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Will Ak Governor To"Swat Rooster"
Kani&i Executive Requested to Demand Doom of Chanticleer on
Jane 6.
TEE rooster Is to have bis day.
It is to be a sad day for the
rooster it will be the making of
the egg business, say the produce deal
ers, in session at the Hotel Baltimore in
Kansas City, last week.
So the dealers are going to petition
Got. Major of Kansas to issue a pro
clamation designating June 6 as
"rooster day."
The purpose is to make an annual
event in Missouri poultrydom. June
6 is to be to chanticleer what Thanks
giving is to the turkey kind of ex
ecution day, a black Friday,
On that day produce commission men
all over the state are going to ad
vertise a premium on all roosters de
livered to tbem June 6. This is to
make it an object to the farmers to
sell off the cocks of the walk.
If the general market price of roost
ers is 12 cents that day, there will be
a premium of 4 cents a pound, mak
ing the price 16 cents. All male birds
are to be sold off then, except those
intended for breeding purposes, accord
ing to the plan.
Then only non-fertile eggs will be
sold throughuot the summer.
And non-fertile eggs do not become
stale. ' They do not rot. After being
kept in a warm room three summer
months yolk and white are greatly
diminished in bulk. Evaporation
causes it The eggs are dried up; but
the contents what is left are sweet
and wholesome.
Thomas E. Quisenberry says if the
farmers will dispose of their surplus
roosters, and pen up the others during
the laying season, it will mean a sav
ing to Missouri farmers of (3,000,000
annually. And Mr. Quisenberry knows,
because he's director of the Missouri
state poultry station at Mountain
Grove.
Brome Grass in Semi-Arid Regions
BBOME grass, botanically known as
Bromus Intermis, is a native of
Europe. It was introduced into
this country from Eussia at a compara
tively recent date. It is variously known
as Russian brome, smooth brome grass
and awnless brome grass. Brome grass
is of such recent introduction into this
country that its value is not yet well
understood. It has proven to be one
of the best pasture grasses for the great
plains region and the Northwest It
thrives best in the north and will be
successful in the semi-arid region wher
ever grains will grow under irrigation
or dry farming methods. It is a good
grass for the dry farmer, as its numerous
deep root enable it to withstand
drought better than any of our other
cultivated grasses, which explains its
great popularity in the great plains
region. .
About the first place in this country
to import seed from BusBia, was the
South Dakota Agricultural Experiment
Station. A quantity of seed was re
ceived then Bfii a five-acre field plant
ed. The result was that (2,000 worth
of seed1 was sold from this small field
the second year.
The plant is not as good for hay as
for pasture. It makes a very thick sod,
as it spreads by means of root stocks, so
gets thicker on the ground for several
years after planting. It is not injured
by the tramping of stock. Permanent
brome grass meadows and pastures will
become sod-bound after a few years, but
this can be remedied by thorough disk
ing every year or two.
The method of seeding brome grass is
not different from that of seeding tun
othy or other grasses. It does better
in loam or clay soils than on those of
sandy nature. Spring seeding is most
commonly practiced, sewing either
broadcast or drilling it in. it should
be shown as early as possible in the
spring to insure plenty of moisture to
start it If conditions are favorable,
it may be sown in the fall with winter
wheat The rate of seeding is from 15
to 20 pounds per acre when sown alone,
or if sown in mixture 6 to 10 pounds per
acre will be sufficient.
The brome is a very palatable grass
and is eaten by stock as readily as blue
grass. Growth starts very early in the
spring and it remains green longer than
any of the other grasses in the fall.
Brome grass has also been found of
value in improving wornout lands, since
it produces a large quantity of stems
and roots and adds materially to the
vegetable matter in the soil.
QBACTICAL experience has shewn
f that disking alfalfa under certain
conditions is beneficial to the crop, yet
many farmers will not cultivate their
alfalfa plants in any way for fear of
killing them.
As with other crops, the cultivation
of alfalfa must be done with judgment.
The main object in cultivating alfalfa
plants, which usually consists in disk
ing, is to kill summer grasses. The in
dividual farmer must know when his
particular field must be disked. A
writer In a certain section will state
that, say, July 1 is the proper time. A
man in another section and climate will
disk his field at that time and meet
with poor success. 'Here is where judg
ment counts. Conditions are not the
same everywhere.
The time to disk alfalfa is just be
fore or at the time summer annual
grasses begin to grow. , This time may
be in July in one section and June in
another section. It may be after the
first cutting, or after the second cut
ting. Each man must know when sum
mer grasses begin to grow in his local
ity, and set his disk to working accord
ingly.
There is no danger whatever to well-
established alfalfa plants in disking.
The plants are deep rooted and will not
be pulled out if they are not cut off.
Splitting the crowns will do no damage.
Some of the best alfalfa growers give
their alfalfa fields a severe disking and
cross-disking every year. Some claim
that it is impossible to injure the plants,
no matter bow the implement is set or
run. The duk euts up the surface and
kills grass without injuring the alfalfa
plants. Another object in summer disk
ing is to loosen the surface to admit
air, and create a surface mulch for
holding moisture. Harrowing after
disking in dry weather is an advantage.
