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Show THE TIMES-NEW- NEPHI, UTAH S, Hard to Keep Up Stand Ice Cold Water Will Decrease Milk Flow of Clover .Reduction of Humus and Good for Cooling Product, but Retards Production. Plant Food in Soil In"Ice water Is excellent for cooling creases Difficulty. milk, but It Is no good for producing The most serious problem at present confronting the American fanner in many of the clover sections Is the Increasing difficulty of successfully maintaining stands of clover, says the United States Department of Agriculture. With continuous cropping and the consequent reduction of the humus and plant food in the soil the difficulty of growing red clover is greatly Increased. This condition must be met and solved, since the loss of clover or its equivalent from the rotation leads rapidly to a rundown farm and un- irofituble crop yields. Suggestions for red clover culture based on many years of observation study, and experimental work are presented in the new Farmers' bulletin 13Iit), Ited Clover Culture, Just issued by ttie United States Department of Agriculture. The method adopted In any locality for growing clover, says the bulletin, must depend on the rotations followed and the labor and weather conditions In each place. It may be emphasized, however, that to get a good stand the clover must have a fair chance. As usually seeded, too little attention is paid to the weakness of the young clover plant and its needs. In the clover belt clover Is Important enough to warrant special care in selecting the seeding method best suited to the special soil and to the other conditions prevailing. Essentials for Clover. Clover must have lime, phosphorus and potash, and if the soil Is poor in any of these it must be supplied before clover can be expected to do well. A deep soil Is desirable, as on a poorly drained soil red clover will not thrive; brtter sow alslke clover on such soils If the drainage cannot be improved to a suitable state for red clover. The questions of lime nnd fertilizers are largely local ones. The soils In the clover belt vary widely, and the various fields on the same farm may need different treatments. The most suitable treatment for each farm or field is best determined by test, and this can be made without a great deal of trouble. A diagram In the bulletin illustrates how this Is done by treating a series of experimental plats with the various fertilizers. A series of plats, eight In number, is laid out in the field to he tested on land as nearly representative of the entire field as Is possible to determine from observation beforehand. The first plat is left untreated for a check and Is also the last In the row. Lime alone Is put on the second, lime ami phosphate on the third, lime anil manure on the fourth, manure alone on the fifth, manure and phosphate on the sixth and phosphate alone on the seventh. The eighth plat Is left untreated for a check. Find Best Fertili2er. This arrangement allows the application of all the lime and all the manure to one continuous area. The phosphate alone must be applied to separate areas, and phosphate Is the easiest to apply. Potash plats can be Inserted If desired, but over most of the clover area scarcity of phosphate Is much more common than scarcity of potash, and by following the outline presented the farmer Is likely to find which fertilizer Is best to use. A ton of ground limestone and 2.V) to .UK) pounds of 10 per cent acid phosphate per acre is suggested unless the land Is known to be very poor In lime, when two tons of limestone may he applied. A copy of this bulletin may be secured, as long as the supply lasts, from the United States Department of Agriculture, Washington. weli-draine- d Farm Machinery Receives Anything but Good Care Farm machinery represents a large Investment on the part of American fanners, but still It represents the one thing wlilch gets the least care on the farm. The automobile, even the cheap little flivver. Is built to withstand the mvages of the elements much better than Is the farm machine. Still, In nearly every Instance, we find the little $Ih flivver under the roof of a K'.oo partite while the ?1,K1 tractor or the Sl.'