Farmer Township (part 21 of 25)

Wood Co., O.. (N. W.) June 4. - Rather rainy yet hot. Quite a few potatoes to go in. Most corn planted, tho some plowing is to be done. Corn coming up well. Great show for hay. Quite a good clover catch reported. Pastures excellent. Quite a bit of clover being hogged down. Some cultivating being done. General outlook is promising. - C. A. Waugh.

Darke Co., O., (W. CO May 30. - All stock doing well. Horses scarce and very high. Short crop of spring pigs; fat hogs about all shipped out. Few beef cattle raised. Farmers stocking up with dairy cattle. Hogs. 5%e; butter fat, 21c;corn, $1 cwt. Owing to rainy weather corn planting was two weeks' late. Prospects for hay, wheat and oats were never better; tobacco about all sold and new crop being planted. - C. R. Smelker.

Crawford Co., O.. (N. C.) June 1. - Good growing weather. Stock doing well, pasture good. Crops of all kinds doing well. Wheat coming in head. Hay crop will be large. More clover hay than usual. Wheat. 86c; corn. 75c; oats. 50c: hay. $10; wool, 16@19c. Corn planting about finished. Some are cultivating corn. Much hay being baled and shipped. - C. E. Reece.

Steuben Co., N. Y., (S. W.) June 3. - Cold and wet. Lightning, rain and hail have done much damage in some parts of the county. Grass generally is looking fine: winter wheat same. Oats sowing is hardly completed because of wet weather. Little corn or potatoes planted yet. Less oats sowed than intended. Ground has been too wet. The blister mite, which caused some alarm last year, is but little in evidence. - F. H. Dow.

Kanawha Co.. W. Va., (W. C.) June 3. - Cool and dry. Stock doing well, but no buyers. Potatoes and grass look well, corn small for time of year. Fruit about all dropped; will not have 10 percent of crop. Good show for berries. Farmers well along with work but acreage will be smaller than last year. - Fred A. Kendall.

Adams Co., O., (S. C.) June 3. - Showers frequent. All crops making rapid growth. Live stock in good condition. Corn is about all planted. The early planted corn failed to come because of heavy rains in May. replanting necessary. Wheat promises fair crop. Some red rust on wheat. Some tobacco set out in field. Working of public roads is begun. The late road law appears to be a step backward. Wheat, $1; corn, 80®90c;hogs, 5c; cattle. 4®5c; potatoes, $1.20; wool, 15®17c. Not much discrimination shown as regards quality of wool. - W. E. Roberts.

Reno Co., Kan.. (S. C.) June 2. - Plenty of rain at present; came just in time as everything was suffering. Wheat was badly damaged but will make half a crop. Wheat, 90c; corn. 63c; butter, 20c; eggs, VZYxc; potatoes, $1. - Sylvester Boker.

Henry Co.. O., (N. W.) June 1. - Wet and cool; favorable for all farm crops. Wheat, oats and clover never looked more promising at this season of year. Corn all planted and coming nicely; some cultivated once. Some complaint of cutworms on sod. Early potatoes lookinfr fine. Pastures and meadows looking fine and live stock doing well. Apples will be light crop; cherries a half crop; no pears; peaches and plums promise a full crop; strawberries a half crop and just beginning to ripen. Farm work well up to season. Wheat. 97c; oats, 50c; rye, 75c; corn, $1 cwt.; butter, 16c; eggs, 14c; lard, 8c; hogs. 5c. Poultry crop not large, Some hay still in farmers' hands, selling at $8(72)10. - T. M. G.

Ashtabula Co., O.. (N. E.) June 8. - After much rain we now are having a season of dry weather. Ea>~ly sown oats looking fine. A good many on the low lands were not able to sow until late on account of the wet weather. Wheat and hay are good. Corn that is up is doing fine. Cattle of all kinds high, 3%® 4c per lb.: calves. 5c; good cows, $50@60 and scarce; milk. 90c per cwt.; butter, 25c lb.; eggs. 14c. - Elmer A. Bates.

Fulton Co.. O.. (N. W.) June 8. - May has been very wet; corn planting very late. Stock doing well; lots of feed. Wheat looking well; clover and meadows looking fine; sheep mostly shorn. Wool prices are very low. 16@20c. Wheat. 94c; oats, 50c; corn. $1 per hundred lb.; highest for a good many years. Farm work well up. Labor high. $1.50 per day. Delta milk condensary is receiving 125,000 lb. per dav. - J. M. Sindel.

Brook Co.. W. Va.. (E. C.) June 8. - Fine growing weather. Some rain. Sheep have all been shorn. No wool being sold on account of the price. The wheat will make an average crop. Never was a better prospect for a fine crop of oats. There is a good stand of corn and a fine showing for potatoes. - E. F. Jones.

Secretary Wilson's report shows that Uncle Sam's hay crop amounted to over $660,000,000 last year. One of the biggest crops ever. But some .bigger ones are coming. Hay is pretty good stuff to raise. It runs into money and is easily handled if you have up-to-date hay machinery. The way some of these new mowers, stackers, rakes and loaders do save time and labor is certainly a caution. Every farmer who raises ten acres of hay ought to keep in touch with the latest ideas in hay tools - some of the » are eye-openers. After last year's experience with an unusually heavy crop wo should think a good many must be about convinced that an investment in a good loader or stacker or press would be money well spent. In fact, a number of our friends who raise considerable hay tell us the Improved hay tools they recently purchased are the best dividend payers of any machines they've got on the farm. It's easy to find out about the best machines, what they cost and everything they will do. Just write to Joe Dain of Dain Manufacturing Co., 812 Vine St., Ottumwa, Iowa. Joe has been making, Inventing and patenting hay tools over a quarter of a century, ami what he knows about good hay tools would fill a book larger than the family Bible. You can write him personally and ask him anything you want to know about his specialty. He will tell you and won't charge you anything for the information.

The New Rock Island Hay Loader is claimed to be the only one that can be satisfactorily operated by one man. With this loader, it is not necessary to have a man constantly at the mouth of the machine to keep the hay cleared away, as it has no return carrier to pull the hay off the load when allowed to pile up. The general principles of construction that have for so many years made this one of the most satisfactory loaders on the market have been retained, and several new features have teen added that place it in a class by itself, such as open or direct chain drive, roller bearings on main axle and crank shaft, swinging swathboard to regulate capacity of machine for light or heavy hay or loading from windrows, and several other equally valuable improvements. The upper part of the floor is hinged to deliver hay at any hight. enabling driver to build up his load in layers, or to place it where wind can not blow it off on windy days. The Rock Island rakes and loads hay on a side hill, or while going up or down hill, as well as on the level. Will take up the hay clean from even the roughest ground over which it is possible to drive a mower or wagon. By means of its automatic coupler the loader can be instantly detached without getting off the load. Rakes and loads a swath eight feet wide. The Rock Island lasts longer, pulls easier and does better work than any other. Write for the circular, showing pictures of the loader in action, to Department F, Rock Island Plow Co., Rock Island. 111.

