[Improve Soil to
Increase Crops
Show Gains in Acreage
of Legumes.
4
The concerted
West for improved
petter crop rotations Is accomplishing
drive in the Middle
soll fertility and
Its purpose as shown by figures coin
piled by A
for the Illinois Department of Agricul
J. Surratt, crop statistician
r
ture. According to the census reports
for
years Illinois,
Mich
a gain
of
Ohio,
the
lowa, Indiana,
lgun and Wisconsin, all
in the acres of legumes per 100 acres
of cultivated This is
ed for largely by the educational cam-
hefore,
Missouri,
states
show
Crops,
county agents, the press and other
ngencies,
Michigan Heads List.
This report shows that, of the states
pamed, Michigan heads the list with
an incgease in legume acreage of 7
per 100 acres of cultivated crops; Mis-
Sa
then
Il
named
next with 5.79
gouri is
follow Wisconsin, Ohio, Indiana,
and in
of
ten
of cultivated,
ACTeS |
the order
now has more
per
devoted
lowa
these states
acres of legumes 100)
thus to
growing.
gg, per 16) acres
howed a gain
ATS |
In Illinois,
cres: in Indiana,
from 7.
in
ON .
Factors Increasing Profits.
y the
© Reon
aged many
these crops
er croj
Soy Beans Superior as
Emergency Crop for Hay
A t = { i
inted alone or
ETARS or
list. They
field before.
lime, they
growth on
has not been for
iimea
Th ey
r are the equa
Are an easy crop to grow,
l of
and they
alfalfa hay in
leave the
ndition 40 sow wheat
at follow
soy beans
» CTOD diffienlt to
experienced grow.
difficulty.
the cock. Ex
a week
ven though thiza may take
or two soy
beans seldom spoil
that can come
and
farmers
for lime
ground ready for
ip to it
quality low cost per
not all are ready to
the money
alfalfa.
the
» men soy bean Is
Well Prepared Seed Bed
e cheapest and easiest
corn any other
the seed Is planted if
geod hed is thoroughly well prepared
and all of the surface well pulverized
the crop is In the best
start growing. It will
weather conditions permit,
time to
cultivate or crop, Is
before
condition
to
letting the first weed seeds start to
grow, and then going over the field
an extra time with the harrow to up-
root them. When the seed is ppt into
a warm, mellow, well cleaned soil, it
has a real chance to start growing and
to get ahead of noxious weed growth.
Get Barley Seeded Early
For a good crop of barley It is quite
important to get it seeded early: in
fact, It 18 best to seed barley before
oats are seeded for hest results, It
{s beneficial for oats and barley reed
to remain In cold ground a short time
pefore the soll and ground Is four
to be warm enough for growth,
own very early, both oats and bar.
ey seed should be well-matured, or
there Is much danger of its rotting
wfore growth starts
See Potato Buyers
Victims of Tricks
ties by Dealers.
(Prepared by the United States Department
of Agriculture.)
Potato growers who purchase seed
potatoes do not always get the particu-
There is so
much substitution of varieties by seed
potato dealers that the grghwers are
the passage of control meas-
Sub
either careless or willful,
are more apt to be made, says William
Stuart, potato specialist of the United
States Department of Agriculture, for
the known
“fancy names’
or “new and highly advertised" vari
etles are more likely to be victimized,
he says, than those who stick to the
known varieties,
Mr. Stuart ordered 130 different va-
from 61 different
firms replied that
of that particu
a8 vari
cent
than
stitutions,
newer or less varieties,
last year
Many
out”
the
were “just
Of
that were
proved be
named
per
ir variety.
eties received, 20
varieties other
the
varieties were ordered
to
order. In one
instance, three A
iging himself as
nt
oho
i
packng
rove
of
he three varieties ordered
1d
If Carefully Cared
Tomatoes as roige |
Formalin Is Effective
Against Scab of Potato
1008 COTTGRIVO imate
ne water. Seed should he so
depending
scurf infect!
whole and
n treated by method.
bithnm
either
Trees Are Valuable for
Any Unproductive Land
™ ka i
The United States forest service
of
western
g the years 1010-11
r
es of ‘ ni
pial ted
Tr 1
yellow |
glas fir in the vicinity of Colorade
16
wat service has realized $2.50 from
just years later, the
aereage in thinnings and
me time has left 500 trees to
These
will
alone,
the sa
» pere for a future
which have
crop AH)
froes heen left prove
for 1
Farmers should plant thoze unpro
ductive acres to trees and late
a eash return from them. —(
Lee, Extension Forester, Colors
dari
Alfalfa hay, home-grown grain, and
pure-bred sires spell dairy success,
- « -
Screens around the dairy early
mean flies later In
in
less the
year.
