| Show A LAND LEVELING FLOAT Popular Gardening Tells of Its Value and How to Make It The simple home made contrivance shown in tho annexed cut has been found of valuable assistance i evening up the surface of the soil preparatory t seeding seed-ing dow Its Yfh js also de IdocQy apparentin smootnmg aowTrtne I slight inequalities t be found i every j piece of plowed land < h I > e4 N s I iI 7 f Lm 11 = LAND LEVELING FLOAT AT WORK j It COStS of two 331 inch hemlock cantlings 8 feet longset the broadest I way up and down about thee and a I hal feat apart with four boards afoot wide nailedfrom one to the other as shown in tho figure Drawn by a team I of horses and eightec somewhat this float has a wonderful Meet in evening Tip the surface by passing over the plat To level inequalities in plowed land tho driver steps on the f float when a hump is reached I this j case the scantling takes off and draws along a lot of the soil and passing to a depression nearby near-by by stepping off tie soil is released Of course if there are larger humps or depressionsthe sliovell scraper is the tool first required I Poilts in COrI Culture Experiments made jot the Ohio Agricultural cultural station ding past seasons throw considerable light upon if they do not entirely settle some points in the cultivationof corn bout which farmers farm-ers are notjentirely agreed either in theory the-ory or practice As I cultivated at the station the > following appears to have been pretty well established As a class the large yellow dent varieties were them the-m S productive Large white dents akesecondf place In the flint varieties the Izirge white flints take the lead fol owedl by mixed flints and these by yellow yel-low flsnls Taken a a whole or as individual vidual Warieties the flint corns are not a profitaqjle class for Olio lands unless it should be in some of the northern sections tions In sevisn years experiments in deep shallow planting tlie average results show an cjdvantage infavor of planting inch ather than two inches one tlan deep The greatest amount of marketable corn was produqed where the stalks averaged twelve incises apart the variations in yield were islight whether planted one gain every twelve inches two every bwentyflourj three every thirtysix or four evejry fortyeight inches Three trinl has not indicated years t in any marked differences in the reproductive qualities otcorn from the butts middles or tips of theVsais Whenever any variation ation esistedi was in favor of middles and tips and against the butts The average results of two years experiments experi-ments favored t eep cultivation rather than shallow anVl indicated that shalow aAl indiated corn shouldbe cu1tivat d mae frequently in one a dry season than in a wet or ordinary Tho Corrccfl nee Space VThero i undoubtedly a certain space wwich the bees are least inclined to fill with Wor propolis What according to jVour own experience is the exact measurement of tho correct j bee space The foregoing query was recently asked and Answered in The American Be Journal i MrsL Harrison replied Three scant eighths of an inch m possibly a shado I A J Cook answered Scarce f of an I inch about 516 of aninch G M Doolittle said Fivesixteenths of an incfli I JamesHeddon replied The same that emQ Father Longstroth gave us over thirty I years ago scant i of an inch or more exact 5161 of an inch above the frame f of an inch will dolyery well attthe ends of the frames ana f inch is all right at the bottom below thoiframes J E tond said It 1 impossible to f frames in practice so that they will space exactly throughout the whole hive I 1 use the ten frame Langstroth hive 14 xiches wide spacing the frames o that f inch dummy will fit closely in one sid ¼ of the hive I use the dummy for convenience in working and consider the gracing as above stated to be a nearly ght a possibleto get it The editor concluded with the statement state-ment thai the exact measurement of the space required for bees f creasy passage is 516 inchj but they will not fillia space with comb which i not more than i inch in size v Clacks There are seveval advantages in the keeping of large rods of fowls One is that they are moiyeteasily confined and another where yowsell on the market they will bring morn account of their < stra weight f I Examine the little xdrickens for lice Dust pyrethrum oyez tn < 3 hens Some consumers claimlthat eggs produced pro-duced early in the se son hve a bette flavor than those which hens lay after they run air large and Jive mainly on grass and injects The secret of success in the poultry yardis inhatching but in feeding The cost of keeping ducks where the facilities aro god is merely nominal asa as-a large portionof their daily fare is of the coarsest and cheapestutmds friend in Catskill N Yf asks the following question Vhat is the best and cheapest fattening food for young chickens after they have got to weigh aboul one pound The chickens need a variety of foods in winch corn meal or cracked corn predominates Wo should prefer the cracked cot and should I also feed a little wheatwith plenty of grass or weeds Use earth for an absorbent in your poultry house but be sure and clean out and renew it before it becomes foul |
