Farm
Department
Derated to the Iatemta •! Ti»tl
Eaiated ia Africa Mara i Paraaita.
Caadactad by J. M. Beaty
WATER FOR THE STOCK.
This hot dry weather it is very
important that all stock should have
plenty of good water. Horses and
joules should have access to water ev
ery three or four hours especially if
they are at work. Cattle should be
watered at least twice a day. Hogs
and other stock should have plenty
of water. It will require extra at
tention but every farmer should see
to it that there is plenty of water in
easy reach of all stock. It is to be
hoped the drought will not continue
long.
GREEN CORN FOR STOCK.
Our rule is to feed green corn free
ly ♦ o stock. From about this time
and on every year we cut. it and
give it to hogs. They eat the stalk
and ear. It is not as good a feed
for them as sorghum cane but makes
a fine substitute for it and comeB
earlier. If grass becomes scarce
we feed green com to cattle. In
this case the ears can be saved for
other stock unless it is thought best
to give some of them to the cattle.
We feed green corn to horses and
mules giving them only a small quan
tity at first. This should be given
them at night and should never be
depended on to take the place of
Other feed except to a limited extent.
By giving them their green feed at
night it is digested before they go
to work next day. This is an eco
nomical feed as they eat the stalk,
the fodder, the shuck and the tas
te! as well as the ear.
PEAS IN COTTON.
Did you ever plant any peas In cot
ton? We suppose you replanted sonu
cotton with peas and that the vines
ran across the rows and up the
cotton stalks and gave you trouble.
We have learned a better way which
is to sow peas in every other middle
when the cotton is plowed the last
time about August 1st. By sowing
them late they do not run hardly at
all but grow straight up and so are
not in the way of the cotton pick
ers Sowing only every other mid
dle leaves clean middles for the
pickeis. The peas sown in the cot
ton should be sown on the poorest
land. There they are most needed
enr. would not be overcome by the
rank cotton. For several years we
have done this with satisfactory re
sults. You could hardly expect to
gather n crop of peas sown so late.
If you have any seed peas left ov
er. try them in your cotton.
Eleven Inches of Rain Short.
Col. Fred A. Olds was here last
Saturday and in speaking about the
drought said that in Kaleigh and
the country around there they were
short eleven inches of ruin from
January 1st to July 1st. In other
words there fell there ten inches less
water than usually comes down to
wet the earth at that season of the
year.
Milk Cows of 1,000 Gallons.
Experience has shown that the
quality of cow that produces 1,000
gallons of milk per year requires no
more food than the one that gives
only 350 gallons. That is a long
reach, front 350 to 1,000 gallons, and
one looking at the matter thus can
readily see how much feed he is
wasting on poor cows. One of the
dairy experiment stations illustrate1",
the matter aB follows:
A cow consuming the same amount
of food that the average dairy cow
consumes and producing 350 gallons
of milk per year, produces it at a
cost of 23c per gallon; a cow produc
ing 470 gallons of milk per year, pro
duces it at a cost of 20.5 cents per
gallon; a cow producing 590 gal
lons per year, produce it at a cost
of 18 cents per gallon; a cow produc
ing 710 gallons per year, produces it
at a cost of 14.5 centB per gallon; a
cow producing 830 gallons per year,
produces it at a cost of 12 cents per
gallon; and a cow that gives 950 gal
lons of milk in one year, produces it
for 9.5 cents per gallon. And so we
might go on until we reach the pro
duction of Colantha 4th's Johanna
who in one year produced 3,190 gal
lons of milk. If fed the same ra
tion as the average cow she would
have produced this prodigious amount
for 2.7 cents per gallon. However,
this does not hold true beyond a pro
duction of 900 or 1,000 gallons for
the reasons that animals producing
AUCh large amounts require an extra
Amount of feed and care.—Indiana
Jarmer.
The Bane of the Idle Acre.
