THINGS W ORTH KNOWING. Only 5 Ml l)«r cent of the total area •f the world le tillable. The mines of Butte. Mont., have a combined pay roll of {3,01)0,000 a year. The Argentine Legislature Is con­ sidering the construction of under­ ground railways for Buenos Ayres. It Is just being realized that the Trans-Siberian Ilaltroad was a pour lob from an engineering standpoint. The observed rate for the sound of ' a " In •'great'" Is 420, and for the sound of "a " In "ma,” 770 waves a second. The telephone and telegraph wires ef the United Statea would encircle the earth at the equator more than 600 times. To prevent the alteration of checks nr other valuable papers an Inventive genius has brought out an Hectrlc ap­ paratus which burns tiny holes In the •japer as the Inscription Is written. Electricity has at last been applied to the Teddy bear, a Maryland man having patented one that opens Its jaws and flashes lights from its eyes, nose and mouth, when a battery In Its Interior Is pressed. The work on the Jungfrau Railway Is progressing so rapidly that It will probably be opened next year to Jung­ frau Joch, where a station and hotel accommodating 200 persons have been hewn out of the solid rock. Though hydrophobia has been stamped out of Britain, It Is still ram­ pant In Germany, where every year over 2,600 dogs and cats afflicted with the disease are destroyed. A patent on a horseshoe designed to prevent the stumbling of horses was granted In Panama four years ago. FIRE BLIGHT IN APPLE TREES A Brief Description o< the and Its Cura. Disease By H. S. Jsckson. Orasen Amrissltsrsl Colleen. Corvallis. Fire blight is the most serious o f all the diseases which attack the pear and apple. It is a contagious disease o f bacterial origin which, under proper conditions, may attack any part o f the tree. Besides the pear and apple, the quince, wild crab apple, hawthorna, mountain ash, servieeberry and some other pomaceous trees' are subject to attacks o f this disease. Myriads o f germs are present in all freshly blighted portions o f the tree and in the sticky ooze exuding from cankers. The germs live almost en­ USB FOR OBSOLETE BATTLESHIPS. table envy, general belief that a klud Providence had tirely in the sappy portion o f the bark, called tbe people of this land to dwell In a pretty good l’ LAN for the fortification of Key West, though in some vigorous-growing vari­ place. Would an English novelist visiting America now lately presented by a naval officer in a eties o f pears the germs have been service puolicatlon, contains an interest­ so write? known to invade the sap wood to a Yet If Americans to-day were called on to occupy ing suggestion tor the practical use of ob­ limited exten t Fire blight occurs in the houses that satisfied In 1850 they would deem them­ solete battleships in coast defenses. It more or leas severity in nearly all selves 111 used. In New Haven wages are nominally is well known that a modern battleship parts o f the United States where four times higher than sixty years ago, and measure deteriorates every year by comparative pears and apples are grown. In purchasing power twice as high. The average Amer­ loss of speed and mobility, without losing power for of­ In Oregon Are blight has appeared ican stomach Is filled with more and better food, and fense or detense. in two general localities — one in the the average American back Is covered with finer rai­ After from ten to twenty years ships as powerful and Southwestern part o f the state, includ­ ment. Impregnable aa ever have to be withdrawn from the ing the Rogue River valley, the other It Is the spirit rather than that with which ths spirit fighting line because they cannot keep up with newer in the Northeastern part. exercises Itself which has changed for the worse. It models In speed or agility. Yet if these ships could Beginning in the spring the first ap­ is now almost unfashionable to praise Amerlea, as for fight at anchor, like the French fleet at the battle of parent damage produced by the disease merly It was deemed unpatriotic to have any doubts. the Nile, they would be nearly as effective as ever. The in an infeeted orchard is the blighting Jefferson Brick was a most ridiculous person, but n u n suggestion we have referred to Is that tbey should fight o f the blossoms. Infection is brought be disappeared something of great value tended to go at permanent anchor. The strategic position of Key about by insects, principally bees, West Is so important that It should be made an Ameri­ out of American life.