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Sattrday, May U915 V OUR WEEKLY LETTER FROM SUNNY HOME H. Creen Gr... About th. Home Bi j,A Lesson From the Cot "Market Situation - Clean Up FieU. and Us. Machinery : . tm THE outward aaormncuu i that grass taxes nr ia. bet nf the world-where tew tv' . ' gl ttsa to " " that it is not made; use of by people of taste to , lend its charms toward , the adornment of their homes, and, where if is- thus employed it very, generally is found . playing the major mr. French part acting as the base upon which a general beauty scheme is founded. To my mind, few grounds are ever as beautiful, no matter how adorned otherwise, as they would be were a rich sward present. A beautiful garden of roses or a splendidly grouped mass of shrub bery looks, as if the finishing touch were lacking until grass comes to add its charm to the foreground, and. I always catch myself looking to see if the rear grounds, too, have received the finishing touch that green grass gives. Rich men all over the United States purchase lots at prices that would stagger the ordinary farmer; then almost the first thing they do toward beautifying them is to seed heavily in grass and manure liberally to encourage the grass to put forth its greatest effort. The farmer can have around his home for almost nothing this same", beautifier that the man of -wealth pays his thousands for, and, too, it. will add more charm to the ordinary home than it will .'to the home that costs thousands. If you don't be lieve this take a plain log cabin out in an open fieldwhitewash - the building, then train vines to run over it, and all around grow a dense green carpet' of grass. If this place is within sight of the road you will find trav elers stopping to enjoy for a. brief period, the wonderful beauty of the scene. ' Let's do all we can to drive the desolate, barren dooryard out of bur Southland and if it is nowhere else on the farm let us have grass abdut pur homes, at least. There is no place in the South where with a -little work and less expense in cash some sort of grass cannot be made to grow. " the yards up deep this spring, the soil be poor, fertilize liberally, i-u &ow to cowpeas.; Cut the vines ;0tt.in August or September; level and ; smooth, the lawn carefully, .making we soil solid at the same time; then ow with the sort of grass that makes e best sod on the sort of soil you nave, -and in your climate. Many imes a very deep, sandy soil may be improved greatly by hauling clay and ng it a top-dressing of this. -- - . Jnhtbe a g00d thinS t0 kP i" h ade 'tfa?'thata few of our long d in f, uthern m have got rich exiJ seven-cent cotton and onP0S or holding anrselling ' ZllT BVket, The South all Wiole hasn't lost-by considerable1 the ml mney that has been lost on Sets tn u ' "pccc, until ne C u'?' as the ther fel- iere , rlSnt a".ived for th farmers and t" hrPistS to et w Xr ?eriods of - come t lirnl V inat time does meXMcto,change to h anvhor "iTork'.f0 don't androckme e m acradle' PUt I methods, and; his business so well financed, - that he will be abundantly able to care for himself during times of stress;-And a good time for us to make a sjjart toward this much-to-be-desired condition is right now, by fixing to,' feed ourselves and our, live-, stock this present year, and while we are about it let us raise enough of -food necessities-to' have-some-to sell.-Then-try to give the children on the farms a-better chance at school ing than they have ever had before. Then let us keep them on the farm, after the farm has furnished means for this education, byamong other things letting them4 know that be cause we have not made a roaring success of farming as a business, isn't by reason of anything being wrong with the business"; but that we are inefficiently equipped in training, or capital or both to handle our business and that we are now making it our business to see that our children are properly equipped for their life work, and are expecting them to push the business of agriculture into premier place among all the businesses of the land. It takes such" a, little time to re move from a field one single obstruct tion to cultivation that we all might do this much at least for our cultivated-fields this season. I know of one rock out in a big field that has cost the owner of the farm $2 or $3 in wasted time and broken-down plants during the past five years, and in one hour's time that we will call worth 50 cents I could have dug a hole beside, that rock .deep enough that, when the rock had been rolled into it, would have left nothing with in reach of the plow. Men have been working around . that rock for . 