Have you an Idle acre on vour
farm? If bo, why not at once put,
it to some use—if for no other rea- j
son, that it may work no injury to |
yourself or to your neighbor? Every |
such acre, in a settled community is ,
an accuser, branding its owner—so j
says a contemporary—“as either ,
thoughtless, wasteful or shiftless; |
possibly all three.” On any such
acre, weeds may grow sufficient to
“seed down” a township and to In
crease the labor b of the whole farm
ing population. The broad areas of
uncultivated land, which form so
large a percentage of thousands of
Minnesota farms, are a standing in
dictment of our systems of land-own
ership and taxation, as unreasonable
and unjust. No man should be en
titled to hold more land than he can
fully cultivate or make otherwise use
ful to the community; aB for in
stance, in the growing of timber trees
or in the maintenance of a well
stacked fish-pond. Idle land should
be so heavily taxed that nobody could
afford to keep it out of use—it must
he “Cultivate or sell!” But instead
of observing this just rule, we pun
ish with heavier taxation the farm
er v ho improves and enriches his
land, and let off, with only nominal
taxation, the owner of Idle acres.—C.
R. Barns, University Farm, in Indian*
Farmer.
Warning.
We have said it before, but it
will bear repeating, so let us re
peat: Don't buy patent rights, high
priced books, gilt-framed chromos, oil
or mining stocks, or wonderful inven
tions from traveling agents. You
nearly always get swindled when
you do. The only safe plan with
unknown agents is to let them strict
ly alone.—Progressive Farmer.
Fight the Drouth.
The experloment station here is re
ceiving so many Inquiries in regard to
the proper methods of cultivating
corn during dry weather that it is
deemed advisable to call attention
to some means of saving soil moist
ure and of fighting the drouth that
is threatening the entire state this
summer.
Very little can be done to save the
uncultivated crops, like oats and
grass, but so far as corn or any
other cultivated crop is concerned, a
drouth may be effectively fought
by continued and persistent cultiva
tion of tht; right sort. If a mulch
of loose, dry soil is kept on the
ground, a great amount of water will
be saved that would otherwise come
to the surface of the soil and evapo
rate and be lost. The most effective
mulch is one about three inches deep,
made by a small shoveled, shallow
running implement that will leave
the ground practically level. A spring
tooth cultivator with six or eight,
shovels on each gang is one of the
best implements for dry weather, or
a one horse garden plow after the
corn is too large to work with the
ordinary cultivator. If other imple
ments are used they should bo run
shallow, so as not to disturb the
corn roots at a time when they are
so badly needed. Those small-tooth
ed implements leave a loose, dry
layer of soil on top for a mulch,
which acts like a blanket thrown
over the ground, and keeps the wa
ter from being lost by evaporation.
The drier the weather, the oftener
a man should cultivate, in order to
keep a good mulch, and cultivation
should be done at least once a week
in a drouth. It is a good plan to
continue the cultivation even after
the corn is too large to plow with
the ordinary cultivator. A one horse
garden plow, or even an old mower
wheel weighted down and dragged
between the rows will give good re
sults, and in such dry weather as
the present will add considerable to
the yield of the crop.
Some people have the idea that it
does no good to cultivate corn during
dry weather, when It is clean and
the ground loose, but this Is a mis
taken idea. The oftener one culti
vates, the more water he will save,
for if the ground is left urstirred
very long, the particles settle to
gether again and the water can get
through the mulch to the surface of
the ground, and hence be wasted.
The only way to fight a drouth in
the corn field is by continued and
persistent, shallow and level culti
vation, and the man who follows this
plan will win out when he goes to
harvest his crop.—C. B. Hutchinson,
University of Missouri, in Wallace’s
Fanner.
Right in your busiest season when
you have the least time to spare
you are most likely to take diar
rhoea and lose several days
time, unless you have Chamber
lain’s Colic, Cholera and Diar
rhoea Remedy at hand and take a
dose on the first appearance of the
disease. For sale by All Dealers.
