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Show poorer THE UHTTAH EASIH FAE2IEE Prickly Pear Is Valuable as Feed Particularly Advantageous in Times of Drought on Stock Ranges. (Prepared by th United States Department of Agriculture.) A silage crop that keeps without need for a silo Is substantially the description of the prickly pear as it grows in the four states bordering on Mexico. It has proved a valuable stock feed, particularly In times of drought on the range, such as may ! be expected from time to time As a forage crop It stores itself and the three or sections of the i are relished plants by cattle. f ii , $ four-year-o- ld and corn should not follow either com along its lines and to demonstrate or wheat. the value of the two treatments. The Illinois and Indiana experiment Mounted Machine. stations have found that some strains The leaflet also contains a section of com are damaged far less than otha combined machine ers by the com rota Beginning with describing on a mounted truck and driven by a a strain which has possibilities for Imsmall gasoline engine which was opprovement, the continuous selection of erated as a community enterprise In need from healthy plants may be exSan Luis Obispo county, California, pected eventually to produce strains last year. The county farm bureau strongly resistant to these diseases. financed the equipment which In 1327 operated for nearly three months and served 134 grain growers, handling more than 35,000 bushels of seed Around wheat. In 1323 more than 200 farmers were served and even more seed Careful attention should be given grain was cleaned and treated. This an averturkey eggs which are to be used for outfit can handle grain at more than 50 bushels an of rate age hatching. hour. The cost of the formers Is low. "a ton In 1327. The 4 A portable brooder house is an aid It averaged la preventing chick troubles. The leaflet, which includes photographs brooder house and chick range should and a drawing of the equipment in use, may be obtained free on applibe on clean ground. cation to the United States DepartIt Is always essential to maintain ment of Agriculture. Washington. an area immediately around the young d. trees free from competitive vegetation which would, if present, slow Baby Chick Feed down the growth of the trees: Experts in poultry feeds urge the Importance of proper feeding of baby If a patented silo is to be built, do chicks to give them a good, healthy not accept lumber having loose knots, start and to put them in a healthy, any sapwood. or pieces with bark. vigorous, growing condition. Chick Sapwood, as a rule; is less durable diseases are prevented if care is taken than heartwood and will nearly al- the Farm Variety of Cactus. The prickly pears are varieties of cactus, and may be divided roughly into spiny and spineless forms, according to Farmers Bulletin I072-F- , Prickly Pear as Stock Feed, just issued in a revised edition by the Unit-e- d States Department of Agriculture. Tie spineless" varieties are not f ooth but are relatively free from es and cattle can eat them witb--7 convenience. The custom Is to ih . he spines off the sping 1 a ways decay first. gasoline blowtorch .e by machinery. CbP thoa Protect all planted fruit trees from able to survive severe Altho r months at a time, the injury by rabbits and field mice, esfa require good water sxrp-ea- pecially during the fall and winter. ; Prickly n mesh poultry wire, cld newstime each year. They One-Inc- h some tnder severe cold, and papers, or gunny sacks tom In strips 0 hrive rieties, as a rule, do six to eight Inches wide make satisPiot it dess va emperature falls be-- e factory protectors. 0 0 0 if the i t any time. The 2 The grape is attacked by a number tolerate tempera-rietie- s degrees a :ybtT' ower. The best of insects and a few diseases which maj in the United are capable-- of causing heavy low e degrees outhward from However, on the average farmstead, pear region grapes of fair quality are sometimes s In Texas a Bj. grown without any spraying treat.uxds plateau. ed. ment being given them. Valuable as Fi prickly pear iQza the , n ggrryfag es of drought fri value a a ted great age Is re--I is ot rights Every form and home garde should have a strawberry patch to provide delicious fruit for the table, both fresh and for preserving for winter use. 0 0 Sometimes the early planted vegetables win be caught by a frost, but not often. If the land was fell plowed, one win be able to get on It two weeks earlier than would oths wise be the case. 0 0 0 0 $1-3- ' ; I The best chicks. for used be should of grains imIs Immensely In feeding Regularity portant. Pure, clean water should be available. Brooder focfltles. In feet, orderliness and cleanliness should prevail. a the method of feeding. a When planting your earliest vegetables use a liberal amount of seed! to insure a good stand and plant very shallow, almost e the surfaces. As the season advances and becomes drier, we may plant deeper. 