The Cushing Citizen (Cushing, Okla.), Vol. 7, No. 43, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 27, 1913 Page: 6 of 8
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plants in*ar I be north iM« of any wall
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A »»ry satisfactory plan for (hi-
walk It to covrr It wllh a lattlcwd
pt rgula and train grapes o»»r It Ilela-
ware grapfi on the ahadler aid* and
f'uncorda on the nanny Crapes make
a Una arwn for any atnall butldinga.
anil boxes. ate.. In the yard
A atrawberry bed 10 feet by 20 feet,
dona lo the pear*. and three rowa of
So planta earh of blackberrlea, ra»p
berries and currant* will All up the
ha If of the garden next to one lonit
•Ide and the balance ran ba devoted
to vegetables and flower*.
\V# prefer dwarf fruit trees to tbe
full sized ones because tbey come Into
bearing very early, require much less
care, and produce lined fruit In very
good quantity. Dwarf pears are very
satisfactory. Prune and fertilize and
bill II sill grow wwll la aay nr»,
| wart* moist soil You ran** «»• lb*
»«>il too rtrb ftor rhubarb and It *>•*
n<>t stand drouth »»ry wall
(to not try to grow the plants from
•eod If yon can aerar* root ratlings
from a good, strong old hill. Karh
<*uitlng should hav* tao buda or ayea.
I'lant tbrrn In rows three M apart.
With the eyes an Inch below the sur-
face They will begin to grow at onca
and. If planted early, a few stalks
can be pulled the first year.
As fast as seed stalks appear cut
them off If very One. large stalks
are wanted, and why not hava tha
beat, thin out all but the center buds,
so that the entire strength of lh«
plant will fe«>d theae.
After the leavea are cut back by
frost In the fall cover the plants with
four Inch* s of straw or manure. Thla
hrevents freezing and makes the next
year's crop earlier.
While the plants will start early,
at the same time the leaves will not
push through this covering until after |
danger of spring frosts is past, hence
It should not be removed too soon.
Jinny commercial growers keep the
soil covered with straw the year ,
round In order to keep weeds down
and hold moisture without cultivation.
No man a bo la without «iprrt*»N
aa a f ra»r roald poaslMtjr IMtl M
•uceeaa of farming a* • Mu*la**a from
lb* beginning, bat If a man la a atv
dm and Is Milling to undergo aoaie
prltatlon at th« beginning ihrra Is a
chance for him to succeed If he baa
the nareasary capital
Much will deprnd upon the amount
of risk the farmer Is willing to tak<
bat il
Other
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|ulp and stock It and two
living eaprnsra Mi
properly
or thr*H
addition
The largest item of capital la. of
course, the land Itaelf A few »cars
ago land could be obtained by home-
stead at very little expense It must
Generally apeakIng. where land prtcoa now be purchased There are a few
ara normal, a full equlpmeut Juat
about equals tha full value of the
land One ran usually get bold of a
piece of land by paying about one-
fourth of the purrhaae price In cash
and ftlvlng his notea for the balance
on the land for security. Hence,
a peaking lu a general way. the amount
of capital required aa a minimum for
a fully equipped farm would be about
one and a fourth tlmea the coat price
of the land Thla would Involve going
In debt an amouut equal to about
three fourth* the coat of the land In
theae flgurea 1 am assuming that land
for trucking and fruit growing will
cost 1100 an acre, land for dairy ing |
$50, and for hay growing |20 per acre.
The differences In the price af land
here ussumed for the different types
of rarmlng will be considered lu the
article dealing with the beat location i
for the beginner.
In the Irrigated regiona of the west.
localities In the t'nltad States, mostly
In the south, wbera farm land can
be purchased for tlO to 120 per acre
Csually. however this land Is held In
large tracts, whlcb when cut up Into
small tracts sells readily at 140 to
ISO per acr«. Prices range all the
way from (hove above mentioned to
•3.000 an arre fur some of the beat
fruit farma well aet to bearing treea
In some of the lrt (gated regiona of the
weat. Generally apeaklng. the small
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The Silo as a Forage Bank.
