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Show j CARE AND USE OF STRAW. Hew the Farmer Can Make It Count for the Most. In the enre and use of straw the first requisite is to begin cnrlng for the straw at the proper time, which Is when the grain Ih mature enough to lii-iiire Its becoming thoroughly dry in ohoek, stack or burn before being threshed. Having cut and shocked the grain nt the proper senson, the next requisite is to house or stack carefully, careful-ly, housing being pierernble to stacking, stack-ing, of course, for both grain nnd straw. Permit the observation In this connection that either straw or hay stacked out will soon bo a thing of the past. After having permitted grain (o romnln In barn n Biilllclent length of tlmo to Insure n right condition for threshing, secure the services of a thresher whoso work it will bo to store away straw In Bhod and grain In grnnnry. or otherwise, If so directed. Tho straw is now. in shed, well ejred and In good condition for feed, bedding or for mnrket If desirable; but we would confine lis uses to the farm, ns the farm from which tho straw Is marketed becomes, In the course ot time, Bterile. Shortly after threshing Is dono tho season Is nt hand when the stock which has been roaming over the green pastures all summer will enjoy having shelter over them nt night anil a nice clean dry bed whereupon they mny He. Now the strnw which hat been no nicely cared for In tho shed will not only furnish the nbovo 00m forts for tho stock, but will nfford variety In tho way of food for change from the moro nutritious kinds of feed which arc, of course, Indispensable After winter bus set In nnd th weather hnB become scvoro It will he como necessnry to havo shelter for the Block and feed within their reach nil the time. The shed with tho strnw therein will supply both of the above and will also keep droppings and bedding bed-ding In condition to bo spread upon tho fields ns fertilizer, thus repaying tho farmer for caring for his straw nnd stock. Tho shed nnd stables In which the strnw bedding hnB been used mny be cleaned out at tbo farmer's leisure when weather Is reasonably fair. It Bhould bo done, however, only when necessary for proper caro and cleanliness cleanli-ness of stock, ns by permitting the fertilizer to remain in shed rots il nnd mnkes it nil tho richer when It Is not exposed to washing rains and biiowb Mnny moro ubos for straw on tho farm might bo given, but this nrtlclo It-suillclcnt It-suillclcnt to convince nil that straw pays for Its care. |