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years has yielded from 20
undreds of farmers in Western
Good climate,
schools, rural te
in growing and stock raising,
mape, description of
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Paying in Dresden China.
Little pieces of
bearing the usual are
being passed from hand in
Saxony. It is not that people are bar-
tering their cups and saucers or are
getting rid of the of their
china cupboards, nor are they making
each other presents
porcelain for which the mark of Dres-
den has been noted.
A new coinage in porcelain has been
put into circulation to supersede small
paper money, and one of its valuable
assets is the fact that it ean be
svashed, so no one need complain of
dirty money. The little red-brown
discs have met with a hearty welcome,
and the factory of Meissen has never
sent out anything more popular than
these little pieces of china that are
too small for a plate, too shallow to
hold water and not adorned with any-
thing but the most simple devices.
red-brown china
mark
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hand
Dresden
to
contents
of the delicate
Bright Youth,
The clergyman was examining the
Infants’ class. Suddenly a bright idea
flashed across his brain, He had
found a poser.
“And now, my dear children.” he
said, rubbing his hands and beaming
with wicked pleasure, “can any of you
*
five?”
There was a long and deathly si-
lence, broken finally by a piping volece
from the back bench: “Please, sir, 1
could tell you If the beans weren't
blue.”
Empress of Fashion.
A blography of the late Empress
Eugenie says:
press of the
French renewed
followed siavishly by women."
The first of the United States
matrimony.
whether
girl real
BE ——— re —— ee —
SUCH A NICE YOUNG MAN!
This Minister Evidently Not One of
the New School of Blunt and
Direct Speech.
Hews “stories” do
from the department
Wallace, state entomolog’st,
reportorial who buzz
the division Mr. Wal
domain may always on
one good dally story. Here
one;
page
not
of
Come
often
N.
thelesg
nesyer-
drones
around hee of
ince's
at
count
least
the la
le
oid
modern
is test
was young minister of the
He did not follow the
doctrine of frankness In his
speech, especially with the lambkins
of his flock. Flustered and “fussed.”
he stood before a large gathering of
smiling. good-looking up-to-the-minute
peppy lambkinettes and in guarded
reminded them of the pitfalls
wayward world, He
f
school,
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“And, my dear young friends, de you
know that even this very day there
has come to mine ears a
there Is In this very community a
band of bold. bad bootlimbers !"—In
New Noses for Old,
Dr. Julien Bourget of Paris,
made a reputation during the war in
rebuilding noses which had been
America with the object of improving
noses which do not have the proper
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Money talks—but It converses with
only the favored few
“tastes good”
the food Sak
Jelightral
7 Food
CORN ROOT ROTS
CAUSE BIG LOSS
Specialists Advise Germinating
Kernels From Every Ear to
Be Used for Seed.
RAG-DOLL TEST IS FAVORED
Zstimated Damage by Disease in 1910
Placed at 125,000,000 Bushels—De-
stroy or Plow Under All
Stubble Possible,
Prepared by the United States Depart-
ment of Agriculture.)
Corn, of one variety or another,
wr most widely distributed cereal
Top. Therefore, any single disease
that takes a toll of 4 per cent is a
natter for serious cousideration., The
United Rtates Department of Agricul-
‘ure estimates the damage by
orn root rots in 1019 at over 125 .000,-
X00 bushels, Multipiled by the aver
corn for that year, we
have before us the unpleasant fact
that these rots exacted a tax of over
£200,000,000,
When it considered that one of the
organisms which causes corn
also causes wheat scrub and
in
done
corn stubble may Infect a field of
Works Insiduously,
Corn root rots are among the most
known to agricul
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WIDESPREAD WAR ON
NATIVE FARM WEEDS
Survey Set on Foot by Depart-
ment of Agriculture.
New Varieties Constantly Arriving in
Foreign Seed and Through Other
Sources—Entire Farms Aban.
doned to Pests,
(Prepared by the United States Depart-
ment of Agriculture.)
