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Home and Farm Magazine Section Editorial Page
Suwrestiona From Our Associate Editors, Allowing for an Interchange of Views, Written by Men of Experience on Topici With
Which They Are Fully Acquainted Hints Along Lines of Progressive Farm Thought.
HOME ANT) FAKM MAGAZINE SECTION
WHY?
nE DON'T often disagree with
our agricultural colleges,
i We couldn't if we tried.
' But just the same we are often
puzzled.
Wo wonder, for instance, why
the hurl at the unoffending farm
er and editor, obsolete and unusual
words.
For our part, we frankly confess
it is a nuisance to look up a diet
' ionary. And for the average farmer,
wo '11 wagor he does not carry a
'(Webster in his hip pocket as he
tons a bollege bulletin.
For example: the other day we
aw a Government bulletin which
announced some experiments in
' agronomy would be conducted in
'Nevada. Both the Oregon and
Washington agricultural colleges
have experts in agronomy or agron
omists. At this rate, the men who grow
eorn, who raise potatoes, cultivate
beans and orchards and so forth
aro agronomists.
Most of them don't know It
And if they were so called would
'. probably foel insulted.
Agronomy is another name for
agriculture. Specifically it means
, the management or cultivation of
land.
. Why not so call itt
; Why brouse through the diction
ary for another nnmef
Surely it's not necessary.
The man who runs and reads, or
.who farms and reads, has not the
ponderous vocabulary of a Carlyle.
If he had, wa should see laundries
' advertised as "albification fac
tories;" soldiers called "aguer
1 rys' and a mean horse described
. as a "solidungular scroyle."
Why start this kind of thing in
griculturef
' SEE EARNS HER FEED..
ffcAPTAIN E. B. Cassttt of Ber
wyn, Pennsylvania, has a
Guernsey cow.
The unusual feature is that the
tow is a most unusual animal.
During the past year her gros
arninss were 1200.
Her output was nearly ten tons
, f milk and the equivalent of more
than 1260 pounds of butter in the
year.
j Of course, she broke a world 'a
record.
' For the 365 days ending May 19,
the cow 's record is 19,678 pounds
; ef butter fat.
Her name is May Rilma.
Such a cow deserves name.
,We wish we owned her.
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WORTH WHILE.
ORB than 201,000 farmer and
their families wont to school
at tho f armors' institutes
conducted by the Pennsylvania
; State Department of Agriculture
I during the season of 1913-1914, ae
ieording to reports compiled on
(Capitol hill .
y . Tho exact attendance was 201
176, tho third largest season known
idneo they began to hold institutes,
i in 1895. It was exceeded only by
the seasons of 1909 1910 and 1910
11911, when the attendance went
ver 205,000.
1 1 AU told, there were 1,187 sessions,
illvided between 461 days, the &T-
H79. which is away up in the list
Ibe state employed fifty-four loot-
vrera and spont about aK,wu.
Farmers and their families in
,'khe -Northwest know something
I about agricultural institutes, too.
Any money a stato spends in help
v ing farmers to better themselves
( and their produce is money well .
( pent
In fact, it is earning principal
tad interest within a few hours
' after it is expended.
A JOLT.
tli
AINI3 1ms set a new paee for
scientific farming.
Leon S. Morrill, dean of the
I JMaino Agricultural College, has re
' ported that 87 P cent of the grad-
nates of that institution are en
gaged in agricultural work.
We don't know how Oregon and
Washington can compare with
tboso figures.
' Wo aro afraid it would jolt our
elf estoem were we to know.
Mr. Merrill remarks that he has
to offer the largest figure men
tioned anywhere. 1
Wo are inclined to believe him.
We should like to meet that
eliap who was telling us abont
those abandoned farms in the East.
Probably thoy wcre only aban
doned while their owners attended
ehool.
The Eastern fanner is finding
that he must look to his laurels.
Ho is doing it.
More than one-half the Maine
percentage of graduates are farm
ers, 2 per cent are demonstrating
agents, 14.8 are agricultural teach
ers and experimenters, 2 per cent
are agricultural editors, and most
of the small number not doing some
thing to further agriculture are in
business and handling the proceeds
of farms with other goods.
