| Show in agriculture giant growth is d due uc to giant bant culture it is expected that the area seeded to flax in iowa this year will bo be twice aa as great as last year many farmers are too easily content with what is rather than au an exertion for what might have been never let lot the gra grass ss get the start of your crops once ahead this e enemy n emy to the f farmer arnier multiplies and increases more rapidly than compounded interest on a mortgage an iowa farmer advises all farmers who arc are going going into the dair dairy y business business to plant a few acres of sweet corn to feed when pastures get ct poor during the summer in order ner to keep up the flow of milk they thy have what they call w winter inter 01 oats 16 in in oregon that are sown at any time during the year say from the last of September up tip to the middle of march provided the ground round is in favorable condition these oats arc are used chiefa chiefly fl r for milli milling ng they yield larger gag grain heavier and more uniform in size than summer or spring oats and at the rata of from front forty to eighty bushels per acre dayi drying potatoes L is i s an industry in lochester Ko chester Y A man there is largely in the business of supplying the northwestern army and liis his practice is first to slice the potatoes then put them in iii a steam box three or four minutes to keer keep the starch in and then subject t them iem to drying if not placed in the steam box the starch would come out when used they are soaked and are then like fresh potatoes sweet corn has been planted quite extensively by farmers and dai dairymen this spring its value for win winter forage and early feed is becoming better known and pa appreciated i and it will gradually gain until every farmer will find himself providing it as regularly for the denizens of the barnyard as the mistress does for the table it affords a large amount of excellent feed to the acre andis and is not liard hard to place where it will do great good F fearing erring that the delaware farmers will not raise enough beets the delaware beet sugar company lias has leased ased about acres of land in different portions of the state for the purpose of raising a sufficient number of beets to supply the deficiency caused by the apathy of fa farmers who cultivate them only on oil a limited scale mile in lit order to economize labor the company has bas ini imported a number of german gernian and french beet cultivators which are capable of cultivating four rows of beets at one running |
