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Show Sweet Potato Profit Road Problem Is Could Be Increased Yet Troublesome vnnason Brother Delight How the rascal lores to fn hzr. And to pinch her cheeks, and squeeze her. As he rocks with gales c laughter At her angry squeals cf woe! He would rather hear her heller Than to find a silver dollar; He would rather tease ?afgr Than do anything I know. He adjust as apt to shore her. As he is to sweetly lore her He is just as apt to pinch her As to hug the little miss. He is just as apt to tell her That her Daddy's goln' to sell her. As he is to steal upon her And surprise her with a kiss! But for some cause or another She helieres her little brother Is, in spite of all his torment. Still the finest boy cf all! And to him, his sister Mary Is as sweet as any fairy But he dearly hires to tease her. Just to bear her lusty squall! -- I hare warmed his little britches With my hand and little switches In a rain attempt to teach him Not to tease her any mere. But I might as well admit it That I havent made him quit it; I declare hes worse today than He has ever been before! Economical Baas for Dairy Ration Superior Feeding Value of Legume Hays Has Been Known for Years. ; It (Fnpand thm tftrtted BUtaa StfutMit For 2,000 jeers agriculturists have ecegnixed the superior feeding value if legume hays, jet, today, rajs J. K. dairy husbandman if the bureau of dairy Industry, Unit'd States Department of Agriculture, uly 41 per cent of the hay grown in he United States Is legume hay. he esjs, In the Korth Cental and North Atlantic states; which nntain 66 per cent of all the dairy ows in the country, the farmers ;row two tons cf nonlegnme hay to ne of legume hay. These statements re made in Farmers? Bulletin 1573-- , Produc-ion,- " "Legume Hays for Milk the issued depart- recently bj senior )awson. Fur-hermor- e, Grow and Feed More Protein. Tf dairymen would grow and feed ore protein in the form of legume would be ijs, their feed bills the author, says materially." ho gives some interesting data com-irinlegume hays with timothy in eld of protein and other nutrients. in During 1027, according to figures al-jof ie bulletin, the average acre yielded 2.79 tons of hay per cre ere, clover 1.75 tons per re-ice- d g fa tens per acre; the averznothy se acre of alfalfa produced almost 1-- ft rrea times as much digestible than tF?2J!2-E2lLl2!-2l rre pro-- j. digestible nutrients,, and fifteen times as much lime as did timothy. Timothy and Alfalfa. "In other words," says Dawson, 13 acres df timothy would have to be grown, harvested and fed to produce as much lime as one acre of alfalfa. It would require approximately seven acres of timothy hay to produce as much crude digestible protein as one acre of alfalfa. When the price of alfalfa is around 112 a ton It wid furnish 160 pounds of digestible protein for 5565. whereas from timothy hay at 511 a ton the same amount of protein costs 51&S5. Even when compared with the high protein concentrates, such as linseed meal and cottonseed meal at 547 to 550 a ton. alfalfa compares favorably In cost of protein. The cost of the dairy ration may be reduced materially by supplying a portion of the protein with alfalfa hay or some other legume grown on the farm. The legume that can be most practically produced on a given farm is the one that should be given first consideration." A copy of the bulletin may be obtained. by writing to the United States Department of Agriculture, Washington. D. C. A cow must have three quarts of water for every quart of milk she produces. Soy beans are very high In oil which has the tendency to throw hogs off feed if the soy beans are fed for a long time. Brood sows should be given some feed in addition to com or other grain. They need protein and mineral matter to Insure a Liter of strong pign Diseases in Field, Storage and Transit Must Be Cut. There Must Be Cooperation cf Authorities in Charge of Reads. ffinfaui It i Agrfotftarc.) CWt4 Mtmtam (Prepared moat be ll nation and of authorities In charge of local roads and highways in anas adjacent to large titles, according to the bureau of public roads of the United States Department of Agriculture. There are approximately 2J50JKXJ miles of local rural roads in the United States; say bureau engineers, and co-on- ljOQCJjOCO t?S C t7httX States Dapartmast Agriculture) Much more profit could be realized from the growing of sweet potatoes than is cow made if diseases in the field, storage, and transit were reduced. The inability of farmers to keep sweet potatoes in storage forces them to sell the hulk of their crop as soon as It is dug, a time when prices are at the low point. Specialists of the United States Department of Agriculture are of the opinion that more sweet potatoes would be available for winter use and disposed of at a good price if storage methods and principles were better understood. In Farmer Bulletin Nos. 1053-F- , Dcpartmtat Before much definite progress