In the past two years the four
year students of the college have
increased in number from 139 to
252, and tho short- term men have
decreased in number.
That indicates a larger demand
for complete education on farming.
It shows the trend of thought in
New England.
Wa can't afford to be caught
napping.
TUBERCULOSIS.
FOR OVEK ten years experiments
with tuberculosis have been un
der way.
Quite recently the results were
made known.
The object was to get a dairy
herd that would bo absolutely free
from tuberculosis, and yet possess
all the valuable characteristics of
tho breed selected.
Tho best specimens were bred to
gether without regard as to
whether they had tho aiseaae.
At birth the calf was taken from
its mother and fed on pasteurized
milk.
Out of 200 calves born of tuber
cular eows not one has become
tuberculous.
It would bo rash to claim that
many of the findings of this band
of investigators would apply to
the human race.
Tuberculosis has a much more
wasting effect on men than on ani
, mala, but there is one thing sure:
That is that the experiment
clinches the observations of the
best physicians that tuberculosis
is not an inherited disease, but a
transmitted one, which can be
stamped out by united social effort
It may be a long time before we
shall succeed with humans.
Let's make a start with animals,
anyway.
WATERCRESS.
THE Londoner eats a consider
able quantity of watercross.
An English woman, Mrs. James
of Covent Garden, has a practical
monopoly in the matter of furnish
ing watercress to the first class
hotels and restaurant of the Eng
lish metropolis.
She is now considered to be worth
$400,000.
Year ago she started in the bnst
ness of Belling watercress by mar
keting two basketful.
She doeB not hold her monopoly
by cutting prices.
In fact, her price it often a little
ahead of the market
She can't monopolize the supply.
Almost anyono can grow watercress.
But she has monoopolized qual
ity. She has a reputation of never
having supplied a wilted bunch of
watercress.
Her watercress is sold on her
personal honor.
Which proves that the old copy
book maxim: "Honesty Is the best
policy" works out in real life.
SENATOR GORE.
SENATOB GORE was quite right
We don't blame him for getting
impatient.
The Senate was debating the
agricultural bill.
An appropriation of $30,000 for
the study of co-operation among
farmers in matters of rural cred
its and sanitation was the subject
f attack.
"If Eueh appropriations con
tinue," said Senator Overman,
"The country will te faced with a
deficit. '
Then up rose Mr. Gore, chairman
of the agricultural committee. In
a stinging speech he said:
"The money is coming out of the
pockets of the farmers.
"It is the farming class, the au
thors of wealth, that bear the
brunt of the $130,000,000 appro
priation for a Navy to send men
to their death; of the $95,000,000
for the Army to butcher and kill.
"You will pass those bills in
half an hour, yet you debate the bill
to appropriate $19,000,000 to ben
efit the farmers for two weekg."
Senator Gore, does not seem to
need his sight to make him a pretty
effective Senator.
He enn see right and wrnnj. "iy-
FIGURES.
FlGl'RKS are usually a nuisance.
Unfortunately, they are neces
sary. We need them in our books; we
need them to know how we stand.
Uncls Sam iesued some figures
the other day.
They tell us how wa sted as
farmers.
Incidentally they show a pro
gressively higher percentage year
by year.
Those high?r percentages indicate
greater and improved crops per
acre.
For example: The average con
dition of winter wheat on May. 1
was 95.9, compared with 93.C on
April 1, 91.9 on May 1, 1913, and
85.5, the average for the past ten
years on May 1.
A condition of 95.9 per eent on
May 1 is indicative of a yield per
acre of approximately 17.8 bushels,
assuming average variations to pre
vail thereafter. On the estimated
arear to be harvested, 17.8 bushels
per acre would produce 630,000,000
bushels, or 20.3 per cent more than
in 1913, 57.5 per cent more than in
1912, and 46.3 ppr c?nt more tlian
in 1911. The out turn of the crop
will probably be above or below
the fignres given above according
as the change in conditions from
May 1 to harvest is above or below
the average change.
