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Show WHAT THE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE . IS DOING ..- i FARMERS' EXCHANGES SUCCESSFUL SUC-CESSFUL County farm bureau In New Ham-phshlre Ham-phshlre are conducting exchanges with excellent results. Ono hundred and twenty-five farmers attended a meeting to organize an exchange In Belknap County ana In 15 minutes rained $2,300 of the $3,000 capital needed. The members of tho Grafton Graf-ton County bureau will purchase 50 tons of limestone tills Bprlng through their exchange. Hlllsboro trainers have pooled orders for fertilizers and have placed them with dealers. Mofrimavk County farmers In four weeks unloaded 5 cars of grain and 300 tons of lime. The Feburnry business of the exchango In Hocking County amounted to $8,800. Stratford Strat-ford County farmers have formed a cooperative grain company and purchased pur-chased a mill. The capital stock Is $15,000 in shares at $25 each. In nil, 40 tons of 'for tillers and 90 tons of limestone havo been ordered. HOW COW TESTING HUM'S CREAMERIES Twelvo per cent of the patrons of the cooperative creamery of Dover, I Minn., are members of the local cow testing association. Though only 12 per cent of" the number, they recoivo about 36 per 'cent of the money paid by tho creamery to Its patrons. This Is not because of larger hordB, but because of better cows nnd better dairy practices. In January the returns, to dairymen dairy-men who belonged to tho cowtesting association wqrc $14.19 per cqw, while tho returns to nonmembern were $5.95 per cow. At Uie same rate, the returns for a year would be almost $100 per cow more for the ' Herds belonging to association members. mem-bers. ' This brought about by eliminating elim-inating low producers "and feeding the remainder according to known production. During Ul'o year 1914 the creamery produced 243,000 pounds of butter For 1917 the quantity Increased to 330,000 pounds. As the number of cows was 'approximately the same for the two yoars, tho gain was duo to Increase production per cow and not (o an increase number of cows. Not only was there a gain In business busin-ess for tho creamery, b'ut tho patrons wore better satlfled, because, they received largo returns, DO EARTH WORMS INJURK LAWNS Tho small boy who Is preparing to go fishing has a friendly feeling for enrthwoims known to Juvenile unglem as "'fish'ln' worms" but father, with a particular pride In a woll-kept lawn-may regnrd' them aB enemies. The futher's fcollng toward to-ward the lowly worm inny or may not bo well founded, Tho common Impression is that earthworms an In jurious to lawns but United States Department of Agriculture, through its Ilurcau of Entomology, says that the damngo Is probably very light. In fact, It Is believed that instead of being injurious these worms nro really re-ally beneficial in increasing the fertility fer-tility of .the soil by bringing to the surface soli from a lower depth, and in this way keeping up n very slight but continual top dressing . Under 'some circumstances it Js better that the worms bo exterminated, exterminat-ed, though they aro not ubpcctlouablo on hpuso livns. When they become numerous on putting greens of golf links their Uttlo earthen pellets nrj a source of unnoyanco. In such cases It Is recommended by tho Dv parment of Agriculture entomolog-: entomolog-: lata that the soil bo drenched with koroseno emulsion. This treatment gives good results against tho common com-mon whlto grub, which Is also mi enemy to lawns. Saturating the oil- r with a solution of corrosive sublimate subli-mate Is also recommended, but It Bhould bo remembered that this preparation Is deadly poison, and tho grcatese care should bo used In its preparation and use. Three ounces of Uiis substance should be dlssolv-i cd in two quarts of water in some ' glass or glased vessel which will not absorb the poison. The stock mixture mix-ture of this preparation Is sufficient for 50 gallons of water, or practically practica-lly tho capacity of tho ordinary ail barrel,. This diluted mixture should bo applied to the lawn at the rate of from ono and a nnlf to two gallons to each spuare yard, in case the lawn Is young or newly established. A stronger application, not to exceed 3 gallons, can be used on older sod. BUY FEEDER HOGS IN SOl'TH. Members of tho county fnrm bureau bur-eau In Montgomery County, Ind.) with the assistance or the county agent, corresponded with county agents ag-ents in Alamaba and Tennessee nnd have been nblc to locate feeder hogs. Tho county agent In Russellvillc,' Ala., advertised a scale of prices' that would be paid by a feeder from Montgomery County, Ind., on n certain cer-tain day nnd 254 head were censured censur-ed as a result. Tho county agent in Alabama expects to have hogs for sale, ovory wcok. UNITE TO grow good IMITATORS. Several members of the Tompkins County, N, Y.J farm bureau are uniting uni-ting to produce potatoes ol uniform type and quality in order to help solve their market problems. The farmers company hna ordered for these men 350 bushels of Sir Walter Ralolgh potatoes, which 'Have been tuber-unit selected for the past nine years. The association is to bo known kn-own as the Better Potato Growers' Association of Tompkins County. It not only proposes to build up a reputable re-putable brand' cf potatoes for market purposes, but It wlllglVe careful at tcntlon to perpetuating good seed through tho latest methods tf selection sel-ection and disease control. The growth of this organization will bo watched with Interest. TEACH FOREIGN WOMEN AMERICAN' AM-ERICAN' COOKING. When n women comes from a coun try where .housewives of her class havo fed their