- . -
The first grass is watery and poor
fecd for stock: and the stock are also
hard on the first grass,
* - *
Legumes such as sweet clover
alfalfa cannot grow In acid soil
is why farmers are putting
their soils.
and
That
lime on
* . »
Millet smut
vented by giving the
bonste dust treatment,
for sorghum smut,
- . »
may be entirely pre.
copper oars
the same as
The junior elub boy of today will be
the farmer of tomorrow so why not
wateh with interest the way he cares
for his calf, pig, or colt?
. "0
Farmers who notice the cream test
decreasing needn't worry as that is
logical with the heavily Increased milk
flow. They are just getting more milk
and .ess butterfat,
EAGERLY SOUGHT
Government Publications
in a Year.
Washington.—The document divi
glon of the government printing
fice, which, under the superintend-
ent of documents, has charge of
distribution and of nearly all
government publications, except those
allotted to members of congress, last
year made amounting to $487.-
922.63, an of 847,017.70 over
the preceding year, and $194,501 more
than for the fiscal 1921, ac-
cording to George H, United
States public printer,
In the fiscal 1025 the docu-
ment division sold 7,770,782 coples of
various government an
inerease of H26,041 for
19024. Most of these publications were
ordered by letters, of which 375,07
received during the year A
large number also were gold over the
the
on«the ground
building.
The
publicati
says Mi
that the office has
tising its products ar
sale
sales
increase
year
Carter,
year
publications,
over the sales
were
counter of government bookstore
floor of the Document
increasing sale of gove
ns Is especially ne teworthy,
Carter, of the fact
y fund for adver
18 10
with free distril
congress and other offi
30 four
is flhiereiore
ymparatively
charge for
it Is pointed
upon re print
printer Ww
feally
thus
the sup-
ply of wmiblie
‘Would Help Pay for
r 1
ensed
Printing.
gales would, of
{
i
i
{
help compensate the government for
the cost of printing,” the report con-
tinues, “but a material growth in
gales, unless accompanied by a re-
duction of the free coples, would ne-
cessitate an additional force and a
larger building for the document divi-
gion, which is already geriously over-
crowded. Therefore, any plan for the
increased sale and distribution of gov-
division,
the fiscal year
division distributed
of publications
these
1925 the
04,084,
About
pur-
“During
document
458 copies
7.000.000 of
chased by the public, The distribution
was made in 21,872,200 packages, fill-
ing 130,155 mall Periodical
distribution for the various depart
ment and subscription lists requires
the handling of 1,285 mailing lists
containing approximately RK35,000
From 22.
machine stencil
made during the year
to the demand
publications the
coples were
sucks
names, these mailing lists
712,004
were
“In
government
ument division has to carry a
stock of fully 30,000,000 copies,
order meet for
docu
regular
includ.
publication jesued
half
super
received
ing alinost every
by the
century During the
fntendent of
stored B5.138.827 co
government in the last
vear the
documents
governin
|
i
i
|
i
i
{
infor-
obtained
from any
makes it
mation which
as readily and
other source,
Better Library Service,
“Better service is helng rendered
posgible to furnish
could not he
aecurately
fore, indicated by the increasing
pumber of libraries that have found
it advantageous to CONETres-
sional designation as depositories of
government publications, iy the
us
secure
new law allowing depositories to se-
the of to he
furnished by the government, the de
Hibraries
lect class publications
pository hnve been relieved
the burden
imposed in having to receive
of
heretofore
and
publication
+
unbearable
xtore
coples every printed
by the governmen
the selection plan only Of
“Under
of the
elected to
designated libraries
take «
publications
depository
oples of all govern-
ment 230 Ybraries re
the
libraries
the
than 50 per cent of
of the smaller
per
of
patrons.
fected a
celve
Hint,
Los 4
more
174
50
and
than cent, or only
wablications specind Interest
I
This
ing in
to
plan wl
the printing of
which here-
aries ha to discard
ing space
has
say
tofore
after au
the
time ow
or usefulness
“Another
depository
agreeable rvice to the
libraries ig the immediate
not plated, refunds have to be
During the last re
ports, £10.641.11 repre
genting either overpayments or supply
exhausted,
Would Facilitate Payments,
“The adoption by
ade,
fisenl vear, he
wns returned,
the government of
the line of the
would be a
for
ernment publications, but for any
Cunadian postal note
great conven not
I ence
only the publlie in ordering gov-
ane
afl-order house
> 14 or 4 ¥
patronizing a nu ]
small
where
remittances are involved”
de
elares the superintendent
rt to the
“Although
age stamp
year mao
received
not find
would be
as NOnRece
they can
Fortunatels
grown
ahle
vinced
It Depends
A trench
The cable was land
Ar fret ot was
able,
Gi
And the
rate of three
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