The United States Department
Agriculture has set on foot what
intended to be the most
sive weed survey ever undertaken.
of
is
of American farm weeds,
but there are no definite data in
gerd to thelr spread; the prevalence
annual
of oid
of eradication,
the amount of
weeds, increase
methods
ity;
new
or local
the section of weed investigations has
sent a questionnaire to all the more
than 2,000 county agents of the de
partment.
cames of five worst in
county, in order of their Importance;
weeds
to combat these weeds: and
in any particular county,
Comparatively few na
weeds have glven
trouble, but new
stantly arriving in
through other sources,
have pests th
farms have been abandoned to th
farmers serious
varieties sare
foreign seed and
become such iL entire
ern farmers showed that an
of 22 days a year is spent at the busi
est senson In trying to get rid
weeds. Investigations by the bureau
of plant industry
years are taken that
tivation after the seedbed ix p
has no than to
weeds, If this theory proves correct
it will add heny i
the
annual expense chs woods,
AYErsge
of
over sn
to indicate cul
repare
other use
destroy
more
irgeable to
department
It is the purpose of the
{despread
or the Im
ones, and t«
of operation in di
war on the weeds now here
portation of
seek
which
ination,
recting a w
nny new
any local
may be
eradication metho
worth general dissen
stimnd
Improved Method,
of the United
Agriculture
kernels of
ture, say specialists
States Department of
They affect the
snel
corn
a way that while they
they
may germi
i sickly
ften will
nts which may die in early
stages or produce
nate produce
infected corn. These
the plants at the low
er joints, and If thes
the
diseases wenken
come to maturity
damage is perpetusted,
to avoid corn
kernels from ear of corn
used for seed
of making a
improved rag-doll
in essential
nothing more than
muslin backed by
paper,
placed on
every
test Is by means of an
germinator. This,
features, consists of
a broad strip of
mojstureproof fiber
kernels are
which is rolled
up and left warm box, The re
sults of checked
the ears from which the kernels were
and only perfect, or nearly per
ours kept for This
germinator very simple and fur
nishes a practically complete test.
its
lows of seed
the cloth
in a
Are, course,
ure ween,
in
Mleached or unbleached muslin can
be used for the rag doll. The cloth
which in a 54-inch
width, is torn across into 12-inch
strips, 54 Inches long. Before being
used the cloth is bolled, and it should
be damp when the seeds are placed
on it; This cloth is laid on a strip
of glazed paper, a little longer than
the cloth, to allow folding over at the
ends, fresh newspapers belng placed
on the table under the paper to avold
infection,
About 8 kernels are then taken from
each ear and, beginning at the butt.
are laid in rows across the muslin
strip, so that when the strip is rolled
up and placed in a germinating box
the tips of the seed will be down-
ward, The rag dolls are sprinkled
twice daily, and at the end of 7 days
are taken out, unrolled, and in
spected. The appearance of the
gprouts is a guide to the quality of
the seed. If more than one sepd shows
signs of (infection, the Infected ear Is
thrown out, If the farmer has enough
corn it Is best to throw out an ear for
a single had kernel,
Destroying the Stubble.
Root rot is carried over in stubble,
and every effort should be made to de-
stroy or plow under as much stubble
as possible, Increasing the fertility
of the soil and erop rotation have also
been found beneficial, One difficulty
about rotation as a remedy Ig that root
rot affects corn and wheat and in
many localities is always present on
the farm, For this reason the de-
partment Is anxious that rag-dol! germ.
inators be put into general and intelli.
gent use, and the season started with
clean seed,
usually comes
Egg Mash le Essential,
Without a good egg mash a hen ean-
not lay the maximum of eggs. She
requires dally a large amount of pro.
tein In the most available form to
take the white or albumen of the ezg.
| Particularly Convenient in Repairing
Wire Fences and Is Easy to
Put Together,
Stretcher for Repairs,
end, and cut off the heads
to 8
from
PF se,
filing them
This kee ps the stretcher
slipping the post in
Then make a hook from a heas ¥
piece of strap iron as in the
drawing and bolt to stick with
small bolts.
