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Show THE RICH COUNTY REAPER, RANDOLPH, UTAH Caution Farmers in Purchasing Seed LIVE STOCK e United States Verified-OrigiSeed Certificate Is Urged. n (Prepared by the United Statea Department of Agriculture.) Purchasers of alfalfa seed this season are advised by the bureau of agricultural economics, United States Department of Agriculture, to be especially cautious to buy only seed which is adapted to their farms. The alfalfa seed crop was relatively small last year, and the correspondingly high prices afford greater opportunity than usual for shippers and dealers to offer unadapted alfalfa seed for sale In localities where only certain varieties may be grown successfully. Bureau's Recommendation. The bureaus recommendation applies especially to purchases of common alfalfa seed or that not covered by state certification- as to variety. In case of doubt as to the best adapted seed to purchase, says the bureau, farmers should consult their county agent or write their state experiment station. Following this, it is urged be that United States Verifled-Orlgispecified in making purchases, with the further requirement that a United Seed Certificate States Verifled-Orlgi- n tag be attached to each bag. Forty-siseed dealers in nineteen states have been authorized by the Department of Agriculture to Issue veri - n x seed certificates. These dealers handle about 85 per cent of the alfalfa seed produced in central and northern producing districts. They are required to have, so far as possible, all alfalfa seed handled by them (except state certified or imported seed) verified as to origin through inspection certificates issued by federal inspectors. Where to Obtain Seed. Verlfied-origialfalfa seed may be obtained either directly from one of the 46 verified-origi- n alfalfa seed dealers or from a retail dealer handling verified-origialfalfa seed under certificate of a verified-origiseed dealer. Such seed may cost a little more than seed of non verified origin because of the expense of keeping complete and accurate records and in certificating seeds as to origin, but the additional cost is insignificant as compared with the protection which is given the user of such seed. Government supervision is maindealtained over the 46 verified-origiers. Should any question arise as to the authenticity and identity of any lot e alfalfa seed, a of verified-origisample and certificate should be sent for examination to the bureau of agricultural economics, Washingseed ton, D. C. The verified-origicertificate relates only to origin of alfalfa seeds, and not to variety, purity, germination, quality, grade, or other factors. fied origin n -- n n n four-ounc- n n Propagating Plants by Layering Two Common Forms of Layering. Certain plants may be propagated or multiplied by covering part of the plant with soil. This process is known as layerage, and is a very simple way to propagate many common bush fruit plants and shrubs. Gooseberries, currants, raspberries, grapes, rambler roses, lilacs, Japafaese barberry and privet hedge are a few of the common plants easily propagated in this manner. There are two general types of layerage as shown in the illustration, says the Prairie Farmer. The first is known as tip layering and is the type used with raspberries, grapes , and rambler roses. All that is necessary is to cover the tip of one or several branches of the growing plant with moist soil. That part of the branch which is covered with soil will take root, and when rooted it can be severed from the parent plant and transplanted as a new plant. All work of layering should be done in the spring after growth starts, and the secret of success lies in keeping the soil moist over the covered part. If it dries out, the buried tip will not root. Plants which are layered this spring will be ready to transplant next fall or in the spring of 1030. Be sure the tip is thoroughly rooted before severing it from the parent plant It will be well to wait until fall to sever new plants which grow from layers made the spring before. The other type is known as mound layering, and consists merely of throwing, or mounding up, soil about the base of a growing plant. In this case, too, it is necessary to keep the mounded-usoil from drying out This type is most successful on gooseberries, currants, lilacs, Japanese barberry and privet. The mounding Is done in spring or early summer, and by fall those branches which were covered with soil will have rooted. In the fall or next spring the soil can be removed carefully and the plant dug and divided into as many new plants as there are branches or stems which bear roots. On black raspberry bushes some of the tips have touched the ground and taken root without having been buried. This is a natural example of tip layering. Run out now and see if you cannot find some natural tip layers among your black raspberry bushes. p SPECIALISTS RECKON APPETITE ON ORDINARY FOOTAGE BASIS '$ Vegetable Requirements for the Average Family. "How much? is one of the impor- tant questions about the home vege- table garden. Bow to avoid a surplus of some vegetables and a scarcity of others, is a problem which calls for" a knowledge of the size, tastes and preferences of the family as well as of the productivity of the vegetables. An average recommendation of the amount of vegetables to be planted for a family of five persons has been worked out in row-feby the home demonstration specialists of the Ohio State university. For a family of this size, say the specialists, there should be planted 300 feet of potatoes, with the hills 10 to 12 Inches apart, and with ten pounds of seed used for each 100 feet of row. Of onions, 100 feet should be enough and a pint of sets should be used. Another 100 feet should go into spinach, with the plants 3 to 4 inches apart An ounce of spinach seed will be enough for 100 row feet. Fifty row feet of cabbage, with the plants set 12 to 15 Inches apart, will supply the family. An equal footage of radishes, inch apart in the rows, will call for only one ounce of seed. Fifty row feet of Grand Rapids lettuce, with the plants only 4 to 6 Inches apart, may be obtained with h of an .ounce of lettuce seed. One hundred row feet of green beans will not be too many. They should be planted about 3 Inches apart in the rows, and half a pint of seed will be required. The average family will consume the tomatoes from 100 feet of early vines and 300 feet of late vines, the plants being set 36 to 40 inches apart. 