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Page Pourte6ll AN EXPERT FOR EVERY FARM. C. W. McCormack Says Farmers Should Co-operate to Employ One Man to Devote His Whole Time to Planning the Handling of Their Crops. A few weeks ago I urged the im portance of every farmer who could do so, to attend the State Agricul tural College. All can not do this, but you can inform yourself by tak ing and reading several good agri cultural papers, like the Farmers Home Journal,” and others suited to your special kind of farming or stock feeding. Another good and coming plan is for each county or commun ity to hire an expert; the Consulting farm expert, an agricultural author ity who will spend all his time the year around telling the farmers what to do and what not to do, at a stated salary paid by those receiving the agricultural scientist’s advice, is to be a new force in agriculture. “It has been only a few years, since the so-called book farming was a matter of derision in the average ru ral community. Now, however, this is no longer true. The farmer is seeing the light, and everywhere the agricultural colleges are leading the fight for improved methods in rais ing crops and handling and breeding live stock. In this connection I will make this prediction; that within less than five years, groups of farmers all over the States will band together and hire an agricultural college ex pert and put him in charge of their farming operations in an advisory capacity. “Why, for instance, should not a hundred farmers whose farms are lo cated in close.proximity to each oth er put up $25 each and hire a high class scientific agricultural man who will put in the whole year going from one farm to the other advising each one of the hundred how to deal most intelligently and effectively with all their various farm problems? He would see to it that they selected the right kind of seed; that the seed-beds for their various crops were properly prepared, advising them how to best adjust their methods of cultivation to the character of the season, etc. He would help the farmer plan a suitable crop rotation with the idea of building in the fertility of his soil as well as instruct him in the breed ing and feeding of all kinds of live stock and other farm problems. Cost Small, Profit Earge. That every one of the hundred farmers would get his $25.00 back many times over during the year, there is not the slightest doubt. In the meantime, it would mean a sal ary of $2,500 for the man so employ ed and lots of able agricultural col lege instructors are not getting this large a salary to-day. Once this com mon-sense system gets a foothold the agricultural colleges will not be able to turn out men fast enough to fill the positions. It also opens a mighty interesting field of work for hun dreds of bright, ambitious farmer boys whose practical experience would make them ideally suited for positions of this kind. “Systems somewhat similar have been practiced in some of the Old World nations. The manufacturer employs his highly paid chemists and other experts. Why should not the farmer adopt the same policy? The time is here when we must ‘carry the message of better farming,’ when we must take the .information which our agricultural colleges have gathered together through years of experi menting to the farmer’s very door. It Is one thing to try to convert him by means of bulletins—but a vastly different and more effective thing to have some competent man say to him face to face, ‘Now let’s do this thing this way and that thing that way.’ ” Seventy-fite per cent of the farm ers of Kentucky are wasting their time and not getting good results for their labor and the capital invest ed in their farming. Over 50 per cent of the hogs and cattle coming to markets are poorly fatted and sold at a loss to the raiser and feeder. By the farmer inform ing himself, there is not a more pleasant nor profitable occupation than the up-to-date, wide-awake, well informed twentieth century farmer. —Farmers’ Home Journal. STATE’S BIGGEST CROP YEAR. Reports received by the State Board of Agriculture show the crop of cotton, corn, and small grains in 1911 to have been the largest in the history of the State. The corn crop of the State amounted to 58,000,000 bushels. The wheat crop totaled 7,- 433,000 bushels. The oat crop amounted to 3,458,000 bushels. The cotton crop amounted to 1,123,104 bales. Taking the figures for the year 1909, the comparison is of interest. For that year the crop reports show: Corn, 34,063,531 bushels; wheat, 3,- 827,045 bushels; oats, 2,782,508 bushels; cotton, 665,132 bales. The cotton crop last year was almost double that of 1909, and the corn and wheat crops show almost the same gain, with a good showing for the oat crop. The reports show that the average yield of corn last year was 22 bush- 1 els per acre. The average yield of cotton was 315 pounds, or 50 per cent, above the average. The average in Oklahoma was 207.7 pounds and in Texas 186 pounds. These figures go to show that the farmers of North Carolina are be coming expert in the production of corn and cotton. In addition, there is noticeable improvement along oth er lines and the farmers are produc ing more grasses for the feeding of stock.