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The next best thing to avoiding poisonous plants is to know what to do when you do get poisoned. The most common of these poisonous plants is probably poison ivy. This is a vine, readily distinguished i'roui other vines by the fact that it has only three leaves in a cluster instead of five. Some people are extremely sensitive to this poison while others are not affected by it at all. I have handled it many times and also the sumach and never experienced any bad effect from it; on the other hand my husband can not even go near it without being poisoned, and I had a young relative frightfully poisoned by handling wood that came from a place where the ivy grew.

The sumach is also very poisonous - that is, the variety known as the swamp sumach is. In some places this is called poison dogwood, altho I can not see why, for it certainly resembles the sumach family, and after the first frosts is very beautiful.

About the best remedy that I have found, and we have had a number of cases of such poisoning in 'our family, is a wash made of sugar of lead; if you do not have this and can not get it immediately, sour buttermilk will relieve wonderfully. Above all things be careful about using remedies of which you know nothing; you would much better call a physician. I have a friend who is disfigured for life by using something on a neighbor's advice. She was poisoned terribly, and the neighbor told her to wash the affected part with copperas water. She did so, but it only made it worse; a physician was then called but the deadly work had been done. When the sores healed it looked exactly as if the whole skin had been tattood with dark blue, and all efforts to remove the marks have been failures so far. - Irma B. Mathews, Barry Co., Mich.

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AVhat do you do with buttermilk? It is considered a luxury by some people, and it really has a greater value than as a drink for pigs. It is highly recommended by physicians for consumptive patients, but it must be absolutely fresh. When it becomes thick and stale it is worthless. It is much used by persons suffering from indigestion. Perfectly fresh and cold, it is a delicious drink for any one. and should be served often in country homes.

If you want to clean pitchers that have deposits of water-lime in them, just fill them with buttermilk and allow them hi stand over night. In the morning the lime may be easily washed off.

Fresh buttermilk is used just as sour milk would be in making cottage cheese, and the cheese finds ready sale. A lady who made a great deal of this cheese for sale paid for a carriage in

Buttermilk is excellent for making batter cakes, waffles and all cakes tailing for soda and sour milk. The buttermilk from separated milk is especially good for this purpose.

Fresh buttermilk is good for the complexion and will remove freckles. Apply at night and wash off with soap in the morning. - Margaret May, Hardin Co., O.

Children Need Privacy By Marion Gordon

For their mental and physical development children require some time alone. This theory is being most interestingly promulgated by certain French scientists, who are devoting themselves to the regeneration of the French people.

It is believed that the nervous system of the child is sapped in two ways. By direct assault of other human vibrations upon the little one, or the stealing of his vitality by a stronger individual.

"Watch your little boy or girl," says a writer. "If he is really free you will discover that he takes-daily rest from human contact." The country child seeks the woods and fields. The city child, if he be fortunate, seeks his own little room. Yet how many mothers relentlessly follow and rout out the child, when it thus blindly seeks to saves its vital forces.

"Respect the child's privacy," says ex-President Loubet. "Every child, when it is possible, should have its own exclusive bedroom, its 'den,' its own private place, its refuge pure and cool from the bombardments of alien vitalities." There are two kinds of sleep," says M. Loubet. "Professor Vaschide's long continued scientific! studies of the question show that solitary sleep is alone truly reparative! and reposing. The child that sleeps: in the same room with grown people, or the child who must sleep with oth-i er children, has a sleep that is more I superficial, less continuous."

"All the functions of the organism,! such as the beating of the heart, blood I pressure, respiratory movements, production of heat, automatically slackened during solitary sleep, undergo notable perturbations as to rythm and I constancy in sleep that is troubled by ; human contact," says Professor Vaschide. "Sleep under human contact attains the depth of solitary sleep only in cases of exhaustion."

The "fresh air" enthusiast has undoubtedly brought purer air into our sleeping rooms, but these scientists are aiming to destroy another evil. The fond American mother too often crowds unnecessarily the sleeping apartments of her family. Whether to humor the "fear" of the child, or to "save work" for herself, some pre-j text is always available to confine the family of little ones within one or two rooms.

The practice of using for work or | living moms thru the day the rooms which should be reserved exclusively as bedrooms can not be too strongly condemned. The influence of the day occupant remains to prevent restful sleep at night.

But not alone is the physical perfection of the child retarded by -'overcontact with its kind." A mind sur-| rounded at all times by noise and chattering tongues has no chance for development. Periods of solitude are demanded for its normal growth. All great characters are built up in this way. Great inventions are produced only by deep thinkers.

The wise parent, then, who sees her child apparently absorbed in "idle thought." instead of urging him always to "run and play." will allow the expanding mind to revel in its beloved visions - to think and dream of the mysteries which fill his world.

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Teachers- Salary

The Ohio law compelling school boaTds to pay teachers $40 per month and for attending institutes is all right. In so doing teachers can afford to take time to attend, and after a week spent at their institute, they return to their schools with renewed energy, to put into practice the knowledge gained. Who receives the benefit? The $40 per month clause is doing more for the benefit of our schools than any school law passed for some time. No good teachers can afford to teach for less. Many school boards were searching for teachers who were willing to work for $25 per month or less without questioning their ability. Nov/, as they have to pay the price, they are more anxious to get the teacher with ability. While this raises taxes perhaps 2 cents on $1,000, our children are accomplishing more in tme year than they did before in two. I think too much of time to compel my children to pass it in the presence of a teacher who is not worth $50 per month, and if she is wwth it, she should have it. I think the time will come when we will have to pay the latter price, and every teacher be obliged to take a training course. "Haste the day."

I strongly favor the Boxwell law. This is an age of progress. Competition is close, and the boy or girl with a high school education is thrice armed to enter the battles of life. Of course they lose time at home from labor, but we, as parents, should not be so selfish as to think children are placed at our hearthstone for mere monetary gain. If children have the proper example set at home, no one need be afraid to trust them away from home to attend high school. While we are deprived of our children's company at home for a few years, we should be pleased with the thought that they are laying the foundation for a higher plane of manhood and womanhood than they would be able to gain otherwise. Education is the foundation of good government and sound morality, and we can't get too much of it to suit me, if I am a farmer. - Jasper Barber, Lorain Co., O.

We believe it would be detrimental to the public to read a discussion by any one who would hire a teacher who is not capable of earning more than $40 per month in the school room. Farm hands who are unable to read and write command $2.50 and $3 a day cutting corn; engineers get $12 to $15 per week; common laborers in factories, $12 to $18; and a trusted, reliable clerk in any department of business is considered cheap at $15 per week. And these, unlike the teacher, need not spend several years of time and money fitting themselves for their work. There was a time in England (which Dickens caricatured in "Nicholas Nickleby" with the character of Squeers, Dean of Dotheboys Hall), when a person who had made a total failure in business or politics took as a last resort to teaching school. In this country now, which is largely commercial, and when every line x>t business is specialized, the demand is for men who are able, capable and prepared to make a specialty of the work they undertake, and our schools must furnish them.