— New York Globe. which have visited a case o f hold-over can Gibraltar to guard the Gulf and Carrlbean sea as blight and become covered with the BUCKET SHOPS, that famous rock guards tbe Mediterranean. But Key organisms contained in the sticky ex­ AINTA1NLNU a stock-gambling office— li West Is a low coral Island, surrounded by deep lagoons udation, inoculating the flowers in other words, a bucket-shop— Is an offense and coral reefs almost awash. The defenses of the their search for nectar. The organ­ against the United States laws. A bucket- main Island have so little command that outworks are isms divide and multiply in the nectar shop Is a place where men make bets that necessary for complete security. and are able to enter the living tissues the price of a stock will rise or fall by It Is proposed to obtain such outworks at a cheap through the unprotected nectaries. offering to buy so many shares at such a rate by stationing the old monitors In shallcw water on Having entered the tissues they quick­ price, or offering to sell a similar amount these outer reefs and imbedded each solidly In earth­ ly blight the blossoms, pass down the at a similar price. There Is no expectation of buying work protected by rlprapptng. That will make of each blossom-stem and into the fruit spur, the stock or of selling It; but the forms of such legiti­ useless war vessel a stationary fort armed with two or killing the tissues and cutting off the mate business transactions are observed, and Innocent four 10 or 12-inch guns in turrets. It Is further sug­ leaves from water supply, causing people who desire to invest their money are thereby gested that when our older battleships, from the OregoD them to shrivel and dry, thus produc­ duped into doing business with such places. They usu­ class down to those Just before the Dreadnought class, ing “ fruit spur b ligh t.” The latter ally lose all the money they invest. become obsolete for mobile service at sea, they ran be occurs several weeks after blossom in­ The Attorney General has lately secured Indictments made cheaply and effectively useful by Imbedding them fection. In very serious cases nearly against a group of men who have maintained 250 such In artificial Islands in shallow water off harbors of all the fruit spurs may be blighted in gambling offices In various parts of the country, nnd be ■low and difficult approach, like those of New York and this way and the trees set no fruiL has announced htg purpose to prosecute them to ths Hampton Roads. This would give to each long life as Usually the germs die out and do not full extent of the law. It is confidently expected tLat a stationary fort after It had outlived Its usefulness as a grow into the tw ig or branch on which he will succeed In stopping their business as his prede­ mobile battleship.— Farmers' Dispatch. the spur occurs, but occasionally the cessors under other laws stopped tbe Louisiana lot­ germs may continue into the bark o f tery. When the power of the national government Is the branch at the base o f the fruit spur THE OLD AMERICA. directed against any seich evil aa these it Is much more and form a typical canker. Fruit spurs effective than when a single State or a single qlty at­ N THE year 1850, about the time that on the larger branches are a fruitful Charles Dickens was engaged In his dys­ tempts to purge itself of offenders against the law. source o f body infection and many peptic tour of America. G. P. R. James, The extent to which the bucket-shop business has cases o f blight canker originate in another English novelist, was an Ameri­ been developed Is almost Incredible, and the machinery this way. can visitor, and wrote a letter, sold at auc­ devised for entrapping the unwary Is shrewdly con­ The name “ fire blight” is given to tion lu New York last week. It is a docu­ structed. Not only did the bucket-shop operators do this disease because o f the characteris­ ment of interest to those outside the glo­ their business, nominally as “ stock brokers,” but tbey tic appearance of pear foliage on twigs maintained an organized stock exchange, on which rious company of autograph collectors. Wrote James or branches which have been killed by enough legitimate business was done to make a showing when at New Haven: the organisms. The leaves turn black of honesty and fair dealing. "In passing through this land one sees no poverty, as though scorched by fire and fre­ But the chief patrons of these places were nothing no squalid wretchedness, no hovels and old huta. Great quently remain on the tree during the good huinor, too, Is