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Show TSS EZRAS Certain Legumes Improve Soils .Cowpeas and Soy Beans as Effective Fertilizer ! as Manure. Anyone having a field which be la not going to use for producing a market crop this year might find It a jgood plan to Improve the soil, by sow ,ing cowpeas or soy beans, suggests jH. R. Cox, specialist In farm crops at the New Jersey State College of :Agrl culture. New Brunswick. It la cheaper to grow these crops hgn to ;use ten tons of manure to the acre, and they are considered as being ly as effective as this amount of manure If the right kind of fertilizer Is used on the market crops of the HSZ MUSS Ope. has a desirable feature Tn "Its resistance to hot weather. Although this variety has a reddish color outside, It is of good quality. The pea is an early, wrinkle-seededwarf-vine-d variety that Is highly Plot Devoted to Vegetables productive of good quality peas. A squash that may be baked Will Greatly Lower whole Is the Des Moines, sometimes called Table Queen" or Acorn." Costs. Living This squash Is not attacked by the A farm vegetable garden well squash bug. The Marglobe tomato, a In will lower farm variety that matures fairly early, has planned advance, red fruits that are of to a surprising extent. living expenses In making selections of vegetable high quality. A cantaloupe variety of much quality and promise Is the Edseeds for the borne garden. R. A. wards Ferfecta It has an orange-coloreassociate horticulturist at Coloflesh and small seed cavity. rado Agricultural college, recommend Avoid Substitutions: standard varieties rather than highly advertised new Introductions or nov Farmers and gardeners who vend el ties described generally in the front early for seed catalogues, make up a list of the vegetables desired, and orpages of seed catalogues with super la tires. der them will likely avoid variety substitutions that are often made on late Varieties of Seed. There are a few new or noteworthy orders: A varieties of vegetables for the home gardener to consider under Colorado The dairy cow fs of threefold value. conditions. McGinty says. Mary WashMost wheat growers who use comShe produces a constant Income, 8he is a mercial fertilizers commonly drill the ington asparagus a valuable offspring, and she produces d large-sizevariety that develops fertilizer directly with the wheat the quality of the farm. Golden-Acrimproves is a very early, spears. cabbage of particular An Holstein cow at a If stored fruits or vegetables wilt or while toreless carrots are an merit, farm near Petersboro, Ont, estabthe air Is too dry. Moisture shrivel, lished a record by producing 19,669 early, hlgb quality variety. Golden be should provided by sprinkling the 1Iutne ler the earliest variety pounds of milk and 819 pounds of but- grown. floor or placing pans of water i dally e .e readily blanched terfat In 305 days. near by. d e. a iPgt'oiiMt- cream more difficult. Cream Is not pure butterfat It contains moisture even when the test runs high. When the cream Is exposed to a temperature of 70 degrees Fahrenheit or above, some of this moisture evaporates. This lessens the weigh and volume of the original sample a cream. It does not Increase the original amount of butterfat which was in the container. When a can la filled with cream which has thus parted with some of the water, it naturally brings a larger income than a similar amount kept at lower temperatures. Allowing the cream to become real sour may induce more variation In test than If it Is cooled after each separation before adding to other cream. There is nothing to bo gained from A. Willselling very sour cream. iams, Purdue university. Plan Well Now for Home Garden Lax-toni- an d. high-qualit- y globe-shape- d Me-Gint- d a prat-itical- qricultural Hints following year. Soy Beans Cheaper. Soy beans are cheaper than cow j peas by about 50 or 75 cents a bushel : Soy beans are, therefore, a better : crop to use for this purpose: In the ;case of soy beans It Is desirable to i inoculate If the field has never raised them before. One may buy commer-jcfa- l inoeulants or he may use the . seed and soil method. This method : consists in mixing a bushel of slightly moistened seed with a quart of soil Where alfalfa has winter-kille- d taken from a field which has raised ! soy beans successfully In recent soy beans can be grown as a substitute for the year, say authorities ; years. the Minnesota Agricultural Experiat Drill or Broadcast j ment station. Soy beans Increase butSoy beans or cowpeas should be j in the milk. terfat . drilled, but if a drill is not available, ' broadcasting by hand and harrowing Manner in Which Manure will da Five pecks to the acre ; dril,ed or six Is Cared for Is Factor pecks broadcast by hand ; is a good rate of seeding. An appli The amount of manure produced per j cation of a complete fertilizer high in cow varies from twelve to fifteen tons phosphoric acid and potash and low annually. Perhaps of this iQ nitrogen may well be made at th , is produced at pasture. If the remainrate of oOO to 400 pounds per acre, der is all