families for genera; tions on black bread, olive oil and cheese It is not easy in a now country coun-try to lenrn now methods of cooking. cook-ing. Mnny mistakes in selecting piopor food nie apt to be mode,. The United Stntos Department of Agriculture Agri-culture renlles HiIh, nnd the home-demonstration home-demonstration ntjents from the department de-partment and the state colleges are teaching tho foreign women how to select nnd cook American food. In Bayonne, N. J., tho home-demonstration ngent nnd tho foreign workers of tho Internntlonnl Institute cooper ate. It Is found that tiiany of tho cheap nutritious Amercan foods nro unknown, to the Italian and Polish wolncn. But few used oatmeal, and those few prepared It Improperly. In ono month Inst winter in Bnyonno 25 mothers were taught by tho homo demonstration ngont how to prepare oatmeal properly. In tho 25 families there wore 82 children. A Bnyonno girl of 13 yoais lost her mother last fall during tho Influenza In-fluenza epidemic. She has ventIro chnrgo of six younger hrothors and Bisters. Her father gives her $1 a day for food tor the seven. Coffeo "and cake wero tho staple articles of food in tho chllderns diet thrco times a day. Tho home-demonstration ngent ng-ent has now taught tho little sister mother how to prepare simple, cheap nutrltoua dishes .' '"""'" PUSHING OWN-A-COW CAMPAIGN. Ilankors nro cooporntlng with the Mcultural agent lt Jefferson D.ivls Parish, La., In an "own a cow " campaign. cam-paign. Tho bankurs are financing farmers, and tho agent is preaching tho gospol of bottor live stock. In the rail of 1918 he bouRht;'flto carloads, car-loads, 166 head, including 5 register ed bulls, of pro-bred Holstolnn tram Wisconsin. Thcso dairy antinals wero widely distributed among tho farmers, one or two head going to each owner. So pleased havo been the owners of thcso puro breds thnt the agent Is already taking orders from others. It ts probable that several additional carloads of such cattle will bo purchased next fall, tho agent reports, together with about ab-out 200 pure-bred claves for members mem-bers of tho boys calf club. Tho bankers ban-kers and tho school board will back the proposition to help the boys got n start In cattle rntoing , MORE FOOD FROM IRRIGATION. Prospects throubh tho western ro clninatlon records of 1917 and 1918 will propably bo eclipsed by thoso of tho current season. Prices of csson-tall csson-tall food stuffs are high enough to make It attractive and profitable for farmers to produce on a big scale. Reports Indlcnto the labor supply Is abumliintnnd good, although althou-gh domnndtng high pay. Credits are not cramped, with the consequence conseq-uence thnt native farmors aro not handicapped In their operations. Tills Is why It looks llko a boom year tor the rubber-boot farmers of tho far West). SERVICE TO OHIO FAILVERS.,.. The buying and selling division of tho farm bureau ojt Clearmont County, Coun-ty, Ohio, tins handled 14 carloads of fertilizer this year and stabilized tho price In the county Through tho fnrm bureau 429 tons pf nltrnto of soda wero distributed to tho farm vrs, most of which will bo used on apples, thorc being ehough to fcrtll-j izo at least 20,000 Irces. Tho nltrato cost $86 a ton, which is $27 a ton tcss than was asked. by some dealers deal-ers in tho county. One hundred bar-1 rols of lime sulphur have been dollv orod to Uie fruit growers, as well as sovoral thousand pounds of blue vlt-rial vlt-rial and arsenate of Tead. At prcs-ont prcs-ont tho bureau has orders for 16,000 pounds' of binder twlno, which will bo dlsthrlbutcd to the wheat growers grow-ers nt an estimated saying of 5 cents a pound. .NO p.eer, more r.m.K. Ono lending city of the Southwest formerly hnd extensive brewing Interests, In-terests, it being a distributed center for tho prlnclplo stock-raising section of Texas. With tho coming of prohibition proh-ibition tho beer plants woro paralyzed paralyz-ed temporarily, until an Ingenious browcr convortod his mnlt factory Into a milk depository nnd dlstrlbut lng agency. Now other browors aro also operating as emorgency dnlrs, with tho result that many peoplo who used to drlnlc nro finding tho wholcsomcncss In an abundance of !mllk, . i.MORE MKAT ANIMALS t ON FARMS, - . I Last November tho Secretary of 'Agriculture addressed a statement to 'tho fnrmcrs of tho Nation, In which ho said: "The world will have need particularly partic-ularly of a greater supply than normal nor-mal of livo stock, ospcclally of futs. , Wo should not fall therefore, to ad-'opt ad-'opt every feasible means of economically econom-ically Increasing our live-stock pro ducts." How tho farmers nro re - jjH ponding to this council is shown I, viAii a recent report, of the Bureau t. VHj Crop Estimates, which Is based upo H reports from nbout 10,000 repor. jH ers, Tho farm supply of swlno, aa; M tho report, Increased about 181 , M per cont, or nbout 11,892 000 hoat,, M during March, as compared with & i PVj Increaso of about 7.6 per 'cent, or 4 IBb 789,000 head during March of la..! H year. Tho supply of cattle increac H cd nbout 2:8 per cent during Mure. jH this year and n year ago, but froi t thcstandpolnt of numbers tho In- M crenso In March of this year was 1, Mfl 959,000 head, ns compared with 1. ufl 846, 000 head for tho month n ycu gfl ago. Tho shoop supply appears 1 1 jH havo Incrced 11:9 per cont, or C 191 394,000 head, In March, ns compared jHH with an Increaso of 75 ped cont o f 3.G9G.000 head, in March of lax jH year. From Janunry 1 to April i M the apparent Increase of sheep wn 20:5 per cent or 10,204,000 hem as compared with an increaso ot " LVfl per cent, or 1,367,000 ,hcnd, In tti first three mouths of 1918.' H |