I There Is produced *vei; >«nu •» thla
! country sufficient forage to feed liber.
I ally all the llv« stock of the land, and
| leave a good balance besides The
shortage of supplies each year la due
farm should be near a city, and for | ,h« •>ol',n* "»t,nK ot
already grown, and the means of pre
that reason w ill usually consist of*htgb
priced land.
In farming more than any other
buslneaa the amount of capital re-
quired at the atart depends upon tha
degree to whlcb the individual is cap-
able of leading the strenuous life.
The city family who moves to the
country with small capital usually be-
comes very much discouraged before
succeaa rewards their efforts, because
serving this forage will solve the
stock problem of the country The (
principal waste is now going on with
the corn plant. It la most noticeable
In the corn belt states where perhaps '
80 per cent, of the stalk and leaves o(,'
this moat valuable «forage is wasted i
annually. As economic stock produc- •
tion is determined by the proper use 1
of forage, the silo furnishes a means j
. g Ill lilt: II I l^nvru I ' ftivuw */• v, Buvvcon •« " "a •• viava vvvwmhv i
apray properly and your dwarf fruit Cover „u> plant8 ln the wlnt(>r an>.- generalIy H,)Paklng. more capital U re- to succeed under such conditions re- I whereby all farm forage can be pre
trees will bear heavily every year
lly planting them against the sunny
aide of a wall and training like vines,
the fruit matures earlier, the trees
decorate the wall and they take up
much less room than if planted in the
open. The amount of edible fruit pro-
duced will be nearly as great Try
some dwarf fruit trees yourself this
year.
Chicken Farming.
There is no agricultural subject of
greater interest to all classes of peo-
ple than poultry keeping iu some form
or other.
Overy eighty out of a hundred fann-
ers, large and Bmall, the country over,
keep hons. About forty per cent, of
the householders in small towns and
villages keep backyard flocks, and the
number of flocks ln the great cities Is
positively astounding
Almost every man you know has
at some time been possessed with the
idea that the easiest way on earth to
make a living is with chickens, ff
you doubt it, ask ttie next mau you
meet what he thinks about the chick
en business.
Go to a few poultry shows next win-
ter, after having industriously read
the monthly Issues of a couple of good
poultry journals this summer, and by
the time the Incubator salesman gets
iu his work it will take a straight-
jacket to keep you from starting to
keep chickens. And really, It is a
very fascinating occupation.
No one need be ashamed of being a
isnicken "crank" in these days, because
Mie poultry Industry of the country is
assuming such vast proportions that
it bids fair to overtop any other sin-
gle agricultural product in value at
the time of the next census. Further
than this, no other product can equal
it for ndt profits to the producer, be-
cause the investment in stock and
equipment is exceedingly small com-
pared to the returns. The labor, land
and building investment represented
by one dairy cow would take care of
enough hens to bring in three times
the profit.
Now then, can a man of ordinary In-
telligence, no experience and a small
capital, hope to get rich by raising
chickens? There is but one answer
and that ia. that be may hope to. but
he will not make goo<l
The writer ia personally acquainted
with prominent poultry men in nearly
every state in the Union, and while
many of them are well to do. not one
.« rich, even from the farmer's atand-
yotnl
Tbe poultry business offera the hard
ray.
will avoid disappointment qUjrPt| for beginning than elsewhero | quires ' hard living.
I served and placed In the best possible
and Increase the plant food. on ncc0unt of the high coat of the in the matfer of the dwelling house , condition for feeding. The silo is too
or four years it Is ad- • j,ut where there Is plenty of ' one may be content to camp for a wt'" known to require a description of
Kvery thr«
visa hie to dig up the plants, divide
them and replant in another Bpot. If
this Is not done, the plants run out
and the stalks grow small and pithy.
Division and a new location start
them off again as good as new.
Any surplus can always be sold ln
the spring ut a good price as we seem
to have a natural craving for the fresh
green acid qualities of this old-time
"pie fruit." Eat lotB of It. Eat it raw
nnd cooked, in pies and out of pies,
put up all you cannot eat and save it
for winter, but grow It yourself if you
have a two by four patch of ground
where the sun shines. It costs noth-
ing to raise and It tastes lots better
when it comes out of your own patch.