The writer has in mind two district schools: One has never turned out a teacher or Boxwell graduate; the other district, in adjoining township.has turned out eight first-class teachers and twenty-one Boxwell graduates in the last twelve years. One naturally inquires for the causes of these different results. They can not be attributed [to the soil, for the first named district has a good rich black soil that produces most anything (except school teachers), while the other district has a very light clay soil almost too poor 1 to raise beans. So our curiosity led us to inquire into the kind of teachers each district employed. We learned that the first district paid the lowest wages of any district in the 'county, that it was the common plan of the board of directors to receive , sealed bids and hire the lowest-priced teachers. Hence the economical school board had only applicants who could get no schools anywhere else, and who were failures. On the other hand the board in the other district never hired a teacher that was worth less than $50 per month. A teacher who had not taught at least three years in the same school would not be hired at all; teachers who never attended teachers' institutes and took no educational journals were advised to apply in the other district. So the drones and cheap, sleepy teachers usually steered clear of District No. 7.

There should be no demand, no opening for cheap, unenthusiastic teachers. What our schools need are men (and women. - Editors.) on the school boards who are intelligent and broad-minded - not mere narrow money-collectors, but people who, when selecting teachers, have the interests of the school at heart, then teachers will be hired who are capable of producing results. - P. C. Miller, Member School Board, Mercer Co., O.

Three Classes Of Teachers

The main trouble with our rural schools is lack of enough efficient teachers who try to do the best they can for pupils, who study the individual needs, mental endowments, and the environments which surround different ones, with a view to making them useful and honorable members of society. We do have such teachers, all honor to them, whatever the system .they labor under! We have another class who may be called systemizers. They have everything done by system, all children must be made alike, altho the Creator never made people alike. This teacher requires the boy who has no taste or use for Latin or literature, since he intends to be a farmer, but who likes reading, writing, arithmetic and botany, to stay in the grade till he can pass in all the studies of the course. Then we have a class that may be called school-keepers. They stay at the school-house from nine till four, with more thought on the four than on the nine. From these last two classes we, as parents, are asking deliverance.

As to a "general range of subjects;" is that what the world is demanding today? This is the day of specialists. The demand is that you know one thing well, and not that you have a smattering of everything, but know nothing thoroly.

The "patriotic man who nobly puts his shoulder to the wheel in the common effort for improvement and growth" should be sure that it is the wheel of progress, not the wheel of self-interest of the teacher. Some parents are capable of knowing what is helpful to the child and school. Tho the "old regime of the 'deestrict skule' " turned out some exceedingly good and useful men and women in the past ( v/hich should be the aim of all schools) we do not advocate going back to the old ways but we would insist that we get more practical instruction for our children, and less fad and system. The investiga,- tion of the school system of Ohio by the Legislature last winter showed more political machine than conscientious effort for the instruction of the youth. Parents, it is time that we assert ourselves and demand that our children get instruction that will enable them to take useful and honored places in the race of life. It is not frills and fancies that the children need. It is honesty, morality, nobility, politeness and practical instruction on practical subjects. - O. A. Rice, Defiance Co., O.

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Notes From An Expert Egg

Keeping poultry for the production of eggs, to realize a profit and make a success, requires some experience; more, in fact, than most people imagine. Do not get the idea that all there is to it is getting some incubators and filling them up with eggs and hatching them out in the spring, and by fall have laying hens and that, when eggs are high, you will be taking in some of the high prices that are quoted in the papers. That theory looks nice when you are not in the business. But tTy it and see what your experience will be. You may be surprised. It will not be much trouble to find a good second-hand outfit near by fitted' up with all the latest, improved ideas for the raising of poultry, abandoned simply because the owner did not have any experience in the business and made a failure of it.

If one of your family was lying at death's door would you go for a lawyer, dentist or blacksmith; or would you get the best doctor you knew of to handle the case? And why would you get him? Because you would feel he had experience and knew what he was doing. You would have confidence in such a man to handle the case right.

Now in the poultry and egg business it is the same way. You must know what you are doing all the time and how it will come out to make a success of it, and that requires long experience. The man that makes the most money on his hens is the man on a farm, who can keep a large flock and raise his own feed. And when he gets to understand how to guard against some of the many mishaps that come his way, he will be able to make some money on his hens, for there is money in it when you know how to get it.

Another very important point for the producer to learn is the care of the eggs after he has got them. There is where most people fall down. They will do everything to an egg that they ought not to do, and then wonder why any one should complain. They imagine their eggs are always strictly fresh, no matter what their age is or how they have been kept. Do not for a minute think it will improve an egg to let it lie in the sun or in the heat any length of time. Milk will get sour in short order in the sun or heat, but you can smell or taste it as soon as you see it. But an egg keeps its secret till the shell is broken, or gets in the hands of an expert egg tester. He will tell what is wrong just as a doctor will when he iooks at a patient.

Another bad fault is the washing of eggs. Of course a nice, clean egg looks better and is more salable than a soiled one, but nine times out of ten the dirty egg , is the freshest. Nature puts on a coating over the shell to preserve it, and when you wash that off and do not replace it with an artificial coat you are doing something that will make the egg stale in a short time. How many ever think of that when they are washing them? An egg shell has pores in it and when they are open they permit air to pass in and out and that is what makes it stale. A shell that is securely sealed will keep sweet a long time, like canned fruit. How long will a can of fruit last when the air can get to it? The same applies to an egg. Clean your eggs if you will but. do it right by closing the pores afterwards.

I nothed in a recent issue of the Ohio Farmer that some one was complaining about the price of eggs in Cleveland being so high, and in his little country town so low. If he will do the same with his eggs that the neater here has to do he might get more money. He says he gets lGc for his right at his door and they are selling at 30c in Cleveland. He. like all others, thinks that his eggs are all of the 30c grade.. Some are and some ;<re not. When they arrive here they ave to be taken out of the crates and graded by an expert. Then they are POld at prices ranging all the way up to 30c if they can get that much. Which is doubtful; 25c would be high enough. Some are sold by the crate at 1.8 or 19c and other grades at 22 to 25c. They are put up in cartons and delivered to all parts of the city. Now that is not all profit by any means. There are transportation charges, cartage, candling, crates, cartons and breakage - which is always more or less - to come out of those fancy prices. Tell me who is making the most money, the producer or the dealer. The prices are always governed by the supply and the demand for them.

In the spring when there is a flood of eggs turned on the market and all eggs are about the same, is it any wonder that they are cheap? T»hat is the reason the prices come down. They must be consumed, and to do that you must sell cheaper to induce the consumer to use more. As the season advances and warm weather comes on there is a difference in the quality and consumers are. willing to pay a little more money to get the best. They will go where they have confidence in the dealer and where the eggs are graded. In warm weather there are more or less doubtful eggs in every crate that comes in. The doubtful ones are sold for what they will bring. The producer may have fine stock and high quality in his- eggs but his own guarantee does not amount to anything unless he takes care of his eggs right. Consumers have heard about those guarantees too often. When once they get a few stale or bad ones they soon change to some place where they know they will get better satisfaction.

Not one producer in a hundred ever tests his eggs before he ships them; he just takes a chance and guarantees them fresh, not knowing how many old nest eggs he has put in or how many there are that have large blood clots and are worthless. I have seen the conceit taken out of more than one man when he stands beside an expert tester and is shown the difference between a fresh egg and a stale one, so that he had to admit it, after he had guaranteed them all strictly fresh. Some are hard to convince, but after you have ljroken a few and they see on the inside of the shell what they were told before it was broken they will generally agree with you that there is always something to learn about an egg that they did not know. That is why it is so hard to convince a shipper by letter that there is something wrong with his eggs. If he was only there he would understand in a few minutes.