.'KO thresher stands out In the lot for tlie whiter. There's nothing logical, economical nor soii'id about the whole business and until we adopt some pulley which embraces the Letter cure of our tool of production on the farm, we can expect to lie burdened down The remby our own overhead edy Is slowly being applied, but there's still lot of room for improvement and plenty of room for a good implement rlied on every farm. nit. Potash and Phosphoric Acid Needs of Tomatoc3 Tomatoes require n relatively low compared percentage of nllrogfti-u- s with phosphoric acid and potash, belli of which, however, tire essential In fruit development. Commercial fertilizer should be applied In the drill, mo to 1,"H) pounds per acre, and thoroughly mixed with the soil, before the plants are set. Nitrate of soda is recommended as a side dressing and should be applied Hi the rate of T to ! pounds per acre. Very heavy application of stable manure Is not advised, as It may prove harmful to fruit formation and development and often encourages rot ' -- . it," says K. J. Terry, dairy specialist College of "People BDUDIHG heavy-milkin- g Scarecrow Invented to Keep Birds From Fields TRUCKS AND ROADS HELP CREAMERIES "Health, Strength and Joy in Life" at the New Jersey State Agriculture. "A cow producing 40 pounds of milk per day requires approximately 120 pounds of water, and will drop off several pounds In production if compelled to drink ice water. The effect upon digestion and milk secretion is always detrimental. "For a few dollars an oil tank heater can be purchased at most hardware stores. Such a heater when correctly used will keep water ut a proper temperature, so that the cows will drink a sufficient amount to enable them to make milk to the limit of their ability, assuming that the grain nnd roughage are sufficient in quantity and quality. It is well for the temperature of the water to run from 50 to GO degrees. A producing herd should be watered twice each day. It is difficult for a cow to drink enough water at one time to take proper care of her daily milk and maintenance requirements. This is especially true in winter. Milk is 87 per cent water and frequency In drinking best insures heavy consumption In dairy cows. "Today the individual drinking cups found in many dairy barns greatly simplify the problem of watering. These, by enabling cows to drink small quaKtities of water frequently, make the warming of the water unnecessary. No part of the dairy barn equipment yields bigger returns on the cost price than properly installed drinking cups." '"iaNfc. "VA XnF5 "CfT 4 ' " i-4t- r I V ""sar-af- c y I I F m & V I irI The action of the Westchester county (New York) board of super- v,80r8 ,n appointing five women prom- inent in social and civic life as mem- l)ers ot 8 county recreation coinmls- sion' niukes Westchester the first in the country to create such a de- partment Mrs. Kugene Meyer, Jr., of North Castle, wife of the head of the War Finance corporation In Washington (portrait herewith), is chairman of which will have the commission, charge of the laying out of recreation centers and amusement places and arranging for public entertainments In the cha'n of parks which Westchester Is developing. The county park commission recently got an appropriation of . to lay out new parks and In addition to this sum, the county has purchased Glen Island and part of Manursing Island, on the sound, and Croton Point, on the Hudson. With their beaclies, these places will be Incorporated in the park system. Mrs. Meyer, who is an advocate of athletics, said that she hoped to establish her motto of "health, strength and joy in life" among poor and rich alike by providing facilities for outdoor exercise. Mrs. Meyer expressed belief that most Westchester folk had forgotten how to play. It Is the intention of the commission, she added, to teach such persons Jiow to enjoy themselves again. The park commission will maintain and supervise the parks, athletic fields, beaches, etc., while the recreation commission will organize the various ac tivities that may be carried on In these places. n v $A Sinclair Again park-wavs- Under the Limelight Sinclair has long been a household word, especially If you own an auto- 1 mobile. Harry Ford Sinclair is the ; pr "Sinclair" and limelight these days Is what he "ain't got notlun' but." The whole country had thrills last fall when his crack racer Zev beat Vapyrus, the English horse, in the international race at P.elmont Park. Incidentally he races under the name of the Rancocas stable, and led all American owners last year by earning $432,-14- 4 in stakes and purses. And January of 1924 thrust tiini t Into the limelight of the Teapot Dome Top Plan View of the Device. naval oil reserve lease scandal. TeaThe Scientific American in illustrat- pot Dome Is in Wyoming and Sinclair has spent about $25,000,000 on and ing and describing a scarecrow, the in connection with the property 4 t f invention of C. A. Davis of Los Annot proved to which, has incidentally : Cal., says geles, be the bonanza it was expected to be. Among the objects of thfe invention Sinclair was born in West VirIs to provide a scarecrow rfilh movable arms which