ITEMS OF INTEREST ON AGRICULTURAL
TOPICS.
The Second Growth of Clover--«Cleaning Out
Fence Rows-Feeding Drilled Cora Too
Early*-Elc., Etc.
TIE SECOND GROWTH
VER.
It is a great mistake to pasture clo
ver after the hay mown off,
It is not merely the trampling of the
clover crowns by the of stock
but still more the check to root growth
when the clover top is eaten down,
that prevents clover roots from strik
ing down into the subsoil. There are
on many farms supplies of mineral
plant food that neither the plow can
turn up nor any other plant can reach
until clover roots have piloted the
way.
OF CLO-
crop is
hoofs
<
CLEANING OUT FENCE ROWS,
Since the Introduction of
ers amd
is less care taken
grass out of the fence corners,
always an ugly task to
horse mow-
harvesting machinery, there
10 Keep weeds and
It was
now
the corners of fences,
dumping
thrown out
of stones
field. Now
¢
scythe {if
common place
in plowing the
nobody thinks of using the he
has a mac But it
not to mow the weeds and bushes that
grow in fence corners,
weeds
bine, is a mistake
sO as to prevent
and
an unmanagea
ng on the plow
from going to seed he
bushes from becoming
ble nuisance, encro:
able land.
AC
FEEDING DRILLED CORN T00
EARLY.
There is a great tem
ers
milk
fore it comos in
not
enough
the best.
der corn is
grain,
kind.
sowed
in between rows, whit
least should enough
allow cultivation between them.
od corn, even afte
*s of little good
part,
white
value,
ation to farm
fail in
drilled corn be
The cows will
¥ 4
can get
poor feed at
whose cows Degli: to
to cut sowed
assel,
eat this
prov ids the
grass, and it Is
It far
given to suppl
bran ‘
lied corn
is better
stnent
wheat meal of
Dri
corn,
r Some
is much better than
aa Ahi te be ABD
as the sunshine can get
Iril at
to
h
apart
Sow
the
far
be
r it in Yassel,
tock. All It
ground,
no
Comes
lower
in 1!
nutritive
Haw 5
even on rich Ww
and
have almost
MILK FOR POULTRY.
ha 80n
At t
kens,
should have liberal
milk. It is muscle
easily digested and
ous and healthy
grain and green
be often surprisin
his of the year
confinement,
feeds of skimmed
and flesh forming,
produces a vigor
If fed with
results will
young
especially if in
growin.
foods the
=
Sour or clabbered
milk is of great value to laving hens,
whether in con or on the
,
Prominent Nn
range
raise ag
rigs for market ms
¥
poultry m who
1k
of buving this milk
ving is milk r
and ereametios
find it
form contains
both the young
vers
hens in
foods usu;
even whe
will do 1
chick a profitabl:
the
ter fed, it seem
the a
nothing of its value i ther
tions,
connec
iy
fi
y of
nore
winter than
of
way
VALUE OF CILEAN STABLES.
lined to at
wood points
For exam-
wiggested
clean
filth
a4
they n be, that all odors an
which might by aceldent get int
milk 1
at the creamery
sold. No one question the
of the separator for doin what it
intended to do
fr » milk
fntended to remo
man
thy cows
shiould be
Wire remov
here milk was
will value
was
om th
ever was
who wi
r out of 1nd
the thine is not fa- distant when cream
ery operators wifi find a way of de
tecting the source of supply of tainted
and filthy milk. Then the dairyman
will forced do what he should
now voluntarily do as a matter of de-
eency.
excl business,
be to
PREVENTIVE MEASURES,
WELL-FED IS HALF-BRED.
This Is an old saying that has some
basis for truth, and another that was
the keynote of the success of John
Ross, a famous Ohlo feeder, was that
“the corn crib Is the best cross." Both
these sayings are along the same line,
but, like a good many old sayings, they
stop short of the whole truth.
amount of care will make a scrub ani
mal as goo! as a pure bred one that Is
given equal attention. ‘This is the
foundation « success, Without good
blood to begin with, It Is Impossible to
secure the best results, What is bred
in the will show In after
and the bred animal invariably
makes showing, other things
being equal,
hone
well
the best
make an animal thrive if half fed and
carelessly housed, and that a scrub
run the cultivator through, so my son
ftried a one horse harrow and pulver-
| zed the crust, The rest of the sea-
| Bon was very dry. Our corn made a
| good yield, while other fields that were
[not cultivated after the crust was
| formed stopped growing and made
{ Hght yield.
seed] 18 very essential, It
should be selected before cold weather
and should be kept in a dry, alry place,
[Cold will not do any damage to prop-
erly dried corn,
I believe corn should be drilled twice
close in drills wanted
for worms amd some for birds;
then If it all comes up it 1s easier and
quicker to cut out every stalk thao it
is to replant,
| It has been said:
the man than there
Therefore stir the soll,
Good
seven
ns the as Is
some
“There 18 more In
in the land.”
