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Show What People Should Know Tho road dust twins drain and drng aro flrst aids to better highways. high-ways. Wisconsin Is developing on Improved Improv-ed rye which Is said to bo much better bet-ter than scrub rye. A pllo of manure exposed to the sun and rnln for a year loses about onchalf of Its fertilizing nlue. An Illinois farmer says that a steer hide and a hog skin are among the best grain sacks a man can have Ono farmer in Wisconsin keeps his brood bows over winter on mangels, with very little grain. Carrots are sometimes fed to col-lor col-lor tho cow's butter. Milk Is not llcher when yellow, but only -has nioro coloring matter from tho cow's feed. This last season was one of the years which convinced tho farmer It pays to stack his grnln. It pays any year. i Overhead Jacks that como with portable grain dumps aro excellent for hanging carcasses at butchering time. i Thero are fish farms to tlu area of 100,000 acres In Japan. A Uoston newspaper states that these farms In 1912 yielded fish to the value of ?2.-050,000. ?2.-050,000. A gas englno gives out power he cause the gas Is compressed and exploded. ex-ploded. Unless tho compression is good tho power will bo wasted. Look after your valves; also your piston rings. In tho matter of making coke from coal with our wasteful practices of coking, wo lost $40,000,000 In 1914 as compared with tho more economical economi-cal processes used in Europe. A clover huller was used by over fifty farmers In a clover seed growing grow-ing district of northern Wisconsin the first year it was purchased. This Is cooperation that cooperates. When oats are no mora expenslvo than corn pound for pound, wise pout-trymen pout-trymen will feed a fair proportion of this vigor building food. Oats put quality into the muscle and nerve tissue of horse and hen. The first grange was organized at Frodonla, Now York, April 15, 18G8. Since that time over three million persons have been initiated in tho order. In one month in 1874, 2.249 subordinate granges wero organized. A slmplo box trough four Inches wide and four or five Inches high, with tt flat bottom, placed in tho partition par-tition wall 18 Inches from the Hour, with a running board each sldo for the hens to stand on, makes ono of tho best feeding hoppers to bo had. A South Carolina farmer Is growing grow-ing colored cotton. Ho has grown, by careful seed breeding, white, cream, tan, yoUorw, Greon, light brown, yellow yel-low green olive green, and bronzo cotton and believes It posslblo to nttaln black! His name is A. E. Brabham. Tho usual practlco is to propagate rhubarb from pieces of root, but it is practical and easy to grow the plants from seed. By planting seed In very rich, woli prepared soil whero tho plants are to remain permanently, stalks may be had ready for cutting about as soon as when root planting is followed. |
