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About Washington County news. (Forest Grove, Washington County, Or.) 1903-1911 | View Entire Issue (March 10, 1904)
r~ PLANT PROTECTORS. D rv lrr« Prom F o r R h trld ln ( Front. W i n d « E a r ly P lan ta a n d finira. Oct your plnnt protectors ready, for there will be little time to do so Inter en. T. Greiner Rives designs and de scriptions In Karin and Fireside for some useful homemade devices for pro tecting early plants from frost and cold winds and from bugs. First Is the Blmplc box frame, a box without top or bottom, say a foot square and four to six Inches high. A IIOX WITH MUSLIN TOP— MUSLIN COVF.U W ITH END IlOAUDH. season. There is a sufficient number of the Friends at Carthage to remind one constantly of towns In Chester county. Pa. Evidences of prosperity are on ev ery hand. The last few years have beep exceptionally profitable ones In the corn belt, and the farmers are very glud that they are on earth. At this Institute we had Mr. S. F. McMahan and Mrs. Virginia Meredith, two veteran Institute instructors of the state. Mr. McMahan probably knows as much about corn as Is known, and that moans a great deal. It lias been a revelation to me to learn bow thor oughly these breeders of eorn have studied and developed this grain. They nre after an ear of corn that Is so form ed that It contains a high percentage of grain that Is rich In protein, high hi vitality and very prollllc. That means deep, wedge shaped, thick grains, with big germs, all placed on a cob that holds Its thickness to the tip and that Is covered with grain to the very tip. There nre states farther east whose corn growers would be pleased and profited by the Information Mr. McMa han has about our great American ce real. Mrs. Meredith Is n farmer and a breeder of Shorthorn cattle whose rep utation extends over many states. She lias been successful because she has ability and a love for her work. From her example we do not Infer that wom en should or should not turn to farm management for u livelihood. All de fends upon the Individual. W e do Team, however, that If an Individual has ability and natural inclination that person may win In practical farming, whether man or woman. The other Independent Institute wan at Ptttshoro, Ind., In the corn belt, where hogs have been adding to tin« Wealth of the people. Many Indies at tended the meeting, and the Institute committee arranged early in the se.i son to secure Mrs. J. W. Bates, one of the well known Indiana workers, to discuss topics of special Interest to housekeepers. The Interest of the peo pie In all subjects on the programme wan of the sort that should cause an speakers to do their best work. AX HANDLES. H eart or Sap W o o d - C nrvod S trn llfh t—Iln n x Ia K th e A x. or When buying an ax handle always select one that Is made entirely from the sap wood or the heart wood, but never one that Is made partly of each, for It will split along the line of union. Handles made from sap wood are more elastic and better for chopping, and a *>an will not tire or get sore so quick ly when using one, says an Orange Judd Farmer correspondent. I prefer those mude from the heart wood for splitting, although they are not so durable. The proper length and curve of the handle depend upon the habit and method of chopping of the user. With a long handle a man will strike a much harder bloxv. but with a short handle he will strike oftener. so there Is practically no difference In the work accomplished. The curve, too, depends upon the habit of the user. A curved handle has no advantage over the one that Is per fectly straight. Most people prefer the curved because they are accustomed to its use. As a rule, the straight han dle Is more durable. The size of the handle depends upon the muscular de velopment of the user. If It Is too small It will cramp the fingers, and If too large it will lame the hands and w’rists. I f one will examine the end of a piece of wood he will see that It Is made of layers, each layer represent ing the growth of one year. Wood splits much more easily along these lines than across them; hence when square piece of cloth or netting may be tacked over the top. A similar device Is made of sllIT paper, with u piece of cheesecloth sewed or pusted right over a square opening cut Into the top, the sides being held down hy pieces of wire bent In double pin shape. For another device a piece of netting may be tacked In two end boards, each end board be ing provided with a small sharpened stake (nailed on the outside), which when puslnnl Into the ground will hold the end boards In place, with the cloth stretched tightly between them over the plants. Even a large piece of cloth O strich l'V a tli* r * . or netting and n few sticks will do the In each wing of an ostrich twenty- business. W e cun take some pieces of slx white plumes grow to maturity év willow twigs or other pliable wood and ité/ eight months. Seventy-five short AX HANDLES AND AXES. slick n couple of them crosswise Into teathers besides nre plucked for tips selecting an ax handle always choose ihe ground In the form of a bow over from each wing. Sixty-live of the tall the top of plunts feathers have commercial value. The one in which the layers nre parallel or a single plaut fournie ostrich lays seventy eggs a with the line of force, ns shown in Fig. 1. I f they nre at right angles, as In and place the /on r. Fig. 2, a few days’ use will cause the piece of cloth handle to split along the dotted lines P 'o w I n B M a c h in e s . over this frame. | shown. The difference In quality In Po long ago as KU8 David Hanisey holding the edg es down hy bank- j •rid Thomas Wlklgosse took out a pnt- this respect is so marked that many lug a little soil j knt for engines and machinery to plow dealers sort their handles and make the price of one about double that of W ILLO W TWIOS A Nil up over them, ir ground without horses. the other. unauK we may simply In hanging an ax considerable at K o r e a . [►uste 1 * 1 » or more little sticks slantingly There nre nt