can be operated from ginia in 1S7G, got his education in the a distance. A further object is to pro- high school of Independence, Kass., a one-yecourse in pharmacy in the University of Kansas and went Into vide scarecrow embodying a support took the business with his father. In 1901 he got into the oil business in drug a and pair of movable, arms operating southern Kansas. A gusher started him on the road to wealth. His companies cymbals to sound an alarm, and ere merged in 1919 into the Sinclair Consolidated Oil company. Further confrighten away birds in fields, gardens solidations have made him a power in the international oil world, with oil and other places. lands, pipe lineR and refineries. was this American oil king that last year Why, so rich and Advance in Farm Wages Albania offered to make him its ruler and put him on Its throne. well-know- n Was Noted During Year Farmers were required to pay higher wages to male farm labor during 1923 than in the two preceding years, the United States Department of Agriculture reports. The average rate per month with board In 1923 was $33.13, in 1922 it was $29.17, and in 1914 the rate was $21.05. The average monthly rate without board In 1923 was $4(5.91, In 1922 U was $41.79, and In 1914 the rate was $29.SS. Day wages for harvest labor, with board averaged $2.4.") in 1923, as compared whh $2.20 in 1922 and with ?1.5r in 1914. For farm labor other than at harvest time the rate per day with hoard was $1.93 in 192.1, as compared with $1.0.1 In 1922, and with British Cabinet Now Punches Time Clock Theoretically Premier MacDonald (portrait herewith) and the new Hrlt-Iscabinet are now punching the time clock when they show up for work. Actually there are two viscounts, a lord, a knight, a brigadier general and a colonel in the labor cabinet. These titles are not usually associated with labor In its radical form; nor need we a' ume that the men who bear them are either socialists or laborltes, although, necessarily, they must be In ' . -sympathy with the general aims of the party under whose auspices they $1.13 in 1914. have accepted office. There are BritThe peak year in wges of farm ish traditions to which llamsay Maclabor In recent years was 1920, the Donald litis shown respect In seeking out. The dellation department points colleagues from the ranks of aristocof general prices then began and farm racy and IJritish aristocracy Is not wage rates continued to decline until without Its radicals. To select a lord the fall of 1922, when nn upward trend or a first lord of the adchancellor, developed. miralty from the ranks of labor unionism, or from any group of commoners. s that would have been revolution Breeding Cattle Should deed. Premier MacDonald apparently determined that there will be only Have Strong Qualities one P.rltish policy, and he has secured that by combining the foreign office and Since breeding cattle are kept the premiership, thus avoiding what happened when Lord Clinton and Mr. either to produce feetler steers nnd Haldwln often were at loggerheads. fat steers, or to produce other breeding stock for that purpose, they must have the same good qualities needed In feeder and fat stock. I.Ike produces like. (!mn wheat must be sown to get Hulls that would not good wheat. make good steers themselves cannot of Here Is an sire market toppers. Herd sires Miss Esther Everett I.npe, portrait the "memtill should have the width and thick- ber In of the l!ok pence prize ness of loin, back and hind quarters, contest charge" as she appeared before the and all the quality of skin and hair senate Investigating committee and of the fi't steer, and all the constitutake the word of the reporters thnt beef and tion, capacity, temperament, that same committee found Miss I. ape fattening ability of the ideal feeder a model of feminine efficiency; In the The herd sire should not only lie middle thirties she is good looking pure bred and a good specimen of bis and smartly dressed. She was not only I 'MM. breed, but should t.e masculine, vig- ready for the fusillade of questions orous and of strong constitution. that Senators Moses (N. II.). Ileed Cows should show refinement and (Mo.) and Greene (Vt.) directed at femininity as well as size and vigor. her. but established her ability Oniric I. Iirny. Colorado Agriculture to parry early t ho most searching quizzing college. and Insist on the acceptance of her own interpretations and not those of her Inquisitors. Miss Lape gave her Give Cattle Opportunity responses to the questions asked by for Exercising in Open the members of the Investigation comOn calm, clear days the cattle, par- mittee In a firm but moderate tone to ticularly those near calving time, which