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Show asaaaaaaTaBmsll ' JAKM Ml) GARDEN MATTERS OF INTEREST TO v AomcuLTuntsTS. lorn I'pHxIKti (lint, Atmvt t'ol-Ileallon t'ol-Ileallon nf Ihe full mA 1 labia Thereof llnrtlcalliite, V lll-ntore .11. 1 llorlrullure. Tha r II. an rtm Crop. A bulletin o the Indiana Experiment Station says, A comparatively new and, promising leguminous crop for In-idlana In-idlana farmers li the Soy bean. Thl plant has been successfully grown In 'different parts of the state and at several points farther north In the 'United Stalta. It thrives In rood corn soils, and win grow wherever corn can be successfully produced. Helng a quick maturing annual, It will prove especially helpful to those who cannot grow clover. A crop of 'soybeans can bo produced between the spring and autmun frosts anywhere In the state. The soy bean may be grown for pasture, green forage (soil ing), for hay or silage, or for eeed. It will yield nine to 12 tons of green fodder, fod-der, 1'4 to 24 tons ot hay, and 10 to 40 buihels of seed according to variety, 'condition of soil, etc. Varieties If seed Is desired, the 'earlier varieties, only, should b grown In northern Indiana The Medium early varieties will doubtless mature In most parts of the state, and are to be preferred owing to their greater yield. The later varieties might be grown for soil renewal or soiling, but they would hardly mature seed. Culture. The soil may be prepared as for corn. If Impoverished by previous prev-ious cropping the soil should be well supplied with lime, potash and phosphoric phos-phoric acid. Nitrogenous manures have also proved beneficial In New England. The seed may be sown brosdeast with tho wheat drill. In rowa 1C to 21 Inches apart, or with the corn drill to be cultivated as corn. The earlier varieties va-rieties of soy bean may follow a crop of rye or barley or be sown In the standing corn at the time ot the last cultivation. If the weather la seasonable. season-able. It sown In corn put In two rows ot soy beans between each two rows of corn. Sow about two pecks to the acre In rows, like corn, and cultivate, it seed Is desired. For pasture, soiling or hay, sow four or Ave pecks to the acre. Food Value. Soy bean hay compares com-pares favorably with clover hay In chemical composition. The seed Is ,' very rich In protein and can therefore be fed advantageously with corn. The seed should be ground before feeding. The seed Is readily eaten, Stock as a J rule, do not relish the stems and leaves I at flrst, but soon take kindly to this -, "i forage. Soy beans and sorghum sup- f"' element each other as soiling crops W,.r- Corn and sojr beans, together, are said to make good allege. !" Harvesting llegln cutting Jit the time ot early bloom, for soiling. Cat for bay when In full bloom, and as soon as the pods have formed, or silage. Cost of Seed. Seedsmen offer soy bean seed at $2 SO to 5 per bushel. Hils makes the cost far too great to Justify growing soy beana aa a general crop. Farmers are advised to try soy beans In a small way is a special crop, and then grow their own seed If the crop gives promise ot being valuable. W. C. laUta, Agriculturist i rlgarea o Ameikaa Dolrjlnr. l An article In the Chicago rtecord I contains the following- The census ot IBM put 1he total an- oual value ot the agricultural products 4 of the United Statea at 13,758.519,483 1 say 13,760.000,000. Today our total 2 agricultural production cannot be less than 14,000,000,000. The part of this which Is dairy produce baa been estl- 3 mated by Mr. Henry E. Alvord, chief of the dairy division of the United H States department of agriculture, to be K $500,000,000. Mr, Alvord'a figures are M as follows: $' Annual production. Value. 9 Ilutter S275 000,000 1 Cheese 22(00,000 I Milk 157,500.000 f flklra milk, buttermilk, j whey and calves 45,000,000 I Total J500.000.000 Mr. Alvord regards this estimate ot 1 4500,000,000 as a very conservative one, f and no doubt It Is. It fallows, then, I that one-eighth of our total ngrlcul-I ngrlcul-I turnl production of every sort, Includ- lug wheat, corn, oats, hay, cotton, to-I to-I bacco, beet, pork, mutton, poultry aod wool, Is dalry produce In Orcat 9 Britain even a greater preponderance , .1) of dairy production prevails In round ,. -- I numbers tho total value of all the ,p ,' 1 produce sold off the farms of Dreat " ' Ilrltaln and Ireland amounts to 11 000,-000,000 000,-000,000 annually. Of this amount IK2,-500,000. IK2,-500,000. or about one-sixth. Is said to be dairy produce. Tor a particular year (1894) the figures stood as follows Total value of agricultural produce sold oft the farms ot (Ireat Drltaln and Ireland Ire-land J5S8.747.38S Value ot milk sold 78 000.000 Value of butter sold 58.800,000 Value ot cheese sold 25 6C5.000 Total value of dairy prod-ucta prod-ucta I1C2.4C5.900 According to Mr. Alvord the cows which are dslry animals kept la the United States number 17,000 000. Roughly speaking they may bo classified classi-fied as follows; Engaged In butter production 11,000,000 Engaged In cheese production 1,000,000 Engaged In milk production. 5.000.000 Total 17,000.000 The production of these cows Is estimated es-timated to be as follows' No, Annual product of cows of each cow. 11,000.000 ,,,,,125 lbs butter 1O00O00 280 lbs cheese 5,000,000 . .. . 