75 years. Everything of this sort adds to. the cost of production; and to re - duce the cost of production is our big. farm problem. The gradual removal of. obstruc tions has been a steady, business on Sunny Home Farm for 14 years now. Our experience last fall in seeding grain on the home place, where the 20-acre to 35-acre fields contain prac tically no obstructions, then going to the newly acquired farm, where the obstructions run from 30 to 100 per acre, was a practical demonstration to us that obstructions to cultivation are both vexatious and very costly. A. L. FRENCH. (19) 431 HOW THE FARMER CAN IN CREASE POULTRY PROFITS xro n. 1. xvhen the firm the time come caK 0 IT1 1 be so- well;edu ' 80 well trainedin bn.dnc Community Circles Recommended to Increase the Quality of the Produce of the Farmer's Poultry Yard Send for Bulletin No. 656 A. COOPERATIVE plan to reduce the enormous waste now caused by the careless marketing of eggs is outlined in Farmers' Bulletin 656, "The Community Egg Circle," which has just been published by the United States Department of Agriculture. It is estimated that under the present haphazard methods of gathering and marketing eggs nearly 8 per cent, of the country's" output is a total loss. Since the annual production of poul try and eggs in the United States is valued .at. more than $600,000,000-a sum equal to the value of the" hay or wheat crop the importance of reduc ing this loss is obvious. - The individual farmer too, often re gards his eggs as a mere by-product to which it is hardly worth his while to devote himself seriously; in conse quence he is inclined both to neglect his poultry and to gather his eggs whenever he happens to have a spare moment or two. In consequence the output' of his poultry yard is not only small to begin with, but a large pro portion of it has begun to. spoil before it reaches the hands of the country merchants. They usually buy the eggs' on "case count," paying the sanie price for good, bad, and indifferent. The large markets however, do not pay the same price and reject many altogether; in consequence the price per egg to the farmer is made suffi ciently low to provide a safe margin and to cover the loss on eggs of poor quality. These conditions have been so firm ly established by long usage that the individual unaided can do little to al ter them. Community cooperation, however, can quickly raise the stand ard of the eggs shipped from any one neighborhoodrandwithithestandard the price. The fancy trade is quite willing to pay more for a guaranteed article-and the extra cost of produc ing the guaranteed article is more in pains than in cash. The plan outlined in the bulletin al ready mentioned calls for the organi zation of a community egg circle which should include as soon as pos sible enough members to warrant the employment of a manager. Each mem ber agrees to gather his eggs daily, and in hot weather twice a day, to keep them in a cold place, and to de liver. none that is more than seven days' old. No eggs are to be washed and the male bird is to be kept away from the flock except during the mat ing season. The manager of the circle inspects, grades, and markets as a whole the deliveries the members make to him. Payment is made to the members in proportion to the number of eggs of each grade that they deliver and the prevailing market prices, less their proportion of necessary expenses. The bulletin also gives suggestions for convenient receipt forms which will enable the members to check up their payments with their deliveries. Such a system will enable the circle to make arrangements for the delivr ery of regular supplies to the best and most . discriminating class of trade; There- is always a demand for guaranteed eggs on the part of clubs, hotels, restaurants, and even .well-to-do private families, but the individual farmer rarely has a sufficient output to enable him to make a contract with any of these consumers, and the country merchant has no means to guarantee to the consumer the eggs that he buys from individuals over whom -he has no control. Coopera tive marketing also enables the eggs to be put up in attractive cartons which can be turned into valuable mediums of advertising and reduces the expense of shipments. The in creased returns, furthermore, will en-1 courage the producer to devote more time and care to his stock, better hens will be kept, they will be kept in better condition, and in consequence there will be more eggs as well as better ones to market. Every farmer should send for this bulletin. THE WHOLE OR NONE An Easterner who had bought a farm in California had heard of his neighbor's talent for raising large potatoes, so sent his farm hand over to get a hundred pounds. "You go back home," answered the talent ed farmer to the messenger, "and tell your boss that I won't cut a potato for any one." Exchange. "Every one in our family is some kind of an animal," said Jimmie to the amazed preacher. J, "Why, you shouldn't say that!"' the good man exclaimed. "Well," said Jimmie, "Mother's a dear, the baby is mother's little lamb, I'm the kid and dad's the goat." Exchange. EEMEMBER that India and Egypt will grow more food stuffs at the expense of Cotton acreage. It is your-opportunity,-whilst cutting down your acreage, to increase your yields of Cotton, and, by the use of well-selected seed, grow better Cotton of greater value than ever before. Nitrate of Soda will enable you to do this, For ft uffal liUraturo on Cotton and othtt crops nd pott card to WILLIAM S. MYERS, Director 25 Madison Avenue, NewYork Save Half Your Faint Bills By using INGERSOLL PAlNT-proved bet by 66 years' use. It will please you. Only paint endorsed by the "Grange. Made in all colors for all purposes. DELIVERED FREE From the Mill Direct to You at Factory Prices. INGERSOLL PAINT BOOM FREE Telli all about Paint and Painting for Durability. How to avoid trouble and exponso caused by palnU fading, chalking and pstling. 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