Clover Winning Popular Favor Unexcelled as Cover Crop " for Plowing Under to Improve Soils. As a pasture and soil improving erop, sweet clover is winning a pop- ular piyce for itself among ‘many farmers. As a cover crop for plowing under in the general field, in the orchard, or pasture, it is sald to be unexcelled. Recent tests in Illinois show an ac cumulation of nitrogen in the tops and roots of around 250 pounds per acre from clover planted one spring and tested in May of the following year. This is as muéh nitrogen as is con- tained in 20 tons of average farm ma- nure or in over 1,600 pounds of ni trate of soda. with the crop, say those who have grown it, depends on a good seed bed, well Hmed. At least one to two tons of finely ground limestone must be used to each acre. Inocula- tion of the seed is also Important, In many instances farmers have not obtained a good stand with the first trial even under the best of tions and treatment; but, once a good gtand is secured in a field, sweet clo- ver will be found one of the valuable crops on the farm. A recent bulletin from Kentucky says, “Sweet clover is perhaps the mast valuable of all legumes for pas- ture and soil improvement on Ken tucky farms. Properly managed, sweel clover pastures will support at least one steer or dairy cow per acre from early spring until late fall, which Is two or three times the capacity of Kentucky pastures at present time. The growth of grasses is great- ly stimulated by sweet clover when It is included in the pasture mixture,” Success condi- most the Select Seed Potatoes From Healthy Plants Tubers Intended for next year's “goed” should be selected from healthy plants alone, and should lifted while the foliage is The per- gistence of the seed tuber, with the resulting poorer growth, is accounted for by the of the seed potato. The seed potato ought to decay. Tubers for seed size of a fowls The must be “set,” which is evidence that the potato is ripe, for the crop to keep surely until the spring. The skin is set when It does not rub off easily with the thumb, and tubers for seed mnst be ripened in many hours of sun- shine. This greens them, which Is further evidence that they are ripe The seed crop must be kept in the light all the winter, although not nec- essarily boxed for spring planting. Protect it with coverings of straw during a winter spell of weather, be green. overdevelopment are better of the serer Bh skin Feeding Soy Beans to Hogs Is Favored Plan Soy beans may be fed to hogs quite successfully provided a good mineral mixture Is also fed, as soy beans are lacking to a large extent in mineral matter. Good success has been had with soy beans, mixing them with tankage— ene part beans, two parts tankage. Soy beans may alse be fed to pigs In the bundle and let them do their own threshing. Sey beans may be fed in the place of tankage when the of beans is two-thirds of price of tankage per ton. Of course, if you have your own beans and do not have a ready market for them they may be worth more than that rather than make a cash outlay for tankage. price soy the Agricultural Hints SPHIVIIPIPIPPIPIPPEIPPPP Paint will help the looks of the farm buildings. . . . A hen's first laying season Is her most profitable. . * » Building costs are high, so we must take better care of the buildings. * * . Don't expect provide shelter owner must himself, high-priced feeds to for animals, The look after the shelter Lambing tolls can be reduced and the loss of many of the fattest ewes by paralysis prevented by proper cold weather management. . . . Erosion, gullying and sheet erosion take an annual toll of $200,000,000 from farmers of the United States. The loss is in their basic resource, the soll, . & » Although dairy herds of low butter fat-producing cows require less feed and less man labor, the cost per pound of the butterfat Is greater than for herds of high-producing cows. - - . Pullets that are nearly grown re quire much more space than they did when two or three months old. Be sure to have sufficient roost space so that cach pullet may sit on the roost _" being crowded. . & » As lambing time approaches the loose wool should be trimmed from the flanks and udder as this gives the young lamb a better chance to secure pourishment, and lessen possibility of wool balls in lambs’ stomachs. HALL. PA. $5.83 an Acre, Cash From This Must Be Deduct- ed Taxes and Interest. Few owners of farm woodlots have reasonably expect from woodlands protected from grazing live stock, and from which only. the “ripe” trees are harvested at regular intervals. But ¥. W. Dean, extension forester at Wooster, Ohlo, recently met such an owner, who has protected his woods and kept a record of the in- come from them. This owner lives in Richland county and his woodland tract of 20 acres has paid him, during the past 24 years, a cash income of $5.83 per acre for the standing