can be made tn getting the firmer out of the mud and ha getting the city man out of the city on week ends, thee approximately It miles are ad- "Sweet-Potat- o ministered by town or township authorities. There are, they say, 3$60 counties or equivalent subdivision, of which 67 hi the New England states have no relation to improvement or maintenance of roads. Authorities of the remaining 2D99 exorcise jurisdiction over the 1.730,000 miles of local roads classified as county roads. Diseases," just Issued growby the department, sweet-potat- o ers will find much information of value concerning the prevention and control of storage and ether diseases of their crop. Disinfection of the seed, use of immune varieties; and crop rotation are some of the practices advocated for the control of disease. Sweet potatoes infected with field diseases Control Construction. should never be placed in storage, for 975 of the 2,329 counties have heavy losses will follow. Only control ever construction and mainNumerous diseases are described in tenance which may be described as the bulletin, together with practical reasonably competent, according to the measures to adopt in reducing losses bureau, and there are 29 counties therefrom. A copy of the bulletin may which have no definite organization be secured from the United States Dewhatever for the maintenance of roads, partment of Agriculture; Washington. and in which the work is cf the most DlC casual and Inefficient nature. "The county or township wntt is Breeding Ducks. Must Be generally so small and its taxing powGiven Variety of Feeds er so limited," says these federal road For early batching five ducks may authorities "as to preclude overhead be mated tn one drake. After April costs for proper supervision of and six or eight ducks to one drake 1st, equipment for road work. If adequate will not be too many. Duck eggs reequipment is provided, the area Is gen23 days to hatch, except the quire erally so small, and the mileage so Muscovy breed, which requires 33 to limited that It cannot be employed full 35 days. time.' In handling ducks pick them up by Control Limited. their necks rather than the legs. Their "In many counties control is limited legs are easily broken. to a single engineer who. la many Ducks lay early in the morning and cases; is poorly paid and is inexperishould be kept In the house until they enced or relatively Incompetent. Only do or till about 9:30 o'clock. If leg the larger or richer counties have suf- out before laying; they often drop ficient income to employ competent en- their eggs In ponds or streams. gineers. Also elective local authorities Pekin and Banner ducks rarely seldom have the qualifications neees--1 ducks must be well fed sary for highway administration. There j Besides whole grain, they should havw Is a tendency for then to permit con- - f a wet mash of wheat middlings; derations other than the requireground corn and oats and wheat bran, ments of traffic and other properly with about one part of meat scrap to controlling conditions to influence their seven parts of the other feeds used administration. in the mash. Oyster shell, or ground The outward movement of popula- limestone, and sand; should be kept tion in metropolitan areas has caused before them always. a rapid growth off suburban sections: Generally, each of these urban units Crossbred Sbeep Used has partial jurisdiction over sections 'borcf the county highways within its for Producing Mutton ders, and the tack of a common plan Hampshire bucks crossed with grade has been a serious obstacle to con- EambouIIIet ewes are being used to tinuous and consistent improvement cf produce market lambs In Colorado; acmain highways. This condition, coucording to Charles L Bray of the anipled with the rapid increase In trafmal of the Cofic has resulted in serious congestion." loradohusbandry department of Agriculture. A cross In these areas; says the bureau. land which College Mr. Bray suggests Is that of values are higher and with the conlong wool buck on a fine wool ewe. centration of imputation more and betThis cross has been used by some ter highways can be supported. sheep growers of the other range states and gives a sheep with a good The coal stove brooder tuts beew mutton body, fine quality cf fleece an 1 popular for many years and has de plenty of sire. In making this kind of a cross, Koc-- t veloped in recent yeans, so that it is not now necessary tv hae hard coal neys, Lincolns and Gotswofds are asedf to be successful witc them. most frequently. By crossing a Rooney Marsh buck with the ewes, a flee chicks must hatched be that Early type of lamb was produced. aceorotine confined to the brooder house because to the experiments of the Ctarodu r of weather conditions should have College of Agriculture. The Rw.ey oil tn their mash feed at the rate Is a little blockin' than ut m keg wort breeds and hat shorter leg. cf one quart to 160 pounds of msi j, I set-Breedi- cod-live- ng |