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HOME AND FARM MAGAZINE SECTION W ill A s k G o v e r n o r T o “S w a t R o o s te r ” Disking Alfalfa Is Aid To Crop Kansas Executive Requested to Demand Doom of Chanticleer on June 6. HE 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 era, in session at the Hotel Baltimore in Kansas City, last week. So the dealers are going to petition Gov. 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—a 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 them June 6. This is to make it an object to the farmers to sell off the co<*ks 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 T 4 ing the price 16 cents. All male birds are to be sold o ff 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 i t 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 h e ’s director of the Missouri state poultry station at Mountain Grove. B r o m e G r a s s in S e m i- A r id R e g io n s ROME grass, botanically known as gets thicker on the ground for several Bromus Intermis, is a native of yoars after planting. It is not injured Europe. It was introduced into by the tramping of stock. Permanent this country from Russia at a compara brome grass meadows and pastures will tively recent date. It is variously known become sod-bound after a few years, but as Russian brome, smooth brome glass this can be remedied by thorough disk and awnless brume grass. Brome grass ing every year or two. is of such recent introduction into this The method of seedirg brome grass is country that its value is not yet well not different from that of seeding tim understood. It has proven to be one othy or other grasses. It does better of the best pasture grasses for the great in loam or clay soils than on those of plains region and the Northwest. It sandy nature. Spring seeding is most thrives best in the north and will be commonly practiced, sewing either successful in the semi-arid region wher broadcast or drilling it in. It should ever grains will grow under irrigation be shown as early as possible in the or dry farming methods. It is a good spring to insure plenty of moisture to grass for the dry farmer, as its numerous start it. If conditions are favorable, deep roots enable it to withstand it may be sown in the fall with winter drought better than any of our other wheat. The rate of seeding is from 15 cultivated grasses, which explains its to 20 pounds per acre when sown alone, great popularity in the great plains or if sown in mixture 6 to 10 pounds per region. acre will be sufficient. About the first place in this country The brome is a very palatable grass to import seed from Russia, was the and is eaten by stock as readily as blue South Dakota Agricultural Experiment grass. Growth starts very early in the Station. A quantity of seed was re spring and it remains green longer than ceived then and a five acre field plant any of the other grasses in the fall. ed. The result was that $2,000 worth Brome grass has also been found of of seed was sold from this small field value in improving wornout lands, since the second year. The plant is not as good for hay as it produces a large quantity of stems for pasture. It makes a very thick sod, and roots and adds materially to the as it spreads by means of root stocks, so vegetable matter in the soil. B A 4% Breed Dairy Cows Once Each Year Turpentine Often Is Adulterated Q K ? ACT1CAL experience has shown ■ 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 mau 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 giv their alfalfa fields a severe disking and cross-disking every year. Some claim that it is impossible to injure the plants, no matter how the implement is set or run. The disk cuts 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. Labor In Summer Tillage Pays jplIL HELD, a successful Logan Coun _ ty, Colo., upland farmer, says “ On< 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 eeptional 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 tb a t.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 eon 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. HERE exist two dangers of allow- - 8 the result of an investigation by ing a milch cow to remain open __ I the United States Department of for an indefinite period, writes a Agriculture, it has been found that correspondent of the Rural New York the adulteration of turpentine with min er. In the first place she is less apt eral oils is so widespread that druggists to conceive when mated, and in the and macufacturers of pharmaceutical second place she is apt to go dry for products and grocers’ sundries used for a long period after the mating is finally medicinal and veterinary purposes made in case she does settle. It is cus should exercise special caution in pur tomary in large dairies, where the chasing turpentine. Those who use tur calves are not an important item of pentine for this purpose, unless they value, to permit the cows to freshen are careful, run the risk of obtaining an once in 15 or 16 months. adulterated article and unnecessarily Ordinarily, however, for dairy farm laying themselves open to prosecution practices it is much more desirable to under the Food and Drugs act. mate them so tha* they will freshen It has been found, moreover, that the once eac'_ year. This practice stim turpentine sold to the country stores ulates the milk flow, and unless a eow especially, as usually put out by dealers is particularly a good milker she is less and manufacturers of grocers’ sundries, apt to give as much milk if irregularly is often short in volume by as much as W A N T E D — AN A S S IS T A N T bred and not permitted to freshen at 5 or 10 per cent. Dealers, therefore, frequent intervals. The animal will should also protect themselves through A t $ 1 0 0 a month keep in good condition physically if not a guarantee from the wholesaler that bred. In fact, she is very apt to put on the bottle contains the full declared an excessive amount of flesh, and this volume. is one of the reasons why she is less The department has found that tur apt to eoneeive when mated. We bare frequent calls for trained help pentine may be adulterated in the South Instances are frequent where cows where it is made and that the further of this kind. We PRODUCE experts. We have been used for family purposes and it gets from the South the more ex not bred for intervals of two years or tensively and heavily it is adulterated. do aot have time to train 70a to be any more, but it is the exception rather In all cases, druggists, manufacturers thing els« than an expert. Personal inatme than the rule to have sueb animals give and wholesale grocers should satisfy Uon Is given in shorthand, typewriting and milk enouga to pay adequately for the themselves that the turpentine is free cars involved in their mainteaaaee. If from adulteration and is true to marked book keeping. desired to carry a eow over from spring volume. __________ _ ELITE PRIVATE BUSINESS COLLEGE freshening to fall freshening or if nee Sowing eane in gullies and allowing Maude I Docker. A. M . Principal. essary to avoid ealving during fly time it to reseed itself will, it is said, in a the practice Is justified. few years stop them and fill them <04 Commonwealth Bldg , Portland. Oregon T A 13 Food Must Be Well Masticated. The lin t 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 trans formation. I f 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 deg: jo 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, 2451 Washington St., Portland. 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 milliou dollars' worth a year! 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