And, furthermore, it Is a much better
spring tonic than sulphur and mo-
lasses, or sassafras.
land, but where there Is plenty
! Irrigation water available the yields
| to be obtained can generally be made
to compensate for the higher land
values.
The farmer whose family Is able to
do all the labor on the farm can begin
with less capital than the individual
who must hire a large part of his
labor. Again, something depends up-
on the character of the land itself. If
the soil Is new and rich there will
be little or no expense for fertilization
at the beginning, and an Important
item of expense is thus saved; but if
the land has been farmed for mauy
years and is in a condition that re-
quires immediate fertilization in order
to secure profitable yields, consider-
able investment must be made ln fer-
tilizers or manure before crops can
be obtained. Some men have started in-
to farming with practically no capital,
may
year or two In
over 1150. A fairly good house for
a small family on the farm can be
built at a cost of from $f)00 to 11,000, de-
pending on the size of the family and
the cost of materials. This assumes,
however, that the farmer himself doea
the hauling and a good part of the
carpenter work. Where the farmer
can do all the work himself the mater-
ials for a very good house need not
cost over $500.
It Is easily seen that with the pries
of land varying as it does it is not
possible to state a definite sum aa
the safe limit of capital with which
a family may begin upon the farm, but
in the next article some details will
be given which ought to enable the
individual to determine the amount
of capital with which he can safely
begin the business.
shack costing not thit» method, but its use is certainly
eadly wanting. It can be safely said,
or. any farm where 10 head or more
of cattle are kept, a silo is a proper
equipment, and of great economic
value.
Cold Storage for Fruit.
Three systems of cold storages are
commonly used for fruit—the ammo- PRQPAQATION OF
ilia system, carbonic acid gas and cal- u
clum chloride—says the New England
Homestead. All are chemical stor-
ages; but in a region where natural
ice can be obtained cheaply, the cal-
cium chloride gravity system seems to
be much cheaper than the two first,
and equally good. The ammonia sys-
tem has to be pumped at a pressure of
200 pounds to 400 pounds to the square
inch. Both these require expenses
duplicate machinery and high-priced
engineers night and day, while the cal-
cium chloride uses cheap machinery
and ordinar^r help. G. H. Powell, for-
merly with the I nited States depart-
ment at Washington, says the calcium
chloride gravity system is the best for
northern localities.
Teaching Agriculture.
I believe it would be to the Interest
of all agricultural people In every sin-
gle town to have an agricultural de-
partment attached to the high school.
I would have the teachers so prepared
to teach agriculture that they could
also teach it in the common schools
to a certain elementary degree, says a
writer In an exchange. 1 have found
that of the farmers' boys and girls
brought up on the farm very many
cannot tell even the name of the most
common weeda tbat grow in their
father's fields It ?<N»n;s to me that
the time has arrived, enp^clally In ag-
ricultural education, when we should
take this matter up and begin
SKIMMILK IS GOOD
CURRANT BUSHES FOR THE CHICKENS
Frequent Shallow Cultivation Makes One of Best Foods for the
Should Be Given in Early Little Chicks and for the
Like an Old Fool.
Slllicus—What is the age of discre-
tion?
Cynicus—There isn't any. I know
a man over seventy who married his
fourth wife the other day.
Circumstantial Evidence.
"Did you find our poor friend's spir-
its were broken?"
"Yes. in a way. He was ordering
nothing but brandy smashes."
The greatest loss to any man is his
aelf-respect.
THE KNOW HOW
To Feed Children and Get Good Re-
aulta.
Part of Season.
Laying Hens.
delicate flesh. The milk may be fed
either sweet or sour and may be given
as a drink or mixed with wheat bran
and oatmeal, or both.
Sour Bkim milk, or buttermilk, fed
to hens confined in yard or small
Currants should be propagated by j Skim milk is one of the very best
division of the plant. Where only a feeds for both young chickens and lay-
few bushes are wanted they may be : ing hens. The casein, or curdy part of
obtained by separating rooted canes j the milk, largely supplies the protein
from the mother-plant, but in nurs-1 necessary for laying hens, while for
ery-culture plants are propagated by fattening fowls there is nothing su-
cuttlngs in the fall. They are made perior to milk for making white, Juicy,
about 8 inches long and may be set
out In rows at once, or tied up in bun-
dles and stored in a pit over winter.
