OKLAHOMA FARMER WEDNESDAY, MARCH G, 19<>?.
Don't Forget a
Bi6 Package
of
See that it's on your list.
See that your grocer has it.
See that it's in your rig when
you start home.
Then you'll have what you
wanted.
You'll be saved an extra trip.
You'll be saved the disap-
pointment that comes with
every paper bag of bulk
crackers — soggy from ex-
posure to moisture, broken
and crumbled because it
can't be helped.
/ Next
Time^ibu
Go to Town
You are entitled to your
money's worth. Get it in a
25-cent package of Loose-
Wiles Soda Crackers.
Made in a modern bakery
by our exclusive method—
from soft winter wheat flour
that has all the good of the
wheat.
Clean—crisp—cheap—con-
venient.
Fresh from first to last.
Don't forget the Loose-
Wiles Soda Crackers.
JOOSE^I EES KANSAS CITY
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CRACKER ft CANDY CO.
'The Modern Bakers'
ANY PROBLEM III CENEBAL ACRICULTURE Will BE DISCUSSED IN THIS DEPARTMENT.
EFFECTS ON CLOVER LAND.
Experiments in Ohio sliow that lime
produces very little effect on clover on
unfertilized land. Manure or fertilizer
must first be used before lime will pro-
duce any lasting effects. It is not a sub-
stitute for fertilizers, but can be made
to perform good service when used In
connection with fertilizers or manure.
Soil can easily be spoiled by the use of
lime alone. It performs excellent sendee
in liberating plant food already In the
goil. If a crop is growing upon a soil
where lime has been used, it may absoro
part of the escaping ammonia, and a
larger yield will result, but this Is at the
expense of the plant food in the soil
which must be maintained by fertilizer
or manure, else the soil will soon refuse
to respond to the action of the lime,
all the material In the soil upon whi.Mi
the lime can act having been drawn out.
Xjime corrects acidity in the soil,, and tor
this purpose is invaluable. Sometimes
soil becomes so sour that clover will not
thrive upon. It, und In such cases lime
is excellent.
Malaria Causes Loss of Appetite.
The Old Standard Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic.
drives out malaria and builds up the
Sold by all dealers for 27 years. I rice 50 cents.
growing crops among treees
The question is often asked: "Ought
j to grow vegetables or small fiuits
between (ho rows of trees in the pr-
chard?" "Yes," says one; "No," says
another." But under certain circum-
stances either Is correct, though the
problem cannot be settled in an off-
hand, one-worded manner. What is
right in one orchard may be entirely
wrong in another, and vice versa. To
obtain the highest success orchardists
must adapt methods to conditions.
Last spring a neighbor told me that
he had just finished planting carrots
"all through the waste spaces in his
twelve-year-old cultivated pear or-
chard.." This spring I met him again
and asked him about the carrots.
"The crop wasn't anything to brag
about," replied he. "Fact is, I lost
money on that planting- in various
' ways. First and foremost, the trees
didn't do well; then it reauired much
more labor to cultivate a carrot bed
than would have been required had
the orchard been left clean for har-
rowing. The extra labor ate up all the
carrot gain."
Another man has a two-year-old
peach orchard, and grows vegetables
between the row with great advantage
and profit. A fourth man owns a five-
year-old apple orchard. He, too, finds
that it pays him to plant cultivated
crops among his trees.
Briefly stated, the principle of the
matter is here: Only very young or-
chards can bo thus double-cropped to
advantage. When a peach, tree has
reached the age of four years, It needs
every inch of space. An apple or pear
orchard may be cropped somewhat
longer—say until the seventh year.
After tliig age it is not advisable in any
case to want crops between the tre«a.
R. w. WFLCOX.
AGRICULTURE IN
COUNTRY SCHOOLS.
The Department of Agriculture is
gr*utiy handicapped in its work
through its inability to keep in its
employe young scientists, who, after
receiving final U-aining under the .In-
struction of Uncle Sam.'receive tempt-
ing offers outside of the government
service at sularles which Secretary
Wilson is unable to meet. An ln-
stance«of this occurred last week when
the department lost one of its! efficient
men, formerly with the Bureau of
Soils, and recently transferred to the
oitice of experiment stations, who', last
week, instituted the first county ag-
ricultural school in Maryland. This
now movement in the instruction of
agriculture to country lads and lassies
will have the special patronage of fche
National Department of Agriculture.
The' course of study, covering a pe-
riod of four years, combines field work
and class-room exercises in such a
way as to make it thorqughly practi-
cal and comprehensive. With a fun-
damental beginning of plant structure
and simple cultural methods, the stu-
dent will gradually rise to a knowl-
edge of crops, domestic animals, dairy-
ing, farm management, and farm sur-
veying. These studies will bo inter-
spersed with languages, history, geog-
raphy, mathematics and drawing, so
that the student will have a well-
rounded education when he leaves the
school. Domestic economy in its va-
rious lines will offer special attrac-
tion for the girls.
The First Scientific Farmer
The first really scientific farmer
history gives any record of was Jethro
Tull an Englishman, born in 1680.
A writer in the New York American
gives the following account of this
man and his work:
"The first scientific farmer, so far
as the records show, was one Jethro
Tull. an Englishman, who wrote and
labored in the cause of agriculture be-
tween the years 1680-1704.
"Tull claimed that, since it was from
the soil that plants mainly derived
their nourishment, the finer the con-
dition of the soil the better would
be the results to the farmer.
"A great hobby with Tull was the
thorough pulverization of the soil. He
claimed that it was from the fine
earth, not from hard clods, that the
plant got the nutrition it needed to
make it productive.
