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cided advantage. Alfalfa, kaffir corn, po- 

 tatoes, sugar beets and other feed can be 

 produced with certainty and at least pos- 

 sible cost. 



Advantages of a Creamery. If a hun- 

 dred farmers make the butter from five 

 hundred cows, there will be one hundred 

 different kinds of butter, and some of it 

 will not be good it may pretty safely be 

 said that much of it will not be good. Bnt 

 if the milk be brought together and manu- 

 factured in a well conducted creamery 

 the entire product may be of the best. 

 If it be sent to market as the product of 

 the one hundred makers, the poor will 

 have undue influence and depreciate the 

 price of all, while the creamery will obtain 

 the top price for all. 



Miles of Travel. In cultivating forty 

 acres of corn, or other crops, planted in 

 rows three and a half feet apart, the team 

 must travel ninety -five miles. To plant 

 and properly cultivate forty acres of corn 

 will, then, require about 350 miles of 

 travel. The farmer who thinks of this and 

 appreciates its significance will try to get 

 the same amount of crop off twenty acres 

 and save half the travel. The time saved 

 will permit of doing a great deal for the 

 permanent, as well as temporary improve- 

 ment of his land. 



Good Roads. Farmers grumble at a tri- 

 fling road tax and shirk in every way when 

 the law compels them to work out their 

 tax, yet there is no public taxation of such 

 direct benefit to themselves. If viewed in 

 the proper spirit the road tax will be the 

 most cheerfully paid of any, and any 

 farmer who has to use the roads he works, 

 can well afford to give two days of honest 

 work for every one the law requires. All 

 that is needed is the proper disposition. 



Whin to cut Alfalfa. Tests have prov- 

 ed that alfalfa cut when it is in fairly full 

 bloom is most nutritious as hay, or at least, 

 produces the best results in feeding. If it 

 is cut at that time there are other advan- 

 tages of great moment. It will make an- 

 other full crop in the season, and the new 

 growth will start much quicker after the 

 cutting. It is therefore worth while to 

 watch closely and be ready to cut it just 

 at the right moment. 



Young Pigs Best. A. few years ago 

 heavy hogs were in active request in the 

 markets. Twenty years ago the average 

 weight on the Chicago market was 300 

 pounds, but now it is hardly more than 230 

 pounds. Consumers have learned, in all 

 parts of the world, that the quickly fatten- 

 ed pig less than a year old, makes the 

 sweetest and most desirable pork meat. 



Horses to Europe. W. A. 



Hogan, of Jones county, Iowa, relates his 

 experience in the Alamosa Journal as to 

 a recent shipment of horses to Switzerland. 

 He visited Lucerne and 'Basel. He says 

 the supply of horses is short in Europe, 

 and that a horse fit for carriage or saddle 

 sells for $200 and upward. The success 

 was sufficient to justify another shipment. 



Johnson Grass. An exchange says 

 that keeping Johnson grass cut off as soon 

 as it appears above the surface of the 

 ground will kill it. It may be so, but the 

 fanner who begins when the first shoot 

 makes its appearance will be the one most 

 likely to succeed in thus eradicating one of 

 the worst pests that was ever established 

 in good land. 



Gardening for Profit I n successful 

 market gardening theaim should be rather 

 to produce the largest possible crop on the 

 amount of land the re is to cultivate. A 

 large crop means a crop of good quality, 

 too, in nearly all cases, and that is the 

 only kind that brings the best price in the 

 market. There is more clear profit in one 

 acre well cared for than in five acres half 

 taken care of. Next in importance to well 

 prepared land and good seed is the proper 

 plan or arrangement of the crops to be 

 grown. 



Ham Lambs The authorities are 



often asked for the number of ram lambs 

 to place in a flock that is, how many ewes 

 should be allotted to each sire. A robust 

 ram lamb may serve twenty or thirty 

 ewes. More than that number will check 

 the growth of an ordinary ram lamb. 



Pedigreed Lire Stork is having its day 

 with good farmers and that clay has not 

 come any too soon either. If good keep, 

 good surroundings generally, and intelli- 

 gent selection are forces having any good 



