may be propagated
covering part of the
This process Is known
Certain plants
or multiplied by
plant with soil.
as layerage, and is a very simple way
to propagate many common bush fruit
plants and shrubs.
currants, raspberries,
grapes, rambler roses, lilacs, Japanese
Gooseberries,
barberry and privet hedge are a few
of the common plants easily propa-
gated In manner,
There are two general types of lay-
erage as the illustration,
gays the Pr The first is
known as tip ‘ing and is the type
used with raspberries, and
rambler All that Is necessary
is to cover the i] of
of the
this
shown in
‘armer,
grapes
roses
several
with
one or
branches plant
moist soil. Tha art the branch
which is
root, and wher
vered from the
transplanted as a
All work of layering should be done
in the spring after and
the secret of success lies in keeping
the soil moist the part.
If it dries out, the buried tip will not
root. this
pring transplant
growing
covered with soil will take
rooted it can be se-
\
plant and
new plant,
parent
growth starts,
over covered
Plants hich are layered
ready to
Caution Farmers
“United States Verified-
Origin Seed” Certifi-
Of
Bureau's Recommendation.
bureau's recommend
to
¥ state certification as
cage of doubt as to the
weed
farmers should
agent or write
w
the alfa!
and norti
are required
itral
They
sible, all aifal by them
(except st { imported
erie no igir 1 gh In-
seed) u
spection certificates issue ¥ federal
inspectors
Where to Obtain Seed.
Verified-origin alfalfa seed
her
the 46 verified «
may
obtained eit directly from
’ :
ers or from i ail or
verified-origin alfaifa seed under
tificate of a
er. Such
than seed of
of the
and accurate
cor
verifie seed deal-
seed may cost a little more
rifled origin because
non
expense of Xeeping complete
ind
but
in certificat-
the addl-
records
Ing seeds as to origin.
is Insignit
protectic
user of such seed
compared
given the
tional cost cant as
with the m which is
main-
verifled-origin deal-
question arise as to
the authenticity and identity of any lot
of verified-origin alfalfa seed. a four-
and should
be gent for examination to the bureau
of agricultural Washing-
ton, D, C. The verified-origin seed
certificate relates only to origin of al-
falfa seeds, and not to variety, purity,
germination, quality, grade, or other
factors.
Government supervision Is
tained over the 46
ers. Should any
ounce sample certificate
economies,
Grinding Feed at Home
Quite Economical Plan
Through experimental work carried
on at Purdue university and other agri-
cultural experiment stations, it has
been found that there is a consider.
able saving in grinding feed at home
and that the power usually
from one-third to one-half that of the
cost of grinding. With small
grinders and motors, the overhead part
of the cost will be very small, espe
cially where the farmer lives a consid.
erable distance from a custom mill
and where roads are very bad. By
using small mills and well-designed
automatic feeding devices, the labor
cost of feed grinding can be almost
aliminated
cost Is
Custom
Layering.
next fall or in the spring of 1930.
Be sure the tip is
before severing it from
plant. It will be well to
fall plants
from layers made the spring before
rooted
parent
thoroughly
the
walt
which
to sever new
consists
up,
growing plant, In
merely of
nhout
layering, and
throwing, or mounding
the base of a
case, too, it is
soil
Necessary
mounded-up soil from drying out. This
type I8 most essful on goosebher
8110¢
ries, currants, lilacs,
ry and privet.