1 one-fourt- Agricultural Notes Bermuda is the outstanding grass. Corn, where it can be grown cessfully, makes the best silage. suc- Lack of efficient use of machinery is more important than its exposure to weather Market gardeners have found that good vegetables can be had only when the soil is full of plant food. FALL FRESHENING HAS ADVANTAGES Good Feed Supplies Are Required, Including Silage. Where cows are kept for beef purposes and on those farms where dairying is new, or is merely a side Issue, the common practice is to have the cows freshen In the spring. Under these conditions the cows produce most of their milk during the pasturing season and are nearly dry by the beginning of winter and entirely dry by midwinter. Under this condition most of the milk is produced from pasture which is, as a rule, the cheapest feed if the labor of growing winter feed is taken into account Spring calving usually goes with a small average milk production. It is justified under some conditions, for example when summer feed is very cheap, but proper winter rations expensive. After a community has passed through the early stages of development in dairying, a change to fall calving usually begins. To do this requires good feed supplies, including a succulent feed, either silage or roots for winter feeding. More attention is also necessary to having comfortable barns and good provision for supplying abundant water during the cold months. When these conditions are reached the advantage of fall calving begin to be realized. The cows are expected to milk at least ten months in the year. It is found that when proper winter conditions are maintained, cows calving In the fall will produce more milk than when calving in the spring. The average test is also a little higher. Furthermore, the farmer, if engaged in general farming as well, has more time to give to the cows and to raising the calves. Still another advantage Is that the dry period comes during the hot part of late summer when the weather is unfavorable for milk production. Still another advantage is that fall calving brings the highest milk production during the months when the price is best. Exercise Is Essential for Profitable Porkers An abundance of exericse for the pregnant sows is absolutely indispensable if thrifty pigs are to be expected. To force the sows to take plenty of exercise, it is a good plan to feed them at a point quite a long way from their sleeping quarters. If there is at this place a rack with choice legume hay, the sows will make many trips back and forth each day. When sows are fed ear corn and the allowance is properly limited, they will spend considerable time searching for the last kernels, and the longer they can be kept on their feet, the better it is for their health. If a ground concentrate mixture is fed, it is often a good plan to scatter a little shelled corn, whole oats, or sheaf oats on the ground for them to work over. Sows heavy in pig should not be compelled to plow through snowdrifts, but paths should be made for them. Ashes or litter, such as straw, should be put on Icy places, else they may slip and wrench themselves, which may result in abortion. Bulletin 400, Wisconsin Experiment Station. m Photos Reveal Gaits of Horses and Dogs For the purpose of investigation and observation by scientists and horse breeders, there is being prepared for exhibition at the American Museum of Natural History in New York the skeletons of a racing horse and a running dog. These are to be mounted side by side as in action, offering opportunity for comparison of the respective gaits of the two animals. Before starting the work on the horse Doctor Chubb devoted a great deal of time to studying the anatomy of the horse, particularly while the horse was in action on the track, but this was not regarded as thorough enough and certain questions arose in the doctors mind which he concluded could only be settled by a series of pictures taken from a point over a horses back while the animal was in motion. It was impossible to do this at the race tracks so various experiments were tried at the museum. By means of ropes stretched from the museum roof to the base of a tree some 70 yards away, a block and fall, Doctor Chubb hoisted himself up 50 feet into a painters chair, from which point, with his camera wedged between hs feet, he took several photographs of a race horse , speeding over a roadway below. Color Keeps Steel Cool That color may be employed indirectly to increase the strength of some structures is the interesting conclusion suggested by a series of experiments by an English authority, says Popular Mechanics Magazine. He has found that a certain shade of blue diminishes the effect of the suns rays on steel and preserves a more even temperature. Since extreme heating and cooling may tend to weaken a structure, under