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HOME AND FARM MAG A7TNE SECTION
P ractical F arm C o n serv a tio n
Knowing How to Do Things More Efficiently a Real Saving of
Human Energy.
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BY C. F. HODGE,
is to cost $2,000,000, but it mav sav-
Professor of Social Biology University ten times that amount of futile labor
in a single year. We shall soon be buy
of Oregon.
ing and selling land on the basis of
E ARE apt to pride ourselves
being a common-sense, practical soil analyses which shall indicate what
people. Are wc? Take this as an the land is able to produce.
example. We toil for months, plowing,
harrowing, sowing, harvesting, threshing
and hauling and shipping a million
bushels of wheat. Wo send it over to
Italy and Caruso conies and sings to us
a few days to pay for it. We adore
straight through the whole problem of i t f SHALL refuse to pay for attend
I nder new management—entire change in
the beautiful-und the inspiring, but our
anee, ” said the irate tourist who
“ common sense, practical’’ way of get
all departments—all rooms redecorated and re
had been staying at an old-fash
ting just a whiff of these higher things ioned country hotel and who had just
furnished. Particular attention is now being
now and then is scarcely above the been presented with his bill. “ Why,
level of (he brute beast stupidity. Well the bells in the rooms are a perfect
paid to prompt, efficient and courteous service.
this is better than not getting any disgrace; not one of them would ring.
whiff of higher things at all, but Everything I wanted I had to fetch my
our agricultural life we have to work self. I must have spent some hours tug
so bard, becauso we do not know anv ging at those bell pulls. ”
better.
“ I t's true we have charged for at
Now, “ knowing” is only another tendance,’ said the smiling proprietor
word for “ science,” and the best defl ’but, see, we have charged you nothing
nition of science 1 know is one given for your physical culture course.”
by Huxley—“ Trained and organized
Physical culture course!” exclaim
common sense.’’ What must ultimately cd the tourist in surprise. “ I don't
prove a greater loss than the labor know what you mean.”
comes from the fact that with the mil
“ The daily use of our dumbbells,”
lion bushels of wheat we have mined was the cool retort.
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ont and sent over the ocean $250,000
worth of soil salts and these may be
Cause of De-th.
lacking, when we want to raise another i i y t ’U may say-roe. automobile did
million bushels of wheat to exchange
1 not touch this man, and yet he
for music, so we still have to go with
was dead when you picked him
out our music.
up?
shouted the prosecuting attor
The first and greatest need of con ney.
servation in our farm life is real sav
T h at’s my claim,” coolly retorted
ing of human energy by knowing how the prisoner.
“ My machine didn’t
to do things more efficiently. In fact touch him. ”
—THE FINEST IN SEATTLE—
standards of efficiency are being ap
And yi u saw this man start to cross
the
street?”
plied to farm operatioas and some ol
the results are shown in the table be “ Yes.”
low:
“ Did you Wow yonr horn?”
Standards and percentages of effi “ I did.”
“ Wbat sort of a hern is it? ”
Service the Best.
ciency for farm crops:
Cuisine Unexcelled.
“ One of those new fangled clatter
Standard
Per cent boxes
that create a sound that is a
yield
Average of
cross between n shriek and a dying
per acre
Efficiency wail.”
Potatoes ....500 bu
96
19 '
1 hat explains it.
You simply
__50 50 bu bu
Wheat _____
14
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ROBERT J. ROBINSON
scared the man to death.”
C o tto n ____ 1 bale
0.35
35
C orn----------- 100 bu
28
28
Manager
A Feminine Realist.
O a ts _______ 100 bu
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E WAS enraptured with the seen
These low percentages are merely ex
ery. His fair companion at the
pressions in mathematical terms of not
country resort sat upon the stone cord and stopped the train, and the fast
knowing how. The standard of 500 wall beside him.
train ran into us. It will take five
bushels of potatoes per acre is really
“ Behold that exquisite sunset!” he
low. With addition of knowing how to exclaimed. “ Note the delicate flesh hours to clear the line for us to go
ahead.
breeding and selection of seed, precision tints, the cream shades, the long dashes
Gentleman:
Fivo hours?
Grsat
of fertilizers and cultufe methods, we of Vermillion, and the almost living fire
may raise the standard to 1000 bushels. that leaps up from the sinking sun as Scotti I wa to be married today.
,, Let him play in overalls
In fact the mere use of immature seed from a fountain. Behold the frame Conductor (a married man, sternly:)
Look here, are yon the chap who stopped
with never n care in the
has been proved to more than double work of darkening skies and of deep the
train?
world and you will make
the crop over that from dead ripe seed green. Isn ’t it wonderful?’
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him a healthy, happy boy.
of the same variety. Probably Lord
His fair companion sighed heavily.
Be sure to buy him
After Effects.
