The Spencer Siftings (Spencer, Okla.), Vol. 2, No. 14, Ed. 1 Saturday, June 26, 1909 Page: 2 of 8
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GOOD WORKING IDEA ,
FOR SPRAYING. POTATOES
FORM DAIRY HERD PR??K way of dehorning
First Provide Farm with Suitable
Extract from Bulletin of Wisconsin Agricultural Station
Showing How Machine Can be Operated
on Ten-Acre Patch.
Buildings.
Provide five SO gallon barrel*, two
galvanised ten quart pail* for mixing
and dipping. One hundred and fifty
pounds of blue vitriol, two hundred
[pounds of fresh lime and five cents’
[worth of potassium ferro-cyanide cry-
stal*.
The two hundred pounds of fresh
jllme will be sufficient for the season
and should be bought in small lots
at the time of spraying. The first np
ulicatlon will require forty pounds of
i>lue vitriol and fifty pounds of fresh
lime.
Suspend the blue vitriol In onehalf
dtarrel of water (twenty five gallons)
'the evening before spraying. Hang
the blue vitriol well up from the bot-
tom of the barrel and use when pos-
sible only wooden or .copper vessels
,in handling the solution. Iron and tin
twill be eaten through by the free acid
in the blue vitriol solution. It Is well
(to rinse all metal vessels containing
,blue vitriol solution with lime water
after using.
Slake fifiy pounds of fresh lime in
a barrel the eveutng before spraying.
[Then in the morning the stock solu
lion of both lime and vitriol will be
iready for mixing.
Place one fifth of the blue vitriol
stock solution, prepared as above, in
ione empty barrel and fill with water.
Place one-fifth of the lime in another
(empty barrel and fill with water. Stir
^thoroughly. Then, with two men dip-
coloration or precipitate Is produced,
the mixture needs more lime. The
potassium ferro-cyanlde can be pur
chased from any drug store.
ft Is necessary also to sec that all
grit and unslaked particles of lime are
strained from the mixture before It
Is poured Into the spray tank. This
'■jro.
Beginners Should Exercise Much Care
in the Selection of the Parent
Stock and Not Be Te'npted
to Buy in Show Y* d.
A spraying outfit fur small nreas. The
piping can tw purchased complete with
nozzles and attached to tin ordinary farm
wagon. The barrel and pump may also
be used for orchard spraying.
will prevent loss of time from the
clogging of the nozzles. Several im-
portant details should be observed in
applying the mixture to the vines. If
the vines are large, double nozzles
should be used. The pipes and noz-
zles should bo carefully adjusted bo
as to cover all the rows. It require*
about one half an hour to empty a 100-
A modern and desirable type of potato-apraylng machine In operation. Will
spray 20 to 80 acre* per day. Extra nozzles can be attached If desired. This ma-
chine la equipped with a pump, preaauro tank and aafaty valve.
ping, strain the contents of the two
barrels thorugh a gunny sack intA a
third and fourth barrel, making alto-
gether two barrels of Bordeaux mix-
ture, or enough to fill a 100-gallon
tank.
Caution.—The lime is added to the
blue vitriol water principally to pre-
vent the blue vitriol from injuring the
foliage. If the mixture Is made ac-
cording to the above directions no
damage to tbe foliage will result, but
In case of doubt use the following test:
To the barrel of Bordeaux mixture
add a few drops of potassium ferro-
cyanlde solution. If a deep brown dls-
gallon tank where ten rows are taken
at each round. Twenty acres should
be covered during a ten-hour day
when the provisions stated above are
observed.
An abundant water supply Is very
desirable where large fields are to
be sprayed. Many growers err in not
providing sufficient barrels and pails
for mixing and preparing the stock
solutions. The concentrated lime and
blue vitriol stock solutions must be
peured directly together, but diluted
as directed above. Hence the neces-
sity for providing the barrels to make
tbe mixture on a large scale.
In the case of bulls the need for
such exacting discrimination Is espe-
cially necessary, as many a herd has
been temporarily and some perma-
nently deteriorated through injudici-
ous Introductions of this kind. The
would be breeder should especially be
on his guard against the acquisition
of cows and heifers that have been
prominent prize winners, not only for
the reason that such animals usually
command higher prices, but also on
the ground that they are less reliable
breeders.
As to the selection of bulls, especial
caro Bhould be taken ns to the breed-
ing of the animals In relation to the
rows in his herd, and it is also urged
that as far as may be practicable the
sires selected should be calculated
by their own Individual merit to cor-
rect any possible defect In the con
formation of the cows.
