Show TILE DRAINING vow aitos lT etoel oel lr arate ate chanced inel Cl wet soil boll into I 1 rine rl wheat I 1 daod and mr terry writing to the rural new yorker expressed his ants respect for tiles as follows 1 I have some land that was naturally allyc cold old wet an and hard from long expend experience I 1 find that tile draining good tillage rotation with clover and light will make such alanl bring wd crops of wheat and clover in fact on what was once the poorest poo rest hardest clay spot on the farm I 1 had last gearas year as fine wheat as I 1 ever grew but these places will not produce large crops of potatoes it my land were all of that character I 1 would never plant any it would be wiser to grow what the land is better fitted for I 1 have reduced these hard places to such a condition that the they Y are not eyesores when tile field is in p potatoes 0 as they once were ere in riding by they would not particularly attract ones attention but the digger would perhaps find bushels per acre on the natural potato 0 soil whereas when it struck these spots there would be only or leas less now ow the above is the practical part of it the question is whether it is possible I 1 would hardly want to eay say no to that as man mau can do almost an anything y with tile draining and an otilit unlimited supply of manure and clover grown and plowed under it is pos possibly that the natural condition of the soil could be so changed in time that great crops even of potatoes t oes could be grown on it but it va donld 0 d n not 0 t pay the time was when a man could afford to go to great expense to grow a crop in a locality where the soil was not naturally uralla naturally nat y suited to it but that day has as a rule gone by transportation is cheap now and the raising of special crops in localities naturally adapted to them has como come to stay and this practice will steadily jn in the future bo be causo cause it is business and our farmers are gradually becoming more businesslike 11 W L chamberlain with a rich and varied experience of forty years with under draining gives his experience with tile draining and aad permanent timothy he says one strip of 10 acres had about 81 8 tiled and the rest not until last winter six years ago it was seeded down to clover and timothy with wheat and phosphates were used costing four dollars per acre the clover best on the tiled part nearly all went out after two years and left clear timothy on 01 the tiled part the timothy has fully held its 0 own w n and even increased year after year but not on the part not tiled this year I 1 cut forty immense loads from tle 10 acres loads I 1 eay say cocked overnight I 1 and drawn chiefly on a hay bay rack 17 feet long and loaded heavily because it had to be drawn about half a mile one olie average load well cured weighed weigh edGo 2100 pounds pound son on the scales but the point ia this while the timothy on the tiled part lias has held its own or increased year afat year that on the part not tiled ivis has grown thinner and bli shorter orter and weeds coarse gra grass ss and especially that miserable pest vest plantain have come comein in thia this year the hay on the tiled part was easily eally ethice as heavy as on the part not tiled as strong clean timothy as I 1 ever saw wim with no plantain or weeds in it the timothy was so dense that it shaded tha weeds to death before they got a real start fact about corn com there are differences between yellow and white corn independent ot of the col color lor the former contains more starch and will make more wb whisky isky and is preferred for animal food where fattening lathe la alie object in view the latter has more gluten and oil and is almost uni J verbally ver sally preferred for bread As food for horses where nirve and bone ment are more desired than tat fat white corn has the preference white corn is considered as coming coining nearer to oats than yellow corn and is therefore better food for working animals so far as tha i results of analysis are known white corn com has about 1 per cent more of tho muscle fo forming elements than yellow corn but the relative value of the iwo two varieties in this respect has not been very accurately determined the corn plant is one of the most widely distributed but every section has a type best suited to its soil and latitude therefore the interchange of seed northern and southern grown is not a safa practice if the distance to the north or south is a long iong one from east emt to west the transfers may be longer corn planted in the north from a southern seed grown in longer seasons la ts almot cert certain it to be caught by frost the plant however has the faculty of becoming acclaimed and under a few years of cultivation of adapting its growth and period of ripening to the seasons of tile sections to which it ia is grown bays the world Protect protector hr seil sd llean from hint dr halstead alstead II has found that soaking seed beans for an hour in a solution of three ounces of carbonate of copper and one quart of ammonia to four and ii a half halt gallons of water was in a measure a protection against bean among plants from seed that had received th tha copper soaking only three were at all affected and und these only slightly those without copper treatment were fully four times as bud bad as the treated ones and the chan chances c es are the difference would increase enste instead ad of diminish unlike spraying the ng Is a simple matter done once for all and at the expense of only a few centi cents for an aero acre of beans I 1 ua he minor manor the careful poul fryman 1 has already on hand a it good supply of 0 road dust to UM as dusting material he lie has also attend attended ed to bis his poultry houses closing cracks and leaking roots roofs the floor of the wint uter ejr herk henhouse house needs attention also Fancler 6 Journ alsaye depre we prefer ti a board door floor covered with about four inches of sharp gravel gravel is al at ways loose and dry and easily kept clean land plaster us a deodorizer and fertilizer ia is unsurpassed hen manure and plaster thoroughly mixed and kept dry is worth moro more than most commercial fertilizers plaster I 1 h worth about sit six dollars per ton mixed with he beuma nig nure a ton la Is worth nearly three times as much As a top dressing for a lawn it is magnificent add a little kainik to it and you will get a complete manure re worth when dry fully as much marint as the forty dollar per ton fertilizers |