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FARM WATER SUPPLY.
UTothing' is More Essential to
Health and Comfort Than Plen--ty
of Pure Water, and the Cost
of Harms It is Not Gfea.
JSIrs. F. It Stevens, in Progressive
; v;- Parmer. ' .
- A -Delaware , housewife recent
ly ' tola me of her experience in
'handling ithe problem of the wat
er supply for ' the . home- After
many years 'of tooling taJ and fro
ifroma well several hundred feet
Estatit from the house, she de
coded ' that the well, wasr a per
aasmeiitlnstitutionv and since the
Sronse was not, the only thing to
3bwas:to move the house to the
CTeLL After one or two vigorous
qnverslations with the man of
sifEairs ' he finally aereed that if
ssl lierself would superintend the
. job, he would leave it to her. Not
Idanntea, "she went to the,, near-by
t town, employed the workmen who
vsame armed with screws, pulleys
. Tand all necessary equipment and
accomplished the feat. Now the
tvr&L is located on the.Jmck porch
andtfhe problem of the water sup--ply
is partially solved.
Hard Ways of Getting Water
Qne of my never-to-be-forgottan
experiences of last summer was
sa 250-mile drive through a pros
ypesous section of one of our
SSootliern States. The location of
tVhe well or spring which supplied
tflae iEarmhouse with water, was
me dT my chief interests m .this
iHiive. Some times the well was
iinltfae front yard ; not inf requent
ly it "was off several hundred feet
in a plowed field- . Occasionally I
mated that it was conveniently lo-
'catted with respect to tne Darn to
insure (fen . adequate and handy )
-sopply for the farm animals- Andj
'tesfted with respect to the barn to
the spring, it was usually just
cdown the hill !
YWfeat tale of foot-weariness,
backache and orouen neaun tnat
" " t - 1 a 1 at
llrafl&e fceaten patn up irom tne
spring proclaimed i Often I felt
that if the person who located the
well had set about deliberately , tp
J5n3 the most inconveient spot he
could not have succeeded better,
-ffiitwithstanding 11 this, J. saw
urach thatwas good, ' A few of
lheTfarm libmes had a good sup-
I'lyof water piped into the house
m a near-by spring, located
sabavts the house. Others had sol
nred the problem by means of a
3brce pump. One ingenious man
w22i -a force pump and a barrel
located in a tree, supplied his
lurase nvlth water and there in the
county 25 miles from any town
t&i -raze, was an up-to-date house
-wlfh 'ell the comforts of a city
Fhome. The amount of money ex
Tpeniled in this instance was ridi
eulously small. In speaking of
the success of the undertaking,
iQixs -man remarked that he was
tfhe "least prosperous of three
brothers , and yet these brothers
IStad Trot seen fit to supply their
lioineB with this convenience-
The Heed of More Water in the
' Home
'"Water is a poor, master;' but
'it is a good servant when you
frave control over it. ' ' The health
and comfort of the family depend
more certainly upon an abundant
-supply of pure, wholesome ivater
than any other commodity. Ba
rbies are being dosed on soothing
t syrups, laxatives, and other ' ' re J
falators" when without doubt
rail they need is water ; clean, pure,
-systematically given. Men . and
"women are today suffering fromi
Kidney, liver and other organic
disorders and are dosing their ,l.
"bodies upon patent drugs when
'in all probability the body is
straving for water.
It is perfect folly, to advise; a
"bousewife to use water more free
Tly in the diet and bout the house
' bold work when every drop of
"the precious fluid must be drawn,
-pail by pail, out of a 50-foot well
'or carried up a hill. ' . "
Notwithstanding the fact tha t;
-some of our good men folks arc
8ceptics about these "new-fangl
cd sanitary', notions,".; the" provi-
sion of a bountiful supply of pure
water to the farmhouse is the first
-step toward progress. " Not only
should there be an adequate sup
ply of water, but it must, be purtK
"Beautiful, clear, sparkling v.ter
- oes not always represent purity
"Water loaded with typhoid fever
germs may be most enticing - as
to appearance and quality. In
-order to insure a safe supply -to
'the farmily, the , person who lo
cates the well should understand
"the under-ground drainage ot the
"locality. The well may be locat
ed at a safe distance from the
'barns and other out-buildings and
. ct the water may: be constant! v
polluted with surface and 'under
ground contimination. I ; - . .
