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When the horse stable o[>ens into
the buggy room and it is necessary to
keep the door open for ventilation, I
find that a Bmall gate constructed of
light material is un excellent protec
tion against horses getting loose ami
Injuring the buggies. The cut here-
with shows a llglit gate we have In use
in our horse barn. It Is very simple
in construction, but serves a very Im
portant purpose. Were it not for tills
light gate we would find It necessary
tq keep the door closed between the
horse stable aud buggy room, thus
shutting off ventilation.
The gate Is hinged onto the rolling
door with light strap hinges, explains a
writer In the I’ralrie Farmer, so that
when the gate is not In use It swings
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HI.Al STABLE DOOR.
around nnd fastens to the large door
out of the way. For material in mak
ing the gate ws use Indi strips of good
pine for the horizontal pieces. The ui>-
l'ight pieces are light strips gotten out
for fence pickets. I find a light gate
of tills character a gixxl tiling to keep
poultry out of the barn during the sum
mer months.
The Colony Plan.
If you want vigorous chickens and
lions that lay do not overcrowd them.
Forty or fifty in one flock are sulli-
cient. If you have more than tills num
tier by all means make a change, for
your chickens are probably costing you
more than they aro worth. If you do
not care to sell any of your birds then
start into the chicken business on the
colony plan. Divide your flock into
colonies of about forty fowls each and
build house« for them In different parts
of the farm. For Instance, if you have
one hen house on the east side of the
barn, put another house on the west
side. Then if yo-u have enough birds
put another house down by the calf lot
and another to the farther end of the
barn yard. A dozen different places will
suggest themselves If you look for lo
cations on your farm.
If you have
made a failure in raising chickens or
your hens “don’t amount to much,’’
try this method. It will surprise and
please you. Your hens will be healthier,
will lay better and will require less
feed. The reason for this will he easily
seen when you have once tried It.
Chickens, or anything else ror that mat
ter, cannot stand crowding. Also the
colony plan gives the fowls wider range
nnd encourages the birds to hunt for
their living.—Exchange.
Bracing Corner PoMs.
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This method, while cheaply devised,
is used very effectively in bracing cor
ner posts. Use as a brace a pole nine
or ten feet long, four or five Inches in
diameter and square at both ends, Fit
one end of pole to the post lia If way
between Its middle and top ami place
other end of brace on a flat alone. Se
cure one end of a wire around bottom
of post, then take it to outer end of
brace and hack to post again, fasten
ing securely. With a short stout stick
twist wires together until very tight
This bank endeavors to promote the interest of
its customers along whatever line it is practicable
for it so to do. With a large capital, a strong
Directory and an experienced staff of employees
we are prepared to handle all business entrusted
to us. We solicit your business upon the basis
of sound and progressive hanking, liberal and
courteous treatment.
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and your brace Is complete, says Fann
ers’ Review. This brace comes in Hue
with your fence and by fastening your
wire or boards to it prevents it from
slipping sideways.
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Hog»
for C'aba and
Meilco,
Some of the coast country farmers
while visiting Galveston saw that many
hogs from distant points in Texas and
Oklahoma were being shipped to Cuba
and Mexico and returned home Im
pressed with the idea that if It paid the
North Texas and Oklahoma farmers to
raise hogs for the Cuban and Mexican
markets, It would pay the coast coun
try farmers to do the same thing •
Galveston News.
It You Doubt It,
Try It.
A man once backed himself for a
large amount, which he subsequently
loat. to move sn ord Ins ry brick attach
ed to two miles of cord along a level
road outalde Chichester. He failed to
move the brick, and It may be roughly
estimated that the friction of the cord
on the rood increased the weight of the
brick <about seven pounds) and cord
to a dead weight of not far ahort of a
ton.—Fry’s Magazine.
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The si id eas attending the use of
silage in the dairy business has created
much interest among Intef cattle men.
Silage furnishes a succulent food,
which is quite essential to the dairy
sow in keeping her digestive system in
good condition. The same will be found
true for the beef animal.
Twenty
pounds of silage per day will supply
all the bulk and water needed in a
fattening ration. The other roughage
may consist of either long fodder or
mixed hay.
The economy of using
silage for fattening purposes is well
brought out by Prof. A. M. Soule of
the Virginia station, who has stated the
following conclusions:
“There was a difference of from .3
to
of a pound of grain per head per
day in favor of the silage-fed cattle.