visible everywhere among the peo­ but gamblers. They did not want to buy or sell any­ follow ing winter. It should be noted thing, any more than does the man who bets on which ple; each man seems to feel that by industry he can that this color o f the foliage is charac­ lump of sugar a fly will next light. The proprietors of get on as well as another. There is little of that jealous teristic o f the pear when it has been the places allowed their patrons to win only enough to rivalry, none of that Irritable envy that we see in older killed during the growing season. If a keep them Interested, but by a system o f secret wires lands, where we are all struggling for that bread which grower not familiar with the pear secured advance Information from tbe legitimate stock Is not sufficient for the whole.” blight desires to known how the “ tw ig Here is an echo of the old America. Great good hu­ exchanges which enabled them to prevent any customer blight” looks let him girdle a tw ig in from forcing them to lose.— Youth's Companion. mor prevalent, a minimum of jealous rivalry and Irrl- mid-summer and watch the results. The cankers are also quite character­ istic, but are very variable in appear­ purchasing records from private in­ three or four inches of the shank or ance. The disease progresses most dividuals. It. was’ ten years in the shaft. * rapidly in the fleshy outer layer o f the making, consisting of 112 volumes. How the plant Is known botanlcally, bark and at first produces a watery A set of 5,020 volumes in the Chi­ or whether It Is known at all, I am appearance in the affected area. Later nese department of the British mu­ unaware, but It bears a purple fruit, the tissues of the bark are more or less seum constitutes the largest book in quite the shape and about the size of It Is not often that an author may broken down and the cankers become the world. It is an encyclopedia of a small olive, which I understand listen to a perfectly sincere tribute to dark in color. the literature of China from 1000 B. C. is not itself poisonous. his work, one which he may be sure Besides the blight cankers found on So armed, the Wanderoboo tack'e to 1700 A. D.. a period of twenty-eight is not Influenced either by friendship the limbs and trunks, one frequently or courtesy. W. B. Woodgate, how­ centuries. The work in England was and kill anything, from the tiniest finds in some varieties o f pears and ever, In his “ Reminiscences of an Old purchased for $6.000, being one of the buck up to elephant, their favorite tac­ Spitzenberg apples a larger canker at Sportsman,” tells how he paid such a three copies in existence. It was forty tics a silent shot from a brush shelter the surface o f the ground extending up compliment at a dinner at the Garrick years in compilation and was ordered built within five or ten yards of a by Emperor Kang-he, who reigned much-used watering-place. Such prim­ on the trunk for some distance and Club In London. itive shooting covers one sees dally down the large roots. This condition The company were all comparing from 1662 to 1722. The smallest book in the world, not above springs and along streams In is called “ collar rot,” and may result notes as to leading dramatic and lit­ much larger than a man’s thumb nail, mountains and plains of the Wandero­ from a blight canker erary feats, and my opinion as to nov­ was made in Italy, the text being a boo coutnry. One of the prettiest models for a dainty A pear tree when badly cankered is els was asked. This particular arrow-head the old letter, before unpublished, written by little afternoon gown of batiste, is shown easily recognized at a distance in the As nearly as I can remember, I said. the inventor of the pendulum clock to bull carried would plainly have gone above. early autumn by the general reddish "You will laugh if I mention a novel Mme. Christine of Lorraine in 1665. It much deeper had It not struck a rib, The wee yoke is of fine ecru lace, the that probably none of you ever read, batiste being of that color, and there’ s cast to the foliage is four-tenths of an inch long, a quar­ for as found, the thin head was bent On the apple the foliage o f tw ig and and by a man named Jeaffreson, whom just a. touch of light blue in the e m ­ ter o f an inch wide, contains 208 pages, almost to right angles with Its shank fruit spur blight turns brown and dry. perhaps you never heard of, but which broidery. each with nine lines and from ninety- by contact with bone. to my untutored mtnd has always That it was a very old wound was five