A Problem lor the Housewife. :
Given the well in the most safe,
sanitary spot about : the premises,
let us put our heads together and
see ! if there : is. not some way by
which the water may be tranf err
ed into the house. . Instead of ac
quiring that extra acre o C land
let us spend $45 for an up to date
bath-room equipment and inclose
an end of the back porch oradd
an extra room for .a bathroom.
Two. dollars will buy a beautiful
porcelain-lined -kitchen sin and
a small, sum added will, furnish
the pipes and other requisites for
running water m the .kitchen.
An agent "for gasoline engines
told me not long ago that when ar
ranerinsr to pipe water from the
well to the barn for. the farm ani
mals an extra expenditure of from
$3 to $5 oftentimes would.be suffi
cient to pipe water to the farm
house also, and that it way only
on the rarest occasions that the
man of the house. regarded the
proposition with favor- I have no
quarrel with a man who . sees
things that way, but I have a very
serious and ' abiding - grievance
with any housewife who, will tol
erate or sumbit to such neglect-
This Month in the Garden.
Do not let the farm work make
you neglect the garden. There
are not near as many vegetables
grown and eaten on the Southern
farms as, should be. Do not be
content with a row of' snaps, but
keep planting them to' have a con
stant succession till frost, and
then have a large uot. to gather
t down in for the
wjnte v
Ke& up ft succession Gf sweet
corn, ,too, and do not depend on
thfi field for.roastine-ears. Have
'some late tomato 'plants that will1
come in after the early ones are
weakened by the hot weather and
fruiting so that you can have a
constant supply till frost threat
ens and then a lot of green ones
to put away wrapped, in paper to
ripen.- I have them usually till
after Christmas- ', -t , " w -.
Eggplants are not grown , by
private gardeners as they should
be. They need rich soil and good
cultivation, and if you have not
raised any, you can get the plants'
trom pots,irom tne leading-seed ,fiu";uu uraggmg an oia pian
houses, and these are easily trans- fter wheel through the corn rows
planted.
Late in June or July sow seed
of parsnips and salsify for winter
use. Also sow some half-long
Danvers carrots. - These can all
stand in the rows where they grew
all winter and .will be very ac
ceptable in the winter.
June is too early to start win
ter cabbage in the South. I will
tell about these in July. . If the
summer cabbages are affected by
the yellow side rot, the : only
thing is to- quit planting them in
the particular soil, but try to get
uninfected soil for the crop- 1
Keep the garden clear of weeds
and a constant succession of
weeds, and last spring the cut
worms the next - season- Last
spring was the first season my
garden had ever been worked as
a garden. The land had been ly-
ing out , vacant and grown up with as much askimmilk for pig feed
weeds, and last -spring hte cut- ihg- . . , . ,
worms were terrible. 1 slaugh-j;
tered them by mixing Some wheat
bran in sweetened' water to dam-
pen it, and then mixed 1 part of ,
the Paris green to 40 parts of the
bran;' and sprinkled the plants, r
The garden was cleanly cultivat
ed -all last summer and fall and
no weeds left for the beetles to
lay eggs in, and this spring I have
had hardly? any cutworms. A gar
den lqft to grow weeds in the fall
will ' always be full of cutworms
in the spring. : ,
Caught the Lion's Eye.;
A middle aged man stopped in
front. of one of the lion cages in
the Central park menagerie and
gazed intently at the head of the,
old hnimal that; was lying down:
Tiear the- iron bars, nerfaces the
New York; Sun. After keeping
his eyes on the inmateat the cage
for several minutes he made
pases with his hand toward it.