The average condition of ry9 on
May 1 was 93.4, compared with 91.3
on April 1, 91.0 on May 1, 1913,
and S9.4, the average for tho past
tn -vattrn An M.1V 1.
The average condition nf meadow
(hay) lands on May 1 was 90.9,
compared with S8.5 on May 1, 1913,
and a ten-year average on May 1
of 88.L
Stocks of hay on farms may 1
are estimated as 7,832,000 ton
(12.2 per cent of crop), against 10,
828,000 tons (14.9 per eent) on
May 1, 1913, and 4,744,000 tons
(8.6 per eent) on May 1, 1913.
The average condition ef pastures
on May 1 was 88.3, compared with
87.1 on May 1,1913, and a ton
year average on May 1 of 85.6.
Of spring plowing 70.9 per eent
was completed np to May 1, com
pared wKh 67.2 per eent on May 1,
1913, and a ten-year average am
May of 66.6.
Of spring planting 58.4 per cent
was completed np to May 1, com
pared with 57.0 per eent on May &,
1913, and an eight-year average an
May 1 ef 516.
JUST how much discord is re
quired in God's formula for
a sireeessful farmer no one know,
but it must have its nee, lor It hi
always there.
PJANY a city bred farmer ha
tl gone into farm speculating
and come out farmless.
EAD and unborn farmer is the
" only one who does not make
mistake.
WHEN a farmer wears long
chin whiskers, it does not
mean that his wife buys his neck
tie. ft FARMER is cither his own
best friend or his own worst
farmer.
THE LESS the farmer know
about his neighbor's affairs
the mere satisfied he is with hi
own.
IF IT WASN'T for hope of good
crops the farmer would have
no disappointments.
$
IT 13 ALMOST impossible for a
' play farmer to be a real
farmer.
FARMER remembers he doe
" not need a search warrant
when looking for trouble.
LBS US OJ A -MAYING.
Blithe dreams arise to greet us,
And life feels clean and new,
For the old lore enmes to meet us
In the dawning and tho dew.
O'erblown with sunny shadows,
O'ercped with winds at play.
The woodlands and the meadows
Are keeping holiday.
"Wild foals are scampering, neighing;
Brave merles their hauth.ijs blow
Ccxet Let us go a-maying
As in the Long-Ago.
Here we 1st po;k and Jv,::,d!e;
The c'an cf chain and crane,
The whir of cratk and spindle
Bewilder hetrt ond brain.
The ends of our endeavor
Are merely wealth and fame,
Yet in tho still Forever
We're one and all the same;
Delaying, still delaying.
Wo watch the fading West;
Cornel Let ub go a-maying,
Nor fear to take the best.
Yet beautiful and spacious
The wise, old world appears;
Yet frank and fair and gracious
Outlaugh Ibe jocund years.
Our arguments disputing,
The universal Tan
Ctill wanders fluting fluting
Fluting to maid and man.
Our weafy well-o-wayhig
His music cannot still;
Cornel Let us go a-maying.
And pipe with him our fill.
Whero wanton winds are flowing
Among the gladdening grass;
Where hawthorn brakes are blowing.
And meadow perfumes pass;
Where morning's gracs is greenest
And fullest noon's of pride,
Whero sunset spreads serenest,
And sacred night's most wide;
Where nests aro swaying, swaying.
And spring's fresh voices call.
Comet Let us go a-mayir.g,
And bless the (bd cf all.
Wi'.liaSi Ernest Henley.
COUNTRY A1B.
Though 1 dine amid the splendon
Of t palace day by day,
Whore the lights aro softly glowbfcf
And the music throbs &way;
Watch the people all around me.
But not caring for the fare,
For I'm longing for the opes
Aa4 a breath of country air.
With an appetite that's jaded.
Day by day I wonder through
AM tkt stuff that's placed be fere
Caring net just what I do
AD. around me folks axe laugbinf
It's their way to deaden caref
While I'm longing for the opea
And a breath of country aie. .
Take me back Into the country
Where the winds are blowing free,
Where the sunshine and the suadotn
Mingle into mystery.
There I'll scat aside my frippery
For the old hill trail prepare,
Ad I know that I'll be happy,
stnktaf la en eouatry art.
Harry M. m