to one hundred letters. Next One o f the most fruitful sources of Struck me as head and shoulders over infection has been by the pruning smallest is an edition of Dante’s "D i­ obvious, for not only had it entirely •‘ A M i t e T o o r r y l n g . ” ninety-nine out of a hundred; a book shears or saw. In pruning, if an vine Comedy." a little less than an healed, except local Irritation about the called, 'Live It Down.' The third vol­ Buahby had many natural advan­ active canker is cut into, the tools be­ inch wide, with type so small that it head, but In places where the hard ume especially is to my mind unsur­ tages and beauties, but Mrs. Abner come infected and serve as inoculating takes a microscope to read the letters. black enamel-Uke coating of the poison passed for denouement of plot and Crane, who was a brief sojourner in was worn away tbe shank was much instruments to spread the disease. sketch of character.” the place, having been there only a rusted. The only method known o f control­ Such was my speech, delivered slow­ matter of ten years or so, never appre­ ling fire blight is to cut out all cases A D o c k I ln r il t o K i l l . ciated it. “ She was aching to get of cankers wherever they appear. ly and deliberately; There was a strained silence in the The screaming Walloon is a hard back to Nashuy the whole enduring Spraying with fungicides is of only duck to kill. Its hide ts very toujrh time," said one of Mrs. Crane's Bushby supplementary value and the various room as I concluded. Then some one asked, solemnly and pointedly. and Is thickly covered with feathers neighbors, "and I was glad to see her ■ blight cures are worse than useless. The famous poisoned arrow o f the and down. “ Is that meant for a jest. Mr. Wood- Besides, the bird Is a go, feeling as she did." Experience has shown that it is o f African savage is not always so dead­ great diver, one of the kind that used "What was It she didn't like a)>out little permanent value to attempt to gate?" "Jest! W hy? Not at all. I read the ly a weapon as it sounds. In fact. It to “ dive at the flash” when hunted Bush by?" asked one of the summer i cut out the fruit spur and tw ig blight After with the old arm that flashed when book In my Oxford days, but have may be absolutely harmless. residents, curiously. 1 as they appear. Unless these forms "She said she ‘didn't get the news o' o f the disease extend into thq branches never forgotten and have more than having killed an old buffalo bull near fired. It Is of very little value for the day quick enough to suit her,’ ” on which they occur and a canker is once reread It, and hold to what I say, the N'gari Kitl swamp, says E. B. table use, being so tough. The only quoted the neighbor, with as near an formed the disease usually becomes though I do not claim to be a judge Bronson In his recent book, “ In Closed way to manage It at all is to skin It Territory,” he noticed a small black and parboil It Ip a big pot with plenty Imitation of Mrs Crane's air as she naturally limited and the germs gradu- of such matters. "Perhaps you aré not aware, then, shaft about the diameter of a slate- of water. The negroes make caps of could manage. i ally die. pencil standing perpendicularly out, of Walloon skins. “ As 1 said to my Asy, what on earth The efforts o f the grower should be that Mr. Jeaffreson is sitting beside the animal's right loin, near the spine, she wanted more than we have in the directed to cutting out all cases o f you?" “ They are great ducks for diving," I «-ns takon nbark, and lookod at ami six Inches In front of the hip. One says a well known Tred Avon river way o’ news spreaders here, I don’t blight canker and body canker during o f tbe natives said, wltti a laugh, progger. “ They ran dive quicker, go know. the fall, winter and early spring, when my rl^hr taancf nrljjhbor. “The other aide," I was Instructed: "Other hunters have been out Ions I down deeper, remain under water long­ "When you consider that there are the cankers have become more or less five telephones in town, a grocery wa­ limited in their growth and are not and I faced the left-hand guest, with before you, Bwana, but their resas er and come up farther away than whom 1 had been having much Inter­ (cartridge) was not as good a3 yours; any other duck that frequents our gon driven by Lucy Grant's boy twice actively spreading. that Is a Wanderoboo poisoned arrow.” waters. I remember once I succeeded a week, Lucy Grant herself to sew for Summer cutting it intelligently ap­ esting conversation. Cordy Jeaffreson smiled benignly as | It was true, as we found proved, when, in killing a Walloon, and, being short everybody In town by the day, and all plied is frequently o f great Value, taking milk from Jed Kimball, I don’t particularly whore thcrans only » little I stammered apologies for my person­ after five minutes' rutting and tugging, o f game for the table, 1 determined to know how we could be any better Might. In the autjfTnn before the ality in defining him as “ probably un­ the arrow-head was withdraw from the cook my bird I got a negro to skin it, giving him the hide for his trouble. fixed. I rail anybody that wants more leaves fall is a gooaVtime to do the cut­ known.’’ Of course I was aware that bull's tough hack muscles. It was a remarkable example of the | After being cleaned we put It In a news 'o the day than Buahby folks get ting, as all eases o f tw ig blight are a writer of that name had written "The Real Lord Byron,” and had a great power of the Wanderoboo bow. great pot full of water and under It a mite too prying myself.'* i easily observed. After awhile I The trees should be particularly e x ­ high literary status, but had no idea From Its sharply barbed point to Its kindled a hot fire. fain (III«*il i it K I I I« l li - n r t . amined for cases o f the collsr rot. It that he was identical with the author base the arrow head was five and a wanted to see how the cooking o f my •Dear papa.” wrc I f the little girl at is this form o f the diseasq that causes of the novel in question. half Inches long, and four and a halt duck progressed and lifted the top off the summer resort. "I have gained alx He took the episode good-humoredly, inches of Its length had been driven the boiling pot. but there was so much killed outright. ounces In weight since ' e came here. many trees to In cutting ou t cankers it is neces­ and vowed that it was a genuine com­ through the half inch hide and on into steam escaping I could not see Into Mamma sends her love, Please writs the pot and struck a match over It. to us to-morrow. Send •our love and sary that ths tools be kept moist pliment to him. He had written the the heavy muscles o f the loin. Since tt stood iierpendicularly in the The blamed Walloon, sir. dived at the all the money you can a >nre."—Chlca- with some good disinfectant. If this novel, he said. In his youth, and then go Tribune. | it not done each cut will reinocúlate had settled to more serious literature loin. It must have been shot Into the flaah of the match. It disappeared and bull while he was passing beneath a has never been seen since.”— Baltimore ; the germs into the bark at the edges W h l l r t h e S p a r r o w t’ o p l . o o k e d O a . INTERESTING VOLUMES. tree, or when he was drinking directly Sun. o f the canker and the labor may thus Ardly Keap—W'y don't ys roll fur- below some overhanging bank, both l>e useless. t h p l . : i rar«*«it, f l u * S n m l l c M n m l Itie I*ri»«>t l« * n l I W I r y . der along under de tree, an' git out method* of attack favorites of the Corrosive sublimate in a solution of M o a t K n t r n * l » p ll«»i»k l* u b ll« s h e « l. •* de sunshine? "Pa, here's a piece of poetry that light-armed Wanderoboo. Solon Uoddey—Too Mams much like ; one part to one thousand o f water has The largest bound book ever made says something about a ‘moated ! l-een found to be the most satisfactory was owned by Queen Victoria, says While the Wanderoboo poison Is grange.' What is a ‘moated grange,’ work. j disinfectant. The solution is a violent the New York Sun. It weighs sixty deadly to b. within five to twenty .XiHhlnv New. poison. It must be kept in glass. three pounds and la eighteen inches minutes whi rn it is fresh, applied to ar- “ Lemme look at It. I guess that “ Has your wife foun.l a house yet?" row-heads tn thii dry climate. It cakes thick. must be a misprint for "garage.’ A “ No. I ou see, w ere nio'cil so efien Information Free to Orchardiste. i For the Hebraic blble In the Vatican to the hardness of enamel In a few moated garage Is one that's designed ¡ n oUon nade from the bark of per mean by saying It was a fruitless Judge—Tha witness told all that quiries as full a description o f the United 8iates government at a roet o f a bush much like a laurel, which is search? happened on th« second floor. trouble as possible and send apeelmena nearly 13,000.000. Nearly one-half of boiled down and down until It be­ Father— It probably applies, my son, why do you ohjeet to hla telling what , f or examination. Address'Department this amount was paid for printing comes a thick, gummy, concentrated to the quest of some man who was happened on **• *h,f*'* door? 1 - — ~ Y j Entomoh.gy and Plant-Pathology •nd binding and the rest for salaries, extract. So prepared. It la thickly looking for pineapples on a pine tree. Counsel— - B e « ú . r 'í f It "pícase your 1 n New honor, that 1 . another s to r y .