Show FAHM AND GARDEN GAR DEiN MATTERS OF INTEREST TO agriculturists some ip LP I 1 to date 11 hint mot s mont it ill ul ot or th tile N til it DU ul art 1 I 1 ull 1111 allure hii I 1 Floo ritu itu re all afoul arout I 1 the lir t I 1 fill ae As the da lengthens tho the cold strengthens I 1 llna ills old saw g githern athers a added tided force it A 0 e I 1 lav a 0 a bunch of calias to feel lold old and are calculated to knock 1 i I spring tilt t lit in the heid held ihan it it string corner and they hive U ive all the trag HIP the can eat they are liable o 0 to t tike ike to ablao blackler blackl kleg cR A neighbor i went ent to t chicago and bought a carloa bof of cities in I 1 brought them home this was aas earl eirl in the aprin he ile was aas quite a voting imn and it was ulli his first venture 11 were thin in I 1 so at once he fed them libe liberally rilly they would pat eat until tile at wire re a 1 I bisfie I 1 binl 1 I then he lie down T h 1 wae A Is 1 kept pt up lip quite a while an I 1 then nine of hum died of blackleg the idea the boung oung man that the heeled nee led exercise eer csc cise so every enery day tor for a week or more as soon la as they were ere through with their corn in the morning lie the were driven drien around for or a couple t f 1 tours oura the rl suit was not an th r i ed tit of bl blackleg safety Is reli re ched b commencing with a poor lot of calves so gm gradual duall that there Is no 9 in the change when nhen they have reached tull full tecil no barm harm results I 1 o 0 last spring bought eleven head of cat calves s 3 ear lings which were eo so warty they looke I 1 hid bous I 1 commenced gradually and kept it up until they ote every ear car they could the w ta ts commenced to drop ot off before grass came good pasture finished making them smooth my nty opinion after noticing calves ciles tor for a goodly number ot of eare ears la Is that blackleg Is simply ot of the surface blood vessels they tall fall to circulate the blood I 1 xercie keeps up the or cl cul dilation atlon lying dofan in luces torpidity ot of the veins and paralysis I 1 am no doctor but rhems them a my sentiments on blackleg cattle should not be fed led on corn alone it la natural tor for them to chew the cud and rough roughness iless fed with corn brings both up from the first compartment of the stomach and arid all Is digested without roughness toughness scarcely halt half the corn goca goes through the process and a ai it passes from them in ft hole grains hence there Is waste aste unless hogs tol tot low and in any event the corn does only a part ot of its office in tho tb fattening process the drouth in these ends ot 0 the e irth was beneficial in making not only sound born I 1 ut in maturing the yc yung ung wood on the fruit t la Is true that numbers of 0 trees tres and plants bet set ot t in the pring spring have perished Is this the case with cherry trees which seem more susceptible to drouth than ny caher sort plums are all an I 1 are the oung peach trees pears pear a 0 have it well apples not so well many ornamental shrubs perished notably the hardy hydrangea hd rangel and taj clematis among evergreens the either lan ian arbor vitae Is the most to drouth the hydrangea hydras igea apa and the eer evergreen green must be watered liberally or they ill certainly perish on many plants drouth Is ducre thin than cold veather eather 4 co oper operation Is gaining ground among t f in tri aers near me a creamery ot of this has been running now over a t year and so well has it prospered that 1 k 13 per cent dividend has hall been mcclar ed this and the tact fact they get the milk bach back illius the cream has 11 felien ell co coats a a boom properly property and honestly managed there Is not the least doubt but that it Is a good thing tor for the farming community and especially tor for the stockholders another creamery run on the s eime sime ime plan a few miles farther aa away has done as well nell as the above abode an ani I 1 one car it did bette tor for th the 0 past six years men lien are hauling up to the house great piles ot of logs which before long will be cawed by horse or steam power halt flat a day days a sau sawing ing will last n L roun I 1 year to cut the wood for that length ot of time 9 as it la Is needed with the axe is no tool fool of a job which I 1 know by sad experience cutting wood at the wood pi pl e in july and august Is a watery job A man at the woodpile then teems seems to be the subject of 0 contin continual u a I 1 dissolution and thaw I 1 prefer the team steam gocr a in the winter how flow cheerful the evergreens look around the tile house when all the ground Is covered with alth enow snow they are the ideal windbreak I 1 have a good many of 0 various kinds but prefer tor for the rank and file the white pine it grows rapidly and with room very shapely there shou d be two tuo rows twenty tour four feet apart the uter nuter row shou should I 1 d break joints with the inner row hy by that means a solid shelter Is made any quantity of men dont tr tor care a copper whether their halt of the line fence Is kept up or not B I 1 11 I 1 fences make aa as a rue ru e bad neighbors after the fence ie Is first made ordinary care w will ill keep it in working order I 1 often I 1 1 wonder onder why it ie Is that tanners farmers don t see that it Is much easier to be on the best ot of terms with their neighbors than to be otherwise I 1 cars ago when I 1 commenced farming on this prairie I 1 re solved that my stock should tie never er trouble my neighbors and they never neer have the sheep industry Is looking up A near neighbor has now ICO head heid another and both tell me that shep are very profitable it Is a comfort to see that diversified farming Is batter than hogs bogs cattle and corn or corn cattle cattie and hogs and nothing else edward D heaton in farmers review flit nois Valry 1 men according to the 1111 nol state Dalry mens abec held Us its annual eon january 11 12 and 13 at red bid a quaint eld town which bears many substantial evidences of thrift and prosperity not far from the first capital of the state tt la to situated in the very heart of the