in- come. From this must be deducted interest and taxes, In 1903, the bulk of the large tim- ber was sold from the land for $3,000. But there was left a large quantity of thrifty growing tulip poplar, white ash, white and red oak, sugar maple, hasswood chestnut, 1003 four logs have been sold, Once in every six years the owner through the woods, selected a tree here and there, and marketed the logs. He has re- ceived In the 24 years, 83.500 for the timber sold, giving the annual return of £5.83 “Every grazed ing woodl and Since of about crops has gone ripe per farm can be acre, that Is converted into a * Dean ition it | now pay- woods RiYs, resent contd 108 A ture so far as producing a future timber crop.” Pullets Should Now Be in Houses for Winter Pullets should be placed in t manent quarters before commence laying. plenty of ventilation In their building, but no direct drafts, and by no means should they be crowded. A house will cause building 16 by ninety to one fortably, allowing t e winter There should crowded i endless 20 will hundred trouble. A house from COme- and an square feet of flo space puliets hree to three one-half for each. ak slow They will pay f Their eggs will be few Cull out runty, ma- for and ' the early turing pullets not their feed. far between and they will be next summer. Utilize the need pullets, Whether pullets appear to be lousy or not, treated with godium fluoride, but not dipped. S ly put ten inches of next witch the they should be powdered gix to powder in the feathers hoing to feathers about skin, tail each wing. of mash In liberal feeds of vening. feed should be suppl hell and (ivster shell An occa moist mash is a factor in good Supply plenty the e Variety is . Green dance Hre nNecesss agement. Very Economical Feed Alfalfa hay ground and fed «h makes 4 economical In on in a feed by Da- ring ground nd bran as a » same basal ration, gt feed cost Very tests ca of South sven at the high price ial ground alfalfa. iad been ground on have made a very feed. obtained thus far in that the most desirable amount faifa in the ration and 20 per cent. A 20 per cent alfal- fa meal mash gave a feed cost of 17.2 cents per dozen eggs. A 40 per cent mixture was unsatisfactory as egg production could not be main- tained. —C. D. Byrne, South Dakota Agricultural college, low cost lesults dicate of al lies between 10 “Bottled Sunshine” Is Title Now Given Eggs Eggs have been called “bottled sun- shine” because they contain vitamine D, the vitamine for which cod liver ofl Is gaining In new reputation. Be- cause eggs produced under favorable conditions do contain this vitamine, the value of eggs as a food has risen. Miss Cora Cooke, poultry specialist of the extension division of the Minne. gota College of Agriculture, says, however, that if hens are to store up sunshine, or .the mysterious vitamine D, in their eggs, they must live nun- der generally healthful conditions and must themselves spend much of the time in the sun. For this reason she suggests that poultry raisers see to it that their laying flocks have am- ple range and that such range should be kept sanitary at all times. Hens kept under such conditions do store up vitamine D, and do produce bot, tied sunshine. Growing Soy Beans In recent years soy beans have been grown to a large extent as a grain crop because there has been an in creasing demand for the beans for seed purposes, As the acreage of soy beans increases, the demand for seed will diminish, but even then it will be profitable to grow them as a grain crop because they have a very high value as a supplement to the ordinary farm grains as has been demonstrated at a number of our experiment sta tions, Trees and Prosperity of Nation Are Linked The economic structure upon which our nation is bullt Is made of forest products, writes Charles Lathrop Pack In the Military Engineer. Just as wooden railroad tiles marked the westward advance of civilization, so other products of the forests have kept pace with national growth, and made it possible. When we had to have more houses, down came the trees.” We had to have more barns, schools and churches, down came the trees, We had to have farm imple- ments, and wood for fuel, down came more trees, Coal was found and strange as it may seem, there was n great demand for wood because it must be used in mining coal. The annals of our country have been written meross the pages of his- tory because of trees, and the time has come to give thought to what the his- torian of the day will write about it 100 years from now. Every step of our onward march has been made pos sible because, and by means, of trees. Most Important of All Billy Wood submits the following famous rocks: — bottom; — pile; — a-hye baby; — the boat: — of Ages; — of Gibral- tar; — and rye. jut, Billy, why mous rocks that through life less rocky? 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