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they are said to taste precisely like fresh 

 eggs. It promises to become an impor- 

 tant industry and evidently will not re- 

 quire an expensive plant. 



Remove the Dead Shoots. Pro- 

 fessor Hyane, of the State University of 

 California, and Professor George Hus- 

 mann, of Napa, both advise that when 

 vines have been frosted the frosted shoots 

 should be either cut or broken off prompt- 

 ly. The reserve buds will then push out 

 and often make a fair crop. If the frozen 

 shoots are left, the frozen sap sours the 

 wood and injures the vine. 



A Killing Committee. In an ad- 

 mirable paper read before the Knox 

 County (111.) farmer's institute by James 

 H. Coolidge, Jr., and full of practical 

 suggestions, he says: 



"It has been suggested that there 

 ought to be in every community a killing 

 committee, whose duty it would be to 

 make an annual round and order all un- 

 profitable cows killed. That would 

 include all cows which do not produce 200 

 pounds of butter in a year or its equiva- 

 lent in milk. I think I can conscien- 

 tiously commend that suggestion." 



The Difference. Miss Clover and Mr. 

 Cowpea will drag nitrogen out of the air 

 and give it to you. The fertilizer dealer 

 bags it and makes you pay 16 cents a 

 pound for it. The difference in price 

 between dragged and bagged nitrogen 

 may represent the difference between 

 profit and loss, says The Rural New 

 Yorker. 



Length of Corn Hoots. Professor 

 King, of the Wisconsin experiment sta- 

 tion, estimates that all the roots of a 

 healthy corn plant, if laid end to end, 

 would equal one mile in length. The 

 root development measures the leaf devel- 

 opment. I have usually found small ears 

 on stalks with small root development, 

 and large ears on stalks with large root 

 development. 



Keep your chickens out of the water- 

 trough where they drink. 



Thorough preparation of the seed bed 

 saves time and cost in the after attention. 



Where you find better stock you are 



sure to find better breeding or better 

 feeding. 



Salt is an essential constituent of the 

 blood. Cattle should be supplied all they 

 will use. 



An acre of good alfalfa will furnish 

 pasturage for ten or twenty hogs per 

 season. 



Prairie or sward land ought to be 

 thoroughly subdued before trees are 

 planted in them. 



Never use fresh manure on onion 

 ground just previous to planting. It will 

 give you a weed crop too quickly. 



Wide tires on your wagons will make 

 lighter draft for your teams and will im- 

 prove rather than injure the roads. 



The little scratching hen adds to the 

 wealth of the country every year in eggs 

 as much as the output of both iron and 

 wool $135,000,000. 



The fruit raiser who provides for the 

 production of his own home supplies of 

 all kinds of farm and garden produce will 

 be the more independent. 



Alfalfa should not be planted in an 

 orchard. The roots go deeper than those 

 of fruit trees, and the growth will be 

 retarded if the trees are not killed. 



Getting the corn ground ready is one 

 of the big jobs in the corn states each 

 year, and it has to be well done every 

 time if good results are to be expected. 



If sheep are dipped a few weeks after 

 shearing, it will more than compensate 

 the cost by an improvement in the weight 

 and quality of the wool, and in the better 

 health and comfort of the animals. 



Cut alfalfa just after it has completed 

 the full bloom and before it has begun to 

 turn yellow near the ground. Irrigate 

 just before cutting and harrow immedi- 

 ately after if you wish to get quick re- 

 covery and perhaps cut an extra crop in 

 the season. 



According to the American Cultivator 

 forty million eggs are use by the calico 

 print works each year, photographic estab- 

 lishments use millions of dozens, and 

 wine clarifiers call for over ten million 

 dozens. The demand from these sources 

 increases faster than the table demand. 

 They are used by book binders, kid glove 

 manufacturers, and for finishing fine 

 leather. 



