| Show at 1 4 I 1 I 1 I 1 1 I 4 C n U pdt I 1 A I 1 1 e J LI I 1 1 I 1 na I 1 i I 1 3 I 1 aj I 1 ii i i 11 I 1 I 1 I 1 i I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 11 1 I 1 1 k X I 1 1 I 1 I 1 the t 11 I 1 I 1 I 1 sur 7 1 1 th e I 1 y f 4 Q all I 1 r lt a V f tv th A 40 he 1 I 1 ii tin rec f ti 4 t 1 it 4 1 10 0 a I 1 bs janis I 1 dryden agricultural yet college logan uland so THE HORSE aft al heo seems to be an excel excellent lelit pros l 1 1 att 11 t that hat tile the Ili market arket for horses will prove borove llie like demand seema to be in III Ba kastern stern markets for draft horses horse I 1 h ahing from to isoo pounds 1 re la is a scarcity ot of good go 0 1 draft horses 1 icse cie two or three alit ce years ngo ago there re ten tell oils colts raised alicle Is now 1 one Is Is bound to make a strong tic nd the bicycle will not interfere hi it the market for draft horses hut but M ases es will wili have to be good hereafter the pie sent low prices will lly ly check the production of scrub ck good mares will be bled here f 1 I er to good feord horses hoi see and ami it will only alls nig the product ot of such that will ind find le r dy sale at remunerative prices the 11 14 sing ot of good horses will continue to i a profitable bu business busina the hackneys y I 1 J also in ili demand in the cities tor for HO iving vim purposes the other lay day in ili I 1 w york a pair 0 of halt half bred hacks backs 0 were sold for driving for THE ALKALI PROBLEM the he great drawback in irrigating id lands is the danger from alkali nich itch Is almost sure to be the ultimate ull of nf continuous unless irefully guarded against it is said at in ili certain valleys in ili california litre tile the water level was some folly ft et lichow the surface it number of oc art ars ago or before irrigation was act iced ill alie water is now within a 1 l ot or two of fit the sui surface face where ahel e the atar comes so near tile the surface hiir tace farm g Is 13 a failure 11 cauce crops will not dot ow w A ith fl et feet this bilsing of oc the ater also rings brings to tile the surface alkali aich it allowed allo werl to accumulate will tally lally prevent any crops from grow K g the only sufficient remedy for till kill la is draining or leaching it out oc ie e soil it cannot be waz washed hed out by the file surface there must be ider drains to carry off fc the accoti eions sooner or later draining will vc ive to be resorted to and the sooner ie e bettor better where land Is cheap hower it will probably not pay to drain ring to the cost ot of the system but it i a fact that much of the best land in ili e territory is being rendered useless nd id will remain so until drainage Is sorted to and there Is no more pro active active land than reclaimed alkali director ellgard gard of the Califor california ula station says Under dr ain e Is tile hie general and absolute coi e for alkali to hood flood the land until I 1 rider drains laid reasonable distances baart part hhall have run lun for fai some time ill end the trouble not only for the me ime being but for centuries provided provide 1 illy that solid beds of the alkali t alti i 0 not nol underlie as unfortunately 11 ems to be the case cafe in some 0 of tj lands of tho the upper tulare b babii a 1 row ow to deal with that state of 0 I 1 ill s cell now now be discussed a as 1 I it ians ic rare exception 1 I 1 A DAIRY DIVISION the goverlyn Go government verlin ent at washington has ailed aided a dairy division to the depart nent of agriculture this Is eminent y proper because the dairy industry Is ne ile of it the largest in the country louritt y anil and rowing rowl riff in importance about Z very every ther ither branch ot of agriculture Is rep 1 dented sen ted by a division in tile I 1 department of agriculture culture and it was ime me the dairy interests were arvd the delai ament lias bas a chance acre to to do some pion table practical p tactical rac yolk voik for the farmers barme is major henry n U avord has been placed in ili charge cli arse ami an I 1 ie e Is a good man but as hoards mayman alees to explain I 1 the lie man mail ever so rood good the olvi division slon will accomplish nothing so 90 long ions as a A aln ain man mail presides over the department grasshoppers aie said to b be e again evading certain sections of the tel tei atory tho the farmei banners of this aln alil region reelon are in constant dread of an by this post pest last seabon we pave are in these columns a method ot of detroy ing grasshoppers a method that las been tried with good success in ill nany riana parts of at the country it conits li ts it in feeding the hoppers on a mix ure lure or of cert certain alif proportions of 0 bran tr sugar and water these have lieen used in different proportions bests but tha he one that appeals to give the best results says a california writer con fists ot of one pat part t by weight eight ot of absente arsen lol I 1 ono one ot of sugar awl six of bran to which Is added a sufficient nt quantity of water waier to EC make a wet mash this preparation is in usually made in ili washtubs wash tubs or half hat barrels aels one of cese Is tilled about three fourths full ot of dry bran and to this is added about live fire rounds pounds or of at arsenic aisen lc which Is taj hughly stirred