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Show sav i ,crTnFft ! y Attention Strict . eel economical produe-. mtrM attentlnlt Firme w i : hAl rtalrr rattle nnr- fctomiul than UdBf milk." says the dairy it the New Jersey State "Hotue-grow- OoJ-f-ef a ATlcnlture. feeds the dairy-fa-s irt tbe cheapest nd roughages, even at let. are the cheap-- i of hay, price do--y Alfalfa, feeds. HKe are the best milk jet n,lxed naT and "talk, com in; Vfed to advantage if they are (at ob the farm. a supply 01 corn )0M who have ut fortunate. Corn and cob Aould furnish the basis of the R the purchase of bran or . fear hich nroteln concen- - ration can the fol-- r to according mponnded recommended proportions : Ten ', of alfalfa or clover hay, 30 i of corn silage with all the (talks the cow will clean up tciether with 000 pounds of jj cob meal. 300 pounds of bran 1,200 pounds, of , gluten,.,.. 100.. i milk-makin- g food meal, ano lw of cottonseed The cost fij this sf oil will. vary, aepenmng upon to will rn alfalfa nor clover hay be necessary to tbe amount of linseed or cots' neaL If no silage or suo tkti Is being fed, linseed meal for the cotton-ta- !. be tubstltuted It is advisable also to feed Dip it tbe rate of three pounds ff silage Is not available. The be fed when ln-- v Ip should It will iiiible condition. distinction between corneal and cottonseed feed. d teeft contains a large Dro- of halls and has a very lnfe-M-f value, and should not be A If cottonseed meal can be Is a ilwsys poor economy stock ; feed them then In a good, thrifty it to unenough condl-nl- n milk should be fed all "je they will eat and, In pound of grain dally ee and one-ha- lf pounds ad-'- 4 1 for of tfw.each day." a Laws Urged to Spread of Disease :? uw Unli.d kr SutM d s ' Agriculture.) recent World's Dpartmat Dairy con-- 1 it Washington, D. C, Dr. ilohler, chief of the bureau i Industry, United States De of Agriculture, suggested to stes that efforts should be obtain some uniformity In t tht Various countries trade In live m move of tbls sort . Is , said Doctor Mohler, be-- f great extent of Interna- ta live stock, and because of destructive animal dis-an- y ptrts of the world, fundamental features which ld be desirable for all ere brought out In the ""ede to the delegates. It 'ted that each country and foreign com-stoand Its product llsfc a competent veter-- l and falling to do this o right to expect Its ani-Te- d In other countries ; bould be made to prevent ntaglous diseases In the Introduction of la-- ; abroad, or the transmls-ck 1 to other countries; Mnould be ft p an International irtteiu ,f exchange of toregard to animal health countries. ctices Unprofitable listed a Um practices f iJJanltary. Injurious and P'for the dairy fanner: U01 P " that r.r. have dirty flanks at every move- dirt falls into the Jwet LT" i hands, so that the w,in 0!th. falls Into im1ra,,r" and Utensils thorou8h ,tr elreo. WlJ!' "W lninilng4 I Mw. a in KLt r of Farm Produce - t fb cream bfore nsble u wnw A vAioraao back . . baa Agrlcul- - One of Big W?? ,,,at rapidity ll milking, cow. wUn th "c,lon Whlch ta fj"lln ?2 Ability to choose between the (Frpar4 The by th CaKt4 StiM Dutrtawat ot Asrtcaitwa.) marketing ot fa'rm la proving of direct bene- orderly producu that fit to both producers and consumers is being greatly stimulated by the Improved marketing practices extended by federal market investigators laying hen and the nonlayer la easily developed by poultry owners and should be put Into practice in culling the flock If the beat returns in both eggs and meat are to be had. In any flock some hena will be found which are such poor producers that they are unprofitable, and these should be the ones to eat All hena molt In the fall or early winter. Thia molting characteristic Is easily observed and, when it starts to take place, means that the hen has about finished her laying season and la turning her attention to growing a new crop of feathers for a vacation before she starts her neM year's work. If It is desirable to use a pnrt of the flock for meat, says the United State Department of Agriculture, the early molters are the ones to select for eating first because they are luying very few or no egga during this nioltliii season which usually lusts about three .months. . The hens in the ftoelr should not be killed until they begin to molt and their combs begin to lose size, color and flexibility, If these changes have not taken place the hens will probably still be laying wjien eggs are especially valuable. As a rule hens of the general-purposbreeds are not profitable layers after they are two years old. and Leghorn hena rarely lay profitably after three laying years. Many of the hens should be culled before they reach these ages and replaced by pullets ln the fall. during