The advantages possessed by winter
calves over those born in spring or
summer are sufficiently tangible to
warrant efforts on the part of the
breeders to have their calves arrive
before the advent of spring.
It is allowable for pedigreed cows
to suckle their calves, but in order to
encourage tbe milking propensities of
the cow it should be insisted upon
that each animal be milked dry at
least once a day until such time as
the calf Ib able to take the whole of
the dam’s milk.
This is an excellent method and if
It were strictly adhered to and no
spare milk allowed to remain in the
cow’s udder there would be fewer
complaints as to the milking qualities
of our beef-producing breeds.
From about six weeks old calves
are allowed to lick a little finely-
crushed oil cake, and by and by tur
nips are also given to the earlier
calves, and then for some time before
and after weaning crushed oil cake
jis again given, and later on u mixture
!of bran, linseed meal and ground lo
cust beans takes the place of the oil-
cake, and later still the turnips are
by degrees introduced to form the
bulky part of the ration.
Mistakes Mads by Using Instrument*
Which Cause Lasting Injury astf
Sometimes Death.
Whether or not dehorning is cruel
depends upon the methods employed
and the instruments used, it is stated
by an authority that in the dehorning
of over 10,000 cows with the saw there
were no deaths due to the operation,
while in cows dsbonMfl by shears
there was trouble afterward in heal-
ing of the wounds, due, no doubt, to
the crushing, fracturing action which
this instrument has upon old horns
where ossification of the cores Is ad-
vanced.
It Is not usual to apply any prepara-
tion after the operation of dehorning
to prevent bleeding, as the loss of
blood Is not sufficient, as a rule, t© be
TEMPERANCE
LESSON
SoMay Sell**! Uim* far Jw* 27, 1909
Specially Arranged for This Paper
-Homans 13Mem-
The Results of Improper Dehorning.
of consequence. Care should be taken,
however, to prevent substances from
getting into the openings left after th«
horns are removed. The horu cores
are elongations of the frontal bones ol
the skull, and are hollow. They com-
municate with the frontal sinuses, or
air spaces, of the head; therefore for-
eign substances or fragments of horn
which act as an irritant in these cavi-
ties are apt to Bet up an Inflammation,
resulting In the formation of pus or
an abscess, which may prove quite
serious.
Occasionally animals after being de-
horned and turned out of the stable
WATER PLANT FOR FARMS
One Built on Level with
Connected with Pipe to
Ground,
Well
Answers All Purposes.
FACTS ABOUT
APPLE PESTS
Fnnto* Diseases Show in Summer
and Need Prompt Attention.
ALFALFA AND
CEMENT BEST AIDS
The apple scab, grape scab, and
other forms of fungus disease show
themselves in midsummer and require
the most prompt and persistent work
with Bordeaux mixture. Meanwhile,
through all this hot weather we have
at work in our orchard a rather recent
pest, called the tripeta fly. This is the
worst enemy that the horticulturist
just now has to deal with, says E. P.
Powell in Outing.
This fly works all summer, and It
stings right through the skin of an
apple, at any season of its growth. The
eggs produce the most insfgniflcant
worms in size, but they tunnel the
apple until the whole contents is a
blackening pulp. You will sometimes
know nothing at ail of the mischief
going on until a customer charges you
with selling rotten apples. Some eggs
hatch in midsummer, as soon aa laid,
but others lie dormant until winter,
when they will hatch out In your cel-
lar, and go on with their ruinous work.
A practiced eye can generally tell
of tho presence of larvae by dark
lines on the skin of the apple. The
only remedy Ib to keep all dropped ap-
ples picked up and destroyed. If pos-
sible, make a sheep pasture of your
orchard.
The fly likes shade, and for that
reason raspberry or currant bushes
under your trees will encourage Its
work. Spraying will do Uttle or no
good, for we cannot reach the fly
at Its work, nor tbe egg that is thrust
through the skin.
Insure Cleanliness and Health for
Stock; Are Cheap.
“Cement and alfalfa are going to
make the western farmers the most
Independent peeple on earth.”
This is the opinion of Charles Gur-
ney of Red Cloud, Neb., who marketed
cattle worth $9,240 In Kansas City re-
cently. In explaining the use of ce-
ment on the farm Mr. Gurney said:
“The time is coming when cement
will be the universal building material
on tbe farm. A concrete floor and
wall eliminates the rodent and most
vermin, and In a few years a well
constructed building, with bln attach-
ments, will save enough grain to pay
for the cost of construction.