A. R. Peters
is
giving it extra but this Is
what the modern stockman wants,
He is after the best there Is, with the
intention of giving after
he gets it,
The up-to-date stockman has learned
n
care and make the greatest profit. He
must of care and liberal In
the matter of feed, and after this con
fidently hopes for success,
The day
tle or sheep can be turned into a wood
lot or out on the range, and allowed to
Care,
is
it good care
to economize |
be lavish
is passed when a lot of cat
|
ter than a pound of cure in dealing
with insects. High culture and fe
tilization is one of the best prevent
ives of inrect attack. Fertilizers such
as coarse stable manure applied at the
rate of fifteen to twenty loads to the
acre to sod in winter and ploughed un.
der for corn in early spring will help
prevent the attack of white grubs and
wireworms even In badly infested
fields. Tobacco stem= and waste, a
valuable fertilizer. is used against a
eucnmber beetle, cabbage maggot. ete,
to prevent their feeding and depositing
eggs.
If a crop is grown for a number of
successive years in the same fleld the
insects injurious to it are liable to. in.
crease to the greater detriment of the
crop each year: a system of rotation
will avoid this to a great extent. The
general farm management should keep
in mind preventing insect depredations
and attack by selecting the preper time
for ploughing and sowing, selection of
plants liable to attack, clean farming,
burning or converting into manuare all
trash and rubbish.—Massachusetts
Ploughman,
wl ttl aw
i
i
money for the owner,
meat
and native beef
The people who
bett educated
mutton does
’
eit have become
oF
not go hee
with want
from well br
} and if
in one place they wi
until t find It
half bred to a certain extent,
heep,
hey
but
is what counts now
Volce,
Farmer's
BREAKING,
to raise
The cheapest
is t
way
rutabagas
0 select a plece of rich
from Plow It
y 3 fr ¥ - ix y
to a depth of four or five in
froe wens
with a sharp tooth harrow
thoroughly fine the top two ine
soil to form a loose mellow sed
Sow the seed by hand or broades
means of
ing machine
Sone Kind of 8 ZETRASS
using three
ng thr amd one
If the
to be sown by hand mix it
of
seren] is
four
bran.
po
to four pounds per acre.
with
w”
times its bulk 01
in
wool ashes
Sow narrow strips about
1
tell 1}
W
hes thin
ck and fo
about fou ne
$0 a8 to leave only one vige
g
about ]
going ba rth. wn
3
the plants are r
wrous plant
ghiteen
every eightes
tutabagas should be
last of June, and thr
ff July,
main gro
he
while the
as
wth
and
that have
quite i * in
Juley vine gat] 1
}
tender red,
born sewgledd ear
n
Ne
ly and attained their full growth int!
months
hot summer
i After
iid fibrous
bagas sown
The roots should
fall as soon
Pull by
quite el
LOS
of
rham
Hen
as there
hand
to the root
about one bushel each
to dry in the sun for a few
after which they will be ready to ha
In the
is hes
home and store hwenoe
good root cellar it t to
dry place
diameter and
1 st eq
Fill He prs
% dig
small pits about five feet
three or four font deep
quite f roots,
top
' 5
ping them ug he center
Pa
Tien cover carefully with coarse hay
Let
two feet
extend
© xlge of
or straw, the covering
bevond th
all
on
3
the
cover it over to the depth
on t on top of
vo feet of
of two feet this p
and pack
in be kent
desired,
fii
¢ + 5
it least te soil
down firmly Loata «
it until spri
vill not be
should
| ng, if
\ injured even if ti
freeze
four foot
of
to a depth
From 500 to T080 bn
an
ROARON
els of
be raised
favorable,
on one
range
acre
ritabagns «
f tho be
Judd Farmer,
SUCCESSFUL CORN CULTURE
The first important thi
ful corn culture is to have the
well tile dr Next, the
must be properiy prepared.
should never |
ng ®UCCOEE
ground
in
fined, ground
Pl 13
ground
the earth
will crumble as it falls from the mold-
board of the plow.