certain conditions, the proper color might insure longer life and greater strength. Physicians long have recognized the importance of the right color in hospitals and sickrooms and in the home, the use of color in decorations is being studied more carefully. Paris Artists in Want Paris has too many artists, and ns a result there is overproduction and misery. Thus declared Louis Forest in commenting on the suicide recently of a French sculptor who had won the Prix de Rome, but could not make a living. Forest pointed out that there are 40,000 painters, as well as many other artists, in Paris. Even exhibitions of pictures, the open-ai- r which are sometimes called crust of bread exhibitions, often fail to bring in the crust. well-know- n No Poverty in Norway Though a relatively poor country, Norway has virtually no poverty, although there is no great wealth. About 95 per cent of the farmers own TO RESIST THE ATTACK of colds or grippe put your system and your blood In order. Build ,up your health with that splendid herbal tonic, Dr. Pierces Golden Medical Discovery, which has stood the test of 6ixty years of approval. The air we breathe Is often full of germs, if our vitality Is low were an easy mark for colds, or pneumonia. One who has used the "Discovery, or G M D, writes thus: I have had quite a lot of Ogden, Utah. throat and bronchial trouble, would have spells of bronchitia which were very severe. I would I took cough and choke up with phlegm. Dr. Fierce! Golden Medical Discovery and it ' has entirely rid me of this trouble. I have never had a spell of bronchitis since taking this medicine. I have also advised others to take it "--Mrs. J. M. Wells, R.F.D. 5,700 W. 17th St ' , Fluid or tablets. All dealers. Write Dr. Pierces Invalids Hotel in' Buffalo, N. Y., for free advice. Choose Health Giving Animals and Parasites Man is less bothered by parasites than he has ever been, but domestic animals concentrated in small areas are probably more pestered than in the past - All Winter " Sheep Get Chaff Into Wool Around Hay Stack Sheep should not be permitted to eat around hay or straw stacks, or ro eat in any other manner that will permit seed and chaff to get into the wool. It is very difficult for the woolen manufacturer to comb this seed and chaff out of the wool during the manufacturing process, and sometimes burry and seedy wool has to be carbonized; that is, treated with certain acids which dissolve the chaff and other vegetable matters that have lodged in the wool, without destroying the wool fibers, which are animal matter. w SpriDgvS jvalsa CALIFORNIA Pelts Higher Than Ever or llva in than More farming profit pelts stock. 10,238 Silver Fox Pelts sold at New York Auction. Over brought from $160 to $300. Top price, $850. Write for Booklet and For Auction Reports RITCHIE SILVER FOX FARMS GOLDEN -- -- - - COLO. IRVING C. RITCHIE SOLE OWNER AND BREEDER Come Seben Yes, your honor, its a case of shake well before using. Judge Oh, a patent medicine case? Officer No, sir, a dice game. Officer Those Wbo Dance it.WhynotshakeAUensFootEase into yourhhoes? It takes the friction from the shoes, and makes dancing or walking a real joy. Allens Foot Ease For Free trial package and a Foot Ease Walking Doll , address Allens FootEase, Le Roy, N. Y. W. N. U., Salt Lake City, No. 15-19- 29. Unemployment Plan industrial experiment will be made in Norway, when the unemployed in the town of Evenes are to take over great ore mines which have been idle since 1923. The workers are to rent the mines. A bold disorders KIDNEY heedthe are too serious to ignore. It early signals. Scanty, burning or too frequent kidney excretions; a drowsy, listless feeling; lameness.stiffness and' constant backache are timely warnings. X promote normal kidney action and assist your kidneys in cleansing your blood of poisonous wastes, use Doans Pills. Used and recommended the world over. As your neighbor 50,000 Users Endorse Doans : Ave., New York, N. Y., says: My kidneys Were not acting properly. The secretion passed too frequently and rbi. broke my rest at night. I felt tired and my back bothered me considerably. I tried Doans Pills and it was only short time before I felt all right again. Doans Pills A Stimulant Diuretic to the Kidneys Foster-Mdbu- in the piperand all MUST pay suffer the misery of dancing in new or tight shoes know Promptly With Kidney Irregularities. At all dealer, 75c a box. N, long Bother You? Kidneys Deal 3. F. Shaw, 987 Columbus ' ' Marvelous Climate Good Hotels Tourist Camps Splendid Roads Gorgeous Mountain Viewse The teonderfyldesert resort of the West Write Cree A Gheffey Never Locate Pastures Along Running Water The hog lots and pastures should never be located along a stream and if possible they should be removed somewhat from highways. It is not always possible, especially where pasturing is being done, to protect the hogs from sources of infection along the road, but it is possible to fence .the animals away from streams. Free range is desirable in extensive hog production where the farmer is raising his own feeders, but the possibilities of obtaining hog cholera infection should be guarded against carefully in a case of this kind. , , i Qnmslhmim their land, but the farms are generally small. A . unique law makes it pos- sible for a farmer or his descendants to repurchase his property within a certain time limit, if circumstances have forced him to dispose of it. a Profitable Vocation ;; Learn the Beauty Culture Course given by a man that has taught (88 atndents how to earn BlG MONET, Catalog sent on request UTAH HIGH SCHOOL OF BEAUTY CULTURE - Salt Lake City S31 OlUt Bldg. Co., Mfg. Chemists, Buffalo, N. Y. |