They also finished out better and* in
any discriminating market would cer
tainly bring a better price than the
dry-fed cattle.
“Of the three forms of roughage fed,
the silage was eaten with the greatest
relish, and there was absolutely no
loss, whereas with the stover the loss
amounted to 13.5 per cent and with hay
4.1G ¡x‘r cent. Where a large number
of animals are fed this would make a
considerable difference in the cost of
ration, except that the shredded stover
can be utilized to advantage for bed
ding.”
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Silage ns It Is put up to-day is bet
ter than when the practice was first
started. Good sllnge of corn is made
when the grain lias passed the milk
stage and has commenced to glaze a lit
tle. Silage is made also from sorghum,
corn and cowpeas and pea vines.
DAIRYING IN DENMARK.
uand Worked for Hundreds of Years
Soil Beats Ours.
That American farmers and promoters
jf agricultural industries are rather
lax in grasping their opportnuties, and
ire in danger of being outgeneraled in
the markets of the world, unless they
improve their methods, is the belief of
Dean James E. Russell, of Columbia
University, New York. Doan Russell
was recently a visitor at the state col
lege, and during his stay there ad
dressed an assembly of the teachers of
the Inland Empire, who were attending
the teachers’ institute in Pullman. Rela
tive to the problems just mentioned, he
laid:
“Thirty years ago New York was
«ending butter and cheese to the Lon
don markets. New York butter and
cheese were ruling out similar products
from Ontario, and other parts of the
world. Just thirty years ago Denmark
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began to think she could make butter
and put it in the London market. The
question was. How could she overcome
the lead that New York already had in
the London markets! She sent men to
London to study out the ground; to find
what London wanted. Then she set
about to give th m the required product.
“Denmark is a country of poor soil,
which has I *cn tilled and overworked
for a thousand years. Nevertheless, the
Danish population annually sells in the
markets of London $35,000.000 worth
of butter, in 1903 the entire United
States exported only $1,004,000 worth
)f but'er. In addition to the vast quan
tity of butter mentioned, Denmark
lends out one-fifth as much pork ns we
do, and just as many horses; and cer
tainly. we should lead the world in ths
breeding of horses. In the meantime
the Danish nation hag taught the hens
how to work. Four hundred and fifty
Double HroofifuK Coop,
The double brooding coop shown In thousand dollars worth of eggs were ex
the drawing is four f(»et square and ported by this country in 1875. and in
1903 this export had reached a value
three feet high at rear, two and one- of $8.092,000. In the last ten years
half in front. It may be built of tongue Denmark has taken $8.000,000 worth of
and grooved stuff or straight-edge corn from Iowa and Nebraska, via New
boards one-half or three fourths inch York, which she has fed to Danish cows
thick. The hinged lids should have two and pigs, and then placed the latter in
cleats each to make them firm.
In the European markets in successful
competition with similar products from
front is a one-inch mesh wire netting America.
and at the edges are strips of three-
“I said a moment ago that twenty
quarter by one and one lialf-im h stuff, years ago the competitor of Denmark
to insure rigidity, in one corner, as was the Stat« of New York. In these
shown, is the nest, four inches deep twenty years the Danish people hava
and fifteen or eighteen inches square, increased their exports from $1,000,000
according to the size of the liens kept. to $40,000,000. In the same twenty
years farm values in the State of New
The board floor, explains the Orange York have decreased $200,000,000. In
the last fifteen years Ontario has outbid
New York in the same way in the
“e market Twenty years ago New
York companies received Canadian
cheese and put the New York stamp on
it to got one cent more in the English
market. Today the New York farmers
lire sending their cheese over the Cana
dian boundaries, and paving two cents
per pound in order to sell it at all.”
Showing the superiority of European
methods of education in comparison
with American education, Dean Russell
said:
“ Wurteniburg is a «mail German
Judd Farmer, Is covered with sawdust state a little larger than the Inland
or sand. Food and drink are more Empire of 'Eastern Washington, and
readily supplied through the door, having a population of about two mil
which preferably lifts in front, as lion persons. Thirty years ago Wur-
teni burg began to realize that her pop
shown.
ulation was beginning to dwindle; that
something had to be done to maintain
Corn Lendinv Western Crop.