- B r o o * . O ***»" A gricu ltu ral - College, Corval- rent, stationery and such expenses as smeared over the barbed 1 is. Oregon. lyn Eagle. FASHION HINTS KM A |M | ¡Ü g A U t - n r r .1 P ia r ir o r e P o n l t r r l l i . e a e . This building U 14 feet wide, and can be as long as desired, adding an­ other set or sets of rooms and sheds at 6ne or both ends. The construc­ tion la simple, but durable. Outside walls are covered on outside and In­ side with light weight prepared roof­ ing. placed on cheap lumber. Plaster board may be substituted for the In­ side. Studs are 2x2, and there are two sets; waterproof paper being placed between them. Thus a double air apace Is secured. Rafters are of ; 2x4, and may be stripped beneath ■ and practically the same construction used aa for the sides: using thicker roofing. So constructed, the building will be very warm. Foundation la of stone, brick or grout. Floors are of cement, covered with dry sand. Broken stone, well tamped as for macadam road la cheaper than cement, and makes a fair substitute. The ventilators, be­ ing placed In the warmest parts of rooms will draw. Windows have sash lio o n fu llu r a e a . If horse« had means of expressing their thanks they would probably unite and send a resolution of gratitude to the Pennsylvania man who invented tb e horseshoe s h o w n in the sketch. The horse­ shoe has a series of parallel ridges on its heel aud toe portions. The ridges on the toe portion run parallel to the longitudinal axis of the shoe and those on the heel portion run transversely. These ridges form a se­ ries o f recesses adapted to receive and retain snow or dirt; thus forming a bearing surface for the shoe and mak­ ing the horse surer of his footing. Running In opposite directions as they do the corrugations act as a sort of brake In whichever way the animal’s feet may happen to slip and the whole effect Is to prevent snow or dirt "cak* ing" oil the flat of the shoe. I lr a n w it h A lfa lfa fu r C ow «. At the Massachusetts station, with new milch cows, a supplementary ra­ tion of bran gave slightly superior re­ sults to one of alfalfa meal. With the bran ration the cows gave 1.6 per cent more milk and 3.1 per cent more but­ ter. The several feedstuffs were fig­ e x l e k i o s v i e w or p o u l t r y h o u s e . ured at the same price per pound, ex­ with some glass, but mostly filled with cepting the wheat bran and alfalfa; heavy muslin. This lets In a fair the former cost $22 and the latter $30 amount of light, and air enough to a ton In the market. On this basis prevent dampness. By using two the alfalfa ration would increase the courses of cloth It will be fully as cost of inllk and butter some 9 per warm as one of glass, and Insure a cent. If the bran and alfalfa were | dry building. figured at the same price per ton the One room has a double row of food cost of the product would vary nests, with wire partition above. very slightly. Owing to the excess of When a hen wants to Bet, her nest fertilizer ingredients, especially nitro­ ts pushed through tnto small room, and gen. In the wheat bran, the bran ra- SECURING PROPER GRADE. To obtain an even grade In trenches where tiles are to be laid, stretch lines across the ditch five feet above the bed. The lines are tied securely to stakes on either aide of the ditch. White cotton rope one-fourth Inch In diameter Is the best kind to make easy sighting. The proper hitch on the stakes Is Bhown tn the lower Illustrations. In practice a mark can be mads on the long handle of the shovel five feet from the point and the sighting done without delay as the work goes on. replaced by the one opposite; the door being closed. A small door leads to an exercise yard. Partition door Is open, except when raising Chickens. Scratching sheds have earth floors, and are enclosed by wire fencing, with doors. In winter muslin can be added, making the sheds warm, and not ex­ cluding the sun. The brooder room has a wood floor. Beneath Is a basement for Incubator. By a stove In room above and tbe double flue chimney both can be kept at any desired temperature, and the air pure. A trap door covers stair­ way. Basement has windows on both sides. Entrance Is from north, while south