the past year, the United States Department of Agriculture-announce- s. Among the improvements that have shown the greatest expansion are the Inspection of farm products at shipping points, use of standard graOes, Increased use of warehouse facilities under federal supervision, marketing, and prompt distribution of market news. The shipping point Inspection service enables farmers to have their products inspected at loading points by state Inspectors licensed and supervised by the Department of Agriculture. arrangements for such service, have been made In 25 states, providing inspection' at more than 000 leading shipping points. Inspections during the past year totaled more than 72,000 cars of fruits and vegetables. Of this number, inspee- tlon ln Colorado aggregated-.-25.00f cars; California was next with 18.000 cars; Idaho, 13;000 cars; Washington, 9,000 cars, and New Jersey, 1,500 cars. Keeps Out Inferior Products. The shipping point inspection service is exerting a large influence In keeping inferior quality products out of the channels ot trade, ln addition to providing shippers with an official record that Is recognised In United States courts as prima facie evidence of the condition of the products, the. department says. The result Is better use of transportation, better distribution, lower cost of marketing; higher net returns to fanners, and a Oyster Shell Rsquired higher grade of food to consumers. service Is also tending to place by Egg Producing Hens The marketable products on a shipping Oyster shell should be kept conbasis. purchase point stantly before laying hens. ExperiTentative standard grades were prements show that fowls will draw lime the year for prunes, from the body skeleton if oyster shell pared during boxed pears and boxed apapricots, la not obtainable ln sufficient quantl- and studies were made looking ples, nes. toward the preparation of grades for That oyster sheltys an essential sweet peppers. The total number of that part of the feeding YH-n- d fruits and vegetables for which It should be kept before fowls conhave been prepared was thus grades tinuously Is clearly shown In the fol- brought up to 17. Approximately 85 of ,,ie from1clrcu,ar per cent of the national potato crop Is Virginia experiment station, en now sold on the basis of the federal titled. Feeding for Egg Production, grades, the department saya. The deby Prof. Horace Atwood: aim Is to prepare grades, partments "A relatively large amount of lime for all farm products so that a comla required In the. formation of egg f mon trnde language can be evolved shells. Wheeler found that crushed that will" be understood ln all parts oyster shell when fed to laying hens of the country. Much confusion that was the principal source of the lime has tended to Increase waste and marpresent In the shells, and he advised keting costs has resulted from the feeding oyster shell, especially during use of a multitude of terms to describe the laying season. That his concluthe various grades and quality of farm sions were correct is Indicated by the producta. almost universal use of oyster shell Use for More Warehouses. for this purpose. One pound of oyster There has been greater use of wareshell will furnish lime for about seven houses for farm products, and a larga dosen eggs. er lncreaae In the number, of "In a recent Investigation Halpln federal under supercoming finds that, contrary to popular belief, vision under the terms of the United feed ln lime the a lack of calcium or States wsrehouse act than ever be haa not caused the production of the department announces. Cred fore, eggs, the hen apparently draw-ln- it for this healthy development that on her skeleton for the needed makes for more orderly marketing aa d eggs, therefore, determined by consumptive needs Is calcium. appear to be due to some psthological given largely to the bankers of the a condition rather than to a lack of country who have Indicated their willIn the feed. A scant supply of ingness to lend money to farmers, the calcium seems to decrease egg produc- loana being secured, by warehouse retion. This result Is Important from ceipts. Demands are pouring In on the practlcal standpoint, since many the department for the licensing of warehouses for products such as po poultry raisers, believing that calnf a lark Indicate eggs tatoes beana and broomcorn, and cium, do not feed oyster shells unless work In that direction la now being d eggs. It Is undertaken. their hens lay thus possible that a lack of egg proApproximately 10.000 farmer duction during the late winter months organisations with a member-ahl- p calof more than 1.000,000 farmers may be due to a lack of sufficient cium. are now actively operating In the "Since oyster shell Is relatively United States, the department