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Show I FARM WIT I AND WISL1NM fl 'When tho foot and mouth dlseaso fl broko out, shipments of straw nnd HYa bay woro prohibited between man; fl points, as fodder of all things Is most P1B likely to bo Infected. This opened tafl up a now market for eottonsced hulls. JM The makers of glassware, who had, AwX used hay and straw for packing pur- m poses found In tho cottonseed hu'ls B a good substitute ( The prlco at B southern points for tho hulls rang- B cs from ?5 to $7 a ton. HH "Culturo bctweon tlio rows," says B Dad Mlllslaglo, "Is nlways good for B tno crP8 l,ut ll ,8 l,08t w,lcn you B pronounco rows to rhymo with hoes. B Tho vuluo of a county agent Is M- HJ lustrated by tho work of A. A. Pow- H .ell of Washington county, Oklahoma. Hj Ho vaccinated for blackleg 399 head HJ of calves and yearlings for tho farm H ers for whom ho Is working. County M Agent Shlpman of Jofforson county, H West Virginia, has given tno serum HJ treatment for cholera to a g'cat many H herds of hogs. Whero there Is a com- B pctent county agent tho farmers may feel free frotn worry about b ackleg mid hog cholera. Waldo Thomas of Big Rock, Illinois Is put forth by his frlemls na tin fhnmplon, plowman of tho United States. Ho la tho only man who ever ev-er won first prlzo In both tho Wheatland Wheat-land and Dig Hock plowing matches. All birds except English sparrows nro now protected by law. Tho time when birds might be shot for sport and gun practice Is past. In a Philadelphia hospital is r man whoso skull has Increased In thickness to tho extent of nn Inch It; nlno months, In a year or two he will bo in favor of laws to forbid the vcallng of calves. Don't try to lift water by a sue tlon pump moro than 30 feet. The utmost height to which It is posal bio to suction it is 33.95 feet. Tho weight of tho air has to do the lifting. lift-ing. A govornment report Btatcs thn there Is a toothpick fumlno In Moxl co. And there nro thoso who complain com-plain that Moxlcans have nothing to pick out of their teeth. Corn fed tho sows makes their pigs fat before farrowing. Hut tho, pigs need fat only after tholr eyes opon on this world, l'rlor to tha, ' tlmo they need only bono, muslslo, nnd vigor. Alfalfa hay, bran, roots. ' and other protein bearing 'feed prepare pre-pare tho sow for successful fnrrow lng. Corn fed sows nro tho ones that dlo at this critical tlmo, moro than any other. No farmer over gets too old to learn, but tho wlso farmer does not wait until ho is old to learn. i All things como to Win who owns n piece of land nnd pitches In and works to beat tho band. An Iown fnrmer Pays his foreman IIU'M .ill T:--..VL-'Aa. 2) couts for ovory pig over six t tho sow which reaches tho ago o Weaning. Ho likes to pay out the money, nnd tho foromnn looks upoi, It ns clear gain. The bonus systcn: Is worth studying. It will work if otho'r fields ns well ns In tho piggerj. Potash is dlfllcult to got now, no because thuro nro no ships to curr., It, but because of tho dllllculty in bo curing railway and river cqulpmcn. to move It from tho mines nnd store houses to tho coast. Where tho soil is In need of potash It Bhould bo applied, in tho attempt to meet tho need, fertilizer munuriii turois Imvo agreed to utt Izo thci present supply of potnsh In iho el fort to supply fe tlllzera with nt lean two or threo per cent of potash next spting. It Is bolloved that n supplj sutllctont for this purposo Is ulrcuilj nt hand In this country. In thu menu time, suppose all of us tako advantage of our own supply of potutf. In out farmyard manures. Tho man who does not know ,iow to repair his own auto tl es la losing money. A small vulcanizing outlll can bo bought for u timull sum of money, nnd pays I'.g ay njany time , over. A newspaper states that British airships, havo beon sweeping over Mount Slnnl. Probably, looking- for tho fragments of the broken tables of tho law containing tho command merit "Thou shalL not kill." Farm and Fireside. |