0 0 0 The value of sweet clover as a soil improver lies In its ability to taka nitrogen from the air through the noduTes on the roots, to store this la its thick roots and In the stems and! leaves, and to deliver It By rapid decay when it is turned under. Round Horn rs -- fJ? . ? cattle until pastur. l3 grow-- r rain. Prickly pufflf forage favor as a succulent y take the place aof A dry usually with concentrate added hi 8 :ws. In Texas some vaufet 8 dy pear will produce Is cultivation ion, but Mbl for -- 3-o- iti t j Cleaning of Seed Wheat Is Favored n, Copper Dust Treatment Is Quite Useful in Control of Smut ve profitable in developing, a (Prepared by the United State Department r tonnage of economical - Cleaning of ly pear is propagated wheat for the re-thc cuttinssrrl I val of weed seeds Is generally rec- SJJJ J . freight costs are and recommended as good at- essive if extensive planting is and In recent years, policy, forming author opted. David Griffiths, States Department United the recom-tensays 1072-- sd " A . ds Bulletin starting with comparatively lew plants, as they multiply rapidly for transplanting. The bulletin, which may be tained free on application to United States Department of Agricudetails lture, Washington. D. C, gives and cultivation of the propagation, men-ttioand .feeding of prickly pears, different the areas where the 'varieties may be grown. inners F, ns Damage From Com Rots May Be Greatly Reduced and of Agriculture, the desirability of the copper carbonate dust treatment of seed wheat for control of stinking smut or bunt has also had general Early applications of acceptance. the copper carbonate treatment were largely in hand machines, but more recently power dusters have been perThe Combinafected. Leaflet 33-L-, tion Cleaning and Treating of Seed Wheat," just published by the Department of Agriculture for free distribution points out that the cleaning and treating of seed wheat may well be applied in a single operation. Useful Machines. The Indiana experiment station The authors point out that several of Agrithe United States Departmentcondition machines for either the successful culture have shown that the or treating operations are to the of the soil has a close relation soil is cleaning on the market and that they may be the damage from com rots. Ifis increased combined and mounted on trucks so uninfected and Its fertility moved from farm to of lime and pho- as to be easily addition the by as stationary equipset where needed, the extent of form, orAlso up sphorus makes of maseveral ment reduced. I the damage will be greatly beneficial chines designed to combine cleaning Crop rotation is generally disease. and treating in one operation are now In checking the damage from clover on the market Last year an eastern Where com rots are prevalent, mounted equipment in an old or a legume crop should be grown In railroad car to f.?m Trfcgst crrcrra rotation cnee. STtri-- folif 3 HAiX&NMSOSI The Old Taffy Puffin Who can remember the old taffy pulfia " We all used to go to in days past and gone? And who can recaH the woolin We gave to the girls as the evening wore on! And don't yoa remember the one yo rasa after And the big fenny bqw that she had in her hair?' And still don't yon hear the shouts and the laughter And still dont yoa picture the gang that was there? old-fashion- ed And ho, for the taffy that clung to your fingers. And ho, for the fun we had pullin' it, too! The memory of it still fancifully lingers While all of my playmates pass by in review. And ho, for the stars that above us were gleamin' As out in the moonlight the candy was made The very same moonlight in which I am dreamin', Tonight, of the games that we played! old-fashion- ed We tugged at the taffy until it was brittle. At least thats the way that it should have been done. But if it stayed sticky, that mattered but little The candy itself was the least of the fun. The taffy was nothing compared to the kisses (Nor is it sweet kisses of candy. I mean) The kisses we stole from the sweet Iittlemisses Beat all of the taffy man ever has seem |