The ground should be plowed a little
deeper each time until the soil is sev
en or eight inches deep, and it should
be well pulverized before the corn is
planted. Should "there come a frost
after the corn is through the ground
the corn gets chilled and the result is
the same as in «tunting young animals,
if fhe ground iz warm before the corn
is planted I comes up very soon and
I believe most farm.
ers plant their corn too deep, and
when cultivation begins the implement
drags clods on to the little stalks and
covers them up. A case in point: A
neighbor (a good farmer) planted his
corn this spring—tolerably deep. Some
owl
He done w hen the
but
ROZRY. when
load of corn to his corn pen and stop
ped the wagon on the planted ground.
Some of the corn sifted through the
bed and was not covered. It came up
before the planted corn and is now
growing rapidly.»
Cultivation should commence before
or very soon after the corn comes up
through the ground and should be con
tinued at least once a week until laid
by, The cultivator should be run tol
erably deep the first time; after that,
shallow. The greater the drought the
more necessary it is that the cultiva
tion be kept up.
A few years ago when our corn
was laid by there cama a heavy rain,
which left a smooth crust all over the
field. The corn wgs then too large to
THINNING
The principal much
small, gcabby and {ll shaped frait be.
ing sent market that the fruit
ZTOWS thick the trees, If a
crop of corn, turnips, or any of our an-
nual crops planted the
damage Is only for the present; but if
ia be allowed full, it
may injure the next and perhaps the
next two or thre future
If a peach for Instance, Is quite
full,
any time
will be able t
of fruit as it
of
FRUIT,
cause of so
to is
{OO on
is too thick
tree to bear too
‘
s+ crops in the
free,
tl
it be th to one-half at
nned
the seed hardens
may
before and
0 produce as many ds
poun
f not thinned, and
It
Wan
{ 3
COUrse is the
ot
3k
MVE no time to prepare
for the next; besides, their
iausted
q
anothe
prepare them fe
proper and judicious
sme trees may be brought
{ good and profit
}
of annual Dearing «
ble indle quick
mers
farm work and thin
When Severeign Meets Soverziga.
is 1
It
Don Carlos, tl
it generally reme
3 4
:
ish throne, was in
but
came
y
i
Know ant
come whe
vou sav he i= well enou
[ care nothing about seeing him, as fa;
as 1 am concerned, but 1 will recels
me i
New York Pr
Ion Carlos oa
An Incident in Front of Santiago
affect]
Ie
The wy displayed by
f the ar army for the
0
whenever pot
ir commands, i
on
f presents jtself
Brig
iain,
ike o
3 raised
Fort Marcy,
in ront of the old
headquarters Michael
was first
MeKibbin's
the case of
MeK
Something
brs 1
i ighteen
in
years
the old g
the pole now
company
McCabe, of
on Cag
company, then sia-
at this post. McCabe was the
father of a boy called Fred,
post. When the flag was
McKibbin held the in-
fant McCabe in his arms while the
child pulled the cord which raised
“Old Glory” afloat. The boy grew to
man's estate here at Santa Fe, and
when his country called enlisted in
E Company of the “Rough Riders,”
and was a participant in all the heavy
fighting around Santiago done by
Roosevelt's regiment. By the merest
chance he met General MeKibbin
there, and the old officer displayed
great feeling when he ascertained who
young MeCabe was and embraced him
like a father. Such acts and such feel-
ings make the American soldier what
[he js—the best and most latelligent
{ fighter in the world.
Was
gar
flag pole
rison at
standing
sergeant
this City, be
tain
tioned
proud
born at the
raized Captain
Burning for Filty Years,
| A coal mine in Scotland which
| caught fire over fifty years ago. and
| has been burning ever since, has at
{ last burnt itself out. The mine is on
| the Dalqubarran estate, Dailly. It
| was set on fire by the engine working
{the fans, and, although many costly
| attempts have been made to extinguish
Lit, they have been unsuccessful. The
‘flames have from time to time burst
{ forth in the ground in volcano fashion.
[The fire was prevented from spread.
| ing beyond the one area by reason of
the “dykes” of rock which intersected
{it and so saved adjacent mines.
{
i
When tea was first brought to Eng-
land the leaves were eaten,
NEVER CARES TO WANDER
mpi
The Busy Bee Doesn't Go More than Plve
Miles After Materiat.
The range of the honey bee is but
little understood by the masses, many
thnt miles in
nectar,
bees go for
supposing g
search of while
that they go only a short distance, It
may be curious to many to understand
how any one can tell how far the
may fly, but this is simple when under
stood.
