
and bean poles or tomato stakes should
bo cleared array, aaya tbo United
States Department of Agriculture,
and tbe ground sown to rye or some
other green crop to prorent tbo loose
earth from washing under tbo winter
rains. A cover crop also Improves
tbe phylscal condition of tbo soil.
When a cover crop cannot bo supplied
tbo next best thing that may bo done
is to plow or spado tbe soil and allow
It to lie rough throughout tbo winter.
This practice destroys many insects
that ll* Just below tbo surface. Tbo
winter frosts bavo a lightening offset
upon tbo soil, especially oo day soils.
Tbo earliest and choicest vegetables
are harvested by the man who main
tains a few hotbed sashes and uses
them to start his garden. He Is able
to handicap the frost line by several
weeks, and to set strong, well-devel
oped plants In bis garden at a tine
when bis neighbors are planting seed.
Tbe farm Income is at Its lowest
point In tbe early spring, but It can bo
Increased considerably by tbe of
young plants grown in hotbeds and
ready for transplanting. Tomato, cab*
bage, eggplant and pepper plants are
always snapped up when tbo first
warm planting days come, and they
are easily grown In tbe hotbed. A
little more space and a llttlo moro seed
than tbo grower needs for bis own nse
are likely to bring good profits. Be
for* tbo ground freeses In tbo tall |g
a good time to clean out tbo old hot
beds.
Unless tbe soil used In the hotbed
is to be exchanged for fresh earth It
should he shoveled from the bed and
ktossed Into a pile nearby. The d*.
■syed manure from the bottom Is scat
tend over the pUo and thoroughly
sized with It to form rich soil tat
next yew's beds. Over this goes s
cost at strew or leeves bold down by
bits of bosrd to keep It from Mowing
8000 termers find It convenient to
oss evergreen booths Instead at etrau
for tbo outer covering.
Prepsrstien of Hotbed.
New botbed pits should bo dug se
tbst they will tece the'south, end the
locution should be selected so thsl
the beds will be protected from the
cold north winds end lste spring
storms. Sometimes the earth taken
from the new pit Is soluble for use In
the hotbed, but this Is the exception
rather than the rule. A few loads of
leaf mold from the woods mixed with
the natural soil will often form s
smooth, rid) stoneleos mass which
gives an Ideal hotbed Slier.
The bade or north side of the frame
Is usually from 12 to 18 Inches high,
while the south end Is about eight
Inches, so that the whole bed may hare
pitch enough to get the sun upon all
parts. The standard hotbed sash la
bandied by most dealers, and measures
three feet In width and six feet In
length. A frame Just wide enough to
support the sash seams to bo the most
satisfactory, though wider beds are
sometimes used with supporting ridges
placed at six-foot Intervals. A well
painted cypress sash, glased with a
good double-strength glass well set la
putty should give the careful gardener
12 to 15 years’ service.
Heat for the hotbed Is furnished by
means of a bed of horse manure 8 to
16 laches thick la the bottom of the
pit. Permanent hotbeds are often
bested with colls of steam or hot
water pipes under tbo bed.
Hotbeds require constant care to
prevent their becoming overheated,
specially during bright waatber.
ESSENTIALS FOR BEST EGGS
Reaper Rrspsrtlsws ef hsuwd Orate*
Oyster Shell and Ctean Quarters
Are Noesssary.
Just because an egg la freshly laid
by an apparently baatlhy ben It cannot
bo assumed that It to a good egg. Hens
that are forced to obtain tbo greater
proportion of tbeir living as scaven
gers and given a poor range to work on
cannot prod nee eggs of as good qual
ity as can a Sock which regularly Is
ted a good ration.
Bggs lacking protein have a watery
whits and tbo shell to apt to be thin,
owing to tbo partial absence of each
lime. Such eggs, besMss being of lass
value as food, are more than Uksly to
bring forth puny chickens of low vi
tality, subject to whit* diarrhea and
an early death. With proper quanti
ties of wheat, bran, clover, oyster shell
and sound grains In tbo ration fed to
laying bens, eggs with firm shells, rich
In protein and delicately flavored are
sure to result, providing; of course;
that tbe flock to given ciaen nests and
runs and Is kept fire* from mites;
DEVICE FOR HAULING FODDER
Several thsska ef Corn Can Easily fa
Drawn an Inexpensive Jtaefc
te Dam or Yard.
A handy device for drawing corn
fodder from the field to shown In tbo
cut It to a nek made of two poles
which ar* fastened to tbo bolster of
tbo front wheel* Tbe rear end drags
Handy Rack for Rodder.
oo tbe ground Two crosspieces are
firmly fastened to the polas and two
uprights at the rear provent the
corn from sliding off. Several shocks
of corn can bo loaded on this and
drawn to tbo feeding yard or bam.
THE HOTANIWN.
COLORADO’S CROP
REPORT FOR 1920
guts Crop Sorviee Bulletin Shew*
Greatest Production In Hla>
tory of State.
Sulaa Ommom IMa Mm SoiM.