Now is the storing season and that keeps the price higher than it would be if there were no eggs stored. April and May eggs are used for that purpose, as the warm weather comes on after that and the eggs are not so good. They show a red floater and will not keep so well. After storing season the price is apt to go down some, as the demand is not so great and they must be consumed one way or another. The demand will always regulate the price. This year the amount put in storage is about 300.000 dozen behind the same time last year. This, no doubt, is owing to last year's loss. They went in high and the last of them were sold at a loss on account of so many fresh eggs coming and the top prices falling off.

The last few winters we have had more fresh eggs in mid-winter than formerly, owing to plenty of mild weather. So the outlook for a larger stock in storage this year is not very promising. Many small dealers that had eggs stored last season and lost money will not store any this year, but will buy from the large storage concerns as they want them this fall rather than take a chance again. Gambling on eggs for the last few years has not been very successful and the small plungers have about given it up as a money-making scheme. - E. P. H., Cleveland, O.

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Young Colt Passes Blood. - Colt was born with scrotum as large as duck egg. Made water all right but this morning passed blood. Seems all right in every other way. J. W. B.. Wheelersburg. O. - Tour colt met with an injury. Put 2 oz. tincture arnica and 1 oz. sugar lead in a quart of water and apply to scrotum 3 times a day. Also give 5 drops fluid extract huchu at a dose, 2 or 3 times a day for 5 or 6 days.

Coffin Joint Lameness. - Mare sprained coffin joint on front leg. Is very lame. R. B. P.. Germantown. Ky. - Apply cerate cantharides once every week or 10 days until she recovers.

Weak Heart. - Mare due to foal in September pants greatly and does not perspire as freely as she should. W. J. P., Bethel. O. - Give 20 drops fluid extract nux vomica. 2 dr. powdered rosin and a teaspoonful of Fowler's solution at a dose in feed. 3 times a day.

Uterine Hemorrhage. - Mare «due to foal passed considerable blood thru vagina. When foaling time came she was to deliver her colt. I was obliged to assist her and she died 5 hours after the operation. There was considerable blood inside of womb. D. \Y.. Granville. O. - You managed the case very well, but the mare no doubt died of uterine hemorrhage. It is doubtful if a veterinarian could have saved her.

Hernia. - Colt has had rupture just bpek of navel for about 2 months. Would like to have him castrated. I. C. H.. Seaman. O. - Secure services of a competent veterinary surgeon. Give the colt an 'anasthetic and perform both operations at the same time.

Weak Ligaments of Stifle Joint. - Young horse is troubled with a lameness in right leg when worked on plowed or loose ground or when driven hard for a long distance. Is it stifle lameness? H. H.. Canfieldf O. - The ligaments of stifle are no doubt weak. Apply cerate cantharides or use one of the well-known blisters advertised regularly in this paper, CATTLE.

Impaction. - Cow took sick in March with what local Vet. pronounced impaction of third stomach. She was run -down: droppings were hard and dry. altho no complete stopping of bowels. She was nervous and kidneys moved freely; urine had a strong odor. Vet. gave purgatives. She got better but has not been right since. Bowels seem all right but she is weak in back, and has difficulty in getting up. She breathes as tho lungs i were affected. Also have a horse that is lame in fetlock joint and is growing worse. E. S.. Sycamore, O. - Give cow 1 dr. fluid extract lobelia, % oz. fluid extract gentian and % oz. fluid extract cinchona at a dose, twice a day. Apply equal parts aqua ammonia, tincture cantharides. turpentine and sweet oil to fetlock of horse twice a week.

Cow Gives Lumpy Milk. - Cow. fresh 2 I weeks ago, gives lumpy milk; sometimes worse than others. She runs on good clover pasture and seems healthy. T. B.. Berne. Ind.-^Give 1 oz. hypo-sulfite soda and % dr. potassium at a dose in teed, night and morning. Wet udder night and morning after milking with a 2-percent solution of coal-tar disinfectant.

Asthma. - Cow has extreme difficulty in breathing. She stands with nose point - ,ing out and can be heard at some distance. W. H. L.. Bucyrus. O. - Apply equal parts turpentine, aqua ammonia - and sweet oil to throat, once a day. Also : give 3 dr. muriate ammonia. 1 dr. pow- : dered lobelia and 1 dr. powdered opium j at a dose In feed, twice a day.

Injury - Leaks Milk. - Heifer dropped ! her first calf dead but perfectly formed. I She might have been rammed by cattle ' On the range. She gives rich milk but . back teats occasionally leak. H. H..Lees- ! burg. Fla. - Your heifer met with an injury resulting in the death of her calf. Put 2 oz. tannic acid in a gallon of wa- -ter and apply to back teats that leak, twice a day.

Weak Knees. - Bull is troubled with ; weak knees. His cords are swollen and he has trouble in getting up and standing on his legs. W. H., Delphos, O. - Your bull suffers from weakness. Give 1 dr. ground nux vomica. % oz. ground gentian and 1 oz. ground ginger at a dose, in feed. 2 or 3 times a day. Apply equal parts alcohol, extract witch hazel to knees, 3 times a day.

Rheumatism. - Shoats running in orchard and fed on sweet separator milk showing considerable stiffness and weakness in hind quarters. They pant a great deal and some have died. E. V. C, i Atwater. O. - Your shoats die of food infection; suggest cleanliness and free use of one of the coal-tar disinfectants adver- , tised regularly in this paper. Be sure and I clean their feeding troughs and vessels I that you carry their milk in. Give 15 I gTains hypo-sulfite soda at a dose to each hog. 3 or 4 times a day. Supply plenty J fresh water and allow run on pasture where they will be dry and clean.

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Wm. J. PONTIUS will sell his herd, consisting of Brown Bessie's Bell Boy 43752, his sous, daughters, grand and trreatgrraiiddauehters. This is the blood of the celebrated Combination 4389, thru the! matchlessBrown Bessie 74997 of World's Fair fame, j SEND FOR CATALOG.

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Special price on 7 cows and heifers; mostly Scotch from imported cows uud bulls. A snap for any farmer that wants to start right cheap. Also hulls, - all aees for sale. For catalogs and prices address JOHN GARDEN, RAVENNA, OHIO.

Brazos Valley crops pay 30 to 100 percent on cost of land per year. The Brazos Valley holds the Texas cotton record. We can show the best corn in Texas. We can &how the richest soil and the I prettiest laud in Texas. Abundant rainfall. Level [ land. Lowest freight rates. Only 36 miles from | Houston, the "Chicago of the South," to my office at Rosenberg. 80 to 1000- acre tracts. Price $15 to $25 per acre. Illustrated list free.

ll-room house; 2 good barns; poultry, sugar, other outbuildings. 20 acres timber; 400 sugar trees. 70 acres under cultivation. Good fruit, fences good. Farm is O. K. Write for lists.

