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jointed, thick, heavy dark green leaves
and heavy tassel. The cars should have
a short, strong stem and be placed on
tne lower half of the stalk.
The seed ears should be husked and
dried as soon as possible after gather
ing.
The ears should be hung separately,
not in bunches.
The fire dried seed not only germi
nates better, but will produee stronger
plants.
Test eaeh ear separately. One poor
ear to the acre may make a difference
of $10 per acre in the value of the crop.
Missing hills, barren stalks, weak
stalks with only nubbins, discount the
average corn crop more than 50 per
cent.
Deep plowing, a liberal use of stable
manure, thorough tillage before plant
ing, good seed, continuous and careful
cultivation, will make a profitable crop
oi corn.
If you are not growing any corn
this year, and your neighbor has a good
crop, ask him to let you select 100 ears
from the field. Pay him any price with
in reason, for you will find such seed
better for your farm than any you could
buy elsewhere.
If the corn is slow in maturing, it may
be cut and shocked at any time after it
baa reached the glazing stage. It will
mature better and quicker than if left
standing in the field. As aoon as it is
well matured, husk, hang up and fire
dry.
Trees on the Farm
I) ESTORE the garden of Eden. Adam
and Eve lived easily in tbe garden
because it was full of harvest
yielding trees, and the curse that fell
upon man was the fact that be had
to grow small stuff like grain and
vegetables, the herbs of the field, by
which means he ate bread in the sweat
of his brow. The man who thinks this
possible is Dr. J. Bussell Smith, pro
fessor of industry in the Wharton
school of finance and commerce, Uni
versity of Pennsylvania, who told 500
of the leading pomologists of the coun
try that the eost of living rests in their
bands. He gave the American Pomo
logical Society some of the results of
an 18,000 mile jonrney he has recently
completed for the university, studying
the possibility of a new agriculture.
"Trees are the great engines of food
production," he said, "and we should
at once begin their extensive utiliza
tion. Europe and Africa are showing
ns the way. Portugal has orchards, of
acorn bearing oak trees that are far
more valuable than farms within forty
miles of Philadelphia. The great trou
ble with the American pomologists is
that they are too aristocratic. They
have been too proud to think about
feeding a pig, yet the pig feed problem
is one of the big problems of America,
for the pigs eat more than we do.
'There is evidence in both Europe
and America to indicate that properly
selected and propagated oak trees can
be made as productive of pig food as
is corn and do it much more easily
and for a great deal longer time. The
suckers that arise from the Btumps of
two varieties of Pennsylvania oaks have
produced good crops at the ages of
three and seven years respectively. I
have seen acorn orchards bearing well
in Spain on rocky slopes so steep that
the farmers only permitted the little
pigs to go in, because the big ones
might fall and break their necks. I
"The tree offers the best means oi
utilizing rough and broken lands, r.lso
arid lands and in some cases the best
of land3. Since we have learned how
to breed plants we are now ready to
develop as food for man or beast dozens
of new crops which can easily double
our productive area. At present harvest
yielding trees cover but one-fiftieth of
oar productive area. Some of these
possible crops are the walnuts, pecans,
shagbarks, almonds, olives and dates
for human food and the chestnut and
persimmon for pigs and to a lesser ex
tent for man, the honey locust bean,
the mesquite bean (of the west) and
the mulberry and the many varieties
of oak for forage."
Banchers within and adjacent to the
Sierra national forest, California, have
formed a co-operative association for
the prevention of forest fires. They
need to use fire in clearing land for
fanning, and will do it on a commun
ity basis, with all mombors present to
prevent the fim' spread.
HOME AND FARM
Streams Full of Trout in Nine Years
iLAKS to completely restock animates are eaid to cover 273 streams
tront streams and lakes through
out the national forests of Colo
rado, Wyoming and South Dakota, with
in a period of nine years, are well un
der way, as the result of the approval
by tbe federal bureau of fisheries of
plan of operation prepared by the
forest service. The bureau of fisheries
has promised to furnish the necessarj
fish fry for distribution to the various
forests, the shipments of fry to be di
rected to railroad stations nearest the
waters to be stocked so that as many
streams as posisble may be supplied
from a eentral pointt The planting of
all fry will be performed by forest
officers who will keep close check on
the results of the work.
According to the estimates of the
forest officers, approximately 20 mil
lion trout fry of the brook, rainbow and
black-spotted varieties will be needed
to meet the requirements of all the
waters adaptable to the production of
trout Of this great number the bureau
of fisheries is prepared to supply some
thing over four and a half million this
year and a gradually decreasing num
ber each successive year for a total of
nine, at the end of which time it is
expected that the complete restocking
will have been accomplished. The esti-j
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and lakes in the three states.
The restocking of national forest
streams in all states where such forests
are situated, including those now being
acquired in the White Mountains and
the southern Appalachians, will be
given attention as rapidly as supplies
of fish fry become available for plant
ing purposes, lhe lorest service is
admirably organized to carry on work
of this kind and does so with practical
ly no interference with regular ac
tivities since the fish must be handled
with the utmost haste and frequently
during the late evening or early morn
ing. The production of the existing
federal and state fish hatcheries is
hardly adequate to meet all demands,
however, and therefore" the work has
to be done in installments,
Banchers within and adjacent to the
Sierra national forest, Cal., have formed
a co-operative association for the pre
vention or lorest fires. They need to
use fire in clearing land for farming.
and will do it on-a community basis,
with all members present to prevent the
fires' spread.
Approximately 750 acres on tho Ore
gon national forest were planted with
young trees this spring.
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