Roseberry holds the world’s record for
“ You just bet it is !” she exclaimed.
“
You^eay
you
had
a
corking
good
T w o -H o rse B rand
yield of potatoes at 2000 bushels of mar ‘It looks just like a great big lobster time last night?”
ketable tubers with 45 bushels of colls salad!”
Overalls
“ Yes.”
per acre. With the standard at 2000
“ Judging from the way you look this
The kind that is made
bushels our efficiency falls to 4 3 4 per
Thirteen Trumps—One Trick.
morning, it must have been an uncork
for comfort and long wear.
cent. When we know how, it may be as
MITH had iiZvited several of his ing good time.”
easy, or even easier, to raise 1000 bush
FR EE
friends and neighbors to tea the
els of potatoes per acre as 100 bushels.
other night, and the conversation
On Pay Day.
The most laborious and expensive part veered around to whist.
■HE workman was busily employed
of raising a field of torn has been
“ I have seen some remarkable whist
in execrating operations by the
“ thorough cultication. ”
After this hands,” said one of the guests. “ I re
roadside—that is to say, he was
had, for centuries, been tearing off half member not long ago I saw one man digging, digging, digging—and the way
M ad* By
the roots of the corn plant and with hold all thirteen trumps.”
farer, who happened to be passing, y iE V l STRAUSS A CO., S a a F r a ^ a /
great labor bad been reducing the yield
“ T h a t’s not very unusual,” remarked paused to inquire:
from 20 to 50, or more, bushels per acre, another.
“ Whzt are yon digging for?”
someone hit upon the idea of trying to
“ Not at all; but the carious part of
The workmkan lookel up.
FOR YOUR DEN
know something about the growth of it was that ho only took one trick.”
“ Money, be replied.
the corn plant. It was discovered that
Beautiful College Pennants
“ How's th a t? ”
Money; And when do vou expect
the roots spread out close under the sur
"W hy, he trumped his partner’s ace
faeo of the soil for six or seven feet in first time round, and his prrtner was to strike it? ”
On Saturday,” replied t>r other, Yale and Harvard. Each k in. x 24
every direction. Next came the ques so furious that he got up and threw
Princeton, Cornell, Michigan
end resumed operations.
tion: did not deep cultivation injure him out of the window.”
Each ” In. x 21 in.
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a a a
these roots? Recent experiment have
All
best
quality felt with felt head-
proved that by merely shaving off the
Something Wrong.
Too Thin.
mg, streamers, letters and mascot ex
weeds, without stirring the soil in the < 4|"A T I1E R , ” said the stndent, “ I
“ These potatoes taste strongly of ecuted in pro or colors. This splendid
least we get yields of core equal and
1
want to talk to you shoot cliang gasoline, my dear. Wbat recipe did you assortment sent postpaid for 50 cents
often better than we obtain with most
and 5 stamps to pay postage. Send now.
use?”
ing my course of study.”
eareful surface cultivation. The amount
“ Talk to your mother, son,” directed
1 must have got ray recipes mix
HOWARD SPECIALTY CO.
of human energy conserved along the the father, who was reading the sport ed,” answered the young w fe after
Dayton, Ohio.
line of this one bit of knowing how ing page.
some reflee Jon, “ and used the one for
may make the difference on many a
“ Mother,” said the son, “ I made a cleaning v e lv e t”
farm between life being Worth while mistake when 1 selected chemirtry. But
G O IN G E A S T or
and not being worth the living.
it is pot too late to change even yet.
C O M IN G W E S T
The largest factor of all io the whole 1 want to take astronomy instead.”
Why Lightning Strikes Trees.
problem is the plant food content of the
The mother searched the eyes of her
'HAT trees are the obiecta most fre
II e can Stftx you Moneu
•oil itself and a knowledge as to how son sharply. Then she said
quently struck bv lightning s tke
this may be utilized.
This may mean
“ Nope. Ton'll have to think op
observa ,n of Mr F O. Plummer
Reduced rates on Hnaaehotd Oooda. p |BnB-
the difference between raising nothing some better excuse frr staying out at of the United States forest service As Aotnmobiles.
eta. Tbmogli consolidated ears
on a field, after a hard y ear’s work, night!”
the roots of a tree extend into the tnanrtn» prompt d elir.ry sod earofaf
a a a
and raising a crop of 75 bushels el corn
handling.
damp ground, a tree is mois likely to
to the acre. These are actual figures
A Suspicions Conductor.
tie struck than any other tail object. A Rale, and Information fnm l.hod on raqoeaL
obtained from Illinois fields As a re
ENTLEMEN (in railroad train ): tree a form is almost ideal for convey
Pacific Coast Forwarding Company
•ult of tuck experience the tut
of
How did the aeeide >t happen?
mg electricity from the air to the
Uliaoia has planned a tod survey which
Conductor: Some one pulled the earth.
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