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Show THE RICH COUNTY REAPER. RANDOLPH. (JTAH Fertilizer Helps Farmers Income 0 One of Best Means of creasing Productivity and Aiding Soil. Prepared triple yields of pasture grasses and a point which Is. more important but is often overlooked by dairy farmers to Incrense by this means, the protein, lime, and phosphorus content of the grasses. Suah forage often improves the health of the stock and insures against mineral deficiency diseases and nutritional abortion. Don't Expect Magic. Doctor Schreiner warns farmers that they must nof expect fertilizer to work magic or to make up for shortcomings of crops, soils, poor seed, inefficient spraying, poorly plowed and cultivated land, poor drainage, acid soil, or for a low supply of humns. Use manure to Improve your soils. Grow green mannre when yon cannot Then you will get stable mannre. have better returns from your fertilizer," he advises farmers and points out that there Is a specific quantity of fertilizer which yields the maximum profit in any given case and the amount varies greatly with different crops and different soils, and Is greater, by far, for crops than for crops. In- the United States Department b of Agriculture. t If all the fertiliser 7,5X),UX) tons ef It used annually by farmers of the United States were sold In baits it would take nearly a hundred million of them," says Dr. Oswald Schreiner, chief of the division of soil fertility of the bureau of chemistry and soils. United States Department of Agriculture. Help Productivity. "The use of chemical fertilizers," he says, "Is one of the best means of Increasing productivity and improving soil fertility. It is conservatively estimated that, for every dollar Invested in fertilizer the average return Is about $3. The reason that farmers are buying $250,000,000 worth of fertilizer a year is that the best farmers of the country know that It pays them to use fertilizers. Summing up the relation of fertilization to farming under present economic conditions Doctor Schreiner New Tomato Pollinator says: "With the present high cost of Is Electrical Vibrator labor, Increased acreage is not so advisable as Increased production per One thing that occasionally cuts a acre. Under present costs of produc- slice from the s Income tion the proper use of fertilizers of- Is the failure of early blooms to set fers one of the best ways for the fruit. Apparently the weather has to American farmer to increase his farm be just right for pollination ; and An acre of underfed plants,, though plants income. may blossom early, struggling for growth and reproducthere will be no sets without pollination, means not more, probably less, ting. In older to have satisfactory than an average yield of crops, the pollination, the air must be warm and selling price of which is absorbed to dry. meet the costs of interest, taxes, Artificial pollination is the answer If to this difficulty, of course. cultural operations, and seed. Several there is to be any profit it must come methods are in use shaking the vines, from a higher yield. Therefore It is tapping the blossoms, and actual better to produce a high and profittransfer of pollen by hand. able yield on less acreage than an Now cotnes a new wrinkle an elecaverage yield on the full acreage. trical tomato pollinator a device not This is true of all crops." unlike an automatic pistol, with a viDoctor Schreiner says that intellibrator on It. This electric vibrator to do a good job, even on damp, seems lime of and complete gent application fertilizers makes It easy to double or sunless days. Burnt Portrait Fopnd Raeburn portrait of Robert Burns, painted in 1803 and lost for more than a century, is reported to have been found recently by a miners wife in Larkhall, Scotland. The picture, said to be a striking likeness of Burns, is a canvas 27 by 23 inches inside the frame and carries an indistinct signature which experts believe to 'be that of Raeburn. It was "picked up for a few shillings, according to a Glasgow furninewspaper. In a second-hanture shop. A d - FAMILY DOCTOR MADE MILLIONS OF - . FRIENDS - E3cBMBE ' higli-pric- HIGH GRADE AUTOMOBILES e low-price- d tomato-grower- Fifteen years after his graduation, Dr. Caldwell became famous for a single prescription which now, after forty years, Is still making friends. Today Dr. Caldwells Syrup Pepsin is the worlds most popular laxative. Millions of people never think of using anything else when theyre constipated, headachy, bilious, feverish or weak ; when breath is had, tongue coated, or theyre suffering from nausea, gas, or lack of appetite or energy. ' Dr. Caldwells Syrup Pepsin is made today according to the original formula, from herbs and other pure ingredients. It is pleasant-fastinthorough in the most obstinate cases; gently effective for women and children. Above all, it represents a doctors choice