THE OOLOGIST 



Just about as mucb can be expected 

 of boys and girls as from a uewly set 

 orchard if both are started and then 

 allowed to shift for themselves. The 

 old Harry in the shape of weeds and 

 ill manners, borers and bad habits is 

 sure to get them. No slipshod or ab- 

 sentee oversight will give satisfactory 

 results. 



It pays an owner in dollars to giv( 

 his buildings a good coat of paint and 

 make the premises shipshape if he is 

 contemplating selling. It will give 

 just as large a return in chunks o1 

 solid satisfaction for himself and fam 

 Ily if he isn't thinking of selling. Es 

 pecially is such improvement of th« 

 place to be commended from thi 

 standpoint of the passerby. 



In most states the law as to fence? 

 requires a railroad to provide its right 

 of way with a fence of the kind which 

 the farmer has or may want to ereci 

 adjacent thereto. To Illustrate, if a 

 landowner wishes to fence hog tight 

 a tract of land bordering on the right 

 of way, the railroad would have to 

 erect a fence of this description on the 

 line bordering such tract. 



Following one line means success in 

 a majority of cases, but did not with 

 the Illinois farmer who got fine 

 homestead land at $1.25 per acre sixty 

 years ago, haf? grown nothing but 

 wheat and corn on it since and today 

 gets but two bushels of wheat and ten 

 of corn per acre, and even to get this 

 paltry return has to let his land rest 

 part of the time at that to get its 

 breath. He was one of your practical 

 fellows who followed in the agricul- 

 tural ruts of his forefathers and had 

 no time for lead pencil farmers or ex- 

 periment stMtion l)Ul]etins 



The pasture should be one of the 

 best assets on a well managed farm 

 and if properly handled should give 

 as large a return with as little outlay 

 of work as any other acres on the 

 place. One way in which its etBciency 

 may be increased is to give it a light 



top dressing' of fertilizer with the 

 spreader, paying special attention to 

 the spots where the soil seems to be 

 the thinnest. In this way an effective 

 disposal can be made of much of the 

 manure which accumulates about the 

 stables during the summer months, 

 which if not carried out would lose 

 about half of its fertilizing value from 

 exposure to rain and weather. 



A discerning contributor to a well 

 known dairy paper in accounting for 

 the financially strapped condition of so 

 many dairymen in sections of New 

 York which he visited finds the chief 

 reasons for their unenviable condition 

 to be poor cows, the buying of mucb 

 feed that ought to be raised on th^ 

 farm, failure to utilize to their full 

 value the crops that are produced, es- 

 pecially corn, and waste of money in 

 extravagant personal habits when it 

 ought to be spent for supplies for the 

 home and feed for the dairy cows. The 

 causes cited by this Investigator would 

 seem to be suflBcient to account for a 

 good deal of low ebb dairying and 

 farming. 



It is a fact conceded by all dairymen 

 and feeders that pasture grass is a.s 

 nearly a perfect feed as it is possible 

 to have. There are several reasons for 

 this One is that it is juicy and sucru- 

 lent and, entirely apart from its nutri- 

 tive properties, is eaten with keen rel- 

 ish by all domestic animals. Added to 

 this is the f^"^t that it contains in nice- 

 ly balanced proportions the several 

 nutritive elements required for meat 

 and milk production. Another point is 

 that it is not eaten in stuffy, ill venti- 

 lated and poorly lighted barns, but in 

 the op-en, where with every mouthful 

 of grass taken into the stomach a 

 breath of sweet fresh air is taken into 

 the lungs, purifying the blood, aiding 

 the heart action and increasing to fi 

 maximum the animal's power of as- 

 similation, which in turn makes possi- 

 ble the consumption of still larcer 

 nuanrities <if f' -d and an increasert 

 prodnftidu of milk and rii{>at 



