Show teosinte bulletin Hul letin of the kansas station says a ahls 1 his la Is a native of 0 mexico and thought by many botanists to be the original of our indian corn it la is au an annual plant resembling corn or eor sor in general appearance but in steal of producing an car there are A in the le several elender slender joint ed 1 spikes which are separate trot each other instead of 0 being united into an ear Ilo however wever in the united stated states li A the plant seldom flowers and never produced produces beed except la in south florida or near the gult gulf coast it la is cultivated in the southern states where it Is considered a valuable forage plant and under favorable conditions produces an immense amount of forage example it la Is reported to have produced in louisiana over fifty tons of green forage per acre it requires a long season ard coarl dorable moisture for which reason it Is not well suited to kansas conditions it give gives a fair amount of folder to ider in kansas but there is nothing to recommend it above corn sorghum or i urn for the same purpose permanent failures pastures on practically all american farms the permanent pasture la Is neglected thia this la Is more truo true of the west even than of the fast east it is rather surphin 1 ing to tind drill it true in all ot of our dairy 2 rc blona where we might expect to see the permanent pasture fully appreciated where an effort ie Is made to keep them up it too often stops top at putting on a little manure and some clover and timothy seed or turning the eod sod over and bowing sowing to blue grass tim athy t bin ta hardly be considered a very T good grass ft ies unless the pasture la Is to be largely for horses and the clover generally dies A out in a few years the blue grass proves good pasturage urage only under favorable conditions and with proper hand handling linz generally it da djs d a not provo prove to be a first class pasture through the whole year it Is desired to have a pasture that matures ita its grass at dif dit ferent seasons our graat mistake seems to have been in sowing too few low varieties of grasses this mistake is accentuated when we BOW sow two or three varlet lei of grasses that mature at the same time these begin to grow at the same time and during the flush of the spa a son a the animals revel in a 4 superabundance of good things dut but A when the grasses have reached their A maturity they begin to decline at once no new varieties are coming on to take the place of the varieties that aro arc in decadence and the stok at pasturage begin to feel the differences dif ferenc the farmer then must begin fe feeding dins or he will have to face a shrinkage in flesh of his fat cattle and a shrinkage 0 of f milk in his dairy cattle the proper way would be to select grasses that mature at different times and that have tho their ir growth in different seasons and at different tamea this con can be dona done by sowing lorn very early and some very late brasses grasses among the grasses that it will bi bo well to sow for the early we mention the te orchard grass and timothy for those that live a late growing season we name created dog tall alsike clovar clover red clover and meadow foxtail to these may be added other valuable gras grasses seft that have been folind to be good in different localities farmers potatoes that rot rat if the potatoes in the cellar begin to rot it la Is well to of them as coon toon as possible none of them thou 4 d be kept over for the coming spring as they will ther carry into the next crop the mycell lum that baa has been the cause of the rot this year potato rot b glas in the form of blight la in the held field later it shows itself in the tubers im a the cellar ignorance regarding regan ling this has kept many a farm infected from year to year as the farmer has carried over infected seed from one year to another when rot has appeared therefore the only thing to do Is to get got rid of the potatoes before they thoy have begun to show this th disease if it the ret ts 13 very bed bad it will pay better to teed led the smallest of the tubers to stick stock rather than run the risk of having them all rot in the hine in 1 U I or 01 dinar filar cellar it lt Is rather to keep potatoes of any kind much ies less those with the rot conceal I 1 ed within in cold storage where the wa temperature is kept at near the freez lag tag point there ie Is leee lom danger in try ing lui to hold them for reme month months in the ordinary cellar the temperature frequently goes up to near the engles on warm winter days end and thia Is esp especially lally so now that mat many fra fim houses are boated heated by furn furnaces acea |