3 a ———————— girs —— GOOD SEED CORN TEST “Rag Doll Baby” Pronounced as Greatest of Infants. Cheapest Tester Which Can Be Made ~All That Is Needed Is Few Yards of Sheeting of Good Qaulity, Torn Into Strips. The Rag Doll Baby, sclentifical known as the rag doll seed corn tes- ter, has been pronounced the greatest Infant of recent years. Also the most popular because it has been nursed by a majority of the school children of the United States. Not only did this pet in its first Year make two blades of grass grow for one, but it claims credit for last year's banner corn crop. It is said to have added millions to the crop's value, This is merely an inexpensive ar- rangement whereby progressive farm- ers and their children test seed corn before planting. Half a dozen ker nels of corn are taken from each ear | of' seed corn, the kernels are laid on numbered squares of cloth, the cloth | , dampened and rolled together nd | loosely tied. A score or more of | “babies” are placed in a pail or tub | of lukewarm water and left there for | about 12 to 18 hours. Five to eight | days later the cloths are carefully | unrolled and the kernels examined | Gif x Kt 5 Sa INN INE “Rag Doll” Tester and Rolls. carefully. In all cases in which all the kernels are not strong in ger tion the ear should be thrown away, | for no farmer can afford to seed that will not germinate. For the doll test buy yards of sheeting of good quall tear it into strips 8 inches fron planned to use of t the rav the ker cheaper rag three to five 8, hem the edges, as otherwise IES disarrange als re | more conv and ac rate method of testing seed torn than by the rag doll A few of advantages are: The cheap: made Anyone sometimes ling. Tt enient in unr i tester. st tester which can can make the time tester in moment's Corn may be place in the t« and read quickly 1 the test proximately mold most moved | without | and another can be kernel, roots an be readily accurate test, o shoots, Gives an ete C by Business Methods Needed. Few owners of the smaller poul plant know what percentage of thelr flocks do yield may know how much feed during the year, and eggs the | laid within months, but further than that cannot give any figures of the cost production or the actual profits from the sales. Adopt business methods in| your poultry plant. i NERAL NOTES When the small weeds are killed there will be no big ones, Give the team many breathing spells | during the first weeks of spring work Whenever a farmer gets the fever he at once becomes a good-road | preacher, That producer most who keeps himself best in the line the works : The ground for sweet clover should be prepared the alfalfa or clover. slow with the first few plowing; the horses are soft, be worked in carefully, In a corn-growing territory cowpeas are mostly grown with corn, sowing broadcast or otherwise, The clover seed crop depends very largely upon the condttion of the ground and the weather, To kill Canadian thistle in a fleld | put the field in some cultivated crop and keep the weeds down, Many growers say that weeds are as valuable as fertilizers as clover and cowpeas if they are turned under Q@very year, Soil taken from a well-established alfalfa field and spread an land to | be sown to alfalfa is a very good way to inoculate it, Rotation of erops is one of the sim- ple, practical methods of increusing t e productivity of the farm and dis tributing labor, The farmer often makes a mistake by trying to do too much. Till less ground and cultivate it better and | there will be more profit in it, Many 108 they spend f« how m the wr any i twelve thoy ens Sept ry ARM auto is success seed | same as for Go days’ and must SHEEP REQUIRE MUCH SALT EE Before Animals at AH Times— Only Mineral Needed. ed as far as salting 18 concerned. are elther salted irregularly or not at all. When salt is not supplied to them In sufficient quantities they crave it Intensely, and, as has been demonstrated by experiments, will not make the gains nor grow the wool they will if properly salted, says the National Stockman. Salt is often con- sidered a seasoning for the food of animals and not an essential. It is the only mineral which ordinarily needs to be supplied to livestock. No sheep can do its best without enough salt. Salting every few days is sufficient for the needs of the sheep, but it is not as good a method as keeping salt before the sheep all the time, as when a rush of work comes or a vis- iting time comes salting the sheep is one