The statistical bureau of the Union I.er integrity as a state. So she set
Pacific passenger department issues a about building up a system of school«
for all the people; that would help the
statement compiled from government
boy who wished to be a carpenter, a
rejMirts showing the value of farm plumber, or a farmer, in the same de
products In seventeen States west of gree. according to his needs, as they
the Mississippi In 11)07 to have been ! would aesist the youth who desired to
$1,091,000,000. Corn leads In produc be a lawyer, an engineer, or a phy
tion. being valued at nearly half a sician. Today Wurteniburg ha« a uni
billion dollars. Winter wheat is next, versity giving courses of world wide
fame; technical schools, weaving ami
valued at $200,000,000, and domestic
id in. factoring schools; two hundrtl and
hay was valued at only $2.000.000 less. thirty indiiHtr|al schools in tnw’ns and
Rye, oats, barley and potatoes follow villages; school!» for metal workers, and
in order. The report also shows an in workers in the textile trades; S'‘hools of
crease in live stock of 250 per cent srt, of agriculture, of preparation for
household management; and numerous
since 1870.
farm schools, and high schools through
out the state.
Color of I skrm .
“ Wnrt eml prr- n
but
There is no difference in the color of
the yolk of tlie eggs laid by differerit larger than the Inland Empire of East
breeds, nor individually. But the color ern Washington, supports ill tin’««- .n
stitutions, with an income of ten dollars
of the sladl is a matter of breed and per head of population. What would
mating, ami the color of the yolk is American citizens think, if in addition
governed by the food given. The aver to supporting agricultural colleges, they
age length of a hen’s egg Is 2.27 Inches; were asked to support five hundred
diameter at the broad end. 1.72 inches; technical and industrial schools for
every two million of population! This
weight, about one-eighth of a jiound.
is whe.t is being done in the small state
of Wurteinl urg, and from the point of
Farm h’otee.
view
of American citizens today, it it
Alfalfa seed is now sidling In many
almost inconceivable; the contemplation
¡»arts of the West for 10 to 12 cents a 1 of which must lead any American citi
pound.
zen to infer that his couDtry has much
Egyptian cotton land produces nearly to do and learn before it can success
four times us much per acre as that of i fully compete with the old country in
the products of industrial education."
this country.
In four years a pair of rabbits could •
Answers
Queries
secure a progeny of nearly 1,500,000. A
By J. L. Affhlock. Washington Experiment Sta
doe rabbit produces as many us seven
tion, Pullman.
families a year.
Haverford, Pa.—“Is it considered
Many Important drainage projects are that hog raising is practicable in the
part of the United
under way In the marsh land in lx>u- northwestern
H W.
laiana. which will ultimately make it States!"
“It is probable that there is no place
a great agricultural country.
in the United States where the prices
A dairy train which rei*ently went for pork product« average as high as
out from Lafayette, Ind., covered 500 in the Pacific Northwest. A condition
miles on the Monon route, and 4,(MM) of significance, too, is that the people
people heard the lectures which were of this region are not sufficiently alive
to the necessity of their meeting the
delivered from the cars.
demand for pork products Those who
The Sacramento Valley, in Califor are in the business are making money.
nia, shipped over $3,000,<X)0 worth of Conditions are improving, however, for
orange* last year, and the growers of at the present time we note a growing
that section estimate that the new crop tendency among farmers to pay more
attention to this business. The Berk
will be worth $1,000,(MM) more.
shire breed is preferable, in iny
It Is estimated that If the cattle ship opinion, although the Duroc Jersey* are
pers of Iowa succeed In establishing making some headway. At the experi
their claims against the railroads for ment station we have about concluded
excessive shipping charges In Chicago that a «roes of these two breeds would
they will get back fully a half million Le better than either one by itself "
dollars.
Kf rulnally.
(»rent Britain now Imports ever,
Reporter—I>o you ever contribute any
year about 9,000,000 bushels of apples, thing to foreign papers?
Comic Bard—Why—er—yes; on look
one-half of which come from the Unit
ed States. Canada sends over about ing over the miscellany columns of the
papers I find that I contribute lots of
8.000,000 bushels and Australia nearly stuff to the Ix>ndon Tit Bits.
all the rest.
An effort Is being made to establish
Isas Bverythla*.
In the Ozark region of Missouri an ex
Prosperous Clubman—When I first ar-
tensive breeding station for farru an-
rlv«d In this town, forty years ago, .
finals. The project has the approval of hadn’t a shirt to my back.
Secretary Wilson and Dr. Melvin, of
Old Clubman—Worse than that ; you
the Bureau of Animal Industry.
hadn’t a tooth in your head.