The; lion's, head gradually went
down onto his paws 1 and he ap
peraed to be asleep. - :
. 'Great is science J." the visi
tor said. "The books say one can
hypnotize any wild beast' if near
enough to hold" his eye while
casting .the spell and I have.suc
ceeded.'' ;.' ..." ' ''' 'r
; 'Hypnotize nothing! That old
lion has been.blind in his near eye
for years," the keep er, said; ;
SEASON TO STORE MOISTURE
Rainfall Below Average and Wise
Farmer Will Conserve u Supply
For Use of Crops Later On.
- This is. the season of the year
when; inbisture is usually stored
in' the ' soil by. copius rainfall for
use of plant life during July and
August : when rainfall is usually
deficient.
The rainfall is remarkable be
low the average this season and
the wise , farmer will; use every
means available) conserve the
supply, for use . of .his crops later
on., :
When soil has been loosened to
a good depth.it forms a reservoir.
the water from' a rain slowly
moves downward through it until
absorbed,, and each minute grain
of earth becomes covered with an
invisible-film of moisture. After
a rain the .sun and wind dry out
the surface soil and. carry away
the moisture contained in it. Then
the jvater from the' damper soil
below moves upward to wet the
surface grains and is in turn evap
orated. This movement continues
in land not cultivated and ex
tends to a depth of several feet,
often in a dry time, taking out
of the soil in. a week mpisture
equal "to more than an inch of
rainfall.
When the surface soil is stirred
after a rain the tiny grains , are
separated so that the water does
not easily pass from one to an
other. The movement of-the
moisture is checked and evapora
tion is greatly reduced. Such
shallow cultivation is called an
earth mulch, because it v has the
effect of holding the moisture in
the soil, as that effected by " a
mulch of straw or a covering of
boards. -
The farmer's supply of mois
ture for maturing a crop of corn
during July and August often de
pends upon his skill and judgment
in maintaining an earth ' mulch
over his cultivated 'fields. He
should study, the principles gov
erning tne absorption and move
ment of water in the soil, until
he thoroughly: understands and
appreciates them.. Then .he can
intelligently conduct the opera
tions for maintaining the earth
mulch. . ; ; ?
IMany farmers iti various parts
of the country have tried the ex-
aner the last cultivation with a
view of pulverizing the soil and
filling the cracks in the ground,
thus preventing the . escape . of
moisture and adding several bush
els per acre to the yield of the
crop- While these experiments
has proven, successful in a large
degree, it was found that the
planter wheel often injured .the
brace roots of the corn, besides
often becoming clogged with clods
or trash that prevented thorough
work.
Live Stock Notes,
Sunshine is good for the pigs.
.Keep them in it.
The hogs ' should not be allow
ed to become; lousy. -
It is perfectly feasible to use
green oats for silage.; . '
Whey is worth about, one-half
,The boars should e kept in sa
pen and yard some distance from
the sows- '
Pigs will begin to eat at four
weeks old, and soonerjf sow is a
poor suckler. 'v
The shoats should not be kept
in the same enclosure with the
brood sows. .,; . . A
. Get the young pigs out on the
ground as soon as the" weather
will permit. - :
The swill or feed barrel should
be welLcleaned and scalded "every'
week, at; least. :- ' " '
Hogs ; enjoy ' being scrubbed
with warm water and soap and
it is good for them;
Keep the sleeping quarters and
feeding places clean
nd thor-
oughly disinfected.
. Nothing will retard the growth
or cripple a young pig so quick
ly as to keep it on a board floor.
Spray with- some good disin
fectant, : and grease all ; over
andj don't neglect the inside of the
ears(- . :.
y Good skimmilk ,is worth 25c
per hundred for pig feeding when
corn sells for 50 cents per bushel.