of the things neglected. When salt is given after a period of neglect the sheep are 80 eager for it that they take too much and large quantities of water are needed to wash it out of the system, some of this being drawn from the tissues of the body to the detriment of the sheep, - VALUE OF FARMYARD MANURE There Are Various Losses In Quan- tity Which Constituents Suffer Before Reaching Fields. (By R. G. WEATHERSTONE) Reme mber that the constituents of animal excrement are in the condi of greatest value as manure at hie time when they leave the animals; mixing with ltter and piled in the barnyard their value is greatly reduced, During the fermentation of manure F with the straw and refuse » and barnyard, the co ow the of titu. on combinati the duced, which contains the nbines with the humic decomposing compounds m the oluble able o quickly avail 3 HUG y Avail the original US EFUL ARTICLES FOR BARN trated Made of Old Gallon Can—Convenient Size for Bran or Mill-feed Bin bran or mill oats bin I want Grain Scoop Easily Made. ne of a two-gallon cut in shape. The dotted next the handle show the position of an board that should fit the bottom real tight, so that the can may be tacked to this piece of wood is fastened the wood screw Wing of into the handle. nade can ame lines can to runt the can Do not use the salt barrel, as the soon rust them so they will for use, For the salt barrel ind the handle large 1 end of these scoops in sy 6 unit cutting to a shape similar to the Neglected Artichoke. This plant which can be grown in any garden makes a delicious table. The piant clines rapidly and three years, It is propagated from seed and the suckers are set out producing edible heads the second year. The heads are from three to four inches’in diameter and are ready to cut for the table just before they open. For picking the heads are taken when about half grown. The leaves are sometimes blanched and eaten and these form the salad plants which are seen on the market, is perennial bul de- should be reset often Weaning a Kid. When one has sale for their goat's milk the kids should be taken from the mother immediately and fed from a bottle because cow's milk is cheaper Dilute the cow's milk, sweeten slightly and the little fellow will soon learn to like it. Give a kid the bottle six or seven times a day and in four months wean him, Have Object in Mating. When mares are bred much will be gained if they are mated with some general object In view--that the eolt shall be a draft horse, saddle unorse, i farm horse or something definite AA 78 Pitcher Al baseball expert Star sizes 16138 National leagu oncerned.) i, but few recruits are ¢ calle are chos- Vays ver Many are is 8 motto ifies are seems w hicl bush old adage fon this vast sur itself so far as the recruits concerned-—and the to be given special verific Out of fall, these are partic ul herd vive, Very ave m Ar Season 1a a iast of infield irafted and few most el sluggers aterialized, star ré. Even of the youngsters who April 10, 60 per cent wayside or outfield and very few catchs will be there on will fall by the arrives, Cincinnati—It looks as if the Red percentage of wins has been unusually large. Of the autumn draft lutely new men, McManus, Dahlgren seem to be valual ard, Kyle and Black were with the team at 1912, and cannot be cou new, Boston-—It is possible that the Bos ton Nationals have dug up some good young pitchers, but nothing is yet as sured in this particular. Metz, firet baseman, who can hit ‘em hard, ap- pears to have caught on. Maranville, ere 8, or abso Pack- Course, close of irn, of the inted as brand fall, has made good and will remain. Brooklyn «= May —— possibly — have landed two live outfielders, Callahan and Myers, and may likewise have a kid pitcher or two worth retaining Stengel of the 1912 reinforcements looked good In September and bids fair to keep his place, Chicago—There seem to be no real prizes among the Cub drafts—not a single one. Berghammer isn't “so worse,” but there were too many vet. erans ahead of him. Pierce, who is pitching nicely, was tried last season, and Powell is a veteran now, coming back after a season in the bush, so that these fellows cannot be classified as novices, New York-—Demaree, the best of the young Giants, was added last fall and | was in a game or two at that period. | McGraw thinks he has—maybe and perhaps—~a good outfielder named | Cooper. Back, back to the jungle | with nearly all the rest. Philadelphia~Iif Philadelphia