FARMER and PLANTER.
UP-TO-DATE FARMING.
Iteii'fitA to Hi' Derived from Gettings
Ont of tlie Old Hut* in Run
iiinfA tlie Karin,
The agricultural college of Illinois
has, during the past few years, made
a practice of sending one or more
members of its facultytoalmost every
farmers’ institute in the state to tell
what scientific agriculture is, and, in
cidentally, to advertise the college and
its work. This brings the college to
the people it was intended to educate
and benefit. It interests the. young
men and opens the eyes of those who
have grown gray tilling the soil. It.
has proved a great factor in over
coming the peculiar disfavor with
which “book farmers” have been re
garded by the old-style farmer,
These old men are beginning to see
that there is something more in farm
ing than mere plowing, sowing and
reaping. They are beginning to see
that learning creates skill, and that
skill is now a necessity on the farm.
The day of the ten-inch iron plow
and the hundred-pound six-foot har
row is past. The wearisome trudging
after such implements that made the
bright boy hate the farm is gone,
never to return. We now have imple
ments that require skill instead of
mere muscle to operate them to the
best advantage. The young farmer
is now almost an engineer. Instead
of merely steering a team of horses
or yoke of oxen across a field, shuf
fling along after them in a weary,
uninterested manner, he rides on the
implement and manages it so that he
accomplishes three to five times as
much as he could with the old-style
tools.
The managers and workers in the
experiment station connected with the
college have thoroughly tested most
of the improved implements manu
factured, and have learned which will
<lo the best work and give the best
satisfaction in the widely-different
soils in the state, and they tell this
to the farmers at their institutes so
that they may buy intelligently. This
one feature makes it well worth any
farmers’ time to attend the insti
tutes. Furthermore, they explain the
results of their work in improving
the cereals, especially corn; what the
soils in the different parts of the
state need to make them produce
better crops; the results obtained in
hundreds of experiments in the dairy
and in feeding- for milk, butter-fat,
in the management of cream, butter
and cheese. All these things are eye
openers to the old farmer who is still
jolting along in the rut his father
followed. They interest the young
farmer and lead him to investigate
these matters still farther to learn
how he may till his soil better and
at the least expense; how he may
increase the yield and value of his
crops to himself.
Said a farmer—one of those up-to
date farmers who are sufficiently alive
to their own interests to keep fully
abreast of the advance in agriculture:
“I have seventy acres of corn this
year, and it is yielding- about sixty
bushels an acre. Last year it yielded
one hundred and four bushels an
acre, but that was an exceptional sea
son. The coi n is good, ears large
and grain sound, ilut for a severe
storm in July,that broke down a large
number of stalks, the yield would
have reached eighty bushels an acre.”
I asked how he managed to secure
such a yield a season like the past.
*T’ll tell you,” he replied, “just how
I raise corn, then you can see for
yourself how I obtained such a fail
yield this season. I cut the stalks
with a stalk-cutter, plowed the laud
six inches deep, leading behind me a
horse dragging a section of harrow
six feet wide. The horse walked in
1he furrow behind me, and the har
row broke up the soil turned over by
the plow. Two days after the plow
ing 1 disked the land, setting the disks
nearly straight; then it was planted,
three and four grains to the hill three
feet apart. After the planting the
harrow with teeth slanted backward
one notch was kept going on it un
til the plants appeared. When about
four inches high w-e started the cul
tivators and kept them going, run
ning two to three inches deep, until
the plants were too high to pass un
der the bow. I disk after plowing
to fine the soil and crush it down
into the air-spaces formed under
neath the surface when the soil is
turned by the plow.”—Fred Grundy,
in Farm and Fireside.
A FEW. DAIRY GLEANINGS,
Their Prnctienl Application Min lit
Add to Profits Derived From
the Farm Cona.
It is not always the man with the
biggest, herd of cows who clears the
most money from his dairy.
Gilt-edged butter is more to be de
sired on the average consumer’s plate
than any delicacy of the season.
The reason that some farmers
never extract the latent gold in dairy
cows is that they persist in looking
to the grain and corn fields for it.
