Show I 1 we X L P W 41 ellk tl lK A is I 1 I 1 I 1 la yi 0 11 r 01 R 2 f sy 1 r v 1 lj l j Z v I 1 A ii it 1 1 it III e 4 1 fe it A VL i 1 I 1 1 ia ais I 1 t 11 I 1 if 1 1 homemade potato sprayer the illustrated herewith is ia inexpensive and easily made first a 1 heavy iron rod about VA L inches thick and 61 i foet feet ion ions must be procured pio cured for an axle this may be taken from nn an old grain drill or elsewhere and adapted to the present ue u e for wheels take those of the hay rake as a high wheel makes the flow stronger the shafts should be about eight feet long they are bolted to the axle asle alve feet apart and fastened securely that tile the rod may not turn two pieces of wood three by three inches and three and one half feet long are bolted across the shafts 12 1 or 15 inches apart one of them being placed a trifle back of the axle and the other farther in front of it IL the ne singletree Is attached to a third crosspiece farther forward two more inore pieces two by six inches and two ft feet long on are bolted edgewise across the inch pieces two feet apart these pieces are hollowed hollowed out at the top so that a barrel will rest on them securely two stopcocks are inserted into the barrel opp opposite osite the bung and two pieces of hose hoe six feet long terminating in a fine spray nozzle attached to them the bunghole Is turned upward and a funnel used in filling it the horse walks between the rows of potatoes the man following and holding a nozzle in each hand above the row on either side when turning at the end of a row the hose may be laid across the barrel to stop the flow the pressure of the liquid in the barrel if well elevated la Is sufficient chent to produce a steady flow and the jolting of the machine will keep the 4 11 na I 1 i P A 0 DEVICE FOR rotators rOTA TOES parla iris green in solution with d a sprayer off of this kind one person can easily spray ten acres of potatoes in a day american agriculturist the time in the longest days of the year and when on the farm the hardest work of the year has to be done there bould be generally a longer rest at noon than Ls la usually taken the early morning and toward evening are the most comfortable for table times to work out or of doors but with a day nearly or quite fifteen hours long there must filist be a considerable sid erable resting place in the middle of the day if health Is to be preserved the noon dinner may take half an hour or more but after that khouli be a rest of a full hour or two and if part of that time be spent in sleep both body and brain will be refreshed few know how bow great is the dependence of the nerves on sleep for their continuance in vigorous health A noonday rest of not less than two hours will enable more work to be done than can be secured without it IL it if storms threaten when crops have to bo be secured the noon rest may be omitted for in such case when rain comes there will be longer opportunities for resting and even for sleeping than will be desirable selling S youns bonns pic there Is always profit in breeding pigs providing the breeder Is not too greedy and Is 13 willing to sell his stock at reasonable rates live and let live should always be the rule in nothing Is this more true than la in the breeding and sale of stock it Is very easy to get a surplus of stock greater than can be either kept or fattened with profit As the pigs grow older it costs more to produce a pound additional growth and what Is worse this extra weight is not worth so much per pound as Is that of the smaller pig the sow pigs may be worth more as they grow older it if set to breeding but the farmer i who breeds pigs largely to sell while 1 young does not wait for the sows bows to get to breeding age before disposing of them lie ile leaves some of the profit to the purchaser of his stock as every stock seller ought to do if no one did this the race of buyers would quickly run out and then the grower of young pigs would be worse oft off than ever ry py of the dairy almost all great manufacturing enterprises t terp rises now derive a great part of their profits from the careful having baving and use of by products that were formerly wasted it Ls Is much the same with the dairy there Is no large mat mai gln gin of profit to in making butter and cheese at present prices and the question how to dispose of the by products left after these are made usually decides whether the result shall be ou on the loss or on the profit side making curd cheese without rennet from the skim milk Is a profitable WRY way to use it where a near market can be had for it alet very ottry city or would dispose of a largo large quantity every day if it were placed ou on MILr market ket besides tills this fowling salm