country celebrated to in the his romances ot of mary J catherwood A the coment convention lon was a grat groat bleess if it it was aas held way any down in sc them thern illinois like other meetings of its class it brought together such a clean hearte I 1 keen fitted jovial set ot of men and was as con I 1 with A ith an absence ot of rest restraint mint thit so et tufit that the tile secretary was acts fairly har itta by applina eions tor for membership rho character ot of the dalr discus lons it his is hanged mate materiale riall since the da davs 4 N when hen the rel reh relt t 1 he 0 of breeds was 18 the all important topic this subject was as so gen generally crall ignored at most 0 ot r the sessions th tint it in lit ignorant it might reasonably have lime sup still I 1 thit an all 01 oil I 1 com would do for dairy purposes ahe attention ot of the was ats chiefly devoted to a con 8 I 1 le ration of 0 the comparative values ot of foria fori 1 A crops and bow how to preserve them in ili tho the biba moat most manner all arguments tor for oil ditth or not sustainer nel inel by the recent experiments ot of tit the agricultural stations afre ere reethie with cynical juad natura an I 1 the professors in alt ail I 1 cultural lines ot of whom a liberal sprinkling was as present commanded at all times the most respectful attention indech I 1 nothing was N as more apparent thin the growing confidence in tit and dependence pen dence upon the work ork of 0 the ot imperl ment stations by the ato grassie and practical farmers of 0 the elate state who ho recognize their inability as individual to conduct such tests with the scientific accuracy attal attained ned b bv the tile stations and are glad to mall aall themselves ot of the results I 1 he must N valuable contribution to the program was as gene generally rilly or conceded conc oric edd to be the address by mr nir it 11 A pearson Pc arson as distant secretary ot of agriculture who ito exhaustively described the work which the department has done ani Is doing to the dairy and u a agricultural 9 ri interests intel Inte tests of 0 american farm arm ers e hope to jive these pipers and in detail in liter issues ot of the I 1 armer a s review ite low chief among the resolution pissed i 1 by the convention was as one condemn ing the so called tree free distribution ot of seeds which the I 1 armer i review lie view ba has bas s for many years so aggress aggressively hely opposed another of the resolutions passed was as addressed addres sid td to the illinois legislature and petitioned that body to so amend the i resent auti anti color 1 oleomargarine law as to pro provide VI we for the a appointment of a dairy commissioner and tor for an appropriation tor for tho the maintien maintenance ince ot of buh an ollice the as so clation itself to work by N vi t to and personal influence for or such legislation the following ollI cers were ere elected tor for the ensuing year president georgo eurge 11 II gurler of dekalb ale vice president john newman I 1 secretary J 11 II monrad of 0 winnetka directors jno stewert liburn it U it 11 murphy garden plain 9 G Soye rhill Tl it R 1 G I NN llord ilford red heil bud and A G 0 judd dikon alter after the reading ot of the scores on the butter exhibit and announcement of awards 1 mr P I 1 N BroL brockway kway addressed the co convention mention on the demands of the st louis market which he summarized lj ia the at stu ement bt luls demands good butter buttor mr air r achay was aas one of the judges of the butter exhibit and explained the points ot of the score card he lie considered color a point of secondary condary be importance and arid eald said that the tendency ot of the trade 1 li towards a lighter imade that the ahir chicago ago and w lork do inand Is for or a paler hotd butter than st I 1 ous out in the discussion which follo followed Aed mr air vallord VM llord expressed the opinion that the various state dairy as I 1 should unite to adopt a standard color for butter and urge its general all adoption option one would thir c that three diya ot of three sessions each boull I 1 have exhausted hat isted the df debating bating etli of men such e tic dairy farr tra t ra as these but no at the parting of the ways as the trains bore thim north south cast east and west wherever he rever two or three were gathered the discussion went on and butter bream ensilage corn and all the other termini in oie bright lexicon of the illinois dairyman floated out upon the air and doubtless doubt liss mingled in lit their dreams as the sped across the lolling of our beloved state land decision an interesting land case not long ago got in a til td If ortila court A man had secured a tract of land having a email small stream of water which be used in irrigating hie his arid acres A neighbor owning an adjoining also wanted water and concluded to under tinder the bed of the stream mentioned and by pumps and other appliances secure the water he so much desired the rhe owner of the ednam bad had the court enjoin proceedings and hear the cane the deLls lort I 1 was that a california land owner owns r everything thing straight through to china and hem heavenwards enwards aa far aa as he chose to go I 1 horses in russia it seems that according to ll 11 e official return returns there are 21 horses 1 the russian empire or about elites a animals to about every hundred inhabitants inh hut but enormous asi the number Is the supply of good horses ts Is limited the imperial administration accordingly has established tn in tho the principal centers el gLen depots comprising I 1 1600 stallion moat most ot of a distinctly superior c clau laig these are exclusively employed to fo the marcs mares beli neing to rural pro prie tors of all clahsen without distl distinction nc ion and at a price varying from one to ten roubles coubles mark stark lane express the increase of cheese ie Is not in ex act proportion tn the fat one pound of fat in three per cent milk will make more cheese than a pound of fat in four per cent ri ellk ilk the yield of cheese per pound ol 01 fat gradually dea decreases creases a as the of fat in un this milk increases |