Years ago, when the Italian
were first introduced into the United
States, having marks dif
ferent from the common bees already
here, easily distinguished, and
after any bee keeper ind obtained the
Italian be he observed
and their notice
bloom is plentiful near where the bees
located, they will not go very far
in range, but if bloom
is scarce they may go five mile
ally about three miles is as far as tl
may go protitably,
a
others
hee
these hoes,
were
% they could
range easily
are
perhaps a mile
0
hinve been
ne,
di
how
of water that
It
bee
18 wonderful
far
home and ever find its way back to |
particular hive, If,
1 ’ : -
little bee {5 out of its home o
can go
BO
own
nove
hive
would
t2 home wa
with no other object
5 bi
Home, Du
ahould iI only
MOY
Nie
Hive 80
mark thelr
are guided by
f smell. The)
3 '
tie color of bloom,
nat
aN
no doubt
by
by
ReNse oO
on a n
not likely to
¢
of
certa
kind bloom for any
can find th
often
any
Riss
Not a Pleasant Neighbor.
Madison
n the
opriat ff
exper
i306 he inv
io
or ’
r of
and a number o
of New York to Gover
sev the torpedoes and
th Winch bis exper
While
torpedoes,
he was
whic]
were large copper cylinders
his DUInerous crowded
anual
After a while he
r case of
tors
turned
the same descrip
Bats
and 10
the
f tion,
way
Was
Old
placed under
William
1ched a
NG
of
which
| lock
Drawing out
Castle
Was att
Fulton set
then he =aid
solemnn tones to his attentive audiency
thai a
il prec £
I mean
a peg
i clock in motion, and
“Lsentismen harge:
i torpedo,
present
%
to blow up a vessel
contains 170 pounds of gunpowder, and
if 1 suffer clockwork tn
run minutes, | no doubt
that it would blow srtifii
were to the
fifteen
have
this f ation 1H»
i atoms."
The cir
0 had
around
began (0
and
had
le of humanity which
closed the inventor
F spread out and grow thinoper,
fore of the fifteen minutes
passed there, were two
| persons remaining onder the gateway
Some, indeed, lost no time in getting
at the greatest possible distance from
the torpedo, and they did not again
appear on the ground until they were
assurid that the engine of destruction
was safely lodged in magazine,
whence it had been taken
five
or
but
£
the
How War Horses Act
When horses are hit in battle, they
stop. tremble in every muscle and
groan deeply, while their eyes show
wild astonishment. During the battle
of Waterloo, some of the horses, as
they lay on the ground, baving recov.
ered from the first agony of their
svounds, fell to eating the grass about
them, thus surrounding themselves
with a cirele of bare ground. the limit.
ed extent of which showed their weak
ness Others of these interesting an.
imals were observed quietly grazing
in the middle of the field between the
two hostile lines, their riders having
been shot from their backs, while the
balls that flew over their heads, and
the tumult behind and before and
around them cansed po interruption
to the usual ipstincts of their na
ture.
It was also observed that when a
charge of cavalry went past. near to
any of the stray horses mentioned,
they would set off, form themselves in
the rear of their mounted companions,
and though without riders, gallop
strenuously along with the rest, not
stopping nor flinching when the fatal
shock with the enemy toon place.
At the battle of the Kirb, in 1754,
an English officer, took possession of
his horse, which was very beautiful,
and immediately mounted it, When
the English cavalry fled the horse ran
awny with his captor, notwithstand-
ing all his efforts to restrain him; nor
did the animal stop until it was at the
bead of the regimont of an
parently, Hs master was com
mander
which,
the
The melancholy, and at the same
time, ludicrous figure which Macedon
nld presented when he thus saw him
{ self the victim of his ambit
ion to pos
uitimately
pon senffold,
ived,.~New York
fine horse, which
his life
{may be easily
| Tribune,
i
ROKK
| cost him the
once
{
|
|
{
{
{
CHIVALRY AT CHAPULTEPEC.
Mississippian ig the Storming
| Noble Act of a
of the Fortress.