saya. atud-cheap and since fowls need lime from As a result of the department this or a almllar source, at least when lea of principles and practhey are laying. U la good practice to tices both to the United States ana abroad, the principles of successful keep a aupply constantly available." are now fairly well un food producers all over and derstood, are applying them to their the country Practical Poultry Notes business. The department la regarded aa the leading authority on thla sub tbe Information developed being Hena more than thirty months old ject, widely disseminated tnrougn agncui seldom pay. services, county extension tural the and press. agents, Never ship la cedar boxes, aa cedar Fsnvters Keep In Touch. talnta the flesh. Extension of the federST market news service by telegraph and radio A apring chicken la a young bird It posduring the year now makes to weighing over 'two pounds. keep anywhere farmers for sible and crop with touch' general In dally A broiler should not be more than market conditions. More than 80 sixteen weeka old, nor wefgli more radio broadcasting sfstlons dispstcb than two pounds. the news over the continent, and by .. ., ., means of a leased telegreph wire sysTo eatabllah a regular demand and tem thst stretches across the country on Income, marketing muat be done from Boston to Saa Francisco Into regular fixed days. the 8outhwest and along the 'Atlantic ? ,, Important market flashes seaboard. f the dressed carcass are dispatched 12 hours dally from The head should be tucked back under the wing, and to the leading market centers for farmwhen packed for shipment. subsequent distribution smong Interests. agricultural other and ers old off geese the Do not eell or kill These marketing services to farmor gandera .oa account of their age breeder! have been rendered more effective ers atone, 014 geese are better of the economic by the consolidation than young ooea unleas'decreplt. bu, work of the department tnto the which economics !AU carcaasea to be shipped should ret of agricultural bureau of crop aa scalded poultry will includes the former be and mar management, not stand Ion shipments. The home estimates, farm three the at consolldstlon ecalded. Tbe kets. trade, however, prefer! tiro Inter as regsrds J. bureaus, particularly activities, has made Chlcka with deformities like tooked relsted msrketlng sn enlarged eervlc extendnecks or crooked legs should be killed possible ' ing the broad field of problems to. over the ts put at tht time1 tbe clutch to the study brooder. Soctt chick are useleai and from farm organisation Z1 distribution. retail , of eUe sooner or Uter. ; : 0 fr e d a . acaon, and wu, yW4 of milk new .. '.,er tb " " butierfat. of m,Ik atlty " Ir1?!?? I jwnre-bouse- soft-shelle- d g Soft-ahelle- cal-elur- soft-ahelle- d soft-shelle- -- 1 r ," Hog Cholera Disease Lead the Men on to Dress With More Brilliance Difficult to Control and Less Discretion Of Benefit to Producers and Sanitation and Preventive Serum Are Urged. Consumers, Says Depart(Fnparad by ta t'aitt4 Stat ttopartmaa ment of Agriculture. i Atnrauar.) : 'wither i wgnt Marketing Unprofitable Producers Should Be Fowls to Eat the coat one-hal- f n nil - .. a 4 per cent to Feeding Dairy uowa Bior a KKAVER CITY PRESS ,-- of ths By ELLERT RAND, In New York Times. factors hare conspired to bring about the return of the and the dappers. Ia the first place, there is the whole of the war reaction; second, there is the influence of . the prince of Wales as mentor of international style; third, the importation of foreign styles by the hordes of American men who nowadays travel abroad; fourth, the deference paid to the tastes and opinions of the youth of today; fifth, golf; sixth, the or unconscious of the clothing advertisements; and seventh, the power ' of the emancipated woman to affect the fashions for men. But vast as is the influence of the clothing-a- d Apollos, they cannot rival the power of women in bringing the dapper back to life. ETeryT day they, lead the men on to dress with more brilliance and less discretion. It is all a part of the emancipation of the frail sex. They hare lost all fear of the men's shops. This is partly because many of the men's stores have opened women's departments and partly well, because there) is nothing that the women are afraid of any more. When friend husband, fares forth to hunt his new winter suit, friend, wife trudges resolutely ''' beside him. "T 'v ; MMANY hogs on farms to the United 8tatea died of hog cholera last year. This appraisal of the ravages of hog chol era la made bv the bureau af animal Industry, United States Department of Agriculture, for the year ended April 90, 1923, and ts based on estimatea of the bureau of agricultural econom ies. Losaes were heavleat In