The dairywoman who churns he
fore “sun up” in the morning" often
makes firm-grained butter without
the use of ice.
It, is a curious fact, and yet true,
that some of the most profitable mo
ments anyone engaged in dairying
can spend are in repeated washing of
the hands.
It is a parody on cleanliness to try
to strain filth out of milk, when it
might have been obviated by the ex
ercise of the most ordinary precau
tions.
Despite all of the laws to the con
trary, skimmed cheese is yet sold for
“full cream,” and oleomargarine for
real butter. Where is the remedy?
Those people who consider milking
irksome will never make good dairy
men.
While it pays to raise hogs in con
junction with the dairy, it never has
or never will pay the manufactory to
keep the swine quartered near a
cheese factory or creamery.
In the writer’s experience, the av
erage man can not milk more than
ten cows with profit at one sitting.
The reason is that tired muscles can
not extract the milk from the udder
with proper facility. Moral: Do not
hug the delusion that you are econo
mizing when you throw a large
amount of work onto your milkers.
It is wanton waste to throw fodder
corn in the whole stalk before cows,
especially if the canes are spread
about the fields. The cattle will de
stroy with their hoofs at least half
of the fodder so fed. It will alway
pay to cut the canes up and feed
them from a manger.
Now and then we run against peo
ple who can be taught nothing more
in regard to dairying. These are
invariably the ones who are not mak
ing more than two-thirds possible
profits out of the business.
The woman who can make good
butter once a week is to be com
mended, but the one who can make it
uniformly good every day in the
week need look no further for a
profitable vocation.
Some consumers like butter salted
more than others, and the wise pro
ducer will always consult the tastes
of his customers in this regard.
Color is only skin keep in a cow; go
more by the contour and size of her
udder. I once knew a dairyman who
never purchased a new cow until he
himself had sat down and milked
her. It is needless to add that he
seldom made a poor purchase.-—Dr.
Geo. E. Newell, in Farmers’ Home
Journal.
untiooK l or me >1111111 runner.
The reassuring1 statements which
come from nearly every quarter of
the rice region of Texas concerning
well irrigation, conclusively estab
lishes that abundance of water can be
obtained from shallow wells, remote
from streams, and that this system of
irrigation will become general in the
rice belt.
This means that the individual
farmer will be numerous, as it enables
the man of comparatively small means
to go into the rice farming and own
his land.
The big canal companies will soon
have occupied all of the prairie land
on the available water courses, while
the shallow well proposition will re
main for any man who wants to grow
rice on 50 or 100 acres anywhere in
the coast country.—Rice Industry.
HERE AND THERE.
-
—Veal calves, like lambs, usually
bring fancy prices; often more than
they will bring as yearlings. The time
to market an animal is when it will
bring the best price.
—Wheat, oats, millet, corn and
grass arc the. best egg-foods known.
Millet seed, sunflower seed, insects
and table scraps are claimed by many
to be good for the same purpose.
—The lean and hungry look of the
best dairy cows lias led the unthink
ing to assume that the dairy type can
be secured by having the calf lean and
hungry all the time. This is a mis
take.
-—Pear-growing on the gulf coast
has received another backset. News
from that quarter states that blos
som-blight has done more damage to
the pear orchards than did the great
storm of last year.
—The estimated producton of sugar
cane for the season, in percentages
of a full crop, is as follows: Louisi
ana, 05; Georgia and Mississippi, 85;
Florida, 83; Alabama, 75; South Car
olina, 73; Texas, 64.
—The estimated average yield per
acre of rough rice for the season, in
bushels, is as follows: Louisiana, 35.7;
North Carolina, 25; South Carolina,
21.8; Georgia, 27.7; Florida, 21; Ala
bama, 30.1; Mississippi, 21; Texas,
28.
—There are millions of acres of
land in the southwest, that with prop
er effort will produce 50 bushels of
corn per acre. At 40 cents per bush
el that is $20 per acre. The land can
be bought for $20 per acre.
-—Whoever controls a nation s food
supply controls that nation. If a man,
or body of men, control the food sup
ply of the world—what then? Why
simply that farmers, if they know it,
have the world by the tail, and the
tail not greased, either.
PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS.
Madge—“I wouldn’t think of letting
a man love me until he knew me thor
oughly.” Marjorie—“Do you think
he’d do so then, dear?”—Town Top
ics.
He—“You’d never talk as insulting
ly to the maid as you do to me.” She
—“Of course I wouldn’t. Maids are
diflieult to replace.”—Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
Tipple—“I haven’t much faith in a
girl who is always fishing for com
pliments.” Sibyl—“No; like all an
glers, she is sure to lie about what
she caught.”—Town and Country.
Joakley—“Queer thing about that
tall man over there. All his intimate
friends call him ‘Short.’ ” Coakley—
“Just because he’s so tall, eh?” Joak
ley—“No, because that’s his name.”—
Philadelphia Press.
“Now, Johnny,” said the teacher to
a small pupil in the grammar class,
“you may compare the word ‘sick.’ ”
Johnny hesitated for a moment, then
blurted out: “Sick, sicker, dead.”—
Glasgow Evening Times.
“I have not seen your husband out
lately,” remarked the trapeze per
former. “No,” returned the wife of
the lion tamer, “he is busy writing
a book entitled ‘Wild Animals I
Thought I Knew.’ ”—St. Louis Re
public.
“You are the apple of my eye,” de
clared the Fortune Hunter to the
Wise Heiress. “I think,” mused the
Wise Heiress, “that I will keep my
eye peeled, nevertheless.” Naturally,
this evidence of astuteness on her
part thrilled him to the come.—Bal
timore American.
“My son,” said the old lawyer with
the impressive dignity which he had
always found more effective in a jus
tice’s court than elsewhere, “there
are times when what people think
you know will help you farther along
the road to success than what you
do know.”—Indianapolis News.
GOVERNOR BY REPORT.
The Victim of n Mistake as to Hia
Identity Suffers Some Rough
Treatment.
“I don’t know how on earth such a
report started.” said a Detroit insur
ance man, according- to the Detroit
Free Press, “but my wife and I had
scarcely got settled in a little village
for our vacation last summer when it
was noised around that I was the gov
ernor of Michigan. I denied it as fast
as 1 could, but the denial didn’t get
around as fast as the report. One
morning, after about a week, a broad
backed farmer who didn’t look a bit
good matured called me out to say:
“ ‘Governor, I’ve got a leetle busi
ness with you.’
“‘I’m no governor,’ I promptly an
swered.
“ ‘Governor,’ he went on, ‘I don’t be
long to your party.’
“ ‘No?’
“ ‘And don't vote your ticket.’
“ ‘No?’
“ ‘And I didn’t believe the people ot
Michigan would elect no sich critter
as you to office.’
“ ‘And they didn’t,’ I said.
“ ‘No, I didn’t believe it, but there
was some as did, and when I offered
to bet a $.'!() cow agin a $5 calf that
you’d git snowed under I was tooken
up. Governor, I lost that cow. I
worked agin you tooth and toe-nail,
but you sneaked in.’
“ ‘I’m sorry you lost the cow.’
“ ‘Blit bein’ sorry don’t furnish me
in milk and butter, governor; I’ve
bided me time and it has come, and
now I’m goin’ to lick $30 worth of spot
ted cow right out of your hide.’
“I got away from him while he was
peeling off his coat,” said the narra
tor, “but it was a close shave, and 1
had to send a keg of beer out to hi:
farm before he came to the conclusion
that 1 wasn’t holding down the state
of Michigan and responsible for his
loss.”
Willing* to Plenne.
A certain lawyer here in town em
ploys a stenographer who has tin
most wonderful collars and the nios
elaborate pompadour in all' 1 he busi
ness world. She has a persona!■ theory
of punctuation, and her spelling i;
marked with an engaging originality
but she's so even tempered that only
an absurdly carping person wouli
take notice of such eccentricities. Out
day she laid before her employer a
neatly typed letter to a southern cor
respondent. Before signing it he
glanced over it.
“See here,” he said, “you’ve spelled
sugar ‘saggar.’ ”
The typewriter glanced at the sheet
and smiled.
