The Paden News. (Paden, Okla.), Vol. 1, No. 14, Ed. 1 Friday, January 1, 1909 Page: 4 of 9
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Push (ho fattening prgs to market
condition.
Feed green bone If you would get
J est results from your flock.
Best results in fattening hogs are
obtained where the basis of the ration
is corn.
Is your hog pen filthy because of im-
proper drainage. Remedy the defect
at onco.
Ease the burdens of the wife by
cleaning your boots thoroughly before
entering the house.
WL"
VALUE OF PLANT FOOD.
JUST A TEST.
Open up the hen house on bright
days.
Intensive methods are needed in the
dairy as well as in other lines of farm-
ing.
Clean, dry bed for the, horses should
toe the rule. A horse that has been
compelled to lie on bare boards 01
upon wet manure is in no condition
for work the next day.
Do your hauling from the fields or
to the fields in the morning before the
sun has had a chance to soften up the
ground and cause the wagon wheels to
pick up lots of sticky mud
Don't put off until the last minute
the looking over the incubators and
torooders. Be sure they are in good
shape. If they need new parts or old
ones need repairing, attend to it now.
Keep picked up around the home-
stead, and around the stock buildings,
too. Nothing is so sure an index of
the character of the farmer as the
condition of the grounds about his
place.
Are you carelessly letting the liquid
manure go to waste? It Is the most
valuable part of the manure. Save it
either by tight gutters running to a
cistern, or use plenty of absorbents to
soak it up.
Foot-rot in cattle should be treated
with water three parts and sulphuric
acid one part after the affected part
has been thoroughly cleansed, or it
should be smeared with pine tar and
a bandage tied between the claws and
about the pastern to keep out the dust.
Have a manure shed where you can
keep the manure spreader standing.
Have it handy to the barn so that the
manure can be dumped into the spread-
er when the barn is cleaned each
morning. Then when the wagon is
lull haul to the field and put on the
land at once.
Money made by farming is the clean-
est, best money in the world. It is
made in accordance with God's first
law under honest influences, away
from the taint of trade, or the fierce
heat of speculation. It fills the pockets
of the farmer at the expense of no
other. His gain is no man's loss; but
the more he makes the better for the
world at large.
Part of the winter leisure ought to
be used for the (epairing and painting
of the farm machinery.
If you cannot get a stand of alfalfa
grow red clover or blue grass as pas-
turage for your hogs.
Remember, the best seed is none
too good. It is a lasing game to labor
over seed of low germinating power.
Begin a course of reading for the
winter months which will better
equip you for the farm work next
season.
You need grit and so do the hens.
The right kind of grit in you will
make it certain that the right kind of
grit gets into the hens.
While sheep are growing wool and
making mutton for you they are clean-
ing the fields of weeds and spreading
valuable manure over the land.
Study your flock so as to know
which are your best birds. Then use
the selected stock for breeding pur
poses next spring and thus build up
your flock in quality.
FARM QUESTIONS.
A Suggestion for Study of Arthmetlc
for Farmer's Children.
We wonder, how many of the pupils
in our public schools when given a
question in'mental arithmetic merely
memorize it; and whether they coul
■ "*uT J
The sheep that are left to fill up on
the frost-bitten, snow-covered pasture
will not thrive, you may be sure. Give
hay and grain ration if you want to
make your flock profit earners.
In feeding growing stock remember
that there is need of a constantly in-
creasing ration. They need food to
build the larger frame and they need
food to supply the daily bodily needs.
The right treatment will remove
ring bone on young horses. If the ani
mal walks on the toe use a high-heeled
shoe. When inflammation is active
adopt soothing measures, and then se-
vere blistering or even firing may be
resorted to.
The form of the skull of the hog de-
pends on nutrition, health and the em-
ployment of the muscles of the head
and neck in rooting. Where hogs are
well nourished, their skulls are round-
er and firmer than in the case of hogs
poorly nourished. Rooting helps to de-
velop a longer skull and snout.
It is claimed by a French naturalist
that if the world should become bird-
less, man could not inhabit it after
nine years' time, in spite of all the
sprays and poisons that could be man-
ufactured for the destruction of in-
sects. The insects and slugs would
simply eat all the orchards and crops
in that time.
Plan for a little early lettuce next
season. Seed can be sown in hotbed
or greenhouse in February or March
and transplanted to open ground out-
doors as soon as a piece of land can
be put in thorough working order.
Some time may be gained by growing
the plants in hotbed or cold frame
covered by glass sash and protected
by mats or shutters when necessary.