J Cowpeas and com make excel
lent silage, or . the mixture may be
used, to furnish the best of sheep
and hog pasture. i : : : "
V Excepting oil meal a- farmer
should grow all the varieties of
feeds necessary, to the most suc
cessful swine husbandry; , 1
RAISE SQUABS AS SIDE LUTE
Industry Can Be Made QuitePro
fitable With Proper Manage
ment-r-Start With Pure ; Breed.
An; advertisement "lately for "a
bunch of . common pigeons is a
good illustration of the way some
people get into the squab business
the right wayl Any person ; who
starts ; squab ? raising for- profit
with common pigeons leaves r be
hind all chance for. success. -Imagine
4 't feeder starting with a
small-bodied bird as the common
pigeon for market breeding,; when
the market to date is demanding
a nine and ten pounds-to:the-dozen
squab ! Even when there is a scar
city of squarbs 5 the. common pig
eon is a poor seller, and when the
offerings increase there is no de
mand for; such stock. It is just
this kind of novice that is; respon
sible for "knocking" the squab
industry, and also the reason for
some of the failures. ,
Many try to put the squab busi
ness in tne same questionaDie
class' as the Belgian hare and
others, but even that animal had
to suffer fornany things human
being were'f reasonable ifor ' It
is a sure thing that the squab busi
ness as a side line to poultry will
give . gooa returns wnen Dusmess
ideas and methods are applied.
There are many' who have been
at it for years,' and, while not
making a big cry over results,
keept right at it year atfer year,
saying but little, but surely get
ting good results- Americans are
not in the habit of continuing any
oslng venture many years.
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7 Value of Cowpeas.
Mr. C. R. Hudson, state agent
of the demonstration work, writes
as follows: -
Again we desire to remind far
mers of the importance of plant
ing every available, uncultivated
acre to cowpeas-
They are' valuable for the fol
owing reasons. :
" They are . fairly good '. human
food- - . -. ':-
The are one of our most nutrit-
ous foods for stock.
If turned under, the wines add
considerable fertility to the land.
If picked, the peas alone are
worth from six to twelve dollars
per acre. s ;
The 'vines that grow on an acre
are worth from five to ten dol-
ars for stock food .
Through their roots peas put
into the soil from four to six dol-
ars worth of nitrogen per acre. .
The vines, roots and stubble
help to make soil loose and easi-
y. cultivated. ;
.When decaying they help to
convert mineral substances into
valuable plant food.
.They absorb and retain mois
ture that will aid the next crop
o go through a drought easily.
They shade the soil during the
hottest part of the summery thus
aiding in the formation of valua
ble nitrates-
The roots of peavines are good
subsoilers. They so to consider
able depths and open up the
earth so that air and water can
make a deeper soil.
Peas get their nitrogen from the
air, free of cost to the farmer, so
hat .very little nitrogen is need
ed in w their fertilizers except for
poor soils. . -
Peas feed strongly upon the sup
ply of Dotash and phosphoric u 1,
therefore these substances should
be supplied to them. Many, pea
crops; fail for -lack of acid and
potash. ; . ; ;: ; - - " ...-.; ':.,-;
The price of ' peas is high, ;L
this does not keep the wise far
mer fronv.planting. them.- He" is
thinking of the ten dollars in value
fie is to receive later for every
dollar invested ? in them now.:
Let no farmer neglect .to plant
abundantly of this important crop
Plant some for hay ; plant some
on poor land for : turning under,
plant4 some for grazing by horses,
cows, hogs and other farm stock ;
and by all means plant and culti
vate a few acres from which to
obtain seed peas, for, next year's
planting. "Then you will rejoice
ifthe price is high- ; - ; ;
k Paper From MiUet Stalks, -- :
The Japanese manufacture
much qi their paper 7 from millet
stalks. ;V Manchuria furnishes
about two hundred and .forty
thousand tons of pulp a year.1 ' 4
'; Condensation d
Do you use condensed milk at
your house I guess so- We
order a quart a day, and the milk
man squeezes it into a can . jthat
holds about a pint.
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CORNO will measure 3 2-3 bushels to every,100 lb. bag.
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