Make the pit in well-drained soil, with
the butt ends up. and covered about 6
Inches deep with earth. Set out in
the snAng as early as the ground can j range, keeps them In health. The acid
be worked The' rows should be 6 j of the milk supplies the lack of veg»-
feet apart and the plants 4 feet dls- ! table acid they would pick up if on
tant in the rows Frequent shallow j grass pasture—the buttermilk aids dl-
culture should be given during the j gestlon
early part of the season. Your state , Poultrymen near the wholesale city
experiment station at Amherst. Mass.. I milk men and creameries can often
will no doubt, be pleased to send j buy the sour milk for ten cents per
you a bulletin showing their reports gallon. At this price it is a cheap
•>n growing currants and gooseberries food.
in your aectlon of the country, if you j
write and aak for it. j «-<>•• by Bugs.
| Aa nearly as can be figured out the
Buying More Land. chinch bug causes a lows to the farm
Farmers should not buy more tend era of the United States $60.000 000
take this matter up and begin, as w* which they already bavo to a year, and the Hessian fly shout hall
have already done in a limited way. to ,^uclng to t,9 maximum csracltj. , as much.
establiah these schools
There are more nervpua persona
made so by undigested .food lying in
the stomach than the average Indi-
vidual would suppose.
If food remains undigested in the
' stomach, it begins to ferment, set up
gas and ai large portion is thus con-
verted into poison.
That's why imperfectly digested food
may, and often does, cause irritation
of the nerves and stupor of the mind—
brain and nerves are really poisoned.
"My daughter had complained for
some time of a distressed feeling in
the stomach, after eating, which set
me thinking that her diet was not
right," writes an anxious and intelli-
gent mother.
"She had been fond of cereals, but
had never tried Grape-Nuts. From
reading the account of this predigest-
ed' food, it seemed reasonable to try
Grape-Nuts for her case.
"The results were really wonderful.
The little brain that seemed at timea
unable to do ita work, took on new
life and vigor. Every morning, now,
before going to school, she eats the
crisp little morsels and is now com-
plete)" and entirely well, shfc seems to
hai? a new lease on life—no more
distress ln the stomach, nor head-
ache, bui sound and well everywsy."
Name given by Pottum Co.. Bartls
Creek, Mich. Resd the book. "Tbe
Road to Wellvllle." in pkgs.
There's s Resson."
Rtm rra4 IW ahan Mt**t A_a*w (
Stiff Joints
Sprains,Bruises
are relieved at once by an applies-
tion of Sloan's Liniment. Don't
rub, juat lay on lightly.
Mft|nan'( Llnimant baa don* mora
good than atijrUilog 1 iiava avar triad
for nUtf )otnU. 1 gut rnjr Uarxl hurtao
badly that I bail to atop work right In
the tiuainot tluia ol tha year. J thought
at flr*t that 1 would have to have my
hand takrn "IT, but I got a bottle of
tUoau'a Liniment and cured my hand."
Wn.ro.s WitKELka, Morru, Ala.
Good for Broken Sinew*
G. O. JoNKft, Baldwin, L. I., write* I
—"1 uaod Sloan's l.iulnieut for broken
si news above tbe knee eap caused by a
fall and to tuy great satisfaction was
able to re*uine work In loss than three
week* after the accident."
SLOANS
LINIMENT
Fine for Sprain
Ms. Hkxrt A. Voehl, 84 Somerset
St., Plalnfleld, N. J., write* : — "A
friend apralned hi* ankle *o badly
that it went black. He laughed when
I told hi iu tbat I would have him out
in a week. I applied Sloan'* Liniment
and in four days he wa* working and
•aid Sloan'* wa* a right good Llni-
Prica 2Sc.,
80c., and $1.00
Sloan's Book
>n horses, cattle,
sheep and
poultry sent free.
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