present about 15.000 tention should lie paid to the kind of Into the ground and over the plant or In Ihe work which Is to be done. For small plants and cover with netting, or the Japanese settlers In Korea. w'ood hang an ax pointing in. as shown netting may Is» simply placed directly thlrd Century nfter Christ tlint eoun In Fig. 3. For very large trees hang It over the plants In loose folds. Cheese try belonged to Japan, hnving beeil squarely across or at right angles to conquered by the Eni press Jingo. In ! cloth may be considered preferable to the handle, and for splitting, especial the years 10!V| to 1508 Korea agaln ordinary mosquito netting. The latter ly block wood, hang It out according to Is rattier coarse and would not prove an was subject to Japan. Fig. 4. This gives one a chance to effective Isirrlcr to thrl|>s and other strike a heavy blow squarely across T o b a c c o . small Insects that might do damage. the block, using the whole bit of the Tobacco was taken to Europe by tbe All tlswe devices are simple and per ax. and without making a tiresome Spaniards early In the sixteenth een- haps effective as any more elu'oorate tnry ami was Introduced Into Engltmd bend of tbe back with every blow. or more costly o n e * . The relative position of the blade and by Huh-lgli In 1555. handle may lie clinuged by Inserting a FARMERS’ INSTITUTES. T o l i n k » P a lm a T h r iv e . small wedge In the eye of the ax. ei A few pieces of hoof parings which ther above or below tbe handle, as oc S w im * T t i l n a a T h e y A r e A r r o m p t l a h - horn<»sl>o«*rs pan* off the hoof before casion may require. l » f —T h e l u i l r p m i l r n t I n a l l l w t e . shooing heroes will make palms thrive Ti e demand for farmers' Institutes A l f a l f a In X V on trrn X r lir n s U a . luxuriantly. Simply poke the parings In g »stiline when locnl communities nr« w in down In the soil at any time of As yet alfalfa Is a new tiling to n willing to |iay all expense* In case the the year. Horseshoers give aw ay the large percentage of the stockmen of •tat* M unable to grant their requests, parings for the asking. Cherry county, hut the acreage In says Alva Agee 111 National Stockman. creases every season. J. II. Batchelor, In the first week of January I attended F tn o r r P rin t*. a big stockman, seeth'd forty acres to two auch meetings in Indiana while on Finger prints for the Identification alfalfa a year ago last May. cut three my way to Minnesota. Jhe first one of children have been used in Chinese times during the season and got a ton v a i at Carthage, and It has not been f^iu d iiag asylums since the eleventh to the acre each time. lie believes al my privilege to tie present at n mort' century. falfa growing will be one of the Impor enthusiastic meeting anywhere this tant factors of the live stock business I / or western Nebraska within tne next few years. In speaking of his venture Mr. Batchelor says: “The first essential to its success is loose soil. Those w’ho have tried It find that It thrives on blue stem ground nnd gives the best of sat isfaction. When a ranchman gets three tons of feed off one acre of ground he is making tw’o blades of grass grow where one grew before and more. Those who have grown it are more than pleased with results and predict that It will cut a big figure In the range countries In time. As a result of my experience I am going to break up a hundred acres for alfalfa next spring. I am going to Investigate methods of seeding, and if I find that It can be successfully grown on sod I will seed the ground right after It Is turned.”— Orange Judd Farmer. Echoes From th e Press. When scalding n hog put It in a cask or trough nnd throw three or four handfuls of air slaked lime over it, then put in your boiling water. It will make the bristles fly, says an Orange Judd Farmer correspondent. Cannibals of Africa are said to pre fer pork to human meat. Savage prac tices have thus been checked by cul tural methods, and the pig attracts at tention as the greatest civilizer of the age. Fourteen ounces of pins welded Into a solid mass were found in a cow’s stomach at one of the Chicago packing houses. That cow must have been full of good points. This going to a farm for a living is serious business, with the chances against any one who thinks that farm- hig Is a soft job or an easy business to learn. Farmers In sentiment occupy a mid dle ground between capital and labor, with little sympathy for the method of either. Pure food laws should not be objec tionable to the honest citizen, while tl'.e practices of the dishonest class should be checked by legislation. Farmers who fall to read regularly think in nits. C n rln n x C n n ille C u stom . There Is a singular custom in the Manchester (England) cathedral—viz, Ihe lighting of twelve candles on Christmas eve and extinguishing one every night until the Epiphany. * Unm an lln ir. The roots of the hair penetrate the skin about one-twelfth of nn inch. H air ta very strong. A single hair will bear a weight of about 1.150 grains. ItcpottlnK P n l m n . In repotting palms put a good sized piece of broken flowerpot (the common po**ous kind) In-the bottom of the new' pot. covering the drainage hole. This makes drainage slow nnd retain» the moisture. The K orean F la ir . The Korean flag Is white, nnd In the center is a design about the size of a football In red and blue, looking very ranch like huge Intwlued comma marks. On the top. bottom nnd sides arc short lines of dots and dashes, re minding one of the Morse code alpha bet. D en en rtea* R e p ly . A gay marquis said to Descartes, “Do you philosophers eat dainties?" He replied. "D o you think that God made good things only for fools?” C u lm In Rnsntn. In no European country ure cabs so cheap as in Bussln, for there Is no tnr- Iff r.t nil. All trade Is a mntter of hag gling, nnd it is Just the same with cabs. In no city In Kutope can you drive so far at so small a cost, and In no city can you be so unmercifully fleeced If yon do not know the system. But to work the system takes time.