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IIOME AND FARM MAGAZINE SECTION 9 Forestry Service Items Found to Be of Interest Fed With Care, Alfalfa Is Fine Feed for Horse THE District Forester at Portland, Or., has recently received, among other scientific reports, the results of a study, made by the Agri cultural Experiment Station, Lincoln, N'eb., in regard to the value of alfalfa as a horse feed. The results of this study have been summarized as fol lows: Alfalfa is a splendid horse feed, but mubt be fed with judgment and care. Because of its payability mature horses are likely to eat too much al falfa if permitted to have free access to it. The average farm horse at hard work is allowed to eat much more al falfa and other roughage than he really needs to maintain his weight. One pound of alfatta or other hay, and about pounds of grain per day for each 100 pounds of the horse's weight make a good ration for the working horse. Horses like alfalfa stems. Refuse from the cattle racks is very accept able to horses. Feed mature horses first and sec ond cutting alfalfa which is free from mold and dust. To make the best horse hay, al falfa should be allowed to stand un til well out in bloom. In curing horse hay it is well to keep in mind that the dust which is present In so much alfalfa Is largely a result of the presence of foreign moisture, such as rain or dew, at making time, rather than the pres ence of a little moisture within the plant. Never feed wet alfalfa hay to horses. A sudden change of feed derang.es the horse's digestive system. Horses accustomed to alfalfa as a regular part of their ration are seldom trou bled from its use. It alfalfa hay is stored in the barn for horses it is well to sprinkle it generously, while mowing it away, with a mixture of salt and air-slaked lime, equal parts. Growing draft colls have seldom, if ever, been Injured by eating too much alfalfa and oats. Good, well-colored alfalfa is of practically the same composition as wheat bran, and Is of equal value to it In the horse ration. Mature horses of a greedy disposi tion, if allowed to run to alfalfa racks at will, may eat too much and suffer attacks of impaction. Draft mares heavy. in foal and taking but little exercise not Infrequently suffer attacks of this nature. An alfalfa pasture is a splendid place to develop draft colts with a maximum of bono and muscle. Some complaint comes from the humid regions to the effect that mares on alfalfa pasture during the breeding season are hard to get in foal. This trouble seems to be more or less local and can be avoided by temporarily keeping the mares in other pastures. An alfalfa patch forms a splendid night pasture for work horses, pro viding they are used to It and turned out regularly. Last Mitkt and Von. 'Tia a story as old as the ocean, As fresh as the tear-like dew. Last night like a transient notion There came to me love of you. 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Jf peasant were ever bo-KnlRhtcd You made me a King with your ldsa. -Clem Yore, in tho Chicago Press Club Bcoop, Wood Flour Turns Waste 1914 Year of Greatest Sawdust Into a Profit Risk From Forest Fires IN its efforts to attain complete utilization of our forest products, the Federal Government has been making inquiries into the possibili ties of manufacturing wood flour from sawdust waste. The flour in question is not the kind which Is converted into fluffy biscuits or flaky pastry, nor is it a substitute for cornmeal, although it looks somewhat like it. This wood flour is made by grinding dry saw dust or small wood waste (that of pine or spruce is excellent for the purpose) in a cheap mill, similar to the kind in which corn and rye are ground. After passing through the stones and the bolting chest it is sacked or baled for shipment. It is then worth $12 to $13 per ton. This flour is used in making dyna mite and acts as the absorbent for the nitroglycerine. Dynamite made with wood flour as one of its ingre dients is Bomewhat Inferior to that made with Infusorial earth, but it is cheaper. The use of wood flour in tho manufacture of dynamite, how ever, is but a minor use of the prod uct. Its chief use is in the manufacture of linoleum and xylolte, both floor coverings that are very popular for use in kitchens, halls, corridors,' cafes, restaurants and public rooms. It is impervious to water and prac tically fireproof. It is also used as floor material on some of the Ger man war vessels, for it is not liable to take fire or splinter if hit by shells. The manufacture of wood flour is already an extensive industry in Eu rope. Norway has been manufactur ing It for years and exports thou sands of tons. Germany also Is a large manufacturer. England and France are extensive buyers. In the United States the matter of wood flour has not as yet been given much consideration. A few mills in the Middle West and' one at Ho qulam, Wash., are all that have at tempted to transfer their wood waste Into wood flour. The amount of sawdust to be had in this country, especially In the Northwest, is un limited and lumbermen should wel come this method of turning their waste Into a practical and profitable product. Experts from the United States Department of Agriculture have spent several days in the cotton fields of Salt River Valley, Arizona, rogueing the Egyptian cotton. Seed from these field 3 will be used for plant ing by members of the central asso slatlon next. year. THE season of 1914, according to the officials of the Forest Serv ice, carried greater danger from fire to the National forests than any year since the establishment of the for ests. A long dry season, sustained periods of high temperature, recur ring hard and steady winds and, in some places, unusually hot, dry nights, rendered the forests exceed ingly inflammable. In fact, the weather conditions were said to be worse than in 1910, when the disas trous Idaho fires occurred. The total number of fires during the season of 1914 which threatened the National forests and had to be handled by the protective organiza tion of the Forest Service were 6112, or 1000 more than in 1910. Of this 6112 fires 81 per cent were extin guished before they had covered 10 acres. The percentage that burned over more than 10 acres was smaller than .in any previous year. The most serious of these fires oc curred in Western Montana, North ern Idaho and the Pacific Slope. In the central and southern Rocky Mountains conditions were more nor mal and only 15 per cent of the total number of fires occurred in this re gion. A preliminary estimate shows that the total loss of merchantable timber will probably not exceed $400,000. In 1910 the correspond ing estimate was nearly $15,000,000, although Tater estimates materially reduced this amount. It Is estimated that the value of the timber threatened and saved in Idaho and Montana alone aggregates over $59,000,000. In Oregon and Washington - expertB estimate the value of timber saved at $24,000,000. This does not include the value of non-merchantable timber, young growth on about 5,000,000 acres of land, or several million dollars' worth of ranch and other private property which lay in the path of the threatening conflagrations. The figures given represent the number of fires reported up to De cember 1. When the complete fig ures are in it Is expected that they will add large amounts to the total value of property threatened and saved. the nco rt a Moryi,Ue filnmn P..llo Bumper crops Instead ot slumps. Ble money In place of taxes. 11,200 from 40 acres the first year?50 In extra crops every year after. Get the catalog of the Hercules Genuine Steel Stump Puller tou can clear an acre of stumpfladsj. 80 da j 8 ireo inn. uuaranieea 3 years. 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