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Show POINTS im BJMiM til lilt ti i v1 1 I 1 1 ii- v i 1 1 FOR SUCCESS HOW TO TREAT; ALKALI of rT" Moisture, SOILS at 8urfape Evaporation Brings Injurious Salts to Level, - Sunshine and Nitrogen Are Two , Great Essentials. . Injuring Plant SOME KCH1ENT SUGGESflON, REGARDING BREEDING OF HOGS r iMt rit nn...' The Kansas Industrialist, published r- ... hv thfl AffHfMiHtirnl rtfb1ltfPfi at M A ft I Do .Not Thrive Well If Not Brood Sows Animals au recent in a issue contains. hattan, Given Sufficient Quantity Scrub Ho brltf.mrllt'.la. on haw to. handla alkali " Mixed of Turf, Mowing Under Is Not Profitable. soils. It iff nolnted out In the first I - as Ith Uttle Irrigation, Farmer cane and that such place crops ( kaflr corn may be grown on lands sot Never Need Fear Failure 4 siveness of a people than the absence (By B. E. LARA.) Uoo badly ffectedby alkali. It seems Increase Fertility. . The farmers of Denmark secure the of the scrub hog from a community. ' Selection of Representative William that alkali fn any soil comes from the best prices for their fancy bacon for B. McKinley of Illinois, chairman"-- ! Too much stress cannot be laid on? The farmer man or' boy must be subsollaway down, deep. Evapora- the reason that they have established selecting breeding swine from tne Kepuoucan congressional, commit sound, at the sur- small packing establishments where healthy parents. Animals that are not tee, to lead the fight for delegates foi constantly reniinded ' of the ' value of tion of the soil nioistu're tfie" is face to the they can haul their hogs and get their what brings alkali Ui constitution cannot with President Taft to the RniihH"nn tin. crop rotation, 'live stock grazing, strong level where the main injury to plants e tfonal convention at Chicago, is hail-- oarn yara mucn, gooa seeu sou pay for the h.Qgs. according to their stand. disease as whichj . ed aa a drawing taut of the adminis- tillage or' he will not get along very happens. aetualwerth, How different from the are strong IB that respect,- - Ihcasei Burbank well. If is these the evaporation Only other; day prevented, tration line in an out and out contest system, or lack" of system, in this hags are troubled with disease it Isj between President Taft and Theodore told: me that the two great essentials strong, injurious salts will not come g country, where we are compelled to almost impossible to give them medi-- j Roosevelt. Mr, McKlnley has hither In our economic existence are sun- to the surface and eat the tendeH-jajjU8t what tne pacing house oper- - cine or anything jelae that will prove to been recognized as a standpatter of shine and nitrogen the ot$ and the plants. ThatrthenrtB one wayto re ators are a mind to pay us for our in this preven- hogs. Will the time ever come when the Joseph. G. Cannon type, he Taft same but Interchangeably differentcon claim. And it is done of eyaporation-4i- n world tion three all that ways: our farmers can see-th- e the., producing t great benefits that Cannonismfls dead JllIiI TrnTcr ? and that the McKinley appointment la tains, writes Eugene H. Grubb in the shading, mulching and keeping the to be derived from the1 surface well cultivated. a recognition of the fact that the Denver Field and Farm. With these soil at Roughage is oneof the most imporunder tbe Mulching is practiced in the- case of tant factors in wintering the brood A Combination Hog House, With Hayr standpatters have now aligned them- essentials and the plowing selves with the president, a middle of turf mixed in with a little irrigation yoking orchards. The young trees are sows, and if tbey do not get enough and Grain Storage Rooms. the road- progressive Republican, as we will neverhave.a crop failure. We protected in this way until they be- coarse food they will not do well. Corn and will continually increase fertility come" large enough to protect themand milk sre well balanced as a diet, very helpful About all we can. do against the more radical progressives Jarger jrlelds just as do the farm- selves with their own shade, when but there should be something added to feed a ration that can be easily dii represented by Theodore Roosevelt get the mulch is needed no longer. to distend the organs or digestion. gested and keep them In clean quar and Senators La Follette and Cum- ers of Great Britain. It is a deplorable fact that the Straw, leaves or manure may be Then again, brood sows will keep ters, thoroughly disinfectthe pens andj mins, . ;courseMr. McKinley was selected to lead American farmer is producing, under used; to .make the mulch. These in-- i more quiet and contented if they are let the disease run-itWhole milk is one "of the best feeds