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Sired by Lord Crocus, he by Lord Mistle- j toe (S1522),ont of Imp. Sweet Crocus, both bred bv Wm. Duthie, Collynie, Scotland, I,ord Mistletoe sired by the famous Lovat Champion (74.94K). Norton Kenney .Columbus Grove. Put. Co. ,0.

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~l?or Sale - Berkshires, rep. : pisrs of either sex , whose grandsire was champion at St. Louis Fxp'n : from 2 to 4 mos old ; at»5to$8 each. J. KKAJiTZ & SONS, Canal Dover, Ohio.

CHORTHORNS, Poland-Chinas, Barred Rocks of ^ best strains. Choice Bull Calves and Spr. Pigs for sale. D . .T. Green & Gunder. Cumberland, Ohio.

T^OR SALE-Scotch topped bulls from 2 to 15 mos. -*- old. Well grown; from good milking dams. Prices reasonable. E. W. BROCKET!'. Atwater, O.

Three coming 1-year Bulls ready for service. Some cows and heifers. Imron-Jersey swine, Cntswold and Lincoln sheep. L.K.Ruuey. Adrian, Mich.

Brick road to Cleveland markets - also best in State. HGood buildintrs; fine water. $100 per acre to settle estate. On ly $5000 cash required. Q. W. BLLIOTT, 508 Wil'mson, Cleveland, O.

Solid-colored bull calf, eligible to reg. dropped Mar. 17, 19(W. Sired by our Melia Ann bull, Village Farm King No. 75690. W. H. PRICE, WOODVILLE. O-

This tells the true story of the season's celery crops at Sanford.Fla. Flowing wells, sub=irrig:ation, climate, soil, these do the business. We raise our crops in the winter with little competition. Av- ' erage net profit $1,000 per acre. Information free. I Howard-Packard Land Co., Sauford, Florida.

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A Cement Barn

As our barns with all the contents -were destroyed by fire in November, 1906 (and I am sorry to say we did not carry near half enough insurance) we had to build new. Lumber was so high and would not last long and would burn quickly if a fire got a start, so we decided to use cement

' for the walls and basement floor. The old barns had a good many old hard rocks used for foundations and the site was on a ridge about 13 feet above the level of the road. By scraping the dirt and a good many soft rocks with it both ways, filling up the road about two or three feet at one end and piling up the dirt about the same at the other end, we had a cut right thru the hill, a nice warm place for a basement, 50x90 feet. Both ends at the bottom of the basement are just above the level of the ground outside, so as to give good drainage. The middle is a little higher than the ends so as to insure a dry floor even if water should run in, altho there is tile under the floor at the outside of it. The excavation was done in the winter and when the warm spell commenced in March we were about ready to commence the concrete work.

A builder drew up the plans arid we got the rough lumber at a mill on the farm, and two carpenters soon had the forms made for the concrete wall of the basement, 16 inches thick. We made a box with a heavy gas pipe thru it and a crank fastened at one end with a set screw, and mounted it on a frame. The dry sand and cement were poured into the box and mixed dry by revolving it with the turning of the crank. Then it was poured out into a wheelbarrow and emptied into a box on the ground and wet and stirred with hoe until it was of the desired consistency. It was then poured into the forms and broken rocks were thrown into it, and all tamped down. The sand came from the sand points near-by, or where it had washed down from sand rock for-

1 mations, and we got many of the out of the way on the farm. It is possible that good sand and gravel might have been better, but the hauling would have cost so much that we' decided to use home materials. We did the cement work Without hiring a mason. We placed old irons over all the window frames and old steel rails over both doors. We made cement pillars with old gas pipes in them for the basement and have a driveway thru the middle of the basement. We can also drive into the upper part of

On top of the concrete wall we put seasoned cement blocks, made out of the home sand on a block machine which we bought for the purpose. The full-size blocks are 9 in. high, 12 broad and 32 long, with two air chambers, 6x10 inches each. The cement

' block wall is 13 ft. high, but I wish it was some higher now. It has a selfsupporting roof so there are no pillars on the upper floor to be in the It is covered with galvanized iron and a narrow strip of the metal is tacked to the roof at each corner

The floor is made of oak lumber, doubled so as to break joints to make It tight and to keep dirt from drop- , ping down thru. It is nearly air-tight. I The worst blizzard we had last wini ter did not make it cold enough in j the basement to freeze except near the I doors and on the windows. Nearly L half of the window frames have mus- , lin over them, so as to let the air thru to keep it from getting foul from the breath of the animals kept. The average temperature at the ceiling in basement was 38, and 36 at the floor in middle Of barn, and 28 in the upper part of barn. We can keep apples in either place if we have to do so. The horses and cows seemed comfortable all the time and looked well, and I think did so on less feed than when we had the old barns thru which the wind whistled and where one Lad to wrap up good to keep warm when feeding and milking. Now we can pull our coats off on cold mornings and feel comfortable in there. The feed is stored in the upper part and the hay thrown down thru a trap door. The grain is drawn out of chutes in the basement.

As we have a reservoir on the top of a hill with pipes down to our shed for mixing spraying materials and extended on into the basement, we have water on tap for the animals without taking them out in bad weather. As

At this time we apply, with a fertilizer grain drill, about 500 pounds per acre of some good vegetable manure, commercially prepared. We then cross drag and float, and then plant the beets 18 inches apart. They will require three weeks' time in germinating and getting large enough to block and thin. This operation should not be delayed, as beets with but a few small leaves work much better and easier. First cultivation should precede blocking and thinning, then when beets have grown about six or eight days after thinning, they should be cultivated, being very careful not to get any earth upon the leaves. The plants are not injured by the horse tramping upon them occasionally, if you have prepared seed bed compactly.

we have a metal roof and rem' nt sides, the danger of a fire is not nearly so great as formerly, and our insurance rate is reduced more than a fourth from what it used to be. - U. T. Cox, Lawrence Co., O.

Sugar Beets In Northwest

'The field of beets shown on this page was planted upon an oat stubble the 6th day of May, 1907. It had received eight loads of manure, GU bushbeet drill, plaining 4 rows at once, a beet cultivator, working two rows at one time, and a lifter, taking beets one row at a time, used at harvesting time. Cultivation should be frequent, but shallower toward the close of the season. The crop should be hoed in the middle of the growing season, about the first of June, and if land is very foul, it must be looked after in July for stray weeds. Plants should not stand too close in the row, ten inches being close enough and twelve inches is not considered a bad stand.

A Fif.T.D Of Ohio St'Gar Beets

els to the load, applied with a manure spreader from covered barnyard. It was plowed under with a jointer attachment and immediately prepared with land roller and floated even with

One should use 20 pounds of seed per acre. Plant very shallow, one inch being about right, and two inches almost too deep. If preparation, of ground was complete, the hand labor

The harvesting is done in October and an acre should produce 16 tons net; worth, last year, $5 a ton, F. O. B. Some of the best acreages produce 18 and 20 tons.