—Selected. CLEANING UTENSILS. A brush and washing powder should be regularly used in order to keep the cans and other utensils clean and sweet. A little slacked lime is also very good for this pur pose. A prominent dairyman has said: “I remember some years ago, while in Denmark, that the inspec tor came to a creamery and found a young man, who was learning the trade, washing utensils with a rag instead of a bush. The inspector stepped up to him and asked gently what kind of an article he was using and was answered, ‘A rag.’ The in spector replied; ‘Young man, one of you must leave the creamery this very instant; either you or the rag.’ The rag departed by way of fire.” Rags may come handy in the houeshold but they do not belong in the creamery as an article to clean I with, and a rag does not belong to I milk utensils on farmsfi either. Use a brush and scalding water. Your cans and strainer will be clean and ever ready to stand inspection. When the cans are washed, do not put them on the ground upside down but give the sun and wind a chance to keep them clean and sweet. It will require very little time to make a rack to hold the cans, not upside down, but on the side with a little slant, so that the water will run off and the sun and wind will do the I finishing part and dry them. They 1 will be kept pure and you will never hear complaints about dirty and fil thy cans. Study Your Wheat Before You Harvest It If the yield and quality are bad you must do better. If they are good it will pay you to make them better. A better fertilizer will do it The usual wheat fertilizers do not contain enough POTASH Use 6 to 8 per cent Potash, instead of l to 2, and balance the phosphoric acid of the bone or phosphate. TeU Your Dealer about this Now ^eforo.the fertilizer salesman arrives. Write us today for our free book. Fall FerUlizers. We sell Potash Salts tn any amount from 1 ias (^00 lbs.) up. Wrtte for prices, stating quantity needea. GERMAN KALI WORKS, Inc. 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By my plan, fully explained in my free book, you, or » other fruit grower, can turn the heretofore wasted, per ^ able fruits and vegetables Into good, hard American aou“ —by canning them right on the farm or in the orcna‘ g with my Stahl Portable Canning Outfit-thus turning waste Into gold—turning loss Into profit. nd There Is always an ever Increasing o6°‘“nd for good, home-made canned fruits vegetables among the merchan _ hotels, restaurants and private lies In your own locality. a*- Why not you have this and a big one—nob to be deri from any other source? CANNING OUTFITS Turn Waste Into Gold ^ Each Stahl Portable Canning Outfit Is a complete canning factory, ^a^ylng ortB ^ capacity. Costs but little to start—costs but little to run, process so sirnple that one can run a Stahl Portable Canning Outfit—Is a big money-maker fro™ tb® ' ® hour. You can can In glass or tin with sure results. 1 supply everything you n including valuable canning formula* no 6xpGri6nc6 wbatGVGr nGCGSsary. 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Where you cannot get sufficient good, green stuff from your garden for either young and growing chicks or for old ones there is nothing that will well supply that want or de ficiency as well-sprouted oats. It can be accomplished by using boxes about fifteen inches wide by two feet long and four inches deep. Soak in luke warm water for not more than twen ty-four hours in hot weather, then drain off the surplus water, spread ing the oats out in the boxes to a depth of an inch and a half, over which spread a wet burlap, and wet every day with warm (not hot) wa ter. This can all be managed out of doors at this season of the year and is not much trouble. In cold weath er, of course, it will have to be han dled I na warm room or cellar. Af ter three or four days, and the oats begin to sprout well, you can take the burlap off and put a light sprink ling of soil on them, keeping them well watered. You will be surprised at what a crop of green stuff you will soon have, and it all makes feed that Is eaten with a relish—oat and all. By starting additional can have it coming on all the It fills a long-felt want and jg greatly for health. Just so the ^^^.g a difference in the color of the from different hens; some ^ yellow, others but little more a straw color; why this differenc ’^gg one can tell. Of course, the of feed and the abundance stuff will influence for rich co yolks to a greater or less degr®®'^gjgt with all this, some hens will P® x in giving us the palest of Southern Ruralist. ' r 11 “What is the reason,” irritated traveler from the “that the trains in this pa^l^ ^7 1 country are always behind have never seen any that ran ^ ing to schedule.” “That, suh,” replied the Georgian, “is a mattah that i explained. It is due to “o chivalry. “You see, suh, the trains ways late in this country ^ they wait for the ladies, ® them! ”
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