5M gals tnllk mmmmmmmm It wfll observed trom these Bt- I ures how small relatively Is the cheese- ' producing branch ot the dairying la- , Oustry IB the United States as oom- pared with the butter-producing I branch and the milk producing branch The explanation at this will appear further on In Great Ilrltaln and Ireland Ire-land a very different distribution ot I the three brunches ot the dairy Industry Indus-try occurs. Cheese-making occnplea a 1 much more Important position In those countries than It dors with us In J 1S94 the number of dairy tows In Ureal Ilrltaln and Ireland was estimated esti-mated to be 3.925,486. The amount ot milk produced by these cowa waa es-tlmated es-tlmated Ui be 1,7C6,4C,700 gallons. About one-eighth ot this milk was used on the farms where It was produced. pro-duced. The distribution ot the remainderthat re-mainderthat Is, ot the milk sold on the fsrms either aa milk or as butter or cheese was said to be aa follows Ilutter sold 225,000,000 lbs. Cheese sold 225 000,000 lbs Milk sold 576.000,000 gals. There Is an enormous waste In dslry production which few people realise. This waste Is due to the practice too prevalent among farmera ot keeping tor dairy purposes cons thai are not good dairy animals. Mr, Alvord estimates esti-mates that upon the farms of this country msny animate are kept "probably some millions" that "do not produce the value of their annual cost, however cheap and waitetully poor their keeping may be. ' This grave fact Is generally recognised by good dairy farmers, but unfortunately It Is not recognised by the rank and tllo of farmers generally. Instead of 35U gallons of milk annually, as supposed sup-posed In the above estimates, dairy cons should average trom 575 to COO gallons ot milk annually, and Instead of 125 pounds of butter annually, as asupposed In the above estimates, good dairy cons should average from 200 to 2.5 pounds of butter annually. It cowa of tho proper standard of production produc-tion were kept, two cows would produce pro-duce whst "now Is produced by three. Tho enormous loss, therefore, that accrues ac-crues to cur dairying Industry through tho use of cows not up to tbo standard txcellcnco will be apparent to every one. 1.00k for Ik Teat Caterpillar. Owing to the latenesa of the spring there la still time to make use ot all the methods ot checking the apple-tree apple-tree tcnt-caterplllar for the coming seaaon. The young larvae are probably prob-ably jet concealed In the egg-bands about the wild cherry and apple twigs and these banda can easily bo located, cut off and burned or soaked In kerosene. kero-sene. Certainly the ravages of the little pests upon the leaves can only bo begun, oven In the most favored localities, and the voracious caterpillars caterpil-lars can be met by arsenical sprays. The nests of those escaping the poison can be cut out or burned upon the tree, and a final aearch of the orchard along In Juno will reveal tho yellowish-white yellowish-white cocoons which then conceal tho marauders. After July tbo egg-bands egg-bands will be found again and can be looked for In every orchard operation until the next spring. Encourage the children to aeek them out and destroy them; and try to make friends with tbo cuckoos, chickadees, JJsltltnore orioles, wrens and vlreoa, who will aid you In getting rid of caterpillars or eggs. Wild cherry trees about tho premises should be carefully watched as they are the favorite food plants of tbo caterpillars. These simple remedies reme-dies and precautions are taken from Bulletin No. 152 of the New York Agricultural Experiment Station (Oe- i nova). Teat Tmr Need Car. i The Illinois Experiment Station sends out the following advice: Farmers should test their seed corn. I Owing to the unusually wet fall ot 1891 there la a great deal of poor seed corn as Is shown by numerous complaints com-plaints from farmera, and by tests mods at the experiment station. Every farmer should test bis seed corn before be-fore planting. This can be done at slight expense by using m box of soil. A still better method Is to use two dinner plates. Place an lacb of soil In tbo bottom of the flrst plate, moisten and cover with two thicknesses ot say cloth, preferably old cloth that baa been washed several times. Upon this placo the seed to be tested and cover with another moist cloth. Then cover by turning tbo second plato bottom upwards over the first to prevent the soil from drying out, and set In a warm place. Temperature for Seedlings. It would be well to caution those who have sown seeds ot annuala during tbo last few weeks that the seedlings must bo kept cool. If they are aubjected to the beat of the ordinary living room (70 ds-reca Fahrenheit) they will bo drawn, weak and spindling, and will perhaps sot do so well after being planted out as If the seed bad been sown directly Into the ground. Endeavor En-deavor If possible to keep the seed-lings seed-lings la a temperature not higher than CO degrees, with a night temperature of not above 50. If kept no warmer than this they will make a stocky, sturdy and healthy growth. V Oman's Homo Companion. Stable Manure. The experiment station sta-tion In North Carolina well says In a recent bulletin that "North, South, East and West, stable manure Is almost al-most universally regarded as a complete com-plete manure, yet It Is too nltrogenoua a manure for ordinary farm crops, and needs for each and every ton used tho addition of from 50 to 100 pounds ot acid phosphate and from 25 to 60 pounds ot blgb-grade muriate or sulphate sul-phate of potash In order to make a properly balanced fertilizer ot It, without with-out which best results cannot be obtained, ob-tained, neither can they reasonably be expei.lt d" E |