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Show ! ! WHAT IE DEPARTMENT ! OF AGRICULTURE IS DOING IRUOA'; KOHKCAST. IH AHOVK ( Tin; avkhaoi: ( Tho sugar season of 1919-20 be- 1 rIhb with a forecast of production of B? nbout 1,108,000 short tons, mado by If '; the Ducrau of Crop Estimates of tho Bj Tin I ted States Department of Agricul-B Agricul-B 1 ture, or about 73,500 tons more- than B( t tho nveragc or Ihu piocedlng six B t years during which time tho total B i of Ihn two crops of bcot and cano B t sugar has slightly exceeded ono mll-B. mll-B. f Hon tonB overy year except In 1914-B' 1914-B' 15. Bt r Tho beet augar forecast for this Bf, "j? year Is lilher than tho record crop Bt ' of 101S-1G by nearly 76000 tons and Hi '' is nbovo tho avorago of tho proced-B proced-B i ' Ing six years by nbout 169000 tons i t but the cano sugar crop of this year Bj i U forecast at onlly 159069 tons com-B com-B . pared with which Is tho avorago of B nbout 254500 tonB of tho preceding B nix years. During many years .tho Hi cane sugar crop of only 1915-16 has B tieen,' lower and of only 1912-13 haB Bm Tocn nearly as small. The low pros-HJ'' pros-HJ'' pects of this year's crop, at tho dato Bl of July 1, arc duo to a wet, cool Bf eprlng nnd to a somowhat low ncro-Bl ncro-Bl n0 ln recent years cano sugar has Bl usually been about on-quarter of tho BS total of cane and bcot sugar pro-BKi pro-BKi duced In contiguous United States, BI Dut this Kar tho prospect Is that It BE 'n'"1 ho only al)0Ut one-seventh. Bf The roa planted to sugar boots BSr Ib year Is the largest one on rcc-HK, rcc-HK, ,; , orJl and It Is estimated, roaches 8D0,-lv- ' 00 ncrcs or 200,700 acres mom than Hlf' last year and 80,800 acres mote than Bf' ' the largest previous year In 1917. Hv, rihe condition of the. crop July 1 was ft low, oa account of adverse weather HA tondltlonsi BB MACARONI HTANDAKDS DjV AOAJS IS KOHOK Ii, BJn' Frcwar standards for macironl, HR. paghettl, vermicelli and similar pro- Jn ducts aro now In effect say. th offl- BU clals of the Bureau of Chomlttry, HfT United States Department of Agrl- BJI culture, In charge of the enforcement BJfc- of the food and drugs act. Hfl During tho period of the war iub- BJfi stltutcs for semolina of hard wheat BJn wcro permitted for the manufactuto BjH' ot these products becauso of the ur- BJI! sent necessity for conserving wheat. HJji Since this necoslty no longer Ju.itl- BJv "c substitution all macaroni, bpa- B'. ghcttl and 'similar products shipped 4, within tho jurisdiction or tho fed- BM'j, ornl fo0( nnt drugs act mubt coni- Br ' ply w'tn tl10 standards as publu! xl Hfl '" United States Department of Ag- rlculturo Circular 136. BM " The standards define macaroni and HHi kindred products as made froii tho semolina of hard wheat containing BS not more than 13 1-3 per con: of BM moisture. TroducU made from flour S or from n mixture of flour an-l sein- Bm' ollna may not bo labeled as Mncac- onl or Shaghcttl, according to tho standards, but should bo labeled ns Flour Macaroni or Flour Sparchottl, etc., as the raso may be. Ileal macaroni mado from tho hem ollna of hard wheat when rooked, has different qualities than tho jo of flour macronl. It Is much proftncl becauso of these qualities by those who know whut real macaroni is, although flour macaroni nnd kindred J products have merits and aro excellent excel-lent foods. Flour macaroni being Inferior to real macaroni should bo cheaper In price. Tho enforenmont of tho standard enables tho ho'uo-wlfo ho'uo-wlfo to know lu ench lnstnnco whether wheth-er ulio Is obtaining a product ir.r.do from somollna or ono made wholl) or In part from flour, WIIJj DKMONHTIIATK I'OKIC CUHINO i Tho national swlno show for 1019 will bo hold at Des Moines, Iow,, September Sep-tember 29 to October 4. ThU annual an-nual event Is the most Impotent connocted with tho swine Industry. At the 1918 show held at Cedar Rap-Ids, Rap-Ids, Iown, tho United States Department Depart-ment of Agrlculturo mado an exhibit of smoked meats. It Is tho Intention Inten-tion of tho department this year to make a much larger exhibit than it did In 1918. In addition to tho showing show-ing of smoked meats tho foriuulaa used In curing moats will bo demonstrated. demon-strated. Home curing of po;i; is being studied by many farmers who have been In tho habit of purchaslu.? their meats from the local doa'or. WOODLAND AND WOODS VKItSUH WOOD LOT Tho Increased Intercut in private forestry, partlcularly.wlth retnrt.'ac to farm forestry, Iira brought nbout the geneat acceptance of the. lonn woodland or woods Instead o. the original ono of