the Taft fight on the suggestion of the .most favorable conditions, only vplve more trouble and expense-- than given alfalfa, elovef..or some kind of -d of the crops which the Eu the simple maintenance of a loose sur- roughage to work over during the day. for hogs that are suffering with dis- -. Senator W. .MMfrajraneMasBaL The selection ef Congressman ropean farmer is raising under ex face soil mulch throughout the dry Good corn stover is better than noth- ease of any. kind, It is an excellent chusetts, after a careful poll of the situation. s will make Il- tremely bad conditions. Another sig season. As such a mulch is neces-sary- , ing and the sows will work it over and feed, and has often been of great as McKinley to manage President Taff campaign for slstance in bringing hogs through nificant fact is that the fertility and .anyway, to the cultivation of eat large quantities of it every day. linois the center of the Roosevelt-Taf- t struggle. ' of sickness. some delivering and hoed field -of k .... of. In garden ... crops Theman who haa a lot a personal pride theuropeajLjarmJA paignrlln4::w411--taproductivity McKinler Uvea thrifty spells Thefl Is M of or September pigs and gives his own state to Taft. gradually increasing while that of the crops, it is an inexpensive method August ' , He is one of the them rational care until grass comes corn is an ideal Jiog feed but everyRepublicans in Illinois. As head of the Mc- average United States farm is de reclamation. Some field crops, when once estab- and has them ready for the market practical feeder admits that better reKinley syndicate, which controls the interurban roads of the state, he has creasing, in about the same inverse suits can be brought about by feeding ratio. This despite the fact lished, will do well on a slightly alemployes by the hundreds in the larger cities. a ration that is composed of leBS than been of the that farms have .of been has the has Europe kaline congresa stand chairman soil, Republican McKinley good .provided Representative s com. It Is a mistake to? worked for 2,000 years. The corn beeji obtained. This Is trueof alTalfaT sional committee two terms and has just been elected to a third. we cannot afford to .buy other, think area of the United States Is practi The alfalfa seed is sensitive to "black" feeds to mix with the corn. There are no new alkali and is very likely to be joined cally developed. fields except in Argentina where we by it. To prevent this, it is well to Ordinarily ifcJs a mistake, not to-feed the hogs the liquid before tbecan' look for increased production of when sowing alfalfa. This solhiOGdr----;--corn for human food or the making neutralizes the "black" alkali Descendants of M0jr0rajLterHar: and l?ee that the ris'on will be able to toEfst reminiscent-l- y of meats" hogs have comfortable leaves it harmless. Then, when the of the "biscuits father used to quarters now and the months to Tbe only solution of the problert of alfalfa has grown to a good stand It come.- - Failure here will Impair the . make" and no one shall say them, nay securing cheaper prices for the food may live for. many years without a a usefulness of the herd culinfor his honor tbe mayor is of "the people of this nation is - to4 sign of injury. to have not does He Hops will make, from 10 td 12 prove The double or treble theacre yield. ary expert. Then there is the "leachlng-down- " of meat, live for each . it; he admits .it himself, pounds if soil are treblef of the of method capabilities .reclamation, in. which the A Type of Hog That Is Fast Oisap' bushel of corn eaten, weight, of"" .': because but skiwith skill the Harrison's now Dot Mayor soil is kept flooded with Water from quadruple, what the land is pearing. thf b too many fanners feed too much.- llet runs through a wide repertory being made to show. We cannot too three days to a week, when the alkali corn. from boiled eggs to reflector ovenbis- aoon adopt the methods and princi salts will be carried deep enough into the middle of June will make better The cream separator has greatly re 'cuits in fact, there is no end; to pies of European agriculture. The the soil to prevent further injury for money for his feed than he will on any duced scours in pigs because the skim. .. . ' this man's cleverness until he essays at. least, This method Is bunch of pigs that he fmds during stinginess of the United States gov a mllktran always Jiefed.whlle sweet ernment- - in appropriating a - measly not possible-excep- t jelly, then he meets the fate of all where ah abun- the year. : When" the sow of good ypft" ha 7T ambitious disaster. overly persons,' $15,000,000 a year for the furtherance dance of water is accessible. It is Do not tie afraid to