Payment is usually made the 15th of each month for all beets delivered the previous month. The nearest factories for northwestern Ohio are Fremont, Ohio, and' Blissfield, Mich. The photograph was taken July 6, 1907. - P. P. Suter, Lucas Co., O.

a tool which- we call a "slick," each costs $6 for thinning and blocking, $4 time immediately after dragging. The f0r hoeing and $8 for topping, mak-

I am glad to note that farmers in west Tennessee are fast abandoning moon-sign and luck farming and are substituting in their stead progressive methods of book farming. Good farm journals and books have gone into hundreds of new homes and are daily finding their welcome in others. It is true many medicines will not mix without something doing. It is about the same way when good agricultural papers enter the homes where Old fcgie ideas and moon signs once prevailed. The old methods gradually give way for the more progressive ones. When this is done we see crop liens and crop mortgages begin to vanish and farmers who were once in tht rear begin to move forward anil will soon be numbered among the class oi farmers who make themselves public benefactors. Such farmers are sure to wield an influence that will be a stepping stone for others to mount.

If a mechanic or physician succeeds in his profession, he must be posted in the up-to-date journals and books on which his respective profession is based. One would not think of employing a lawyer who never reads. One would not care to call a doctor into his home unle.ss the tloctor was up:to- ' date and well read. "Why not apply the same theory to the farmer? I am a regular student of 16 different agricultural papers that come regularly into our home. From these we secure much valuable information. On many occasions the experiences and failures of others, given thru the columns of these papers, have enabled us to avoid the same error, and no doubt saved us many dollars; and the successful experiences of the same' writers have often proved a beacon ligHt that enabled us to step upon. a higher plain of farming. We have often seen articles that seemed expressly written for our faults and carelessness, and were thereby led to abandon them to a great extent.

Of the two, I prefer a good agricultural paper to a good agricultural book, as the former is more apt to be better adapted to the farmer's present, needs. Thru the columns of this paper the farmer has access to legal * advice that ;s often worth many dollars to him. He also. has access to the. advice of a competent veterinarian, that often saves him a large bill in that line. His family also has the benefit of special departments that will greatly lighten the burdens of the tired housewife and make the home more attractive for the searching minds of his children. I am sure many boys who are subjected to the disease and sin of the city would have remained contented and progressive on the farm if their parents had provided and practiced the advice of good farm papers.

One other reason why I prefer good farm papers to farm books is that the farm papers are mostly written for by men who have learned by farming. Such writers give actual practice instead of mere theory. The same cannot always be said of most farm books, as many of them are written by men who never have or never expect to farm. The average farmer needs counsel given from actual experience and everyday practice, and not supposed theory. Yet in spite of all the good things we get from good farm papers, we are often almost unsettled by some of the anti-book farmers when we ask them to join our club for some good farm paper. On one occasion we asked a neighbor to join our club for a good farm journal and rephosphate. For this purpose, or any other purpose, the higher grades of this material are better and cheaper, considering their effectiveness, than the lower grades. - Chas. E. Thorne, Director Ohio Expt. Station.

Three-Horse Evener

Will you please give an illustration showing method of making a threehorse evener for a wagon. Also give proper length for a plow evener. - M. M., Millersburg, O.

Fig. 1, this page, shows an evener that will work on any wagon, or any center draft. The design was furnished by Mr. Frank S. Thomas, Adams Co., O., and published in our issue of Sept. 8, 190&. The dotted lines indictate distances. The solid lines show strap iron connections for draft. To make an evener for plow, place clevis hole one-third of the way between the ends. Then give the long end to one horse, and hitch the doubletree to the short end.

ceived this answer: "I don't believe in them old farm papers. You will take them and try to follow after them and soon starve to death." It happened that the very next year we sold this neighbor some corn. While measuring the corn our neighbor remarked: "Crook, how did you grow such fine corn this dry year? I only make nubbins." We told him that we had been following after "them old farm papers" and . was on the eve of starvation. The trouble with our neighbor was that he never dreamed of diversified farming and seldom practiced crop rotation. He never subsoiled his land and thought that three inches of breaking was sufficient depth for his corn. He knew nothing of the dust mulch and thought every three or four weeks often enough to plow his corn. How could he expect to raise anything but nubbins under such circumstances? Had he been a close student of good farm journals, no doubt he would have farmed on a more progressive plan and would have had corn to sell instead of buying.

On another occasion we managed to get one of the anti-book farmers to join our club, and on being present the next year and hearing us ask a neighbor to allow us to take his subscription, our anti-book farmer made this remark: "I took that old farm paper last year and can't see that it learned me anything." Of course we must expect to run up against such fellows while we are getting up clubs. Sam Jones said that heads were like gourds. Some did not hold as much as others and were therefore easily filled. It is not strange to meet a farmer occasionally who has obtained all possible knowledge of farming. This class we can not ever expect to reach. But for those who still have room to learn something new about farming and who are really warning to get on a higher plane of progressive farming, I know of no better remedy to suggest than the Ohio Farmer. I have such faith in its ability to accomplish its purpose that I have sent it to a number of my friends on 12- months' trial, telling each of them at the end of 12 months, if they think they have gotten the 75 cents' worth, to pay what I have paid for them. If not, why not pay anything. Isn't that fair? - W. C. Crook, Henderson Co., Tenn.

Seed Corn Tests Acid Phosphate And Manure

Ohio Experiment Station Bulletin No. 183 on "The Maintenance of Fertility," states that of all reinforcements of manure used, acid phosphate has proven the best. Kindly tell me something about this acid phosphate. Is it the kind ordinarily handled by fertilizer companies? If st), please tell me thru the Ohio Farmer what grade of it should be used for manure reinforcement. How much available phosphoric acid should it contain? - Solon M. MacNab. Morgan Co.. Ind.

Replying to the above I would say that the acid phosphate used in our experiments has been the ordinary 11- percent grade of acid phosphate, which Is sometimes sold tinder fancy proprietary names, but is ordinarily known in the fertilizer trade as simply a. id

This year I planted four different varieties of corn for the Experiment Station, besides the corn I am working on to get pedigreed. I put 100 tons of home-made fertilizer on 15 acres of ground and one ton of commercial goods. I also delivered my share of the seed corn to be planted at the Warren County Infirmary, for the corn exhibit this fall. I shell my seed corn by hand, first shelling off and discarding both ends of the ear. I then shell one ear at a time into a big pan, looking the shelled corn over to see that it is all right. I empty that corn out before shelling the next ear. Next, I grade this corn and I can show a lot of nice seed corn.

My seed testing box holds 864 grains and tests 144 ears at one time, using 6 grains from each ear. The results of four testings this spring were as follows:

In all, 3,456 grains were tested and only lost 37 grains, making nearly 99 percent that grew. Out of 576 ears, I threw away 11 ears. I have just emptied the fourth box which was filled one month ago. The plants were 12 inches high and growing nicely. - T. N. Wilkerson, Warren Co., O.

The following is the result of my seed corn tests. I made two tests of one variety, one with seed gathered before corn was cut, and the other with seed gathered after husking time. The report is for 30 ears in each test. The first was of a rather large corn wrhich has been raised on the farm for several years, seed being carefully gathered each year. With seed gathered on the stalk of this variety, I tested six grains from each ear, making 180 grains. Of this number 4 butt kernels were weak and 3 butt kernels failed; 5 tip kernels were weak and one tip kernel failed. Only 4 kernels in the 180 failed. In 30 ears of the same variety but gathered while husking, 180 kernels were tested and there were 3 weak butt kernels and 11 butt kernels failed: 10 tip kernels failed and 2 body kernels failed.