through the bran brai I 1 with a b or shovel five pounds 0 of la in next thrown into a pall which as alt I 1 then billed falth till water and the sti busar a stirred iti until it is Ived w when lien ahn III tugar bugar Is added to the bran and absei W ona iud the three well v ell stirred inore mo re batir Is iii ded and the th C stirring stir continual c d until every portion of oc the mash becomes thoroughly saturated about a teaspoon iea spoonful tul ot of this cashis placed at the root of each tree shrub 1 ur I plant infested tested In with locusts or feat in the field crop dropping dropp lne t in ili tile shade when this can be done tho the ot of at tile tho material will be la ili the neighborhood ot of halt a dollar ot of course it must be observed ved bhat stock ut of any kind should not ilot llave hav access to the fields where the poison Is placed and tor for sometime after it would biot not be safe gate to pasture cattle I 1 in n alfalfa aalta i fields lie ida where tile the poison had bad been in I 1 n I 1 alfalfa fields it would be advisable to place the poison on small ale j of boards hoppers will eat this poison JOl soll more readily beadil y than anything el claer sef DEEP cultivation it we are arc not mistaken horace oree gree I 1 ty in his book what I 1 know about R 1 advocated deep ploughing sloughing hing i og as rn ne of Q the things that was v as boing to I 1 farming far mine the gospel 1 of I 1 sloughing ploughing hing has been preached loud ana ions iong but there is not ver very y much M 1 ii sitter after all if we are to judge jude by I 1 exper intents made at several cupari stations st protessor professor S AM 1 tracy f ot of kiskil i sirila in bulletin no 23 0 of that r tat lon says bays great st amount of similar w work oric ha has Y I 1 ae l done at al other stations and in 1 acar n 1 ly iv 1 cliftn a aez cate the r occur halo I 1 alle am a ai barc h c rc we hav t bain xain llna i 1 I t hlll I 1 I 1 i I 1 1 t WI while ile K 5 tests of 0 i shallow cultivation cave an avera average 0 ot of bus bucheli bu sheli heig a difference of ys 98 busbea bushels per acre 0 morr morn than 15 pr cent in ilk favor of 0 cultivation in only live five cases out ot of the entile cattle number did the deep ili ep culture show the better belter results A trial at the utah station reported in I 1 alie 1 fourth th annual report also showed h that deep sloughing ploughing plo eughing hing was not what it Is cracked up to be rut but there are aie undoubtedly certain soils that would glye give good results result b by y deep sloughing ploughing hing hinz ana and deep ploughing sloughing hing must bo be considered in ili connection with tile the mechanical condition ot of tile the soil COOKING FEED after elaborate at the wisconsin station in III feeding cooked against uncooked feed to hogs the tact fact was brought out that there was practically no ito advantage in ili tile the practice of cooking so universally followed the results of many recent experiments on this subject would indicate that the cooking ot of feed fur for hogs is a useless its practice and ought to bo be discontinued WHEAT VERSUS CORN COEN another experiment at tile the wisconsin experiment 15 station tation showed that tor for fattening hogs wheat meal Is not so valuable pound for pound as corn meal and that a mixture of wheat meal n cat and corn meat meal Is more than either cither neal meal 3 fed separately at a trial at the utah station wheat meal I 1 to to be superior to corn meat meal for hops we presume that for growing pigs wheat meal would be more desirable than corn meal because it is 3 mort more highly nitrogenous but for the final off o of hogs hobs corn meal wll probably make afaf fat faster than what meal ineal but as shown by tile alie wisconsin expel ament a mixture of both would probably prove on the whole a better ration than either THE HAPS PLAT PLANT this burage plant Is much L 1 I 1 tn 1 agil cultural papers at the present nt 1 time i me it Is a food lor for sheep heep 11 II resembles the swede turnip waltrut It lIlt the root mot bulb it is fa the leal rates cs that thai the s sheep heel eat cat it gros vety ani and and sheep are arc very find of it jt it may be either cither dellb d or broadcast it should lie be sown albut tile after I pait at t of june but may inay IJO all biily in july about twenty areol feed aci d may be gi brown own per pei acrea acre sheep tie generally turned into the ilfeld fi ld ani allowed to lo graze sometime sit Is cat and fed to them green itis very largely in canada Caz iala for raid id ontario Is noted for goo heclo in DI wisconsin it ft 1 Is coin coining ing I 1 MIS use arl an experiment is is reported by fie le wisconsin station in which a arofo of was mad 1 per acre in ripe rape to sheep it Is during the dry part of when the pasture Is poor KILLING GOPHERS in a atle pamphlet issued hy by the united laws department of agriculture of 0 pocket gophers occurs the dei sil sc laun n ot of one method of efte bat ins ing oem I 1 which Is suggestive of use of the agent in other directions the pa ege in question Is as follows jl ravi 1 l most cases of carbon is isac simplest a rent for the destree alic tan 0 of s it may be used as tol 01 alivs open the kopher gopher hole where oni one d the he freshest hills has been u ul pour two