Show SEED CORN TESTER plan of device which can be made at home the accompanying cut shows a car crato for storing seed corn and a tray for testing it the crate should be about 24 inches square depending upon the size of the ears the ends should be of one by els inch boards and the sides one by four inch po as to give good ventilation it should be divided into squares by stretching wire across the top each way these crates are bandy to handle and made an ideal storage letter the rows on the 0 fl 00 N 6 I 1 0 OJ a a A a c 0 e F 0 M 1 J plan of arranging kernels side and number those on the end so that each square will take a num her and a letter to make a testing tray take a pane of glass or board and cut a piece of thick cloth the same size laying it on the glass wrap with colored string spacing BO as to divide the tray into squares numbering and lettering to correspond with the crate to test the seed take the tray to the crate and beginning at al take six grains from different parts of the ear and place them in the tray on the cor responding square great care should be taken that the grains are kept sep mate when the tray has been filled ear Anan gement in testers order cover carefully alth cotton batting and wet it thoroughly where enough crates are provided tor all the seed corn explains E B gabbs in twentieth century farmer an equal number of trays may be ar ranged so that all of the seed may be tested at one time and under the same conditions the seed should be kept as near the temperature of the ground la which the crop Is to be planted as possible hero it Is desired to plant the seed in soil a wooden crate can be made of thin lumber and filled level with soil and spaced oft with the cord the same as the glass tray all ears should be discarded that do not give six good sprouts under fair conditions but it by testing you find a dozen bad ears it will be the best paying trouble au have had for some time besides you can do the testing at odd times and it Is worth more than the cost just to know that you have started the years work right and you can depend upon the seed when the time comes to plant jf you cannot figure out how it Is going to pay go on and test and the extra corn in the crib next tall will show for itself an other ear save your corn from the field before frost and store it in the crates DUSTLESS ROADWAYS we now have the luxury of abao cutely roadways A bulletin issued last july by the kansas city park board makes the above statements A year ago during the summer months the board had its whole force of sprinkling wagons going every day in an attempt to keep down the dust which made the enjoy ment of the park drives impossible at times in a few hours the hot summer sun dried the roads and ever pass ing motor car left clouds ot fine rock dust to settle on tho foliage along the drive now a motor car passing at the highest speed over any portion of the extensive boulevard system leaves po dusty trail in ita wake the oil has not only proved much more effective than water but it Is a third cheaper and preserves the roadways as well writes roy A moore in the world today to day one of the serious problems here as in other cities has been the preservation of the drives from the wear of the motor car wheels the oiled boulevard la also protected from erosion formerly every rainstorm left ragged gullies which took several dab to repair the 05 e of the moat inexperienced could see that something was needed to bind the bacad dam to preserve a smooth surface without dust and prevent washouts wa shouts t the same time the net savings in the use of oil for the year was ai 88 or 34 per cent hardy fruits the less perishable a fruit the more is the market for it to be steady as it can be sent from one part of the country to another and even to foreign nations TIMOTHY WORM something about this pest which prove troublesome legome at times an iowa reader of the journal of agriculture wag bothered last year with an insect in the timothy joints that resembles lount worms in wheat and kindred plants lie asks for the name of ahe insect the characteristics and best means of destruction this peat Is commonly called alm othy joint worm and Is one of the newly discovered crop pests it has become quite common in new york arid other eastern states but Is heard of n the central states brought there by the introduction of hay from the east not much is known of its habits however the department part ment has been experimenting with it for a number of years from a ro cent circular describing these expert ments we make the following ex tracts during the past winter we have been able to rear the adult insect from timothy throughout nearly all the area west of the hudson river where the grass Is grown where it has been possible to get hay from old meadora that last year yielded but a poor crop there has been no difficulty in breeding the pest from the hay thus showing that it readily winters in barns and in hay stacks it has been reared in greatest profusion from timothy from sault ste marle alch marcellus N Y several localities in ohio and conway la i the timothy worm is small yellow ish white footless worm with brown jaws it Is found in the center of the stems of timothy at the joint the tul ily developed insect is a small tour winged fly ot a jet black color with red eyes and legs banded with yel low looking almost exactly like a email blacky winged ant this pest seems to breed in greatest numbers in timothy meadows of long standing and where the grass is allowed to grow up and mature along roadsides and fences where these conditions do not occur less and in some cases none of the pests seems to develop there thus suggesting as practical preventive measures the frequent rotation of timothy meadows and pastur ing or mowing off the roadsides BO as not to allow the grass to head out clearly if left until the stem has reached full growth the worms will not be killed by simply mowing off and allowing the stems to dry A KANSAS ROAD DRAG claimed that it Is superior to the kings spilt log drag to missouri belongs the credit tor the popularity which has been given to the split log or king road drag and it has proved a wonderfully useful am clement to kansas belongs the credit of improving this drag so that its usefulness and efficiency are greatly in creased claims the kansas farmer herewith we give an illustration showing the construction of a form 0 road drag that was devised by prof J L pelham of abe horticultural de apartment part ment of the fort hays branch ex perl ment station at hays city kan prof pelham Is a graduate of the kansas agricultural college who has since leaving the mother institution been employed largely in experimental the drag complete work in horticulture at the fort hays experiment station during his pe of service there 13 well as during his service at the agricultural college at manhattan where he spent a por alon ot bis time he did a great deal of experimenting on the construction and maintenance of earth roads As the result of this work he has evolved the form of drag shown herewith it will be seen that the new form of drag differs from the old in no partle ular except thit the rear scraping board Is set at an angle of 45 degrees r cross section of drag instead of 90 he found that the board was sufficient to do all of ae cutting necessary and that the rear board when set at an angle served to smooth and finish the road much more satisfactorily than did the old form this new form of drag may have its standing board faced with iron tor a part of the length to sene as a cut ting edge and also to facilitate the dropping of the accumulated earth into the rough places where it would be smoothed over by the slanting board this new form of drag is found to require very much less of team work to handle it and to ghe very much better service in every way doth corma of drag are still in use at the college and experiment station but the old or king drag la in use only occasionally when it Is desired to adver a large surface in a short time nd two drags are necessary |