The Hon.
brief
John Temple Graves, In a
speech before the
told on the
the
of
—~which embalms
ivairy
sing <i
| surpass }
now liv
fran ing
glori
Hobson
immortal
Glunteer
stood
ier
(4 Y r ¥ i
sinmangiug
ire Of At Ni
“In the history
fiever more
des] than ths
Chapultepse
glorio
to-night 1
fo
friend,
: Walker of Atlanta”
beloved
Power of Powder.
and expiainod
ndent
elocity
pressure
st
fat
Pp wider
41 " a
the two ma prov
in read i
{ powder. The government is very
Ts rye 1 3
t demands that
cific in its contracts i
when fired under service conditions, in
Ow
the gun for which it is intended,
der must give t
zle velocity of at le
of fee
to the proje
ast a
ond
ire of
ber ti per sed Ww
we
ducing a pre
cortait f
n number of t
tons to
ree
guns
inch. For modern
| required varies from 2,000
in a second, and the pressure
lowed t exceed fifteen
| square inch. In some of our
| the present day the amoun
| stored up in the powder ch
tremendous as to be almost incredible,
The limit of energy upon the projec
tile cannot estimated, vast are
the possibilities,
“For example, I may cite the Ore.
gon's thirteen-inch rifles, Five han.
dred and fifty pounds of powder in
these guns impart to an L100-pound
shot a velocity of 2.100 fest per sec
ond, and the energy of the projectile
"is nearly 34,600 foot tons This power
is sufficient to lift such a vessel as the
Oregon, eight feet out of the water. —
San Fraucisco Call
From Sastiage Via London.
A member of the House of Com-
mons, who has two nephews who are
engineers in the American Navy, is re- |
ceiving from the fleets a cormspond. |
0 fons
=
¢
i Of
1
i
uns
energy
rr
is 80
be SO
ence which would awake the envy of |
many newspapers. Their descriptions |
illustrate the readiness and efficiency
of the American Navy. One of his
correspondents relates that in one of
the bombardments of Morro Castle
one of the guns of one of the Ameri.
can ships was put out of action by a |
shell from the forts, Immediately all
the chief engineers were summoned
from the whole fleet by signal. and
were brought aboard this ship to give
advice as to the gun. They all looked
at the gun and examined ber dam-
aged machinery, and the result of their
combined wils was that in half an
| Mator Macdonald. having unhoresd
hour the gun was back in action, as
sound as ever!—London Chronicle
i
i
i
A“ Tease. Farm.”
| Por a number of years Sawteile’s
| teasel farm, in a pretty nook ou the
border of Molalla prairie, has been an
attraction to people en route from Ore
gon City to Wilhoilt Bprings. A party
of wheelmen from Portland made a
Lialt there a few days since and were
shown over the place by Mr. Sawtelle,
who has been engaged 0 raising teas.
since 1860, He has over fifty
year, and wil
of forty acres
neighbors He large
and curing the te
els there
teasels this
the
hy
gheds for
els, and a number of Ingen
acres of
handle output
raised has
storing as
ous Ima-
ting them
chines for trimming and sorting
I preparing them for market, which
uires much skill and knowledge of
requirements of the manuf: .
rs who
Any
114 ¥
few
use them.
one can rialse teasel
will
can
but
Rawtell
of the b
How has in
HOVE 80 Dear
grow themsely
sm. Mr
market
BAYS IRINe=s,
1 sx f
lecently Os Jd
vented a machine which «
ho
air
J
filling t} easel that t
demand 0 Come
an end
The
vested nos
hlosso
fie Didn't Know About the Hairpin
and sto
her glov
“What
“This is a
wonder how
to do such
Then he felt in
cast a hopeless look a
“You haven’
book. you?”
asked
ered. “1
i I ever came
is
rhs
uu
kets again and
the big trank
3}
i
you ost your pocket
have
“No, darling.” he answered, I
left my keys at h one
that opens your trunk is among them.”
t all” she exclaimed, with
and she
Tica
’ 1 wl
asked
“but
amd the
HARE
Just Plaved Spaniards
The [illinois boys oft the cruiser Cin-
cinati, which was recently undergoing
rapairs at Norfolk, played an entirely
different role one afternoon from any
since enlisting under Uncle Sam. They
were for a time Spaniards—that is
representing the enemy-—and furnish-
ed much amusement to nearly 3.000
people at Virginia Beach. The enter-
tainment was given for the benefit of
soldiers’ families. The Illinois men,
always popular, were selected to take
the part of sailors on a fleet represent
ing Camara’'s Port Said fleet being de-
stroyed by the Norfolk Light Artillery
Blues,
When Camara’s ships were destroy-
seq and were rescusd by the crew of
the life-saving station. The boys got
Chaplain Chidwick watched the de-
The Cincinnati looks odd. Her
only has her foremast for signaling
purposes, The removal of the main.
mast makes the Cincinnati the only
Scows for carrying earth Jredged
with a large dumping trough pivoted
at each end of the scow and locked in
an upright position until the d
ground is reached, when a hoe re-
kases the bottom of the scow.