saved aud applied to the i When the crop is beginning to mature arrowing of crops its value approxiplow it under or disk it in and sow mates $15 to $30 per year. Ttie value I rye or rye and vetch as a winter cov of the manure depends upon many feaer crop. A surprising improvement tures. chief among which are: The in the fertility of the field will result. character of the soil, amount applied per acre, and manner of caring for the manure. Labor Cost Is Big Item The manner In which manure is in Production of Milk for is usually the taosr imporIn large herds labor Is usually the tant factor in determining the second most important item in the return-- secured for its use. When cost of milk production. From the the liquid excreta is saved, preferably e of a sutlieient amount of u by keeping of cost aceouuts in many sections of the country the amount ot lato absorb it. aud the manure bor required in caring for a cow Stas directly to the crop areas, or, been found to range from 100 to 175 if stored, r.ot allowed to leach, the hours per year. Under average condimaximum income will be obtained from tions the care of a cow for a year may its use. Losses due to improper g be considered equivalent to about 15 j of the manure at the stable should not he charged to the cows. days work. tin general farms where only a few cows are kept no additional labor is Trucks Are Cheapest hired for their care. The work is perviven out by the department formed either by the farmer at the of agricultural economies of Cornell time of day when it does not intershow that horses ure more university fere with the field operations or the than trucks tor hauling cows are cared for largely by the chil-de- expensive milk In the country, for distances of the family before and after than four miles. Dairymen .school hours. Thus the keeping of a greater who used trucks saved 1.1 cents per few cows provides employment for cwL on each trip, and the trips were labor, contributes a considerable .06 miles longer with loads. proportion of the family living and The average cost of larger hauling 1(H) ladds to the farm Income. The amount of milk was 28 cents with pounds of labor expended depends upon horses and 22.1 cents with trucks. factors, among which the size of ithe herd, convenience of barn and Move Small Trees mllk house, distance from market, and In general, the best time for moving .cleanliness of milk produced, are small trees from one to two feet in height is In the fall or early spring. These trees can be moved at that 'Sell Cream to Creamery time without piling the earth around Before Is Real Sour the roots, tf care Is taken to place Allowing cream to become real sour them Immediately in a tub or bucket before delivering It to the creamery of water and plant them as rapidly as liouses lowers the grade of butter possible, never allowing the roots to made from the cream and makes the dry for a moment. 1ack the dirt solidly around their roots when they are taking of an accurate sample for In their new location. placed content the of the. tmtlcrfat r 0SS ' eight-year-o- rust-resista- nt e small-beade- d ld -- small-heade- 1 1 1 Unghosdy Hallowe'en Food 10 two-fifth- s . r.-r-ctl uiti-ne,- v ! o-- bod-din- nj-pti- han-d'in- ", m un-pa- id sev-ter- It al ed EEN may be the tered rounds of whole wheat bread jTJ ALLOW time when witches and T;, and place on it bits of to are much in evidence,ghosts but suggest the eyes, nose pimiento and mouth there is one place where no ghostli-ne- ss of a pumpkin face. is tolerated and that is in con- nection with the food. Doughnuts, apples, pumpkin pie, cider, sandwiches are all on the Halloween menu, and certainly there is nothing substantial about them. But they are delicious and, with a little ingenuity, may be pven a pleasingly novel air. The blowing menu which is suited to the supper following an evening party; is delicious for this particular occasion: Open Sardine Sandwiches, Witches1 Luck Sandwiches, Clove Apples, Doughnuts, Cocoamzt Pumpkin Tarts, Oder and Coffee. Good and Novel Open Sardine Sandwiches: Bone and mash contents of a can of sardines. 1 Mix with one tablespoon chopped, ripe olives, one tablespoon lemon juice, two tablespoons chopped pickled beets and three tabk-spoomayonnaise. Spread on bet- ng li itches' Luck Sandwiches : Slice white bread and cut with a cookie cutter into shapes resembling a witchs bead. Butter and 11 with the following mixture: two chopped, eggs, one small can of salmon, minced, one tablespoon anchovy paste, one tablespoon lemon juice and mayonnnaise to moisten. Pumpkin and Cocoanut Tarts : Mix two cups of canned pumpkin with th one and cups sugar, one and one-ha- lf .teaspoons ginger, one teaspoon cinnamon, one teaspoon salt, three well beaten egg yolks, two cups milk and one-ha- lf cup canned moist cocoanut. Fold in three stiffly beaten egg whites and fill pas-f- ty fined tort tins with the mixture. Bake, having oven hot at first, then more moderate; that is, 450 degrees for ten minutes, then 325 degrees for the rest of the time. Serve cold, topped with whipped cream. hard-cook- ed one-eigh- |