“In extreme cold weather Buch a
building affords an even temperature
for live stock. I never have to worry
about my young stock on a cold night.
Another advantage is the cleanliness.
I have no tuberculosis among my cat-
tle, no cholera hogs and no roup in the
chickens.
“And alfalfa is making it possible
for the western farmer to live in
luxury. I have fattened a large herd
of cattle this year, sold alfalfa worth
$300 and have 500 tons left."
’ I have read with a good deal of In
terest of Ute different syotema for
supplying country houses with water,
says a writer in Farm Magazine. I
tried the elevated tank, but did not
like it and took it down. Then I built
one from the ground. I first dug a
trench from the well and laid in it a
one-inch pipe. From that pipe I ex-
tended a pipe, up through the bottom
of the tank with a burr on each side
of the bottom.
I then dug a circular trench six
inches larger than the tank and laid a
rock foundation high enough so that
tho bottom of the tank will be higher
than the lowest outlet, so the tank
can be drained. Then I erected a tank
Head of Steer
Showing Result of
Proper Dehorning.
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will rub their heads against a dirt or
gravel bank or the rough bark of a
tree, and foreign material may thus
get into the cavities, though usually
the soreness of the parts Is sufficient
to prevent this.
If the animals are dehorned in warm
weather it is well to apply some pine
tar with a view to keeping flies from
the pounds. Some operators do this
in nearly all cases, thinking that it
facilitates healing. The dehorning
operation should always, when pos-
sible, be performed in cool w-eather,
and upon animals which have at least
attained the age of two years.
IMPROVEMENT ON WHEELCART
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Simple Arrangement Added to Car-
riage, Making It a Practical
Hive-Lifter.
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A. Walter Plant.
Lime for Beets.—Lime, when ap-
plied to sugar beet land In Michigan,
produces a slightly larger develop-
ment of leaf than on the unlimed
plants, and an increase of 1,200
pounds per acre over tbe unlimed
beets. The percentage of sugar in the
bet-u* reuuuus pracucauy m« same.
Meadow Land in New York.—New
York aione has neariy o.Ouu.OW) acres
of meadow land upon which upward
of 6.900.000 tons of hay are raised
Mice Versus Garden Seeds.—A new
terror, especially to lady clerks, has
come with the establishment of the
government seed depository at Wash-
ington from which congressmen sup-
ply constituents with samples, says
the Troy Times. The seeds are quite
as attractive to mice as to men, and
the building where the grain is stored
is overrun with the creatures. As
most of those employed in do!eg up
the packages are girls a fearsome
state of things is prevailing in that
branch of the government serrlee.
16 feet high, of Oregon fir, the bottom
being three inches thick and the sides
of Inch plank. I put on 14 hoops with
one above and one below the bottom.
Only one pipe is necessary to go
into the tank, and that Bhould be in
the center of the bottom. You want
two shut-offs, one on each side of the
tank, or one in the well and the other
on the further side of the tank. This
Is required In case the pump needs to
be mended, or if you wish to shut the
water out of the house.
I have had this in constant use for
three years and have always had
plenty of water for stock, house and
bathroom. The tank is roofed over to
shut out the dust, etc.
In the fall I put a circle of chicken
wire around the bottom of the tank
and fill in the space with straw about
three feet high, in ease of extremely
I have added ». very simple arrange-
ment to my wheel .cart that I use for
moving hives, making it a practical
hive-lifter, says H. R. Boardmaa, in
Bee Culture. A weight is placed be-
tween the handles of the cart in such
a way that it may be easily removed
to and from the axle. The object of
this weight is to counterbalance the
weight of the hive. When lifting a
hive I slide the ends of the frame-
work under the hive cleats in the
A Serviceable Hive-Lifter.
usual way and then move the weight
back far enough so that it will hold
the hive suspended. In this way the
upper stories can be removed and held
to one side while the frames in the
lower story are examined; or the low-
er story may be removed entirely, if
cold weather, and have never had any necessary, or replaced by another
trouble with freezing.
There is nothing to break or watch. I
When the windmill has pumped the
tank full and it is running over, It
makes noise enough to attract atten (
tion.