milk to I 1 fowls to I 1 pigs and to the lie cows are rood good ways I 1 to dispose of it which will trill be most profitable must depend on circumstances removing foul seedie beade from groin As long as it remains true that as a man sows bows so shall he reap lt it behooves I 1 him to get all foul weed be wed d out or of hla his seed grain sonic some practice swim ming it out but the heaviest seeds will not float only the seed pods of weed and the lighter stuff bluff better sift the wild seed out and the allu illustration shows how to do it easily and quickly removable wire mesh bottoms may be used anti and thus a choice made in the size of illesh to use ilse with a ili any particular grain or benns bealls pens peas etc it will pay to use a mesh charbe co enough to permit all small and inferior kernels of grain to fall through 11 10 BIEVE FOR SEED CHAINS grains with the weed sped seed then only the best and most vigorous kernels will be sowed bowed such selection of the iho boat best seed year after year will bring up the quality of the grain wonderfully farm and home watering lne horses HOI nt at work it used to be tho the rule to keep horses from drinking at high noon doon or night I 1 i after they lad had been working through the forenoon or afternoon until all aliey v had eaten their feed and had cooled down this was considered necessary in order to prevent injury from taking cold water while the system is id heated but till this is cruel to tile horses as they thep cannot pitt ont what they should if they arf are parched with thirst the better way is to give each horse in tho the middle of the forenoon a pall ot of water into which a small quantity or of oatmeal lias has been 1 i stirred this will refresh and 0 rate the horse without doing any injury and will prevent him from being injured by drinking freely it at foont noontime anle if the lie drink being nourishing rallies tile the strength and enables the animal to do a greater amount of work without failure killing rose kone clues slues with hot water it Is very slow and difficult work thinning oft off the rose and pear slugs slug ef when they are found on pear and grape loaves leaves not many people know that they can be easily killed by drenching the leaves with water heated to 1 30 to degrees this is death to nearly all kinds of bugs and the wai ter can be applied 10 to 20 degrees hotter than this without injuring the leaves either cither of the pear or grape vine tin e if the water is applied by cpr spraying byln it should be some hotter than is required so that it may reach the sin slugs 8 at the temperature that is surely fatal to them very cold water or that which has had lee ice dissolved in it will kill the rose slugs it if dashed violently against them but it knocks oft off many more and they are soon found at their work again deets beets an aa green food for pigs no other kind of root Is so greedily eaten by pigs as the beet it may not have so much nutrition as aa the poato peato but what it has is sweet and there fore Is palatable even the fattening hogs will eat cat some beets every day J and should have them but their best use is as green feed for son a bat dt are giving milk it will increase the quantity greatly but it will need some grain feed with it to keep the sow thus fed from losing flesh too rapidly it lb expected of course that the sow avi will i grow poor while suckling her young but if this goes too far her value as a breeder Is lessened and the next litter of pigs will be deficient in number or in vigor and size dagala grapes not so much Is written now as used to be about bagging grapes to keep them from insect enc enemies inies or fungous diseases the object Is much better accomplished by spraying with the bor mixture the bags required a good deal of labor to apply and at the lie low rate that grapes have lately anid for it did not pay besides it was found that the protect protecting inu made file grape skins more tender so that they were less prepared for ion long transportation or for long keeping biggin grapes Is still practiced by arna amateur teun 4 but it Is a practice likely to be confined fined to them dairy note the cow should have all the food that she will assimilate A cow that Is heated and worried will not milk well and her milk will not make good butter you cannot feed a scrub calf into a good one but you can easily stint a well bred calf into a scrub to make the very best profit the dairyman must own the best beat land keep the best cows cowa and give them the best treatment not every farmer can feed his bis cows a wide ration because it Is sometimes too costly to be available but whatever the teed feed there should be plenty of it and it should be accompanied by plenty of water |