"He also insisted upon deep plow-
ing to give moisture to the plant's
roots, and upon frequency of cultiva-
tion to keep the surface open to the
influence of the rays of the sun.
"In a word, it was the Englishman
who first strove to impress upon men's
minds the idea that farming was a
science, and that in order to get good
crops, agriculture needed to be carried
.on upon scientific principles.
"Tull, furthermore, believed that
there was no reason why agriculture
should be carried on almost wholly
by brute strength. He believed In
saving as much of man's labor and
strength as possible, and he set him-
self to the task of finding ways and
means of doing farm work that should
be an improvement upon the old mus-
cle-wearying methods.
"His thinking took shape in the in-
vention of a horse hoe, a grain drill
and a threshing machine—not much
of a threshing machine, it is true,
as compared with those of today, but
still a great improvement upon the
old-ti.mo flail.
The impetus given to scientific farm-
ing by Tull started the movement
which was later on taken up with
enthusiasm by Arthur Young, the cor-
respondent and friend of Washington.
"Young did a great deal for agri-
culture. By his pen, by travel and
painstaking investigation and by ex-
periment, and last, but not least, by
a series of bright and useful inven-
tions, he did more for the ancient
art than any man of his day and gen-
eration.
"With the birth of modern chem-
istry, and through the writings and
experiments of such men as Sir Hum-
phrey Davy, Thomas Jefferson, Justus
von Lieblg and thers, agriculture
began to look up as It never had be-
fore, and today, as a result of those
men's labors, the farmer is begin-
ning, for the first time since farming
A BIG GARDEN
The year of 1006 w.i8on * of prodigal plenty on our J
^ > ever before dicfvt'tfe-
table and farm beeds rtsturu such —
' enormous yields.
Now we wish to gain enn^no new
customers thisyear-und hem eouer
for 12c postpaid
1 pkg. f«*rd*n Oty • • 10«
1 •* Urlleit Rip* Cabba?* • 10*
1 •  t'arl't I morald t'uearob^r ln«
1 " UCrMie Uirket Ltll.ie« 1&«
I " 13 Pay Kadi h . . • 10«
1 *• Hln<  Blood Tomato - • 1&«
t *4 Julpjr Turnip . • • • 10*
lOOO kt-ro«l  flor.iou lj beauti-
ful flower iced* • . • • • l-r>«
Toul fToo
Alitor 13c postpaid in order to Intro-
dure our w arranted seeda, and if you
will Bend ItSo we will add one package
of Berliner Earliest Cauliflower, to-
gether with our mammoth plant,
nnrsery stock, vegetable and farm
aeed and tool catalog.
Thia ratafog is mailed free to all
^intending purchasers. Write to-Oaf.
JOHN A. SALZER SEED CO.,
La Crosse, Wit.
began, to get from the earth some-
thing like a fair return for his toil.
"1 say 'beginning,' for there can bi
no doubt that we are simply upon
the threshold of successful farming.
A hundred years hence, when tho
truths of chemistry shall have been
almost universally applied to tho ag-
ricultural act, returns such as would
now be considered miraculous will be
the common order of the day.
"We have been merely playing with
the earth heretofore. When we get
down to the principles and practice of
a scientific husbandry, our harvests
shall be many fold what they are
even today."
PII.KS CCBEU IW I) TO 14 DATN
PAZO OINTMENT Is guaranteed to cure any
case of Itching, Blind, Bleeding or Pr^/ruaing
tiles in 6 to 11 days or money refmded. f>Oo
The farmer whose time is valuable
will have a desk well fitted with
pens, ink and paper, and leave some
handy for his wife also.
Pale Delicate Women and Girls.
The Old Standard Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic,
drives out malaria and builds up the system.
Sold by all dealers for 27 years. Price 50 ceuts-
Freshness can be restored to good
carpets by brushing them with a hot
suds made of a gallon of rain water,
four ounces of castile soap and two
buncos of ammonia. Brush lightly
and then follow with a clean, wet
sponge.
Malaria Makes Pale Sickly Children
The Old Standard Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic,
drives out malaria and builds up the system.
Sold by all dealers for 27 years. Price 50 cents.
That man Coburn, out in Kansas,
who refused the senatorshlp offered to
him on a plate by the governor must
be a pretty big man Doubtless, the
' fact that he is a farmer of the very
highest type enables him to see his
real duty to the people of the state
lies in another direction. But where
is the politician whose vision is so
wide that the picture of a seat in the
senate would not shut out the whole
world ?
Only One •• ltROMO *|l lSIXr
That is LAXATIVE BROMO Quinine. Simi-
larly named remedies sometimes deceive. The
first and original Cold Tablet is a WHITE
PACKAGE With black and red lettering, and
bears the signature of E. W. GROVE. 28c.
It is a mistake to sit down at tho
table with your own family in a suit
of dirty, sweaty clothes, in which you
would be ashamed to enter your
neighbor's door.
The man who invariably tries to get
the big end of the bargain, may be
surprised to learn sometime that ev-
ery man in the neighborhood Is
studying hard how to beat him, and
some of them are sure to discover tlie
combination.
A man who is suspicious of every-
body is pretty sure to be crooked in
his own heart, although ho may be
too cowardly to take a chance.
To Drive Out A\alaria
And Build Up The System
Talct the Old Standard GROVE'S TASTEI.ES8
CHILI* TONIC. You know what you are taking.
The formula is plainly printed on every bottle,
showing it is simply Quinine and Iron in a taste-
less.forui. The Quimue drives out the malaria
and the Iron builds up t^C system. Sold by all
dealers for 27 years. Price 50 cents.