she sedulously held throughout should be given the opportunity to ex- her long and somewhat trying exam ercise In the open. An excuse, too, ination. She displayed patience and should he found for hitching up the tact. The testimony she gave relatP'f to her own Important obviously the team and working them at least tight- most Important services In connection with the peace prize project was enShe was at time ly two or three times a week. The tirely free from even a remote suggestion of self sufficiency. train feed for the horses enn be re- exceedingly frank, at others dl.' lngenuous, or evasive, or hazy, but alw ays Intela timed by half or until the ligent. She made long answers to pointed questions without even consulting the voluminous memorandum before her. first f March, h i f ln-i- Senators Find Miss Lape on the Job te two-tblrd- DAIRY FACTS Born LIKELY CAUSES FOR LAPSE OF APPETITE Some fifteen or more years ago w creampredicted larger eries would be established and that the smaller ones would pass out of existence on account of the coming of the truck and better roads. The small local creumery has served its purpose well, but we have come to a period in the development of the creamery industry when larger local creamerlei are essential. The advent of the truck and good roads makes this possible and practicable. It is well known to every manufacturer that he must have a certain volume of business In order that his products be manufactured at the least expense. There Is such a thins, however, as an institution being too large to be economical, as well as too small. There Is a happy medium for the size of our local creameries. An Institution 1,000,000 manufacturing pounds of butter In a year will have a minimum manufacturing cost provided the management is efficient. We think well of having a creamerj In every comnnmitj and of sufficient size that it can cany on Its business upon the proier basis. It is something every community can be proud of; it gives Increased value to the land, for when a creamery is Situated close to the farm there Is always a sure market for the cream or milk produced on the farm. When milk or cream was delivered by team It was essential that the creameries be closer to the farm for In most cases It was not economical to haul milk more than three or four miles. A local creamery now can he ten miles from the farm nnd the product can be delivered to that creamery cheaper by truck than when the patron lived but three miles away from the creamery when horses were used for hauling the raw products farm to the creamery. Good roads and auto trucks are changing our creamery system. They are changing it for the better, for they lncrense the capacity of creameries, making It possible for them to render a better service to their patrons, produce a more uniform quality of product, and engage In other activities like the handling of poultry and eggs. Hoard's Dairyman. Dairy cows sometimes suddenly stop eating for no apparent reason, and feeding steers may be similarly affected. More commonly, however, appetite gradually lessens until eating stops. Chewing the cud, or rumination. Is also suppressed In these cases. It seems possible that the cow becomes tired of her ration if no change has been made for some time. Lack of succulent or laxative feed may also be a contributing cause. Anyhow, the liver seems to be torpid and little if any muscular motion (peristalsis) can be heard when the ear is placed against the animal's side. Lack of exercise, Insufficient drinking water, an inadequate or Irregular supply of salt, chill, fright of discomfort are other possible causes, nnd total lack ot appetite is also a symptom of many serious diseases. When disease Is not present, try the effects of a change of feed. Apples or roots sometimes are relished. Raw potatoes may stimulate the appetite. A cow will sometimes eat whole oats when she refuses other feed. Salt placed in her mouth or salt dissolved In the drinking water may Improve the nppetlte. Also offer alfalfa or clover hay. If timothy, prairie or swale hay has formed the roughage. Meal placed In the mouth may also coax the appetite. In my experience fluid extracts of nux vomica and gentian root have proved, with acetic acid, the most effective medicines. Two ounces of dilute acetic acid well diluted with water and given night and morning for a few days sometimes starts the animal to eating. If It does not succeed, give twenty to thirty drops of fluid extract of nux vomica and one to two drams of fluid extract of gentian root in some flaxseed tea every six or eight hours, and If necessary gradually Increase the dose of nux. Make the animal take active outdoor exercise every