give shoats plen herself a prolific breeder, aa Mrs. Harrfson'ia responsible for tbe prevtn of the great cause of agriculture is used in irrigation districts. ty of range during the winter, provid economical feeder; and a good mother," -- statement that the moyoral jelly is not almost inconceivable. Practically the The final and universal treatment Ing, of course, that you have good, dry all that could be desired. entire wealth of the country is creat- for alkali soils is underdralnaee by Bleeping places and warm houses to it is a good plan to keep71 her several :z The question as to Mayor Harrison's ed by the farmer and the miner. Out This treatment of a land will shelter them during the extremely cold years. sow The mature cook' otharose the requires only food of the earth comes wealth in nearly qualifications as a Its weather. remedy all the. evils of alkali. while for the growing one ' maintenance er day during a lull in the city hall naall its forms. The value of the drawback is the first expense. only On each and every farm there should needs food for growth. Furthermore,. , - J unroutine in which Mayor Gaynor's tion's- crops approaches $9,000,000,000 Private persons use the underdrain-ag- e be. gome provision made for dipping the older one will have an appetite forv happy experience in criticising , the annually, and this amount can he metbei sometimes, but generally boga, ,, Jiiis sot pJv proves , to Je a.n tw pat flieihat a young one cooking in New York's public schools trebled if the farmer is given the it requires and effectual way of disinfecting for. orjasslslance easy was under discussion. The question methproper knowledge of scientific from the .government to make this animals which are brought on the Exercise will help make that streak; of the cooking teachers of the metrop e ods. The prosperity which will method feasible. When once this farm, but it also keeps them free from olis' schools as to "what could any mere man.kno wabout cooking?" brought qf lean and streak of fat that is dewill reach every line of Industry, is built it rtjialns lice. system drainage sired. to as statement the mayoral without exception. forth the mayoral ire, and with it the mayoral , good Indefinitely. aniis no other-farthere Possibly ability. The appropriation by the governmal that can offer as poor an excuse LABOR-SAVIN"I have cooked for 20 years on hunting expeditions, and I think I can get ment for agricultural purposes should G for his existence as the scrub hog. He Potatoes From Irrigation. away with it in great style. My biscuits are great. .: I have made them in not be one centleas than $100,000,000 Is animal an to Excellent are such any you an biscuits way in make one can unprofitable who in a reflector oven shipped potatoes ojren every year. It would "be incomparcamp, and any CORN-PICKE- R is all right1" the best investment that " con Chicago and other eastern, cities from takeuinu- ably In the maid are the Har and he an As the economical Later Mrs. Harrison, the official Harrison cook, irrigated country. Shipments pork producer gress could make. One of the most rison household all corroborated the mayor's official edict as to hls ability valuable factors for the education ofIoften received from Colorado of a Is a failure. Even his ability to shift Do The Work ot when it g wlththe pots -- and pans and PQtatQifjuchJjihadelhaOL0i for himself does not recommend him Machine WtlX Men lalPeeUned. - tthearinrlOTgTrightllneff-ts-theaa price of ten cents more mands to of within limit his came to making Jelly. the the people ricultural college yet this institution to Become Very ' range as he has the reputation of preyIs giving the farmer of the nation bushel than the ordinary product. " ing upon neighboring corn fields when We are today only food Is scarce; National revenues from the Drainage Congress. misapplying the Whlle'the corn picker is a comparer His build naturally adapts tilm to r Morrillact-.Thehlllenacted in the - The national drainage congress la, a new member of the corn-mtively recently in the early sixties, was most wise in Its new creation by members of the na- his manner of living since he. is chine line, neverthelesnrirdestlned h lower house of Congress by Mr. narrow in the chest, has a to become a It provided ample funds tional irrigation congress. This convery Important one. of Ohio to retire with the rank conception. snout This adapts him narrow long, of masses the n along gress will seek to reclaim all lands BeforeHhe advent of the tor,tbfl education of major general, three of the to his manner of living. With the help, and before It became so scarce, officers In the United States agricultural and mechanical lines, but now In a swampy condition. scrub