Breed Dairy Cows
Once Each Year
THERE exist two dangers of allow
ing a milch cow to remain open
for an indefinite period, writes a
correspondent of the Bural Now York
er. In the first place she is less apt
to conceive when mated, and in the
second place she is apt to go dry for
a long period after the mating is finally
made in ease she does settle. It is cus
tomary in large dairies, where the
calves are not an important item of
value, to permit the cows to freshen
once in 15 or 16 months.
Ordinarily, however, for dairy farm
practices it is much more desirable to
mate them so tha1 they will freshen
once each year. This practice stim
ulates the milk flow, and unless a cow
is particularly a good milker she is less
apt to give as much milk if irregularly
bred and not permitted to freshen at
frequent intervals. The animal will
keep in good condition physically if not
bred. In fact, she is very apt to put on
an excessive amount of flesh, and this
is one of the reasons why she is less
apt to conceive when mated.
Instances are frequent where cows
have been used for family purposes and
not bred for intervals of two years or
more, but it is the exception rather
than the rule to have such animals give
milk enougn to pay adequately for the
care involved in their maintenance. If
desired to carry a cow over from spring
freshening to fall freshening or if nec
essary to avoid calving during fly time
the practice Is justified.
Turpentine Often Is
Adulterated
AS the result of an investigation by
the United States Department of
Agriculture, it has been found that
the adulteration of turpentine with nun
eral oils is so widespread that druggists
and manufacturers of pharmaceutical
products and grocers' sundries used for
medicinal and veterinary - purposes
should exercise special caution in pur
chasing turpentine. Those who use tur
pontine . for this purpose, unless they
are careful, run the risk of obtaining an
adulterated article and unnecessarily
laying themselves open to prosecution
under the Food and Drugs act.
It has been found, moreover, that the
turpentine sold to the country stores
especially, as usually put out by dealers
and manufacturers of grocers sundries,
is often short in volume by as much as
5 or 10 per cent. Dealers, therefore,
should also protect themselves through
a guarantee from the wholesaler that
the bottle contains the full declared
volume.
The department has found that tur'
pontine may be adulterated in the South
where it is made and that the further
it gets from the "South the more ex
tensively and heavily it is adulterated
In all cases, druggists, manufacturers
and wholesale grocers should satisfy
themselves that the turpentine is free
from adulteration and is true to marked
volume.
Sowing cane in gullies and allowing
it to reseed itself will, it is said, in a
few years stop them and fill them.
Disking Alfalfa Is
Aid To Crop
Food Must Be Well Masticated.
The lirst process of digestion is per
formed in the admixture of the food
substance with a fluid during mastica
tion. This first step in the conversion
of food into flesh and blood is a most
important one, and the pleasures at
tending the sense of taste are doubtless
given to insure a proper performance
of this initiatory process of a transformation.
If food is not well masticated the
stomach cannot successfully perform
the second stage of digestion, and the
disastrous effects of mal-assimilation
will soon be apparent, affecting in some
degree the whole body.
Many .dyspeptics and person, suffer
ing from nervous conditions are really
victims of mal nutrition, due to careless
habits of mastication or the inability
to properly prepare this food for re
ception by the stomach. Dr. Jones,
Dentist, 245 Washington St., Portland.
Labor In Summer
Tillage Pays
A writer in the Technical World
Magazine figures that there are five
hundred million rats in the United
States, and that each one, each day, eats
or destroys, two cents' worth of prop
erty three billion six hundred million
dollars' worth a year! That is about
forty dollars for each inhabitant. If
this loss were saved by the extermina
tion of the rats, it would help much to
lower the cost of living. Indiana is
starting a crusade against the pests
that should soon become nation-wide.
The dry lands of the West never sour,
and there are many others things they
seldom do.
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FIL HELD, a successful Logan Coun
ty, Colo., upland farmer, says "One
of the mistaken ideas about summer
tillage is that it is connected with a
large amount of extra labor. Of course,
the field while under summer tillage
requires careful cultivation and in ex
ceptional seasons Almost constant watch
ing and tending. But for the next three
years after summer tillage the ground
is in such condition that scarcely any
labor is needed.
No plowing is done at any time until
plowing for the next summer tillage.
After the fall wheat is harvested the
Held should be disked as soon as possi
ble for two reasons: Hirst, to make the
top mellow so that it will receive the
precipitation rain and snow during
the winter. Second, to prevent evapora
tion. In the spring the ground is again
disked, when corn or some other crop
in rows is planted. It requires no great
amount of cultivation to keep the corn
free from weeds. Perhaps no more than
two cultivations will be necessary un
less some extra work is done for con
servation purposes. After the crops in
rows the ground need not be gone over
till the next spring, when it is again
pulverized and put into spring grains."
Try summer tilling a piece of land.
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