SEED WHEAT
AN
INEXPENSIVE
ICEHOUSE.
No Reason Why the Farmer Should Be
Without It.
Au Icehouse aud cool room may lie
constructed us follows: Excavate a
half cellar In a perfectly dry place,
from which the surface slopes (or may
be made to slope) in all directions, so
us to prevent danger of moisture from
want of drainage. A stone or brick
wall is built around this and laid in
hydraulic cement. The ll«M>r is ce
mented. A frame or other building is
built upon tills basement to contain
the ice. Twelve feet square will be
lurge enough for a moderate sized fam-
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ily, as an icehouse of that size will
hold about twenty loads or tons of ice.
The main point is the division be
tween the icehouse aud the room be
low it. This must be perfectly air
tight and a moderately good conductor
of beat. The floor may be laid in the
following manner:
Beams of sufficient strength are laid
across and tlie ends well bedded in ce
ment. A floor of zinc sheets is then
laid upon the beams, the sheets iieing
closely nailed to the beams upon strips
of rubber sheeting to make tlie joints
water and air tight. The beams should
be dressed smoothly. The ziue sheets
are bent, as shown in tlie Illustration
(Fig. 2). This is for. the purpose of
causing the moisture, which will con
dense upon the underside of this ceil
ing, to flow downward to the lower
angle, where it will drip, The drip Is
caught in the little gutters of zinc
shown In the figure attached to the
ceiling aud Is carried off by a proper
With this water will also be
drain
carried off much of the impurity of
the atmosphere, and if very little ven
tilation is given there will be little
condensation and th«- air will be kept
dry. This point must be well attended
to, as the danger of excessive ventila
tion Is very great. The beams 'and
zinc ceiling should be painted with
white paint—lead and oil.
Above the zine ceiling a thin layer of
dry, fresh sawdust should be laid
smoothly, and a floor of matched pine
boards should be laid upon that and
thoroughly coated with melted pitch.
This floor should slope a little to one
corner so as to «lravv the waste water
from the ice there, and an S trap drain
should be laid from that to carry off
the water into the drain above men
tioned. The usual layer of sawdust is
laid upon this floor to prevent too rap
id conveyance of heat from below to
the ice above. Smail double windows
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should be used iu the cool chamber be
low to prevent access of heat from the
outside, and they should be fitted air
tight. Ventilation should be provided
for by means of a wooden pipe with a
slide, by which th«* opening can be
regulated. By carefully regulating the
ventilation the air may be kept dry.
Market Hogs.
What kind «if hog will bring the
most money iu the market, and what
breed will make the best market hog?
These are questions hard to answer
definitely. Markets vary as to the
class of hogs that will sell at the top.
When lard is at a premium the hog
that yields a large amount of lard is
the market topper, and that means
the heavy, thick, fat hog. When lard
is below other products this kind of
hog sells for less than the light weight
which will make handy pork loins and
good hams without too much fat on
thorn. Taking one year with another
in eastern markets, the hog of IX) to
200 pounds will hit the top oftener
ttiun any other weight. In western
markets hogs of arouml 250 pounds
Some-
will probably average best,
times lighter or heavier hogs will out
sell these grades, according to the
fluctuations in price of tiie product
Iu summer hog prices cover the widest
range because there is the greatest
difference in the yield of product at
this season, in the winter all hogs are
corn fed and yield more uniform quan
tities of product. In summer many
are grassers that make low yields and
of inferior quality to corn fed bogs.
A 200 pothid hog that dresses 80 per
cent yields 100 pounds, one that dress
es 75 per cent yields 150 pounds, and
one that dresses 70 per cent yields
only 140 pounds, an enormous differ
ence in a carload of hogs, which the
buyer makes allowance for in buying
them on foot. As a rule, of late the
best hogs have been the cheapest on
the hooks at the top of the market be
cause they have yielded so much more
product than the others, which looked
cheaper to the inexperienced .observer.
As to the breed 'that killers like best
probably more would answer Berk
shire than any other brc«*<L But hogs
in1 what Hillers want, ami the kind
they w*ant will Jop the market, a hath-
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ACETIFICATION
WINE.