Colorado's agricultural output In
1220 was tbe largest In tbe history of
tbe state. Tbe total area under cul
tivation, according to compilations
made by tbe State Co-operative Crop
Iteportlng Service from tbe reports of
county assessors, was 86*5689 acres,
compered with 5658951 acres In 19111.
Tbe total farm output for the season
Just ended far exceeds that for tbe pre
ceding season. One example will Il
lustrate this. Tbe area devoted to
wheat In tbe state In 1920 was 1,4716*2
acres, compared with 1.524,594 acres
tbe preceding year. Tbe 1980 output,
however, was 27,117,000 bushels, com
pared with only 18485600 acres In
1919.
But the value of tbe 1920 crop was
more than *80.000,000 less than that
of tbe 1919 crop; tbe result of a very
sharp falling oft In tbe prices of all
farm crops since harvest time. The
value of all Colorado crops. Including
fruits, for 1920; based upon prices pro
vailing on or about Doc. 1, was *187,-
653684. compared with *198947,000 for
tbe 1919 crop at prices prevailing oo or
about Dec. 1 that year. While tbe
1980 wheat crop was more than 9608-
000 bushels greater than that of 1919,
Its value was only *88,006,000, com
pared with a value of *37,240.000 for
the 1919 crop. Tbe 1920 potato crop
was only about 240,000 bushels leas
than tbe 1919 crop, but tbe value of
tbe former at prices prevailing on Dee.
1 was only *8690,000; compared with
a value of *18870,000 for tbe crop of
tbe preceding year.
Yet tbe value of the 1920 farm out
put was greater than that for any pre
vious year except 1919. The 1918 crop
was sold at war prices, but Its total
value was only about 8151,000600;
while the 1918 crop, which was mar
keted before the World war began,
was worth considerably less than half
as much as that of 1920.
Wheat was Colorado’s leading crop
in 1020. both In acreage and value.
Host of this crop Is winter wheat, tbe
area devoted to tbe winter grain show
ing rather substantial Increases each
year, while tbe acreage of spring
wheat remains about stationary. Win
ter wheat la grown chiefly without Ir
rigation, while tbe reports of county
assessors to tbe State Immigration De
partment show that about 50 per cent
of tbe spring wheat Irrigated.
Corn la tbe secood crop In tbe state
In acreage and fourth In value. Re
ports of assessors show 1,208,792 acres
devoted to corn In 1920; of which 79
per cent was harvested for grain and
the remainder cut for silage or fodder
or fed In the field. The total value of
the crop was a little In excess of *29,-
009,000; of which *12610.000 was tbe
value of tbe grain harvested. This crop
to growing rapidly In popularity In tbe
state, the corn area as reported by tbe
census bureau In 1900 going only about
820,000 acres. It to grown chiefly In
the eastern part it tbe state; Yuma
county being tbe leader, with about
128000 acres.
Altelfa to tbe third crop In tbe state
In both acreage and value. Reports of
assessors showed about 724,000 acres
devoted to alfalfa In Colorado In 1928
and the production was 8178000 tons.
This was worth at prices prevailing on
Dec. 1 about *2BOOBOOB The total
area devoted to tame hay to about 1,-
000,000 acres, other varieties being
timothy, red clover, Umotby and clover
mixed, aweet clover, millet, Sudan
grass, field peas, other tame grasses
and grains cut green, chiefly rye, oats
and barley. The total production of
tame hay In the state In 1920 was about
8808000 tons, worth approximately
*88087,000. There to also about 254,-
000 acres devoted to wild hay, with a
production of 298000 ton* worth about
*4,118500.
ToCureaCold
in One Day
Mi
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Bromo
Quinine
Be aura its Bromg
Jfi rg
The panalas boots tbto alga ansa
A New Drug.
Not long ago one of tbe doctor* at
SanaysMe promised a patient that ha
might walk about tbe next day. H«
said that be would put tbe permlaaloa
on bis order book. This bo did. Ha
wrote "ambulant," and thought he bad
cared for bls patlent But the next
morning tbe nurse, who was young
and new, kept tbe disappointed patiest
In bad until she could see tbe doctor.
To the doctor she said anxiously:
1 bare not yst given bis medicine
to Mr. Jonas. You did not unite hoe
many drama."—lndianapolis New*.
Cold baths la winter ought to pro
mote tbe win-power; and they do pro
mote tbe yoll power.
SLOW
DEATH
oarioaß diuoedem. Tha world's
Btandard remedy for kidney, Hvar,
Madder and am add trouble*—
COLPMEPM.
«nsb9mteeqmm<Sl*Wdw*wton
80 Years Old
—Was Sick
Now Feats Yoond Altar
Taking Eatonlc for
Sour Stomach
"I bad aonr stomach ever since I had
tbe grip and It bothered mo badly
Have taken Satanic only a week and
am mnch batter. Am 80 years old.
aaya Mrs. John HUL
■atonic quickly rollers* aonr stom
ach, Indigestion, heartburn, Moating
and distress after eating because »
tab** up and carries out tbo oxcesa
acidity and gasos which causa n>°*]
stomach ailments. If you bavo "triad
everything” and atOI suffer, do not *J«
up hope. Be tonic has brought relief to
tans of thousands Uk* yon. A big bo*
CNktoti trifle with your druggist*