For a weight I use an ordinary hive-
body In which I put whatever heavy
material I desire. The illustration
shows the trunk-rollers on the under
side of the cleats, so that the weight
Rotation Crops.—Those of us who
have good farms and want to keep i
them that wav must practice better !
rotation of crops with more intensive
cultivation. Rotating farm crops Is
profitable in many wayr. It destroys j
innumerable injurious insects and it
keegs the weeds in check; it gives
better crops and makes the land
My tank is seven feet, three inches raay be alid back and forth wIthout
in diameter, and is 16 feet high. The 31uch exertion,
pressure in the bathroom is as strong With this arrangement I can weigh
as any one could desire. | hives as well as move them. With
my regular scales 1 weighed different
j hives and marked the position of the
weight on the framework when a good
balance was secured. In this
Cool the Milk Promptly.
LESSON TEXT,
ory verses, g, 10.
GOLDEN TEXT.—"Pul ye on the Lord
Jesus Christ.’’—Humans 13:14.
TIME.-Probably written early in the
year of A. D, S8.
PLACE.—The epistle was written at
Corinth, during Paul’s second visit there.
Suggestion and Practical Thought.
Subject: “Temperance Involved In
the Law of Love.”
Introduction.—Who wrote tho Epis-
tle to the Romans? It Is one of the
undoubted letters of Paul, “the most
‘Pauline’ of all the writings which bear
Paul’s name, fundamental among our
materials for a Pauline theology.”—
Hasting's Bible Dictionary.
The All-Inclusive Debt of Love.—Va.
8-10. How does Paul rank the duty of
loving? He places it before all other
duties. He has been urging (Rom.
18: 7) the scrupulous payment of all
debts, and repeats the command:
“Owe no man any thing.” Of course
this does not forbid borrowing, but re-
quires the payment of all debts when
they are due. There is, however, one
debt so vast that it never can be paid
In full: “to love one another.” I-ove
sums up the whole law and perfect
love would make a perfect man. It Is
obvious that If we love our neighbor,
we shall not kill him, or steal from
him, or bear false witness against
him, or covet his good things, or work
111 to our neighbor in any other way.
The Temperance Application.—It
would be hard to name an “111 to a
neighbor” that is not fostered by in-
temperance. “We suffer more year by
year from intemperance than from
war, pestilence and famine combined—
those three great scourges of the hu-
man family.”—Gladstone.
A Warning from Approaching Death.
—Vs. 11, 12. With what argument did
Paul urge the law of love? That the
end of the world was at hand, the clo'3
of the present order of things. "And
that” there is good reason for you to
do, namely, keep the law of love, be-
cause you know the critical “time” in
which you live. This is a reference to
the Parousia, or second coming of
Christ, which Paul and the other apos-
tles seem to have believed to be close
at hand.
What conclusion did Paul draw from
the nearness of Christ’s coming? That
It was “high time to awake out of
sleep: for their salvation was nearer
than when they believe” (aorist tense,
came to believe, became Christians.)
“The words are as an alarm, or
morning watchbell, awakening a
Christian to his day’B work.”—Arch-
bishop Leighton.
What are the temperance applica-
tions of this thought? Intemperance
dulls the physical sense, blears
eyes, renders the touch less sesraftiv^
the hearing less acute, the lyfain less
active. It dulls the moral nature.
Drinking men soon lose the nice sense
of right and wrong. Conscience be-
comes sluggish. The will becomes
flabby. “Wake up! Wake up!” let
every Christian cry to the Intemper-
ate.
A Pure Life and How to Live It.—
Vs. 13, 14. How does Paul sum up
these rules of life? “Let us walk
(that is, live) honestly as in the day,
when men can see us. The reference
is to the exteriors of life, but Paul
was the last man to forget that “out of
the heart are the Issues of life.” He
is still speaking In parable, and to tbe
end of the chapter he uses outer rai-
ment as a symbol of inner character.
In order to live becomingly whag
must we avoid? "Rioting (R. V. “rev-
elling”) and drunkenness, chambering
(unlawful intercourse) and wanton-
ness, strife and envying (R. V. "jeal-
ousy”),
That Is negative; positively, in or-
der to live becomingly, what must we
do? “Put on (as a garment, continu-
ing the metaphor) the Lord Jesus
ChriBt, and make not provision for the
flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.” “Flesh
in the moral sense: tbe depraved na-
ture."—Prof. M. R. Vincent. We are
to plan for physical needs, but not for
sensual gratifications.
What are the modern temperance
applications of this rule of life? There
would be no saloons If men “put on
the Lord Jesus Christ.” Who can
can imagine him as entering those
dens of iniquity, unless to rescue his
brothers from the snare? Every
saloon is a “provision for the flesh.”
inciting to all abominable passions—
quarreling, profanity, brutality, mur-
ders, Indecent speech, plots, licentious-
ness.