OF HONET
to be made into vinegar from time to
time. A good wine or alcohol barrel Is
carefully painted on the outside to pre
vent corrosion of the hoops. A vent
bole is now bored iu each end of the
cask near the chime on the side next
tlie bung and covered with a tine
screen to keep out insects. At the bot
tom of one end a spigot is Inserted and
a perpendicular row of gimlet holes
bored aud fitted witli wooden plugs to
net a.i a gauge. Fresh wine, which
must first be fully fermented, can be
added from time to lime through a
tube passing in at the bungbole and
Hiding near the bottom of the cask,
in litis way the active film will not be
disturbed by drawing off a little vine
gar or adding a little fresh wine. The
tube must not be of metal, but can be
of glass where available. In this re*
giott a large stalk of native cane, the
joints of which ltave been perforated
witli a hot iron, makes a very service
able tune. A tiu funnel may be used
in pouring tlie wine into the tube. A
similar apparatus has been found very
serviceable In France for converting
table wine waste into vinegar. Such
wastes under suitable Somiperature
conditions yield good vinegar in nine
ty days. Tlie generator is started with
a mixture of about three-fourths wine
and one fourth good vinegar. When
once started no new vinegar need be
added.
A definite and effective cure and pre
ventive of hog cholera has been dis
covered by specialists in animal dis
eases in the employment of the depart
ment of agriculture at Washington.
The treatment consists of Inoculating
the hog, with virus from an animal
affected with the disease, which seems
to render immune to the disease those
treated. So effective does the cure
seem to lie that hopes are entertained
that the disease, which in the past has
meant a loss to hog raisers of the
country of millions of dollars annual
ly, may be entirely eradicated.
Rates $i.oo to $2.00 per day.
week or month.
Starting in a small way but a few
years ago, tlie cement industry of the
country has grown until last year the
output of the product was 50,000.000
barrels. The scarcity of lumber in the
next few years is sure to result in an
Weevil In Wheat.
H. A. Gossard, entomologist of the enormous increase over these figures.
Ohio experiment station, gites the fol Sono- one has said that the mixing
lowing method of ridding wheat blns of cement requires but little more
brains than the mixing of mud pies.
of weevil:
To destroy weevils working tn wheat This is likely overdrawn, but it net-*r-
blns fumigate with bisulphide of car theless points to the fact that the
bon. Procure one pound of the liquid process is not a difficult oue anti that
for each thousand cubic feet of space any one w ho is of an enterprising turn
inclosed lu the bin. Pour the liquid ->f mind am lias the proper directions
into shallow containers, such as plates can make n. >ny of tlie cement im
or tin pans, and set on top of the provements ab< ut his place. For one
who wishes to study the subject as
grain.
Make the building as nearly air tight well as secure , .acti ai suggestions
as possible by pasting paper strips for doing different kinds of cement
over the « racks, windows, etc. If the work farmers' bulletin No. 235, Is
door does not fit tightly tack a horse sued by the agricultural department at
blanket over it with lath strips after Washington, will tie found helpful.
charging th« bln with the chemical. This takes up tlie questions of mate-
Keep closed for thirty hours. Do not rlals. tools and mixing and gives def
bring n lamp or light of any kind, such inite directions for making concrete
as a lighted cigar, near the building walks and foundations as well as o»-
while fumigation is in progress. Fu ment posts.
migation for thirty hours ought not to
Injure the grain for either seeding or
milling purposes. If one fumigation
do«-» uot succeed repeat the treatment
as often s< m-eessary, Increaring the
dose tf the buildlny leaks gus.
Sample Room in Connection.
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The type of agriculture followed on
a good many farms might be greatly
Improved, with increased profits accru
ing to both landlord and tenant, if
the lease on which the farm was rent
ed were for five or more years instead
of one, as is too often the case. The
one year renter naturally feels that he
cannot afford to put In a lot of hard
work on the farm one season when a
large |>er cent of the benefit resulting
cannot lie realized until the following
year. Likewise the landlord Justifies
himself tn doing as little as he is re
quired to under tlie terms of the lease
when he knows that bis tenant intends
to remain but a year and is bent on
skinning the land to the limit and
would not lie in a mood to appreciate
improvements the benefit from which
would extend over a period of more
than one year. It is therefore plain
to be seen that the long term lease is
best for the tenant, best for the land
lord and far and away the best thing
for the farm lu which each has a tnu-
tuai financial Interest
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Garden
The chief merit of the silo Iles tn the
fact that it enables the dairyman to
Q-ada Generally Used Not Up to tk»o
furnish his cows summer fee«) lu the
Standard.
winter months, which results in •i f<»r*
That the grade of se ><1 wheat gen- responding increase in milk and butler
■rally u-<*d is nut up to the standard returns.