Iowa. Nebraaka, Indiana. Missouri. Iflinols, Ohio, Georgia, Minnesota, and South Dakota In the order named, Each of these states lost more than 100,-00-0 head of swine from the disease during the year, assuming that 80 per cent of the deaths from all causes among hogs is" due to cholera. The tt)tal number of awine lost from hog cholera exceeded 230.000, valued at approximately $29,393,000. The highly contagious nature of hog cholera makes the disease difficult to control. The preventive serum treat ment combined with strict sanitation and thorough disinfection of premlsea after outbreaks, are the most effective control measures. The losses rejorted for lust year are not so great as in 1913 and 1914 when the disease appeared particularly prevalent, but they were larger than department ex perts consider they should have been considering that swine growers have a preventive treatment which Is effect ttial. If used properly before the animals become sick. sppeaJ--conscio- us - -- '. -- v-.,- - A fashion periodical called lien's Wear has estimated that 65 per cent of men's ties, 75 per cent of their socks and 30 per cent of their shirts are bought by women today. , There is another way that women have affected men's dressing. They are always about ; uptown and downtown, at the office and in the subway. Time was when a man was safe at work in bis shabby suit so long as h cut a dashing figure when he rang a certain doorbell at 8:39 in the eve- f his affection works m ning.. iJuttliat docsnt hold whea office next to his and drops in every hour or so to pass the time of day. . the-obje- . "' Example of Modern Stupidity Is Assumption of Unpossessed Knowledge Some Excellent Ways to By HILAJRE BELLOC, ln Yals Review. Get Grapevines Started The grapevine Is one of the easiest' fruit plants to propagate, according to the horticulturists of an Eastern college of agriculture. Any amateur can grow them at home. For filling a vacancy In a vineyard the easiest and '''i 1 .. ' The first, most obvious, example of modern stupidity ia the assumjv tion of unpossessed knowledge. I do not mean its assumption in ths sense of a pretense to That would not be stupidity at all; it would be cunand charlatanism, defects which are not stupid, but the reverse. No, ning I msan the unconscious assumption of knowledge which as a fact the does not possess J and'that example of stupidity one has all around one today in an appalling degree. Most educated men in England assume that the United States is a province of British civilization. Moat educated men in the Germanies before the war assumed as a known thing that the boring and neglected Irish question absorbed the political en ergies of England. Most educated men throughout the white world still assume that any one of a thousand scientific hypotheses is a proved fact Furtherwhat ia really astonishing ss each hypothesis bursts in turn, the same men coolly adopt the next fashionable hypothesis (invented to replace the burst hypothesis) as piece of fact with which they are perfectly familiar, as 'they are familiar with the furniture of their homes. They retain not the' least memory of their original error, and that error ' ' v ' teaches them no lesson. it as-su- surest way is to leave a cane unpruned on a neighboring vine, ln the spring lay the vine down and cover with 3 to 4 inches of loose dirt, that part which Is ln the place where a new vine Is designed. Dy fall the covered part will have produced sufficient root growth to allow the parent cane to be cut away. If several' plants are desired the entire cane may be covered with dli"t. Nearly every bud will produce a plant The following spring the plants may be separated with a sharp spade and transplanted. For producing plants In greater numbers, cuttings are used, ln the fall canes that grew during the year may be cut into lengths of wo or three Juds each." Canes should nave the thickness of, a pencil with joints S to 6 incbes apart Cuttings ln bundles of 10 or 19 should be buried ln the garden with , tbe butt ends up, the ends being cov: ered with S or 4 Inches of dirt When l r . By -- DEAN INGE, of St. Paul'a Cathedral freesJi.g weather comes on they may either be placed In moist ssnd to a cool cave or left outdoors and mulched It is England which invented parliamentary institutions, which gave with straw or other litter. Thla prac- its language and laws to the British Isles, and. produced our immortal tice promotes the growth of callous ever the cuts. In the spring the canes literature; it is England which taught honor and manliness, kindliness, should be planted In nursery rows 6 fair play and toleration to a world which much needed and has as yet only or 8 Inches apart In the row, with half-learnthese English lessons, , . rows 2 or 3 feet apart, one bud being