Gov. Hanly of Indiana, writing in
The Christian Endeavor World of De-
cember 26, 1907, says: “That alcohol-
ism shortens life, and that abstainers
have a distinctly greater longevity
than non-abstainers is convincingly
demonstrated by actuarial experience.
The testimony of certain English life
insurance companies, based upon
many years of experience, establishes
khe fact that the longevity of abstain-
%rs Is at least 25 per cent, greater
than that of non-abstainers..
When Yo.lre Stung.
The escaper a fake article Is sold
the cheaper the pure-baser feels when
lie realize* that he has been sold.—
PhUwdeli&ia Record.
Pointer for Kissers.
Never kiss a girl while the scent of
cigarettes is on your llpe, for the next
fellow wiio <x rues along may think she
has been doing the smoking.—Florida
Times-Union.
Money Conies in Handy.
You can’t run a state and provide It
with all the benevolence demanded
by the spirit of the age and do It on
homilies and wind.—Newark Evening
News.
Rough on Father.
When n>. ther has to look after 500
buttons on each of her gowns, where
doe* father get off In the matter of
attention for those six on his trous-
ers?
Uncle Ezra Says:
“It Is all right to air your opinions,
but your neighbor has a perfect right
to look after the ventilation.”—Bos-
ton Herald.
Can’t Catch Him.
WSten the wolf howls at the door,
there is not a philosopher among us
who can catch him and sell him to a
circus.
Poker Term.
“Dad says you couldn't support a
cat” “Dad’s wrong. I spend whole
nights feeding the kitty/'—Houston
Post.
Happy are Physicians.
Their successes shine in the sun*
Jigjht end the earth covers their fail-
ures.—Montaigne.
One Cause of Laughter.
“Man Is the only animal that laughs,”
observes the PhHoaopher of Folly, “and
he only does it, as a rule, to #void of-
fending the fellow who told the story.”
In Her Favor.
There's one thing to be said In a
woman's favor. She seldom starts
out with the avowed intention of hav-
ing “a high old time."
And Lasts as Long.
The “greater than Washington”
statesman is admiringly discovered
almost as frequently as the “greater
than Shakespeare” playwright.
A Masculine Mystery.
One thing .a woman can’t under-
stand Is why a man won’t wait for a
bargain sale when the wants anything.
—Chicago ewa.
. _JEqu*"y ^Reprehensible,
Ttichter: To recall benefits we have
bestowed shows want of tact; to for-
get those bestowed on us, shows want
of heart.
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Wait Until “Out of the Wood.
When thou hast not crossed the
river, take care not to insult the croc-
adile.—Hawiaiian Proverb.
Anu Important Point.
Most of the enemies we make whol-
ly overlook the fact that they assisted
in the making.
False Teeth Long in Use.
False teeth of ivory, on a plate of
the sanie material, and held in place
by gokl wire, were in comparatively
common use as early a» 1000 B. C.
Dally Thought.
The only reason wo don’t regard
tfiings everywhere is because wo
haven’t good eyes.—Julian Hawthorne.
When a man is down and out, that
is the time he o-ught to be up and do-
ing.
every year in the United States ap-1 richer in more than one way. De not
proximate!/ 60,000,900 tons of timothy j plaat spuds tod beets all ta« time
hay are grown on about 40.000.000! and run the land down, but cAaag*
ncres of meadow land. j often.
The prompt and thorough cooling of
milk is generally recognised to be of
prime imjorfanee in preventing the
development of bacteria, which under
ordinary conditions are always pres
ent in milk as soon as drawn, and to
which t»» souring or curdling of milk
Is due.
was secured, lo this way I
can get the weights of different hives
accurately enough for general pur-
poses.
Do not set milk pans in the pantry
or cellar way where all kinds of food
are kept. Milk absorbs the odor of
oaiaas and other things very readily.
“Six per cent, of all accidents, 25
per cent of all suicides, 70 per cent,
of all crimes involving physical vio-
lence, and 50 per cent, of all those In
which lust is the dominant factor can
be traced to the excessive use of in-
toxicants. The lord chief Justice of
Controlling the Mind.
Absent-mindedness may became a
bad habit. Do not let the attention
wander. Learn to observe things
about you and hold your mind steadi-
ly on work In hand.
OKLAHOMA DIRECTORY
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