has { any real reinforcements, they are as yot modest, blushing violets, and | probably not over one or two debut antes will appear in Dooin’s roster after the season Is well started. Pittsburgh-—Has nothing in the ! brand-new line, a couple of new men, who look good, being really callbacks rom the farm | St, Louls—Miller Huggins thinks he Demaree, actu fine Inflelder about the has ally bagged a named Whalen, If so, he has infield prize 2 ] nly big secured by the National league TT birds a catcher named icked up and 118 » ¥ 2A Eiiit 1 * AE Hil all had 8 last 161 assists rd, .252. Fleld- ut of all the novices who had glimpse of big March training tional league fuat jus first the league camps, to have la baseman, one catcher, maybe ten pitchers doings the seems one first id e fielders, I about one two The crossroads, Few, jcular indeed, year. They say Frank Schulte, the heavy hitting outfielder of the Cubs, breaks fifty bats a year. McGraw has pledged himself to fol- low a hands-off policy in regard to umpires again this year. Gonzales, the Cuban catcher, will catch probably a third of the Boston Nationals’ games this year. President Farrell's praise of Chance and his work is of the unstinted va- riety and pleasing to the fans. “The Browns will finish in the first or second divisions sure,” is the opin- fon of a wellknown sport writer. Catcher Tony James, who was the only holdout on the Kansas City ros. ter, was sold to the St. Paul club. Ray Keating, the 35.000 beauty se- cured from Lawrence by New York, has struck his gait and is showing a lot of stuff. Do you know that the greatest num- ber of stolen bases was made by Har ry Stovey? While playing with the Athletics back in 1888 Harry pilfered 1566 sacks. Charley Comiskey killed a canard with these words: “I'll release Four nier to Sacramento the same day I sell Bd Walsh to another minor league club.” Acosta and Calvo, the Cubans with team, are remarkable Judges of balls and strikes, and have not been known to offer at a bad one since joining the Senators. , age, ——————— (HOT RACE PREDICTED Stahl Does Not Claim Flag for Champion Red Sox. Prepared for Hard Fight Which Is Sure to Come In the American League—Praises Callahan and Frank Chance. Chicago entertained J. QGarlana Stahl and his world champions for a little over an hour the other day while they were changing trains thelr way back to Boston, “We not claiming a championship nor even a league flag at this said Stahl. “This is not the time for ming championships, the time to prepare for the fight American ready for the team on are world’s time,” clai We have this year opening, and | Hmit “In my opinion the coming struggle will be the hardest in history of organization Looking the field that entered in the League derby, 1 figure pennant will have uous struggle with Athletics and the of those three t contenders, and i our perform EC them Callahan that elu Hh are th cut ne the the over American that to in win a the the senators we most White Any one are pennant that to re ast i fust a little better 4 stren- Sox, eams ealize season nance of we will have to than any “Jimmy crew of talent South in f the hitting strength of the the ¥ - ¥ Dé at or nes an # ones Gi the has represented has strongest glide several years, team fense, 1 the anywhere de fear that 5 from y Om ¥ $2 0550 near they the “1 dread team equals will start sending any that has mound the duty for gide 3 YY American 1 a8 good and as n pik ant to do plenty “C allahan EOvVe was Lange needed Jake Stahl. give us a great deal of trouble. Clark Griffith can always be counted upon to put nine men on the field who will fight until the last out in the ninth His pitching crew, led by Johnson, is one of the best in the organization “Although I do not think that the New York team can be counted in the first division at the end of the season, I do expect that they will not receive callers in the cellar. Frank Chance will bring the Highlanders to the top of the second division. From all that 1 have been able to learn Chance has succeeded in injecting a fair amount of ‘pep’ into the team, and a New York team will be seen in eight cities this year. “The fans may think that it sounds funny for me ) be predicting such pleasing things for Chicago, Philadel phia, Washington and New York, but I do not want them to gain the opin jon that we expect to walk away with the league flag. Boston will be fight ing from the start. 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