The mounding I=
Japanese barber
early summer, sand
branches whi
will
sp g the ¢
fully and the p!
into as many new
bran
Un
h were
have rooted.
hes or stems
black ra
the tips have t«
taken root wit!
fed.
tip layering
This Is
You cannot
Appetite Estimated
on a Footage Basis
Vegetable Requirements for
the Average Family.
apart in
seed will
family
from 100 feet
feet of Inte
set 36 to 40 inch
Peking Soy Bean Excels
as Strictly Hay Plant
The Peking soy bean
i
hext
is probably the
strictly hay bean that ean be
raised in Iliinois, Should not be sown
very deep, Just deep enough that they
are well covered, Sow them following
corn planting: five to
will be
small,
#ix pecks
sufficient, as
per
acre these
very
Sow them with a
are
grain drill as this
will tend to keep them from becoming
They should be the
beans begin to form in the pod, which
will probably be about the time the
lower leaves begin to show a ripened
condition,
Coarse, cut as
$ Agricultural Notes
is the
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Bermuda
Corn, where it can be grown
cessfully, makes the best silage,
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sce
Market gardeners have found that
the soil is full of plant food.
* ’ .
For cows there is
than oats although the price often
large amounts,
CE
Cream should be protected in
winter to prevent freezing.
er should be properly
against freezing to Insure Its
both summer and winter.
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The eool.
When properly cured, goy heans
make excellent hay. It is higher in
protein and nutrients than is alfalfa.
Experiments have shown that good
soy bean hay is equivalent to alfalfa
hay for the production of milk.
Traced to Crusaders
The sword salute originated in the
time of the Crusaders when the hilt
of the sword was made In the form
of a cross, Every Crusader kissed the
cross as a seal of his purpose and
faith and swore by the hilt of the
sword, raising it to his lips for that
purpose. Another custom passed down
to the ages from the Crusaders, and
one that has been a custom in all
Christian navies since then, Is that
of placing an officer's cap and sword
on his coffin during burial services,
The Crusader's shield and arms ecov-
ered him In death,
Preserving Rose Scent
Attar of roses is obtalned by dls-
tillation from small white roses, known
ns Musata, and a dark red variety,
known as Rosa Damascena. Usually
It takes 180 pounds of rose petals to
make an ounce of rose oll, but twice
this amount has been used at times,
depending upon the quality of
flowers and the climatic conditions at
harvest time,
The harvesting of the roses occurs
during the latter part of May and the
beginning of June. A good harvest
lasts about twenty-five days and re-
Pie Making as Home
Industry Is Passing
“The mincing of meat in ples sav-
eth the grinding of the teeth,” wrote
Bacon. “The devil speed him. No
man's ple Is freed from his ambitious
finger,” says Shakespeare In Henry
VIII. As far back as the Fifteenth
century the ple was used as a theme
for comedies, “The Ple and the Tart,”
in France, and in later years “The Ple
Dish” and the “Ple In the Oven,” In
England.
“The ple,” wrote Harrlet Jeechgr
Stowe in “Oldtown,” “is an English in-
stitution which, planted on American
soll, forthwith ran rampart and broke
forth Into an incredible variety of
genera and specles.”
The ple, as a breakfast dish, is dls.
appearing from American tables, bt
remains in popular favor for luncheon
and dinner. But the bakers of today
are performing such feats with pastry
and frult that the home-made ple of
traditional depth and elrcumference,
covered, open-face or with lattice-work
trimmings, is threatened with extine-
tion. Should it be banished, to be
succeeded by the less difficult tart or
Jelly-roll, there will be lost forever
a means by which the cook may ex-
binding.
quires damp, cool weather, as the
flowers are picked In the
while the dew Is still on
vest time will seriously damage a good
crop.
Oldest Scientific Society
The American Philosophical soclety
is the oldest of America’s scientific so-
cleties. The soclety originated in the
ye.
Benjamin Franklin in 1727.
of its members were signers of the
Declaration of Independence and 18
tion, Nine Presidents of the
States, Including Washington,
Woodrow Wilson and
Hoover, have been
soclety’s membership.
Presidents,
Jeffor-
son,
from
Thre oa
Roosevelt
elected
Cleveland, and
All seven Americans who have
the Nobel prize have been members of
this organization,
press her artistry in tracing patterns
with a fork on crust. Ple-making apd
quilting were two arts of the ploneer
American woman,
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