Make the farm and the home some-
thing besides just a place for work if
you would tie the boys and the girls
to it. The farmer who thinks only
of the work he is going to get out of
his children and who thinks more of
the farm and the stock than he does
of his boys and girls need not be sur-
prised that they are anxious to break
away from the farm when they are
old enough to choose for themselves
"The time is at hand when the farm
er will wake up from his Rip Van
Winkle sleep and look after his busi
ness interests the same as other busi
ness men do," writes one of our farm
ers. Yes, some of them are already
awake and are pushing methods and
measures by which farmers are get-
ting closer together and forming plans
whereby they may have something to
say as to the prices they will get for
their produce.
Not much fun pulling the frozen
cornstalks from the outdoor shock.
Remember last winter when you were
doing the same thing you promised
yourself that you would either build a
silo and put it up or you would shred
it and stofe it in the bArn loft, but you
didn't, and now you are having an un-
comfortable and disagreeable task of
getting the fodder to the stock and
they are not finding it very good eat-
ing Let. it be a lesson to you, and
be sure and plan to have things dif-
ferent another winter.
Dried refuse from tomato canneries
analyzed by the bntario experiment
station shows a content of 2.54 per
cent, nitrogen, 3.28 per cent, phos-
phoric acid and 0.64 per cent, potash.
Assuming 75 per cent, of moisture for
the material as it leaves the factory,
the amounts would be: Nitrogen,
0.64 per cent., phosphoric acid 0.82 per
cent, and potash 0.16 per cent., a com-
position comparing favorably with that
of barnyard manure.
Dairy farmers will watch with inter-
est the Joint investigations of the Wis-
consin and Illinois experiment sta-
tions on tuberculosis cows. The work
of either station will serve as a check
on that of the other, inasmuch as the
experiments at Madison will be similar
to those at Urbar.a. The bacteriolo-
gists of the two stations will be in
charge of the work. Inasmuch as Illi-
nois and Wisconsin are the two great-
est dairy stations in the country, the
co-operation of these two stations will
be of great significance in the new
movement to eradicate tuberculosis
from the herds of the country.
Here is a move in the right direc-
tion. It is nothing else than a pro-
posal on the part of the Kansas ex-
periment station to begin a study of
boys and girls. As Prof. McKeever
puts it; "If a farmer has a horse that
balks In the harness or a cow that
acts queerly and runs off the reserva
tion he can write to the nearest gov-
ernment experiment station and
secure a printed bulletin or
a letter on the subject from
a high-salaried expert, but if the
refractory creature chances to be his
16-year-old son or his fledgling daugh-
ter he has no recourse other than to
fight the case out alone, assisted per-
haps only by a despairing wife." Ten
or more bulletins will be issued deal-
ing with the best way to handle this
"best crop cn the farm."
solve it if apples were substituted for
potatoes. Ex-Gov. Hoard told us a
funny story last year about one ..of his
own grandchildren who had failed on
a simple question in mental arith-
metic, says Editor Wallace, in Wal-
laces' Farmer. Upon his expressing
great surprise the youngster replied.
"If you had given me that in potatoes
instead of in apples I could have
done it!"
We wonder how many teachers in
rural schools frame questions of their
own on farm lines, so as to compel
the pupil to work them out by the
rules that should be applied to those
in the book. We have a very vivid
recollection of being caught up that
way ourselves one time to our veiy
great humiliation, and the only excuse
we had to offer vas: "That question
was not in the book." The answer
that made our ears burn was: "What
is the use of studying sums in the
book if they don't teach you to do
sums outside of the book?"
As an example of the questions
which any teacher may frame, and the
solution of which would compel pupils
to think along farm lines, we quote the
following from an instruction bulletin
given out by the Pennsylvania Agri
cultural college:
"1. If six pecks of wheat are sown
on one acre, how much seed wheat
<wlll be required for a field 40 rods
long and 25 rods wide?
"2. If 16 four-inch tile are required
for a rod, how many tile will be need-
ed for a ditch a mile and a quarter
long?
"3. The wagon and wheat weigh
5,530 pounds. The wagon alone
weighs 1,300 pounds. What is the
wheat worth at 88 cents per bushel?
"4. A row of corn shocks takes up
a space twice the width of the space
between two rows of corn. The length
of the space is 40 rods. How much
ground is occupied by the shock row ?
"5. There are 210 rows of corn on
the long side of a field and 120 on
the- short side. What will the cutting
cost at five cents for each shock ten
hills square?
"6. At $28 per ton for commercial
fertilizer, what will it cost to fertilize
a field 40 by 60 rods if 250 pounds
are used on each acre?
"7. One-half ton of lime per acre
was sowed on a field 35 rods long and
24 rods wide. How many tons of lime
were used?