side Is taken up by yards,— "farm, Stock and Home. tlon would furnish a somewhat richer manure. This fact should not be en­ tirely lost sight of In comparing tbe merits of the two feeds. F e llln ir T r e e « by K le c tr lc lty . According to a statement Issued by the Slemens-Schuckert Company of Berlin, the felling of trees by means of wires heated by electric currents, which has been described In various newspapers, cannot be accomplished in a practical and economical manner, for the follow ing reasons: The wire, to cut effectively, must be very tightly stretched and It Is therefore very li­ able to rupture, In consequence of Its high temperature. The redhot wire carnonlzea the wood, and the charcoal. If allowed to accumulate, protects the Interior parts from the heat of the T h e J oe S tra w b erry . The Joe strawberry has had quite ex wire. In order to remove the char­ tensive trail and everywhere made coal, the wire must be roughened and a good record. It la a mid­ moved to and fro lengthwise, so that season to late berry, and under the operation Is still a sort of sawing, favorable conditions grows to the and the motion and roughening in­ crease the liability to rupture. T r a p n e a tn a n d H ry Fred. Prof. Chambers, referred to In oui last Issue, ascribes his success to In­ telligent feeding, good care and trap­ nesting. His hens receive dry feed entirely. He gives a light feed o f whole wheat and corn three times a day, scattering the grain in the litter. He keeps before his hens all the time In self-feeding hoppers, a dry mash made of the following mixture: Pounds. Bran ....................................................... 200 Alfalfa meal ......................................... 200 Corn meal ............................................. 100 Shorts ...................... 100 Linseed meal ....................................... 100 Meat, bone and blood....................... lob All these are mixed with a little salt and cayenne pepper. largest size. One berry Is recorded as weighing more than two ounces. The plant Is large and very vigorous and healthy In growth. The berry ts regular In shape and among the most beautiful In general appearance. It la l -l m l ll n ic th e F lo rlc . also of high flavor. If you have a Where the farmer himself work« heavy, rich soil and will mulch the with poultry as he does with hogs or plants well, you can raise some prize- cattle, 200 hens should be the mini­ winning berries from the Joe.—Orange mum limit o f the flock, and more than l u d d Farmer. this number can be handled with profit If the farmer understands the buel- ffow lnar C o ir p e a « . ness and has some hired help. Both The caw pea is sometimes sown In eggs and market poultry are very high combination with other crops, such aa and any farmer can make as much or corn. Kaffir corn and sorghum, for hay. more from poultry as he can with any When planted In these combinations other farm animals. If he puts thought there Is danger o f the eowpeas becom­ and work Into the business. ing stunted In growth If the crop with which it Is combined Is planted too M ilk fo r P o n ltr y . thick. Sown broadcast, eowpeas often Poultry and dairy farming go well make little growth with these crops, together. Milk fed to poultry In all but when planted In rows with corn forms, produces good results. How­ and cultivated the growth la quite sat- ever, care should be taken to keep th* ■sfactory. dishes clean and aweet. A xrrn gr Y i e l d o f O a ts . According to the Crop Reporter, Is­ sued by the United Statea Department of Agriculture, the average oat yields per acre for ten year« were as follows; Russia, 18.4 bushels: France, 28.1; Aus­ tria, 28.6; United States, 29.1; United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. 44.7; and Germany, 47.2. Tbe three great crops o f wheat last year were: United State«, 807,156,000 bushels: Ger­ many, 530,121.000 bushels; and Russia, 834.502 bushels. The world'« crop wee 2,600,524.000 bushels, and In axceas of , either corn or wheal X V e la h t of Freds by Q u a rt«, Dairymen especially will be Inter­ ested In knowing the weight of the several feeds by quarts. Inasmuch as In compounding dairy rations, ths terms are expressed in pounds: Cot­ tonseed oil, 1.5 pounds; linseed meal, old process, 1.1 pounds; gluten meal, 1.7 pounds; gluten feed, 1.2 pounds; wheat bran, coarse, 6-laths pound; wheat middlings, coarse, 8-lOths pound; wheat middlings, line, 1.1 pounds; mixed wheat feed, 1-lOthf pound; corn meal, 1.5 pounds; Data 1.2 pounds; rye bran, 2-10the pound.