tablespoonfuls of lii 14 alphide on a bunch of cotton rags lov waste or any such material and laush it itt well ivell down into the hole then ill m i close the opening the quickly conns r ns a heavy I 1 a suffocating n gas that thai 11 no re s down 1 I I 1 t the n hole I 1 ole and along the gallerie Kall gall erlei erle wherever Where wherever vir it overtakes the is quickly killed the whole n js Is P perfectly f c atly simple and aird easy tho the oly i difficulty it u alty arises from the leng length t it if atile the tunnels which is so great that tte tie animals may be bea beyond ond the reach pt athe the gas hence it is sometimes necessary lec essary to open the tunnel and the it at two or more inore places Thelda the idaho ho experiment station tiled it tor ground the bulletin says saya I 1 dibin the last few years the carlion carbon method originated by bv prossor Prot sor E W 1111 gard university of california has proved to be a cheap sate safe nd ind reliable remedy th chii material evaporates rapidly the la Is heavier heable r than air and very in lUm ilam nible pable and therefore must be han ban care it should be applied at nigil otherwise outside animals may inay scra scratch the holes open twenty seven sevell hollo hola were topped stopped by the station and deal squirrels wore were found within thos t dug dud open the gentleman ot of idaho wh 61 made the test makes the following 1 haut a tablespoonful was used to kaoi a I 1 bui bairow row this amount was poured ona handful liand ful of straw dried grass or IL 11 piece ot of old cloth these served i the purpose equally well and placed well binm the burrow tile the entrance then bo be III lip stopped with earth I 1 I 1 DEHORNING iia writer in ili the practical farmer Farrr er has oils ills to bay about deli de horning orning I 1 I 1 the horn should be cut close to tho the cad off on from one fourth to anc ne half inch of the hair with t the ae horn po 0 us 3 to ito make a complete then they lie N will not bleed any of consequence laa As oon moon as the horn Is a clipped on off another man should be ba ready with a dinall handful of hour flour and put it on oil tho the place which will form a paste and ad stop tile the tendency to bleed it the horn born 1 la 14 4 cut off lust just rig right lit sometimes the horn hom will discharge a little pus in fit about a week after which it 11 contracts and heals ovar I 1 have helped dehorn about 1200 cattle in ili the last year of them my own not kot one of tho the whole lot missed a teed feed or bled much all soon healed up and did well the pain is not great it hurts hurls yearnings yearlings year linga lings and two year olds very little not halt half us as much as castration the operation Is not cruet cruel when done at the right it time me ot of the year which here Is in november december or J january while the weather Is cool coal and the cattle kept out of 0 tile the rain or snow afterwards we bay havu instruments made on Lur purpose pose for tile the work it only takes lakes a minute to take off both hums burns after you get them lh m in I 1 n tile stocks the cattle then can call be properly housed in ili small space and more satisfactorily fed and ami cared for are much more easily driven fatten better vows bowa will give more milk there Is 13 no trouble in shipping they go into market in better shape and sell bell more i readily than would be the casein their horns were no not t removed meteorology considered as a source of 0 climatological statistics and as aa a system for the prediction of the lie weather for a day or two in advance meteorology has received enthusiastic support about all that can be done by the utilization of tile the tep tel gabli aph and weather map and the r lc atlon of general average rules 1 Is now evv being bellier door clone but we are still powerless in the presence pree ence of tiny any unusual movement of the atino atmosphere sphere meteorologists must have a deeper in n into the mechanics ot of tile the atmosphere it la is not enough to know what tile til have been and are but we must linow what they will be and why by I 1 A K complete and ilg orous deductive ve treatise on the laws governing the la is needed A treatise anthe on the application to the atmosphere of the I 1 1 1 RI tile the great difed or of meteorology at present la Is the establishment lish ment 0 labo laboratories ra and ill tho consecration b se ec of oc physicists and matheia lucians to tile the brince the applications of to lo geology lusy pl physiology hy hygiene glene irrl galion kind other oilier matteis 9 have been developed dev coped Io ped but meteorology itself still to lo be provided for or our es should lecog recognize mize the science to a A greater ex extent lent in their courses of and anci provide provida pro vidt for tile mc logical ab oratories 0 0 L fassig FALL SHEARING fall shelling is a 11 practice to lambs that are an six months old for tha I 1 early winter market to the benefits fi faill shearing it should be done early in ili the season at it kast k ast not later than october when lone done under such suc h circumstances elleu m te the rt noval of tile fleece hastens has as the fattening and the gain Is made at al a cheaper rate thi the show that by th earing in III tre lc fall and again in ili the spring TOOK moi e wool |