"8. It costs 1% cents per bushel for
threshing oats and 2V& cents for
wheat. What will the threshing of
1,850 bushels of oats and 280 bushels
of wheat cost?
"9. A field is a half mile long and
a quarter of a mile wide; if 2% acres
are plowed each day, how many days
will be required to plow it?
"10. A man hauls at one trip 1,980
pounds of milk to a cremery. What
does he receive at 15 cents per hun-
dred?"
Questions in connection with farm
business come up day by day. What
more profitable amusement could
there be in the evening than for the
father to have the boys and girls fig-
ure them out for him? His experi-
ence will be different from ours if the
farmer does not say: "Tut, tut! Is
that all you can do in the way of fig-
ures? What's the use in sending you
to school if you cannot do better
than that?"
Action of the Different Elements on
the Growth of Plants.
The farmer sometimes finds it
rather hard to keep in mind the exact
functions of the various plant food ele-
ments, with respect to the growth of
thd plant. Until he has gotten the
thing pretty well studied out the unfa-
miliar names tend to mix him up more
or less. While we have given space
to the explanation of the matter be-
fore, the following remarks by Prof. A.
D. Hall of Rothamsted, England, on
the subject will be both of value and
interest to our readers:
The results of nitrogen are seen at
once in the greener and more abun-
dant leaf; it makes the whole plant
go ahead, and the farmer is apt to
think more of nitrogen than of phos-
phorus and potash because he may
have to wait till harvest and actually
weigh the product to see their results.
Nitrogen increases the vegative parts
of the plant and an excess of it tends
to make the plant, go on growing too
long and defers the production of
flower and seed; it puts off the ripen-
ing. Excessive nitrogen has doubled
the amount of wheat straw, but re-
duced the per cent, of wheat grain
from 62 down to 48 per cent. The
more nitrogen in the soil the more wa-
ter and less sugar in the beet.
An excess of nitrogen makes the
plant more susceptible to disease, es-
pecially fungus disease. Mangolds, at
Rothamsted, are swept every year
with fungus diseases, while three feet
away are perfectly sound, healthful
beets. The infection is alike in both
places, but it "takes" only on the
plots having an excess of nitrogen.
The diseased plants are seen torn,
shriveled and rotten. Wheat fields
get rusty and weeds are mildewed on
high nitrogen land.
Phosphoric acid applied to the soil
hurries on the production of flowers
and seed, the ripening of the grain.
Right now it is making a difference of
ten days in the appearance of the bar-
ley grain. Phosphorus is of enormous
value in pushing the crop on to ripe-
ness. It is also an extraordinary stim-
ulant to the formation of roots and of
side shoots. This is a certain fact.
It is the special action of potash to
aid the plant in making Carbohydrates,
sugar and starch. This process can-
not go forward unless potash is
present; to increase this process in-
crease the potash. Beet yields at
Rothamsted have been more than
doubled by the addition of potash.
Each of the three fertilizers has a
specific effect and should be applied
according to the specific needs of the
crop.
"Goodness, sonny, what's
trouble?"
"Nawthin". I just wanted to see if
I had forgotten how to cry—boo-hoo!"
INTOLERABLE ITCHING.
Fearful Eczema All Over Baby's Fac«
—Professional Treatment Failed.
A WHEELBARROW RUNNER.
Makes the Use of Barrow in Snow an
Easy Task.
Secure a board as thick as the
wheelbarrow—about six inches wide
and three feet long. Round each end
of the board in the shape of a sled
Runs Over Snow Easily.
runner. Cut an arc of a circle In the
top and middle of the board with a
radius the same as that of the wheel-
barrow wheel, leaving one inch of
the material between the periphery
and the bottom edge of the board.
Place the wheel in the part cut out
and nail a cleat on each side as shown
in the sketch taken from Popular
Mechanics. Cover the under edge
and rounded ends of the board with a
piece of old tire iron.
Fatten the undesirable sheep and
turn them into money. This applies
to other stock also.
The Brutal Farmer.
Even in this enlightened agricul-
tural age there are farmers who still
engage in the elevating habit of
kicking horses in the stomach and
throwing pails at cows, whenever
those animals neglect to act as their
owners would have them act. Per-
haps those farmers who allow their
meannesses to master them period-
ically would reform if they understood
that every time they offend they are
working against having a balance in
the bank. Rushing cows into the
barn with the aid of a dog is just as
bad as throwing stones and sticks.
Looking at the matter from the stand-
point of money-making, it pays to be
kind to productive farm animals, and
it might be said that it does not pay
to be unkind to those,, that are un-
productive. That covers the ground.
New York's Costly Plant.