httg it is "root hog or die," hence we If wise are not the proof the corn crop waa it tbe getting In attached memorandum the army. the long snout His narrow body aids not harvesting such a serious problem. Modern " to the bill it is stated that "these three visions of that act were carried out, him in getting through small fence one requiring that men, with a single exception, form the particularly the cracks and If he falls to find a place work and student shall each, every however, have brbughtabou last remnant of that army of a million large enough to go through the fence a shortage in the supply of farm labor, more nor not two four less than than men the who a for half and fought he can soon dig under it with his long hours a day at manual labor in tbe This shortage is very pronounced, preservation of the Union." snout. , in the husking season when especially The exception referred to la Maf. field or shop, our free agricultural The wire nest has much to com.There Is no standard of excellence extra help Is needed. For this reason Daniel W,, Arnold of the quartermas- schools would not .be overcrowded by mend it. N. for the sctub hog since he may ter's department, who also retires by men and women seeking university A neglected hen will lay in summer almost any form except a beautiof exelusion-to the many "age" limit next siimmef." "However, ;he professions In winter. never but ful he may be of any color. one; In their desire to does not figure in the bill because of who are earnest Scraps saved at butchering time has Ha soil the reputation of being able conquer problems. the fact that it was not until 38 yea 3 If the student, is pursuing a literary make a fine egg stimulating Jeed in to stand all kinds of rough treatment after" Arjnomatt ox that ho came Into cold weather. -and still survive. , agricultural thir army as an officer fromcivil rr.'.?rmr-i.f-He is regarded as oetng aoie to re-- ' i The three whose names are men- college, where he does not belong, he bushel of oats. And oats make a 1st disease better than tbe improved tioned In Cohgressman"Ashw6rth,fl bill would soon seek .otherspurces of cul good winter feed for eggs. We very much breeds of hogs. m .1 i r and the combined total of. whose serv- ture. Only by a combination of the Hens that are let put Into the. cold aoubt whether this attributed quality ices in the army add up to more than technical study of the class room and snow are soon chilled put of the fo the scrub hog is true since we have " " 150 years are Brig, . Gen. Daniel H. and the practical work of the, field the notion. can be student to farmer noticed that hog cholera stakes the educated Corn Picker In Action, up -- Brush, commanding the department of - For quick fattening, nothing beats scrubs as well as the well bred bog. the of his fullness to the capacity get Col. I. Governors and of John island, Clem, California; Col. James N. Allison a mash of corn meal and milk, fed One thing is sure, that the scrub hog farmers are more than"ever in needT now on duty In Chicago. Colonel Clem is affectionately known to his com- most from the feed lot. and the soil. warm about three times a day. Of a machine which will husk the corn Another regrettable our Instican consume more valuable feed and rades of the service as "Johnny Clem, drummer boy ot Chlckamaugaf If the house is damp scatter some the standing stalks a machine conditions and b tutions the of loss less in return than any other from J give Colonel Clem la not a West Pointer. He had a chance, but became a " w hich will do the work of several men, ; ashes and lime slaked about. air dry In the eur we know animal of. system apprenticeship that Allison Colonel and General did as commissioned officer about the same time Heretofore, about an acre waa con--l- ! trades. We are now compelled to They are good absorbents. A farmer who owns a herd of scrub . Brush. .... an average day's work for one sidered an is a incubator for Running a"job rely upon the .mechanics"" that come seldom needs any other corn crib man. A corn Better" nbt let the hegs his picker, however, - will from Europe to" do bur work. If the grown , person. than bogs. husk several this number of times to do children have with It He never gets rich, anything agricultural colleges would live up to pork, and acres. . A corn picker will however, the requirements of the Morrill act .It is a good plan to make the nest In fact if he. dependedselling upon bis hogs not only do the work of several men,' we would give the American boy an bottoms of poultry wire. That makes - The question whether the visit of but It will deliver the ear corn to the " " . opportunity to acquire a mechanical them easy to clean and a poor harbor the duke and duchess of Connaurht wagon in much, better condition than X for mites and' lice. . education. ;"- - 'and their daughter, the 'Princess Pa-- is done ordinarily when tusking by . In leaders' bucks be winter will kept up. a longtricla, will give social , . bund. . 