A third test was made with 30 ears of another variety. This was a smaller and earlier corn which had been brought from another farm a few miles away. One hundred and eighty kernels were tested and 12 butt kernels failed, and 4 butt kernels were weak; 8 body kernels failed and 2 were weak: 4 tip kernels failed. All of the seed had been well cared for during the winter, it being well protected from the cold. - H. Underwood, Logan Co., O.

The Crop Reporting Board of the Bureau of Statistics of the U. S. Department of Agriculture reports the condition of principal crops June 1. as follows:

Winter Wheat. - The condition of winter wheat is 86 percent of normal, as compared with 77.4 same time last year and 81 percent, the ten-year average. Condition in leading winter wheat states is as follows:

Oats. - The area sown to oats is estimated to be 0.6 percent less than last year, indicating a total area of about 31,644,000 acres. The condition is 92.9 percent, compared with 81.6 a year ago and a ten-year average of 88.9 percent. Area and condition in leading states is as follows:

Barley. - The area sown to barley is estimated to be 3.9 percent more than last year, indicating a total area of about 6,697,000 acres. The condition on June 1 was 89.7 percent of normal, as compared with 84.9 last year and a ten-year average of 89.5.

The frequency of private bridges on the faTm the past few years is largely due to the use of concrete. The farmer with a little knowledge of reinforcing concrete, which I will explain, can. by using old and odd lumber for temporary forms to retain the concrete until hard, construct a substantial and everlasting bridge at small cost.

The abutments or piers of a bridge should be no less than two feet below the bottom of the stream, and in soft soil. It should be spread at the bottom as shown in Fig. 25. This spreading is termed the footing.

beams should be not less than eight inches thick at thP top. The stream side should l>e plumb and the fill or approach side should have a backward slope of one to six: viz.. increase one inch in thickness for eveTy six inches of bight. Example: An abutment ten feet high would be twenty inches thicker at the bottom than at the top. The flood-proofing shown in Fig. 25 is necessary when freshets are liable to undermine the abutments. This flood-proofing forms a bottom for the stream and can be made of same composition as abutments, which should consist of one part cement, three parts sand and five parts stone or gravel, not larger than walnuts. To this may be added, after placing in the form, larger stone previously moistened and well rammed into the soft concrete. Care should be taken that no air spaces exist, thus forming a solid mass. When no large stones are added to the flood-proofing, it should be no less than four inches thick, and to prevent cracks, place woven wire fencing in the center of the concrete over the entire area. Small steel rods, laid both vays and spaced two feet apart are superior to the woven netting.

After the abutments are sufficiently hard to admit removing their wood forms, we next build the forms for the driveway or bridge. This form must be firm, well braced-, and for driveways less than eight feet wide, I always use the style shown in Fig. 26. This type requires a thicker floor-slab than when under beams are used, but as it saves much lumber and labor I recommend it for small bridging. It must be remembered that a floor-slab should be no more than twelve times as wide as thick, therefore an 8-foot driveway requires an 8-inch thickness of floor-slab, with half-inch rods, 9 ft. 8 inches long, spaced 12 inches apart. Each end of every rod should be wired to the rods in the side beams. The depth (marked D) of the side beams depends upon the length of span across the stream, the depth being onetwelfth the span. Example: For a bridge 12 feet long, this depth (D) must not be less than 12 inches.while 16 or 20 inches adds to the strength. The two rods in each beam should be no less than three-fourth inch in diameter for spans 8 feet or less, and one inch for 12 feet or less span. When *ods of this diameter-are not obtainable, a sufficient number of smaller rods to equal the weight of the larger rods may be substituted. All beam rods should be of sufficient length to have ends turned down into the abutments as shown in Fig. 25. The irons crossing the floor-slab, as shown in Fig. 26. must rest on top of the beam rods, even tho bending is necessary to do this. All rods should have two inches of concrete under them.

In Fig. 27 we have a very wide roadway which requires beams under the floor-slab; also cross irons (not shown) same as Fig. 26. This method saves concrete but requires more lumber and labor to build the forms. Fig. 27 is a typical section for bridge with 16-foot driveway, having a sixinch floor-slab, side beams 12 inches wide and center beams, under floor. 10 inches wide. The depth of the side beams should be one-twelfth the length of span, and the under beams one-fourteenth the same. A bridge of this type spanning 20 feet with a 16-foot roadway would have the fo'lowing measurements: Side beams, 12 inches wide and 20 inches deep. Under beams, 10 indies wide and 18 deep. Each should have two rods one inch diameter, two inches above their bottom surface, and two rods three-fourth inch in diameter, four inches below their top surface. These four rods In each beam should be fastened together with loops or bands every four feet of their length. These loops are not shown on drawing as they are usually made of three strands of No. 4 wire. The floor-slab is six inches thick, having half-inch rods spaced 12 Inches apart < requiring 24 rods 18 ft. long) wired to the bottom rods of the side beams and the top rods of the under beams

All bridges should be made of concrete consisting of one part Portland cement, two parts sharp sand and not more than ftur parts pea to walnut gravel or stone. The < on< rete must be well tamped Into position and no stoppage made In the work from the start to finish of a slab or beam. The concrete should be kept moist for ten days. The forms should not be removed from underneath for at least two weeks and no traffic admitted before thirty days after last concrete has been placed. For public highways. make the floor-slab eight inches thick and It will carry a thirty-ton load after it is six weeks old. - Haman Glock.

A Terrace Lawn

A gentleman living in Wyandot Co., O., asks for suggestions as to planting his lawn, change of grade and curviing of drive and walk. He gives a plan of house in outline and an elevation of the terrace grade. The points of the compass are not given, neither is the depth of terrace fill, nor the exact slope of the proposed grade to the lawn. Fig. 1. is a copy of his plan,with suggestions. The lawn between a lane skirting the left side of yard and a» field on the right is given as 77 ft., there being 15 feet on the right of house and 24 ft. on the left next to the lane.

The distance in front to the outer edge of the terrace embankment is given as 42 feet. This is about as deep as many village lawns and a little wider than most. For a farm lawn it is quite small, and being a terrace gives very little room for planting anything. There is nothing planted and if I understand correctly the terrace is not yet graded. Two maple trees are standing between the house and lane and, as they can not be more than a dozen feet from the house.they will, in a few years, crowd each other and wipe the house with their branches. At the front line of the terrace the owner purposes planting a privet hedge. This is indicated on the plan from a to b. I would continue it up the right side of the house back as far catalogs by the name of its originator, Schwedler. A tree which would not have to be cut away would be the cutleaved alder. It is symmetrical in outline and very beautiful, and would be a gem planted in this little lawn. If one wanted an evergreen the blue spruce (a grafted one), would be very beautiful and could be kept within*a circle of nine feet for many years by pinching all terminal buds in April. The weeping dogwood, or the hydrangea panieulata grandifiora trained to a single stem, would also do to put in this place marked g.