Central park In New York city is
assessed at the valuation of $215,000,-
000, not for the purpose of taxation,
but so as to show the amount of real
estate va'ue that is exempt trom
UxeSv
FOR THE FARMER.
Rotation of crops makes it difficult
for insect pests to flourish. *
The man who cannot control his
temper should keep out of the cow
barn. He will do more harm there
than good.
Horace Greeley once defined a
farmer as a fellow who makes his
money on the farm and spends it In
town, while an agriculturist is a man
who makes his money in town and
spends it on the farm.
Milk is over four-fifths water. How
can we expect a cow to maintain a
heavy flow of milk unless she has all
the water she wants to drink? And it
should have the chill taken off in the
winter so the cow will not need to
warm it up with food she should util-
ize for milk production.
When She Will Be Man's Equal.
Woman can can never hope to be
man s equal until, instead of exulting
when she hears of the fall of oi o of
her sisters, she honestly says to her-
self: "Poo. thing! It's too bad
she got found out."
A Perfect Cure by Cutlcura.
"When my little girl was six month#
old I noticed small red spots on her
right cheek. They grew so large that
I sent for the doctor but, instead ot
helping the eruption, his ointment
seemed to make it worse. Then X
went to a second doctor who said it
was eczema. He aiso gave me an oint-
ment which did not help either. The
disease spread all over the face aud
the eyes began to swell. The itching
grew intolerable and it was a terrible
sight to see. I consulted doctors for
months, but they were unable to cure
the baby. I paid out from $20 to $30
without relief. One evening I began
to use the Cutlcura Remedies. The
next morning the baby's face was all
white instead of red. I continued until
the eczema entirely disappeared. Mrs.
P. E. Gumbin, Sheldon, la., July 13,'08."
Potter Drug & Otacm. Corp., Hole Props., Boston.
The Land of England.
Twelve thousand seven hundred and
ninety-one persons own four-fifths of
the soil of England, their aggregate
property, exclusive of that within the
metropolitan boundaries, being 40,180,-
775 acres. In point of fact, the num-
ber of owners of four-fifths of the Eng-
lish land is nearer 5,000 than 12,000.
Of these 500 are noblemen, and four
or five of these swallow up the rest.
—New York American.
Beware of Ointments for Catarrh
that Contain Mercury,
„„ mercury will surely destroy the sense ot smell
Stewar-wa-
doTientold to the good you can possibly do
from them Hall's Catarrh Cure, manutactured
me from them. I O., contains no mer
°SdVl>™ST Price. '
Take Hall's Family Pills tor constipation.
Too Much for Mamma.
"What's the matter with your eye,
Tommie?" ,
"The boy next door struck me,
mamma.
"What for, pray?"
"He said I struck him first.
"And did you?"
"No; honest, I didn't, mamma.
"Well, why didn't you?"
Not "Just as Good"—It's the Best
One box of Hunt's Cure is unfailing-
ly, unqualifiedly, and absolutely guar-
anteed to cure any form of Skin Dis-
ease It is particularly active in
promptly relieving and permanently
curing all forms of itch known.
Eczema, Tetter, Ringworm, and all
similar troubles are relieved by one
application; cured by one box.
Reflected Glory.
"Say, what do you think!" cried De
Ripper.
"Give us the answer," said young
Van Dippy.
"I've just found out," cried DeRip-
per, "that I wear the same sized shoe
as the chap who kicked out a victory
tor Harvard, don't you know!"
Important to Mothers.
Examine carefully every bottle or
CASTORIA a safe and sure remedy for
infants and children, and see that it
Bears the
Signature of(
In Use For Over 30 Years.
Tlie Kind You Have Always Bought.
We would willingly have others
perfect, aud yet we amend not our
own faults.—Thomas a Kempis.
1'II.ES CUBED IN 8 TO 14 DAYS.
PAZO OINTMENT Is guaranteed to cure anj' c a j
of Itching. Blind. Blooding or Protruding 1 lies In
0 to 14 days or money refunded. 60c.
The way to gain a good reputation
is to endeavor to be what you desire
to appear.—Socrates.
DON'T SPOII. TOUR CI.OTHES.
Use Red Cross Ball Blue and keep them
white as snow. All grocers, 5c a package.
And It sometimes happens that •
man is married to his boss.
Lewis' Single Binder straight 5c. You
n.-.y 10c for cigars not so good. Your deal-
er or Lewis' Factory, Peoria, 111.
For what the mind wishes, that It
also believes.—Heliodorus.
Cure, ti rod, a'SS'iE'Ul packM.
true. A. B.Olmsted,LeBoy.•
A singer doesn't weigh his words on
the musical scale.
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