Show carbon W A CE I 1 U V A ZIA road j improvement I 1 CHUTE TO CLEAN POTATOES delats arranged as shown in Il lustra eions allow allows all dirt to fall through to ground the ordinary box form used for con beying potatoes to the bins in cellar usually allows all tho the dirt upon same to go down with the tubers in the bin this can be avoided it the bottom of tho the chute la Is made of elate slats aa as shown illustration which permit permits all t the h 0 14 L A self cleaning potato chute dirt to fall through tho the openings u upon p tho the ground na as well oa as any pebbles that are picked up with the potatoes pota toca the elata slats may be placed nt at a distance ct of one inch or one and one halt half indies inches apart and this will also act as ito a sorter of the potatoes as well the email small potatoes falling through the opening openings between the slats with the dirt etc then with a second chute tu bora hors can be conveyed to a separate parate ee bin with the dirt falling to the ground aye says tho the iowa homestead this would save much labor as the crop cin be picked up aa as they come from the digger without the trouble of sorting eor ting as vlen cen they are put in the tho cellar the sorting would be accomplished tar far eusler and quicker by the above meth od TRUCK TO HAUL FENCE WIRE pool can easily be handled by one man by uso use of device shown in illustration in the accompanying illustration la Is shown a handy rig for carrying a pool spool ot of barbed wire when putting tip UP a fence the manin manner er of fence wire truck tion Is obvious says the popular mechanics the spool of wire can be easily handled by ono one man roan with wito this device manure and silage corn 7 twenty enty tona tons ot of corn silage an acre ere re harvested last fall by george L it slop of ohio ohl lie ile uses it for fat toning cattling and hoga hogs the most interesting thing about this yield Is that it Is tho the result of utillia aton of barnyard manure the manure shed hns has an important place on jn the farm quantity of li litie tie no needed the quantity of ilme 11 needed under tinder different conditions varies from a few feis hundred pounds atif atif several tons but an average of abat ab at one ton of good lime to the acre will usually be sum dent clent if it gradei grades of lime are used which contain 50 per cont or less of calcium oxide larger quantities will be required smaller applications perhaps to pounds once in two to four years year swill will be preferable to very heavy applications at longer 1 intervals ter and arid if the basic slag be freely buted as a source of phosphoric add acid it Is 13 probable thit th tt a second applina tion of lime will nill in most caseb be necessary flowers around lawn mass the flow flowers era and plants around the house and blong the edges of the lawns and walks they make a most delightful setting for the rich gren green new now plow points A firmer farmer may plow an acre very poorly to save 10 cent cents for A new plow ellot penny wise viso and pound foolish POOR ROADS ARE EXPENSIVE only 1 7 per cent of mile miles of public thoroughfare thoroughfares in thia this country are improved there are aioo miles of public roads road 1 in thia this country only rulles miles or 7 per cent are improved A all I 1 the reat rest can bo be fairly described d as bad roads the waste aste of 0 our maural resources reckless as a it Is la to noth trig frig compared to the be money waste brought about by this rendition condition of our high highways wayn it coats costs the french peasant an ar ot of 12 1 cents a m mile lie per ton to baul haul hie his produce to market it cost costs iho the american farmer an average 0 0 26 25 centa cents a mile per ton or per cent more than the frenchman dur ins ing the year 1505 1005 1908 1906 hauling of farm produce to shipping points amounted to between forty and forty live five million tone tons weight the average haul waa was 9 4 miles if the farmers could have done their hauling over 1 french rench roads instead of their own inferior ones they would have netted more on their crops but all the hauling to shipping points Is not done by farmers by any means the interstate Intern tato commerce commission tells us that in all something like tons are hauled for every year the willing ness to wave thia this immense volume ol 01 freight over poor roads as against good roada roads such as france enjoys coats costs the tho country a cool unnecessary a year these figures and facts come from the office of logan waller walter page th united states director of public works USEFUL AS GRASS CATCHER device fastened to back of mower make use of rake unnecessary how it Is made A rake will be unnecessary to the roan man who mows grass with the device shown here attached to the back ol 01 the mower moer this Is the invention ol 01 a minnesota genius and it Is said tc leave a FL clean award in the wake ol 01 the lawn moer mow or catching the loose 14 E A hanily handy borss gra catcher grass that files up in the rear before it has a chance to fall again the apparatus Is made with a galvanized steel bottom and heavy duck sides and Is easily detached and emptied when it becomes full two to hooks are fastened at the ends of the reier of the moi cf or and circular wire pieces alt over these at ach gach end of the catcher A third piece of wire hooks over the handle of the mower to ta keep the scoop in position another wire ire con comes ith this device by means of which the catcher can be made wider N ider or na narrower rower or in some other way adapted to the size of the mon mower er crops will tell story in I 1 redling through a farm district it in 1 easy to see now which ground was best beat prepared d it shows shon a up in the crop chodd C odd holda fields with little preparation dont stand any show b aho ih aide alde of well prepared fields they lose mols moisture turo too fast GO m d O 0 tes lath and plaster the old silo anda ala multiply from year to year weeds are easily killed it if attacked when quite ambil the tractor la is going to be the new cst est and biggest help to the farmer heading reading good farm paper papers will III interest people in better farm conditions ono on of the worst pests with which tho the grower groer of onions has to contend Is the onion maggot pall plowing of field areas will often bo be of service in controlling cut worms that are a affecting kid field crops rotation allows or assists nature to repair her waste aste places ind and inch incident lent ally facilitates the ar bilth we weed e ds the grain grower sl shield ald ht bays the th lowr freshen in the fall in ord order e r C j provide an income while the fields ar idle A border of nasturtiums or some of the late foliage plants all around the vegetable gm produce a fins fin s of ar feet net |