7 If found to thrive better their corn Is aought opportunity to decide who's ABOUTIs ASK corn not MANY The IRRIGATION soaked In warm water instead of feedthe Inspire pjeker who was put to Frederick Townsend . -k tibn of a minute. It is of ing it bardjend dry, n v.. r r. Martin, He" ahook his head so demotherWhile waa the ieara.. A Eastern of case necessity of Number s mustache-endoften he People roup light may his Seeking cidedly that of Its invention, yet it was hard work Information of United States Incured by ducking the sick bird's that overcame the. difficulties that con- creases 40 Per Cent. In Year. head In a mixture of one ounce perat. an," he eald."tbe day of- .t-- ot fronted the designers of this machine. ' . that necessity Is manganate of potash to three pints of longpastr If It ever One by one these difficulties have been The number of eastern people seek- water. , " ',. Kisted, it died with Ward McAllister. 2Z -overcome, and the. machine . Is now a conTew7-York-ling information about agricultural lofr enormous lor" Its 3Thewather ; s changeable these in and perfected so that .it does a" very 'high, the will ditions of the incubator bear close more than a' Irrigated days territory ... loclety to' be anything ' clues of work 46 ; tbe west has Increased more than watching unless kept. In a buildln network of cliques. . The time was,. per cent, during the last year, says .where the. temperature is very uni rears ago, when there 'were not more Larger Pear Orchard. ;v form despite outside changes. "Dr. A. C. True, director of experiment than a few hundred families of great Pair of Champion Berkshire. " who has a large orchard Cornell, y that-theychickens farmer In to and It, his Every keeps wealth and cultivation here, stations, jnnual report "' Wordon-Seekef of pears In the Hudson. "of Agriculture Wilson. they would give: their poultry tho to make him money to buy be(tefTfe all tried to "Star together to' "ke- - o K,ve hla ex- - -Rive w8 rValjer same care ow their ones. other have who of he n would never settlers Is thousands , make a social unltrNow It different, jtock.gets they, aogs ;!'The bejter and sUte their ;: them jwlth made their homes on Irrigated lands might all have winter eggs. The scrub hog usually, keeps his perlence rhere la no '400' In New York today, the Seckel as with. e value compared of care take the so to cf or "are wner Is for not able feeding U is a collection of Pigeons adds, pooMhat he during three years,"-hthe most part Ignorant of irrigation squabs and ffiat saves- - a lot of bother. buy any better stock. In fact, this Is pesr. xHe said the Seckel pear Is largless, usually less. The : mightjr mite Is more quiet the excuse usually given for his exist-rnoe- er than the old Seckel. It ia very valpractices. and methods. jTo assiBt ' u bstitute tot the : Uri Poor larmlna; and scrub "hogs uable, - but - not them as well as the Old' settlers, who these, cold, winter days, r. for that matter, any social leader. aeaa.: OojiM entertain hundred? or VeriwnOfeh'rtlffl" ite BSualljrftrand associated togetheK' SeckeL The tree, growa Jargerant.y alaYe'conrronted'Wiaifie Is can . be cured by firtajgat!ug to Gapes, have are not and 'crashes' no from terns' are houses time New time, enough, big They are near and dear companions. bears good crpps,' but the quality T6rk agents posaU longer -It Seckel. to the not ... chicken a the i.- "before equal Both . Tf quite retreat a make been maintained throughout ieryear aulphny, laslooable.rapid, The first thing after W.!sg up q progressive, spirit and there Is not a brings a fancy price when welHMnned -t "Society today la on a friendship basis. It haa passed .the atrugglinf ta ten western - states and In three ,. Incubator Is to select a place for it tetter evldenca'of the general progres-- so tt colors swelL . tag. It can afford to Indulge la the mfort of friendship gatherings." stherk part of the year." :.: V Wl LL LEAD FIGHT FOR TAFT ui - . well-aa'thos- 4 - pi4iumi rf. II men-asser- - . . -- one-thir- . . . best-know- n ia-tr- &e, . two-third- " MAYOR QUALIFIES AS A COOK - jaee-jgypsur- ' -- . , . few-year- s. en-Bu- - . gasHngeHBtr-6ai4-he-wa8-!-'not4b.er- e'' "DRUMMER BOY'VTO RETIRE balf-measur- a long-legge- d, Ash-wort- high-price- best-know- PoultryNotbs. -- pos-afB- iif.i.xclualviajh B . egg-layin- g factf 4 ' . NO "400" . IN NEW YORK CITY . xn'i ' ..- , ft the-wor- . Sec-relar- .one-hundre- ;- yd, bute -- h .. f I I f f |