In Fig. 2 the point marked b is the same as b in Fig. 1. Fig. 2 is the terrace from the side (b a), Fig. 1 being the proposed level or grade line of the embankment and (h a) the ground line on which the fill is built. The inclination of the proposed lawn from the house at m to the edge of the terrace and proposed hedge at b as given in the drawing is much too great, being, I should judge, as much as two feet in 42. There is no call for more than three inches of difference in the level and the lawn would be much prettier thus than if steeper.

The drive up the lane could be curved in so as to come as near the house as the maple trees will permit, but there are difficulties in the grade on this side that I can not plan for without seeing the ground. There must be no hedge on this side, for that would be an abomination, giving a boxed-in, cramped appearance to the lawn contrary to good taste and artistic effect. A hedge on two sides of a terrace as high as this appears to be on the outer corner, separates it from the unadorned field beyond and gives a background and starting point for the ornamental planting, and the side hedge is a necessity in this case.

There must, however, be no hedge and no fill or bank next the drive and the lane fence next the house removed giving all the room there is to the dooryard and making the lawn a simple continuation of level ground as far as the outer fence or boundary. A terrace bank on this side duplicating the other side would make the dooryard simply a sawed-off railroad embankment projected into a field.

The drive should rise to the level of the terrace before it reaches that point, and this might make the approach from the street veTy steep.This problem my friend must solve for himsel, and a still more difficult one, that of mowing the terrace bank with a hedge at the top.

In the plan my friend sends there are some scattering rose bushes indicated at the house near d. These will probably be moved to do the grading and they may be planted beyond the drive provided that is curved toward the maples. With several guesses coming as to what use is to be made of the trapezoid bit of land between the dooryard and the highway, I close. - L. B. Pierce, Summit Co., O.

equally as well to market gardeners and truckers, as to fruit growers. With the cheap packages now to be had for packing and handling fruit, there is not much excuse for any one's using anything but nice, new, clean, sweet-smelling baskets for handling the smaller fruits in.

Now that we have the right kind of package, it remains for the grower carefully to assort and grade his fruit. I remember looking at some peaches in a grocery, and a not very close inspection revealed the fact that the baskets contained some little peaches in among the big one that were not worth hauling to town. This careless or dishonest packing has a depreciating influence on fruit values just the same as in the case of unclean baskets. Where one expects to sell in a home market, honest packing will soon gain for him a reputation that will sell his fruit, and cause him to be the envy of the fellow who has put all the grades into the one basket together.

Another point that the man who is selling will do well to consider is that of always giving full, plump measure, or when using baskets that are usually made to hold a certain number of pounds, always filling the measure or basket plump and full.

Small platform scales are cheap and afford an easy method of getting all packages exactly alike as to quantity. The buyer can stand up and do battle for himself a,s to the price to be paid, but after that has been done he most certainly wants and should have a full bushel, or whatever amount he has paid for. - S. W. Burlingame, Noble Co., Ohio.

as the rear corner and plant a group of shrubbery such as syringa, althea, etc., as indicated at e. D. indicates a flower bed at the house corner in the closed corner of the yard at b, half a dozen peonies, or four dwarf evergreens, or three shrubs. The evergreens should be dwarfs in the full sense Of the word. Parsons' golden arbor vitae, the silver-tipped arbor-vitae, the Siberian arbor-vitae, and the dwarf Swedish juniper would fill the bill. The shrubs should also be dwarfish.

The golden syringa, Van Hout's spirea and Thunberg's barbery would do. This grouping is marked F. If the reader will observe shade trees or large evergreens of twenty or more years old he will see that there are very few which have not already overstepped the 25-foot circle, so it will be self-evident that there is not much room for trees on a terrace only 30 feet wide in front of a dwelling. A tree is indicated at g and as there are some trees which grow quite slowly for some years it might do to plant such a tree. The Ted Norway maple is one of this class and as it is only sparingly planted at present, and is as brilliant as a crimson boquet when first leaved in the spring it might be used in this case. Even if it had to be cut down 18 years from planting I would plant it as one of the first selected in a half dozen trees to be planted anywhere. It is distinguished in the

Marketing Fruits

Many of us can remember the time when most farmers who had a surplus of fruit on the farm, hauled it to town in the farm wagon, sometimes on loose straw and sometimes in such boxes and feed baskets as the farm afforded. That time has passed with all progressive fruit growers, but people living in the smaller towns tell me they are still forced to buy fruits and produce brought in for sale in the above crude style of "package." I can remember seeing berries brought into our' nearest town in crocks, pans and buckets, and it seems hardly necessary to remark that they sold cheap.

After a windstorm the town would be literally flooded with bruised apples that had been blown off by the storm. Occasionally one still sees apples of this sort in groceries in the smaller towns, and the fruit not even all assorted to an even grade or size. All this poor fruit poorly handled and packed, helps reduce the price of better fruit, since some people will buy it and can afford to cut away a lot of it because they bought it so cheap. However, there is a class of consumers in every" town who are able and willing to buy a first-class grade of fruit at an honest price, a price that will pay the producer, and it will be a profitable business for those who have fruit to sell to look up a few such customers and supply their needs. I believe the same rule will apply

Mulching Fruit Trees. - In May we had 19 days when rain fell, with a total of 4.52 inches, or about 50 percent above the normal. In June down to date, June 11, we have had none, except 0.11 which really fell May 31 just after the 6 P. M. observation was taken. Rain on so many days left the land very wet, June 1 and 12 absolutely clear days in succession, with pretty brisk north and east wind most of the time, have already made meadow and pasture land very dry, hard and cracked. Some 200 young apple trees (set in April, 1908, to fill vacancies caused by the freeze of October 11, 1906, and of which I have already written) had to be set in timothy and clover meadow, now mostly timothy and to be plowed up late this fall or early next spring for potatoes. Now, altho the entire young orchard had been well mulched in 1907 before the dying began, yet in order to make sure, as soon as the dry weather began we re-mulched the whole, using coal ashes and strawy manure as far as we had them (about half of the trees) and mulching all, including these, heavily with green grass. We mowed a circular space about 10 ft. in diameter with the tree at the center. From previous mulchings the grass was extra heavy here and we spread all of the grass thus cut, in a circular space of about 6 feet around each tree. The great danger in a turf or meadow mulch for a young orchard is that the proper renewal of the mulch will be forgotten at a critical time.

The Percents of Dead Trees. - Professor Selby of our Ohio Experiment Station, one of our most careful scientists, visited the orchard in the late summer of 1.907, and in some way got the impression that the Baldwins suffered from the freeze worse than the other varieties planted at the same time, and published that impression in a bulletin. Decidedly the opposite is true, as shown by actual count and working of percents, as follows: Percentages killed; Baldwins, 49; Hubbardston Nonesuch, 90; York Imperial, 90; Grimes' Golden, 84. The Baldwin, with me, is far the hardiest against all attacks, and far the thriftiest grower and the longest-lived of some 20 varieties recommended for my latitude, and it brings far the most net cash per tree, even of those that come to bearing age. - W. I. Chamberlain, June 12.

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The wagon you are looking for; the wagon folks are all talking about. By every test it is the best - no living man can build a better. Of coarse you have guessed that it's the