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Don't Fall To Raise Hay,
The late spring and the drought
having so seriously reduced the yield
of the hay, clover and oat crops it
will behoove the farmer to give
more than usual attention this month
to the seeding of forage crops of ev
ery kind to make good this deficien
cy. We can yet, with an average
season, make feed in abundance for
the needs of all the live stock and j
to sell. If this is not done, either
the head of live stock will have to
be reduced or much money have to
go out for long feed. Hay is, in our ,
opinion, going to be dear and Bcarce
next winter. At the present time
it is selling in the Western cities at
$26 per ton, and the hay crop prom
ises to be a very light one out there.
—The Southern Planter.
The Making of Men and Women.
We hear so much of the exception
al men and women who made great
success of life, though deprived in :
their youth of most educational ad
vantages, that we are possibly in dan
ger at times of concluding that good
school training—high-school and col
lege training, especially—is of doubt
ful value when it comes to the win
ning of life’s prizes. Every now
and then, too, some man who, despite
a neglected education, has acquired a
lot of money in business—a success
ful merchant, or manufacturer, or far
mer—takes occasion to say that, in
his opinion, the training given in the
schools is of little value to the
man who wants to make money.
Some of these men seem to think,
in fact, that they have succeeded
largely because of their lack of
schooling.
Now, we do not believe that the
making of money is the true test of
success in life; nor is the attainment
of prominence and popularity, even
the best test; but it is a normal hu
man desire to have plenty of money,
and to achieve “reputation."
Let us look, then, at some figures
for a moment and see what they
teach us as to the value of college
training.
First, as to the financial side. A
few weeks ago the incomes of as
many members as could be reached
of a recent graduating class at Dart
mouth College were tabulated. The
average income of these men was
considerably over $2,000 a year; on
ly in a very few cases were they
making less than $1,000, Compare
this with what the average man who
hasn't been to college makes.
As to the college man's chances of
making a reputation, perhaps the
best answer is to be found in “Who's
Who in America.” This is a book
in which all the more prominent Am-!
ericans—those who have made any
marked reputation in any line—are
enrolled. In the latest volume, 17,
046 names are recorded. Of these 1
just about 7 out of every 10 have
j attended some institution of higher
! learning. As only a very small pro
portion of the men and women who
■ might have been famous have at
tended any of these higher schools, 1
it becomes too evident for question- j
ing that one’s chance of becoming '
distinguished is increased many fold
by a course of study in high school
or college.
This being granted, then—and it
would be presumption to dispute it—
the practical application would seem
to be smiply this: It is to the best
interest of every boy and girl, of
every young man and woman, to get
all the school training possible.
All schools are not equally good; ;
we do not believe that the courses of
study in most of our schools and
colleges are as well adapted as they
might be to the needs of the boys
and girls who attend them; we re
cognize the fact that if one has the
ability he can succeed with few edu- ■
cational opportunities, and that no
amount of schooling can give one
character or will-power or common
sense, if these be lacking; but all
ihis does not alter the rule for the
average boy or girl —the more school
training the better.
To all those, then, who are inter
ested in the making of men and wo
men of the right type—honorable,
cultured, broad minded, efficient—we
would say: Give to the boys and
girls of your family or your neigh
borhood the very best educational op
portunities possible and Inspire them
to follow the path of learning just
as far as they can go. “Too much
schooling" may have injured a few
weak minds here and there. We do
not know. We do know, however,
that for lack of educational opportuni
ties thousands of lives have fallen
far short of the dignity and useful
ness to which they might have at
tained.—Progressive Farmer.
Never leave home on a journey
without a bottle of Chamberlain's Col- j
ic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. ;
It is almost certain to be needed and
cannot be obtained when on board ;
the cars or steamships. For sale by ■
All Dealers. ;
American People Deserting Farms.