point.
on while
shown
the
Government Experimental Farm
at Beltsville,
from native and grade Toggenburg and
Saanen does with purebred Swiss
bueks, begun in 1911,
quent of Agriculture, at the govern:
ment farm at Beitsville Md. The
flock comprises 26 does and 8 kids
of one-half, three-fourths, seven
eighthe, and fifteen-sixteenths blood,
The average daily milk yield per doe
in 1919 was 8.92 pounds, an increase
of 242 pounds over the yield of the
ten selected native does which formed
the foundation stock of the herd. The
highest milk yield for an individual
doe in one day is 86 pounds. For
1019 the flock showed an average of
3.7 per cent butterfat.
WORMS OF DIFFERENT KINDS
Fowls Affected Are Likely to Be Ex.
tremely Thin in Cases of ‘
Long Standing.
Some chickens have worms of vari
ous kinds. The Intestines should be
glit to find this out. Chickens having
worms are likely to be unduly thin,
and this loss of weight is extreme in
cases of long standing.
GREEN FOOD INJURES FOWLS
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Too Much Causes Gall Bladder to Be.
come Swollen and Even Burst.
Flesh Is Tinged. '
In the caso of chickens eating too
much green food the gall Bladder be
comes greatly swollen, or may even
burst, and its contents impart a green
tinge to the flesh, or even to the skin
naar the all bladders =
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Early spring brings with it Coughs, Colds, Distemper, Be pree
Spohn’s Distemper Compound
rign of a cough. Better still give it as a preventive
before he shows signs of sickness BPOHREN'S" acts equally well
GF preventive or cure By reason of fis gormiciial qbalities, it
expels the disease germs, abates fever resiores appetite and
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. WAS WARDING OFF BAD LUCK | REALLY DESERVING OF PITY
Those Whe Allow Themselves to Get
into the Habit of Self.Excuse
Are Unfortunate,
Small Matter to Young Woman That
She Was Also Holding Up Busy
Street Traffic,
“Trafic is typh
will
gets |} » tendency to self.-excus
Coy {f the conceited, They simply
themselves for what
avenuy
to
ot ade
a
perpets
who have
other day
tied thing: ii 1
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ing ment main
Looked
gure
sally in need of It
Are not
mor
conditioned
Coty
selfs
people
Poor souls! Life te
game of blind man's buff,
“i,” foreves
grasping.
been penned
puff =
And
ince the
and
1 penakb
Addington Bruce
News,
persons thus
pity
their monun
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O
deserving than of
ental
wild not make
they are forever
r wildiy, but pever
r words ha
Ruskin's, “Conceit
man up, but not prop him
how sadly hard it
4d that they
thus save them from the pa
ve
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ster officer,” she
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more right
broke @
don’t
I'll bax
rights
Once, bu
time, Aud
bel n 't out
York Sun.
quick
By
ail at
10 it one at a
won't you
crowd?"
is to conv
concelte are conceited
ties of conceit.—H.
in Chicago Dally
now, please,
eRe of this nt
Disrespectful,
Finnegan (to his spouse)—Shure the
children these days have no manners af
al: at all Phwat do yez think that
His Mistake,
A man claiming to be a Russian no-
bleman was arrested recently in Brook.
Iyn while trying to dispose of a dia- | YPUBZ omadbsun next door ic te
mond necklace worth fifty thousand | Me? “Mr. Finnegan,” he sez, “git yer
pounds. The police admit that if he | Picture took an’ I'll send wan o' thim
had posed as a taxi driver or a steve. | 10 me taycher for a valentine."—Bos
dore his action would never have ex- | ton Transcript.
cited their suspicions. London Punch, i
it Does Not.
“Your new stenog is a beauty.
she spell?” ‘
“Does it matter?™
Ru
A detachable wheel and motor have
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Can | velocipedes,
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