woodlot, accrdlu.; to the forest sorvtce of the U. S. Depart ment. of Agriculture. A large proportion of tho wood land In the eastern United Stutos Is In Irregularly shaped tracts spv;il Ing out over lldges. ravines, hlopos, swamps and poor lands, whores woodlot carries the Idea or a uualt sized regularly shaped and, In u 'large section of tho country, fenced fenc-ed tract.. When applied to tho largo or Irregularly shaped tracts It Is obvious ob-vious that tho word inadequately describes de-scribes the condition. Woodlot probably pro-bably originated in Now Kns, nnd, nnd seeniH fairly well estahllHhed there. So long ns only conditions like thoso In Now England wors considered, con-sidered, woodlot waB accepted as nil-'equate nil-'equate but In tho last few ycaru farm forestry has boeu developing rapidly throughout tho country, j Woodland and woods are more satisfactory, moro oxpresslvo nnd avoid tho possibility of croatlng confu I slon In the minds of tho people nvi" most sections Vif tho country wm-ift the word woodlots linn never b-vu In local use. .MONTANA STOCK MOVKD Cut over and burned over land In northern Montana are being tilllUod for tho pasturage of Montana llvo stock, reports a representative of the United tales Department of Agriculture. Agricul-ture. About 13,000 sheep have been moved to Minnesota, ns drought has mado the Montana pastures untuit-able untuit-able for stocking to capacity. Arrangements Ar-rangements havo been made bntwoii Montana stockmen and owners of cut over lands In Minnesota to continue con-tinue this pasturage plan, Idle Innd thereby being used for pro'itJb(.' live stock production. nirrrr.it iim:i:niN(j .MOIIK .MKAT I Uso of standard bred fowls In cast 'central Tcnnesseo has Increased t! o avcargo weight In poultry In that ov-tlon ov-tlon 25 per cent. This Is tho Klalo ment of a local poultry buyer mndo to a specialist of the United Statu Department of Agrlculturo, wiilch cooperates with tho state ngrlcultm--nl college In tho work. Hotter breeding breed-ing has tho same beneficial effd't on poultry as on larger llvo stooit. It means mora meat, moro profits, Vnro mitlBfnctlon to the breeder. IjAMOS IU2 IKlt CKNT Ol-' KI.OCK fTho Dalr Mills Lambing club of Tennessee raised nnd marketed 1.100 lambs from 938 ewes. Specialists of the U. S. Department of Agrlculturo say that this Is a splendid record aild speaks columes for the manner in which the lambs and owes wero ensod for by tho members of the club It Is not often, they point out that a dozen farmers owning nl arge number num-ber of owes raise and market a l.imb crop that is 122 per cent of tho Ares. Tho means by which such rnsutls can be ogtalned are: Ellmlncung all undesirable ewes In the fall prior to the brooding season; providla-; adequate pasture and a little supplementary supple-mentary grain feed for the brooding flock; proper feeding during tho fall and early winter; plenty of ccerctec each day for the owea; and roomy light, dry and well ventilated quarters quar-ters for them. STUDV 8I1KEP ON WK8TKUN ItANCII Several results of Importance to wotsern sheop men have been ascjf talned by experiments at the government govern-ment sheep ranch near Dubolc, Idaho which has been in operation two years. Formerly it was customary for range sheop men to discard swee which did not bear lambs when two years old. Extenslvo investigations by tho Department of Agrlculturo have developed that such owes are Just as valuablo for futuro breeding as thoso which bear lambs nt two-years-old. Individual records aro kept on tho government sheep ranch relative to tho weight of fleece, length of fleeco character of fleeco, fineness of flbor and mutton quality of each animal, while detailed account Is maintained maintain-ed of the offspring of each owo. Tho particular utility of tho results ob-talned ob-talned arises from tho fact that tho flock Is handled Just as are all similar simi-lar bands of sheep In the hands of Wyoming stockmen. Experiments aro being conducted to develop a typo of sheep more suitable suit-able to tho western range conditions than the types now, prevalent. It is hoped to extend thja work in both mutton conformation and length and weight of fiieco. 'There are at present about 1500 head of pure bred RamboulUets, Lincoln Lin-coln Ramboulllots, Cotswold Ham-boulllets, Ham-boulllets, Leister llamboullletB and Itomney RamboulUets on the government govern-ment ranch. Crossbreeding experiments experi-ments are being conducted with all those breeds and crosses, as well as the usa of puro bred Corrledales, which havo been mated with crossbred cross-bred ewes. |