“Dear me!” said she. “Howcareless
of mei Why, I’ve left out the ‘h.’
Washington Star.
A Puzzling: Question.
“How much do you generally charge
ior marrying a couple*?” asked the
bride of the clergyman after the cere
mony.
"Oh, I’ll leave that to you,” said the
clergyman,• modestly; “whatever you
think it’s worth.”
“It's a little too early to tell that,”
said the young husband, “so to be on
the safe side, 1 think you had better
wait a few years.”—Ohio State Jour
nal.
Persona contemplating a journey East or
West should be careful that the rates paid
for their transportation do not exceed those
charged by the Nickel Plate Road.
This company always offers lowest rates
and the service is efficient. Careful at
tention is given to the wants of all first
and second class passengers by uniformed
colored attendants. The dining car service
of the Nickel Plate Road is above criticism
and enables the traveler to obtain meals
at from thirty-five (35) cents to $1.00 but
no higher.
The Pullman service is the usual high
grade standard. Semi-weekly transconti
nental tourist cars ply between Atlantic
and Pacific Coasts. Confer with nearest
agent of the Nickel Plate Road.
How She Knew,
“That is your husband rapping!” an
nounced the medium in a solemn voice.
“My husband rapping?” said the widow,
absently; “gracious! he must have for
gotten his night key!”—Philadelphia Rec
ord.
Very Popular Plan.
The route between New York and Chi
cago by way of the Lackawanna Railroad
is growing in popularity. It takes people
through some of the finest scenery in Amer
ica. over splendid roadbeds, in excellent
cars that are noted for their fine riding
qualities. The dining-ear service is worked
on the principle of order what you wartf
and pay for nothing else—a plan that is
very popular. You may have your meals
as cheap or as expensive as you please.
Service is on the European plan. Individual
club breakfasts or suppers, calculated to
please the most fastidious, are furnished at
a minimum cost of 35 cents.
More Pnlatnlile.
“Good-morning,” said the would-be con
tributor. “How would you like to have an
essay on ‘Our Daily Bread?’ ”
“Thanks,” replied the editor, “we prefer
butter. Good-day.”-—Philadelphia Record.
Hlghrst Award
on
Cocoa and Chocolate.
The Judges at the Pan-American Exposi
tion, Buffalo, have awarded three gold
medals to W7alter Baker & Co. Limited,
Dorchester, Mass., for the superiority of
their Breakfast Cocoa and all of their eoroa
and chocolate preparations, and the excel
lence of their exhibit.
This is the thirty-seventh highest award
received by them from the great expositions
in Europe and America.
1*0 ijiniiT.
Mrs. Talk—Emma is very fond of em
broidery.
Mrs. Gossip—Yes, she even ruffles her
temper.—Boston Herald.
Best for the Bowels.
No matter what ails you, headache to a
cancer, you will never get well until your
dowels are put right. Cascarets help nature,
cure you without a gripe or pain, produce
easy, natural movements, cost you just It)
cents to start getting your health back.
Cascarets Candy Cathartic, the genuine, put
up in metal boxes, every tablet lias C. C. C.
stamped on it. Beware of imitations.
Johnny--"What is an adage?" Pa—"An
adage is an epigrammatic sophistry manu
factured to prevent one from doing some
thing he wants to do or to induce him to do
something he doesn’t."—Boston Transcript.
Dropsy treated free by Dr. H. H. Green’s
Sons, of Atlanta, Ga. The greatest dropsy
specialists in the world. Read their adver
tisement in another column of this paper.
Many a man who tries to be a rascal finds
he is only capable of being a fool.—Chicago
Daily News.
I am sure Piso’s Cure for Consumption
saved my life three years ago.—Mrs. Tlios.
Robbins, Maple Street, Norwich, N. Y.,
Feb. 17, 1900._
A domestic broil gets a man in hot water.
—Chicago Daily News.
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AN OPEN LETTER
Address to Women by tho Treas
urer of the W. C. T. U. of
Kansas City, Mrs. E. C.
Smith.
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to enjoy it.
MRS. E. C. SMITH.
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I “One reason why boys
bring home so little game
I is because thev use loose
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CUN POWDER
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