We have acquiesced in the "unhistoric and pinchbeck title of British, left right at the surface of the ground, as Thomas Ilardy calls it, and our newspapers are beginning to use tht the other underground. "In Spite of All Temptations to Belong to Other Nations, He Remains -' ed deliberately insulting Americanism 'Britisher just out of good narurt and a mistaken idea of modetty. It is time to cry a halt! I take up my parable as a man who is proud to be a pure English Apple trees on thin upland or other man, with no admixture of Scottish, Irish, Welsh or other blood for at poor soil are likely to need fertilising. least three hundred years, before which date my family does not seem to For such orchards, T. H. Ballou, asbeen hsve sociate horticulturist, Ohio experiment recognized by the College of Heralds. Judging by my pa station, recommends the application tronymic, I suppose my ancestor ""came over? as a Scandinavian pirate, of a mixture of equal parts of nitrate of soda or sulphate of ammonia, and and was, I dare say, as great a ruffian as most of William tht Conqueror'a acid phosphate. tformans; but history is silent "In spite of all temptations to belong .to He would apply these fertilisers other nations," I am glad to be an Englishman pure and aimpleC very early to the spring Just as the buds begin to swelL For a poorly Apple Trees Need Plant Food for Proper Growth , , nourished twenty-year-ol- d apple tree, about ten pounds of the mixture Is suggested. This Is scattered evenly to a circle beneath and a little beyond tbe branches, but keeping a few feet away front the base of the tree, For trees from five to ten years of age applications of from three to five pounds are recommended. Fruit trees covered with a rich dark-gree- n foliage and Urge twig growth nitrogenous probably need very-littlplant food. If We Could Get Up at Top of Our Ideals the Word "Sportsmanship" By WALTER. CAMP, If in, World'a Work.. could only get up at the top of our ideas and ideals ths word' "sportamsnship? rather than "amateur" it would be a triumph' indeed. Somehow or other we hsve become terribly mixed in confounding tht desire to win with' unfairness or deceit - This largely emanated from those who believe that they can tell a good American boy of he. when that his into he must not eighteen goes cart who wins; games Cost of Marketing Hoga he must plsy tht game just for the fun of playing , Scheme Now, no boy of eighteen can understand- that kind of reasoning. If by Terminal charges, such as'commls-slon- , he is going to play he is going to play with his heart and soul and deter' ' ' . ' yardage and feed, amount to mined to win if possible. '."i.m r of the total cost 'of about AU we can do is to presch sportsmanship and endeavor to bring about shipmarketing hog by ping associations. The United Gtates a new belief that sportsmanship docs not depend upon rules or regulaDepartment of Agriculture recentl) tions and that these cannot make a ' sportsman or unmske one. made a study of 237 live stock shipping associations to the Middle West, and found that there Is considerable Me we e red-blood- ed it Co-Operat- ive - 1 one-thir- a- d variation In 'the shipping costs between organizations of shippers. Anyone Interested to studying the Complete flndlnga of the Investigations may obtain them by writing for the report. Costs or Marketing Live 8tock In the Cora JBelt 192L Copies ' are sent free. Dead Leaves Make Fine ' ' Fertilizer for Garden The dead leaves, which seem to be lying everywhere at this time of year can be put to a double nee. II raked and stored to a dry place tney make excellent scratching material. for the heba or bedding (or stock, after which they' make the best of fertiliser. Or alternate layers of leaves, chicken mannre and dirt, la barrels, will make a valuable fertiliser for the garden. "Tell . - What America Is and ripTell You What Its Poetry Is" By ROBERT FROST, In New York Times. One cannot say thit the real American poetry is the poetry of tht One csnjpot ssy it is the poetry of the city. ,One cannot say it is tht poetry of the native as one cannot ssy it is tht poetry of tht alien. Tell me what America is snd IH tell you what its poetry is. The slien who comes here for something different, something ideal, something that is not Englsnd and not France and not Germany and finds it, knows this to bt Araerics. When he becomes articulate and raises his voict in an outburst of song, he is singing an American lyric. He is an American. His poetry is American. He could not hsve sung that same song in the place from where he bails ; he could not hart sung it in an other country to which be might have emigrated. . Be grateful for the individual cote be contributes and adopt it for pur own as he haa adopted the country. toil ' |