Show NOTES IN SELiSON When the plows are done for the season it is a good plan to cover the steel or iron oarts with thick limewash This keeps them from rusting and is immediately worn off in the first furrow Machinery should be first cleaned from oil and gum and every bearing then covered with ualm oil and black lead I should be stored in some weatherproof building and covered with some kind of sheete to protect It from dust A few panels of portable fencing are handy save much to have labor about the farm and often 1 I The farmer who sticks to his trade is t the one who is most likely to prosper I in the end As a rule if a man cannot make money in a business which he does I understand he cannot make It in one which lie does not understand j i Under ordinary circumstances if the i farmer keeps his farm in good style the farm will kepp the farmer in good style I One board supplied promptly in place I of one that has been broken from th fence often saves a valuable crop from serious damage I Connecticut has a pure food law which 1 provides that any person who adulterates with intent that the same may be sold I as unadulterated any food products forman for-man horses or cattle shall be fined not I more than 0 or be imprisoned not more than one year I is a good law I is ppor economy for a farmer to delay I de-lay the providing of a good supply of firewood in advance of present demands If one has to stop and cut wood everyday he day especially in the busy season I uses time that might be used more profitably profit-ably Again the green wood does not aA ngi make a good fire tt use of an excessive amount of kindling and i housewife adds to the cares and vexations of the I All work and no play magnifies unnaturally unnat-urally the pictures presented to the farmer far-mer boy of life in the metropolis Older heads know of the dangers of the citys I maelstroms but too big a stint with hoe or plow has caused many a youth to risk I his future under conditions which he I knew to be less favorable but which were more attractive I Most of our readers will say that if cottonwood trees are wanted they will gO to the nearest river and dig them on the sand bars By growing this despised I tree from cuttings the filthy habit of cotton I cot-ton bearing may be removed I is a fact i although comparatively little known that I the staminate and pistillate blossoms are grown on separate trees of the cottonwood cotton-wood so that by noting which trees produce I pro-duce seed during the summer cuttings can be taken from the male tree > and August Au-gust is the time to take them I is the simplest thing In the world to grow the Farm tree from cuttings Denver Field and A mild solution of hyposulphite of sodium teasponful t the half gallon of water bathing the parts freely a splendid application for poison ivy infection I is cheap and harmless Prof Robertson has been experimenting experiment-ing for a number of years to find a well balanced dairy ration that can be cheaply cheap-ly produced on southern farms He thinks corn English horse beans and sunflowers fill the bill either put in silo or cured as hay And the same mixture is equally successful in the north The Southern cow pea is winning favor in the northern states and Prof Connell of Texas thinks the Canada field pea will as surely win favor in the south Plant in fall or spring with oat Hairy vetch and oats also make a good mixture To prevent rot of tomatoes a straw mulch was more beneficial than spraying spray-ing with bordeaux mixture Tomatoes areas are-as sure a crop as corn in West Virginia The earlier the seeds are sown the earlier the plants bear and t supply the earliest I markets plant the early maturing kind i The bulletin gives directions for constructing construct-ing and manipulating cold frames to bring on early plants On July 1 the Secretary of Agriculture established what he calls a biological sur vey which he thinks will be of tremendous tremend-ous economic value Charts will be pub Hshcjd showing tho exact portions of each state and territory where certain fruits crops and animals can be raised to advantage vantage An efficient corps of naturalists will prepare these charts and an accompanying accom-panying catalogue of all plants trees animals ani-mals etc of the known world with the latitude altitude and climatic conditions suited to each and a statement of the places in our country having these conditions con-ditions I is thought this will save a annual waste of millions of money and much labor in making fruitless experiments experi-ments Many farmers have been deterred from trying sheep under the impression that their pastures were fully stocked with other cattle and that the addition of sheep wouid cause a grass famine Until I investigated the subject I labored under the same delusion Now I know that sheep will not eat grass If they can get weeds and leaves and that grass Is most plentiful in the pastures over which sheep have run as nearly all weeds have been killed out and the soil fertilized by thoroughly distributed manure There area are-a few common weeds that sheep will not eat but fully ninetenths of our otherwise other-wise unprofitable vegetation is eaten with relish and goes to moke valuable mutton and more or less valuable wool I The simple way to harness a bull to I make him safe to lead is to put a sursin ble around his body just back of his forelegs I fore-legs then carry a strap from the ring in his nose up between his horns and makefast make-fast to the surslngle pulling taut until his nose is raised high in the air now tie tea te-a small rope over the strap around his horns 10 keep him from throwing It off When fastened in the car this strap can be allowed to slacken to let his nose down but do not be afraid of raising his nose too high when leading him Why should a bulls comfort be considered when a mans life is in danger I would be well for all our readers to know that the application of ice t the head of man or animal when stricken with heat is a proper treatment One horse was saved in this way on our street last Friday night The horse ha fallen His head was placed on the sidewalk and covered cov-ered with cracked ice In an hour and a half the cold did its work and the horse was able to stagger to its feet Soon it was able to walk to its stable Hundreds of persons watched the scene and the humane man who applied the Ice to his best friends burning head was cheered to the echo when the horse revived Worry kills more men than work This is more practically demonstraced in the business world ian it is among those who Jive in the country and follow fol-low the more quiet ways of life There are many men however who have opportunities op-portunities to live quiet lives as pleas ant as is possible for anyone but who shorten their days materially by con tittiual worry I is natural foe some to nurse their trouble and where there is nothing to detract the mind from whatever direction i may take there < is great danger of enlarging upon imaginary upn aginary troubtes The man who is able to meet the disappointments in this life with the greatest strength is the one who does not weaken his mind by a constant fretting over things which may never happen Never cross the te Youngers river before you come t itPeter |