The people of the United States
are steadily deserting the country
and the farm for the turmoil and de
lights o' the city and town, according
to statistics made public by the cen
sus bureau. During the past ten
years the percentage of people liv
ing in cities or other incorporated
places of more than 2,500 inhabitants,
increased from 40.5 to 46.3 of the to
tal. Twenty years ago only 36.1 per
cent of the total population lived in
such incorporated places.
In classifying the 1910 census re
turns the bureau calls that portion of
the population in incorporated cities
or towns of 2,500 or more inhabitants
urban and the remainder rural. On
this basis, in 1910, 42,623,383, or 46.3
per cent of the total lived in urban
territory and 49,348,883, or 53.7 per
cent in rural territory.—Washington
Dispatch.
Exports of Farm Products Increase.
According to recent reports from
the Government Bureau of Statistics
exports of farm products for the year
ending with the month of June will
aggregate a billion dollars. This
speaks well for the producers as it
is a great increase over last year.
For instance the value of the exports
of cotton are approximately 690 mil
lion, against 450 million in 1910. Meat
and dairy products show an increase
in exports for eleven months of 135V2
million this year as against 120 mil
lion for the same months of last
year. This increase is due in near
ly all cases to larger quantities, the
price being in most cases about the
same as, or lower than, last year.
More than half of the meats and
most of the cotton was purchased by
Europe. This was also the chief cus
tomer of wheat, cotton seed oil, live
cattle and tobacco. Canada, Japan
and Mexico were large importers al
so.—Indiana Farmer.
Happiest Girl in Lincoln.
A Lincoln, Neb., girl writes, “I
had been ailing for some time with
chronic constipation and stomach
trouble. I began taking Chamber
lain's Stomach and Liver Tablets and
in three days I was able to be up
and got better right along. I am
the proudest girl in Lincoln to find
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All Dealers.
Cultivation and Bacteria.
All experienced farmers know that
cultivation by means of the dust
mulch thereby saves moisture and
in that way benefits crops. Many
people do not know, however, that,
cultivation is beneficial in another |
way; that it encourages the growth •
of good bacteria known as the nitri- j
tying bacteria. These good germs !
require for their growth air, warmth
and moisture; they cannot live in
dry, packed soils in which the air
is shut out.
The nitrifying bacteria might be
called cooks for the plants since they
prepare plant food from raw mater
ial. They deal, however, with but
one kind, nitrogen. Nitrogen is the
element of soil fertility which makes
the large, dark green leaves.
Yellow corn leaves, so common i i
a dryr season, are not alone due to
drouth but to the lack of nitrogen be
cause the beneficial bacteria cannot
thrive in a packed soil.—Wallace's 1
Farmer.
Free Remedy
Helps Children
Many a mother has learned of a way
of avoiding sickness in her family, es
pecially among the children, by the
use of a free sample bottle of the fa
mous laxative, Dr. Caldwell’s Syrup
Pepsin. 1 his offer of the doctor’s to
send a free sample bottle has been re
sponded to by thousands of women
in all parts of America.
This Dr. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin Is a
^ wonderful laxative and especially
adapted to the needs of babies and
children because it is pleasant to taste
and no child will refuse It. Then, it Is
nev*r *ri»ea It is all that
a childs remedy should be, though It is
a good laxative for the whole family
because it is effective at all ages. It
is simply not dynamic like salts, pills
and powerful cathartics, which should
not be given to children anyway.
Nine times out of ten when a child
complains and you don’t know exactly
what 1* the matter with it. it needs a
laxative—its bowles are constipated.
Syrup Pepsin will correct the trouble,
tone up the child and soon it will be
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sults have been secured with Syrup
i 6psin>
You can buy It of any druggist at
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ioctor s expense. Send him your ad
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rhen when satisfied buy it of your fav
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Dr. Caldwell does not feel that the
purchase of his remedy ends his obli
gation. He has specialised in stomach,
liver and bowel diseases for over forty
rear* and will be pleased to give the
reader any advice on the subject free
jf charge AH are welcome to write
Mm. Whether for the medical advice
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