I
was ascertained iu an investigation by
G. iV, Sltnw of the California station,
A farmer living near Greeley,
who secured a large number of sam the past season grew eighty-eight lot «
ple. < f -e'-il wheat ox er a wide nrea in of pumpkins on four acres of land,
tin* Sacramento and San Joaquin val crop netting him tH-iter than
ley < <>f California to determine the This fellow is certainly suine pilliti
general ilt.u.i ;. r of the aci d u-ed by kins, to use a bit of slung
the farmers of the state. In general
tlie samples showed that tiie quality
Properly cured corn fodder is not
of seed used by most farmers is lack only relished by ail kinds of live stock,
New Year-» resolution» are liable •° “u
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ing in purity, perfection of develop but constitutes a most excellent and
m «moke" but you should be careful to keep
ment, weight per bushel, freedom from nutritious food
With enormous
thuone-.-to take a course in the
weeds and freedom from bunt. It is amounts of it going to waste annually
stated that practically all investiga a big leak exists in the management of
tors have tomi«! the use of lurge, tlie farm for which there Is really no
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plump seed and of a high weight per good excuse.
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bushel th«* most profitable, No pernia-
uent benefit is believed to be secured
Sawdust has no value as fertilizer
Reiolve Io make youi’clf more valuable as a
from the frequent exchange of seed outside of the potasli it would contain
competent office man or woman
unless a better type of wheat or a in the form of ashes and the humus it
more vigorous strain of the same type would add to tin- soil iu tlie shape of
“DO IT NOW”
Is obtained by tin* exchange. Tlie use wood mold when decayed. Sawdust
of seed from heavy yh-ldiug plants, u may be used to advantage as uu ab
plump and heavy grain, a clean wheat sorbent of ihjuid manures and iu tills
ami a pure variety are considered by capacity would serve a very useful
him the most important points in seed purpose.
'•election.
In this connection the results secur
A reader of these uotes who has had
NORTH BEND
OREGON
ed by E. G. Montgomery of the Ne good opportunity to note the effects of
braska station in an experiment with clover growing ou his own farm told
;•< ed wheat and seed oats selected by the writer recently that hereafter he
the use of the fanning mill are of in should never sow an acre of oats with
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terest. in these experiments heavy out adding a moderate arnouut of
seed wheat as separate«! by the fan clover seed, Ills plan might be fol
AT
ning mill «lid not show an improve lowed with profit by a good many of
ment in either yield or quality of grain Ins fellows
as compared w itli light or unseparated
seed, and it is believed that no nerm.i-
Tlie real character of some folks is
n«*nt improt ement In quality or j iel«l as often indicated by the attitude
is to be expected from the use of the which they take ou trifling things as
MRS SARAH COSTELLO
fanning mill in seed sel«*ction.
by that involved in matters of much
Nice clean rooms 25 and 50c a
At first thought it would seem that greater consequence. Many times a
night; $1.25 a week; $.r> amonth
if “like produces like’’ the largo or person wouldn't think of perpetrating
heavy seeds should produce the best a downright swindle on another, yet BANDON
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crop. However, we must recognize the lias been known to give himself dead
individual plant as a unit for selection away for less than 10 cents.
rather than tin* individual s«*e«l. If a
single plant of wheat be taken and the
The prevailing high prices of feed
kernels thrashed out it will be found and grain render it imperative that the
that all sizes of kernels are produced owner of a dairy herd should spot the
At North Bend
by til«* plant, some large and some loafers and weed out without ceremony
small.
Is now open for the re
those individuals that are barely pay
As every wheat plant contains both ing their keep or constitute a positive
ception of patients. The
heavy and light seed, th«* fanning mil! source of loss. It is a farce to feed
terms are $10 per week
gives almost tin* same kind of wheat, twenty cent corn to these loafers and
and upwards. For par
so far as inlieritaii'-e is «•on -erne«!, in a still more serious matter to feed that
tlie light wheat as in tlie heavy, It which is worth 50 cents.
ticulars apply to : :
must be remembered that reference Is
made hero to tlie p rmanent results
In no way does a fellow reveal more
which may lie expected from tlx* use
quickly
tiie type of a farmer he is than
of tin* fanning mill and that iis use or
North Bend, Or.
th«* use of screens for removing ob- in the use which he makes of the great
byproduct of tlie farm, manure. If
be is enterprising he will get this on to
the land as fresh as possible, so that
its full fertilizing value will be real
Honey Vinegar.
A modification of a Ft ouch genera tot ized, while if he is a slipshod chap he bandon
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devised at tlie Arizona station will will quite likely let it accumulate and
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prove especially serviceable where permit a good share of its strength to
Is just in receipt of a new stock of
only small amounts of honey wine are leech away as a result of rains and ex
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