day. Take the chill off the drinking water. Supply rock salt or block salt. Protect the animal against cold drafts and wet weather. A. S. A. In Successful Farming. of-th- Ventilating Cover for Containers Is Invented Compound Interest Paid on Highway Investment The Scientific American. In Illustrating nnd describing a ventilating cover for containers, the Invention of G. T, The gradually accepted figure of 10 Morris of Missoula, Mont., says: cents a mile as the cost of operating The invention relates more particuthe average automobile was adopted larly to containers employed for transrecently by the Wisconsin railroad porting milk, cream nnd the like. One commission as Its official standard. of the primary objects Is to provide a The rate is held interesting for its many applications. In Minnesota, for example, the recent traffic census showed that the average section of the state trunk highway system Is traveled by 834 vehicles a day. If a new location or other change shortens the distance on a route carrying average travel It follows that it would mean a saving to 834 car owners auto taxpayers who are bearing the big share of trunk highway costs. At 10 cents a mile, that saving would be $83.40 a1 day more than $30,-00-0 a year, and $300,000 In ten years, all exclusive of the cost of Improving and always maintaining the extra but unnecessary mile. Ventilated Covsrs for Containers. container In which the Interior will be at all times in communication with the exterior, to afford proper ventilation of the contents. It Is a further object to so construct the cover for milk containers that the gases generated within the container may be discharged therefrom. Highway Billboard Nil in State of Minnesota Minnesota's new law passed by the last legislature, prohibiting all advertising signs on trunk highways, has gone into effect. Thousands of signs ranging from smll tin tags to billboards of various sizes on state rights of way, were removed. Only signs expressly excepted y the law are to be left. I'mlletln boards for legal notices and marking of trails are the main exceptions. According to highway department officials, the removal of the signs will not only take away unsightly objects but eliminate blUhoards which obstruct the view and distract atten tlon at dangerous cross roads. Safe Practice to Feed Dairy Cattle Roughage Feed the dairy cow ail the roughage she will eat. Under ordinary conditions, this Is safe advice, says E. S. Ravage, authority on dairy rations at the New York State College of Agriculture at Ithaca. Silage and legume bny seem the best combination. The silage should be fed at the rate of about three or four pounds a day for each hundred pounds of live weight. Reclaimed Rubber Made This will usually mean the cow will Into Bricks for Paving then consume about a pound and a of half every day for each ten hay New tires roll over old In an exlive perimental pavement laid by the Chi- pounds of chief weight. value Is Its succulence, Silage's cago, Milwaukee & St. Paul rend at feeding too much of the Main street grade crossing at Ra- fine should avoid and contains a It, since It l bulky Is a Wis. The material cine, paving of low nutrients. d.gestible percentage "brick' made from scrap tire by a To make the grain ration palatable, new process recently developed. The t lesst three different grains should made by design of the pavement Jerseys will probably C. W. I'.rainbrldge, chief engineer of bp IncPided. one pound of the mixture about t!ejd mb-beof the and the railroad, design bricks rest on a base of wood. daily for each 3 to 31i pounds of milkd If the experiment Is a success, the produced. Ilolsteins and other one cows will of railway company Intends to Install the mixture for tnch .Vi to pound 4 pounds similar throughout Its sys- nf milk. s r iHrge-type- m-c- cro.-jsinif-s tem. Feed Heifer Generously Continuous Paved Roads in First Milking Year Return to Washington j j A heifer should be fed generously A motorist can start from the lero the first milking year to get her Into milestone In Washington and travel circle tour of 2.3oO miles back t the hnblt of milking generously and Washington again over a continuous to develop her milk giving functions. dust less paved highway. This continPossibly her second breeding timi uous section takes the traveler from should be extended a little so he may Washington to St. Iouls, thence be milked a long time the first milkthrough Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland ing yesr In the: hope of creating the Kindness I'.ufTalo. Montreal, Albany, Itoston, habit of being persistent. and gentleness have much to do with New York, Philadelphia and the development of the dlrt alf. |