of what is safe for the bowels. g; for Cash all Grades of Cars. Sells Buys r fully guaranteed cars 60 days service McDRIDE Specializes in Latest Models all makes new or reconditioned. McBIUDE always has a large stock of Late Model Automobiles on hand Packard, Chrysler, Cadillac, Willys-Knigh- t, Dodge, Essex, Plymouth, Hudson, Erskine, Pontiac, Studebaker, Ford, Including Graham-Paig- Chevrolet. him first if you want to BUY. SELL or TRADE. M BRIDES Cor. 7th South U Main SALT LAKE CITY McBRIDE says (Prepared by Wm yon come in yons car, to Conocoland this Summer? drained and not too dry. A cool climate is preferable and planting should he as early as the soil can be worked in the spring. The Individual growers acreage is limited by the suitability of his soil and equipment and by the availability of labor at rush time. Ten or fifteen acres of pteas usually fits rotation. well into a The pea is a legume, and when the proper bacteria are present it enriches the soil hy accumulating the expensive element, nitrogen, from the air. The bulletin notes instances of increases of wheat yields in New York state ranging from five to eighteen bushels an acre as the result of a previous the United States Department of Agriculture.) Since 1905 the volume of garden peas growD for ennning has multiplied more than five times, and since 1922 this crop has headed the list of vegetables grown for canneries. In 1928 pea canners packed 17.943,000 cases, according to the United States Department of Agriculture. Peas are usually grown along with other vegetables for canning, and the culture is centralized in tLe vicinity of canneries, according to Farmers The Production of Bulletin 1235-Peas for (anning, recently revised by V. R. Boswell of the bureau of plant industry. The bulletin may be tained free from the Office of Information, United States Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C. The bulletin points out that peas are not exacting in their soil requirements but demand a soil that is well 100-acr- Z2e e pea crop. F, Edible Period of Many Vegetables Lengthened Many of our best vegetables are edible for a very short period of time. For example, eweet corn 's used for food only when It is in the roasting ear stage. When past this stage it cannot be used. The same is true of such crops as beans, peas, lettuce, spinach, radishes and nany others. Regular Schedule Adds The edible period of such vegetables to Dairy Farm Profits can ,be greatly lengthened by a sucA regular schedule for the feeding cession of plantings at different dates. and milking of. dairy cows has been For example, if a row or two of sweet shown to Increase profits, according corn is planted every two weeks from early in May until the first of July, to a report made by (lari Stadig, testthe roasting ear season will be exer of the Dairy Herd Improvement As1 of Nicollet county, tended from two to three weeks to Bodation No. Minnesota. The report was made to nearly two months. This succession Ramer Leighton, head of the dairy of plantings can be practiced for many reherd Improvement association work of other vegetables as well with the season fresh the that vegetable the state at University farm, St. Paul. sult be greatly lengthened. According to Mr. Stadig, one of the will members of his association, who is a good feeder and manager but who has been irregular as to the time of feeding and milking, adopted a definite schedule. As a result, his production increased 15 per cent. take a If you never grew Paul Stav, tester of the Harmony-PrestoIt is on a chance package. association, reports that tribe. the of member a turnip tasty ping by hand, following the use of the the increases milking machine, The fall garden should be as popcontent of the milk. In a report and as full of vegetables as the ular one cows to Mr. Leighton he says that Too often interest milk without the stripping tested 2.5 spring garden. take possession. weeds wanes and per oeDt butterfat whereas with the until frost clean and Cultivate keep cent. 3.8 per strippings it tested occurs. . The .monthly report of Mr. Leighton shows that in January 38.955 cows It costs money to wash the smut out were under test in Minnesota. Of these of wheat before it is milled into flour. 8,564 gave Jn January more than 40 is why smutty wheat has to be That pounds of butterfat The report says can be also that 1,515 herds In the association discounted. Smut discounts with seed copper avoided by treating averaged more than 25 pounds of butcarbornate. terfat per cow. - Agricultural Squibs kohl-rab- i, n 10-ee- but-terf- . . I Declined Hi Resemblance Which side of the house does he "Tom, we really havent anything in the house. Wouldnt you like a look like? The side with the bay window! kiss for breakfast? A walking encyclopedia is honored Not from that cook. Life. and overworked. 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