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and  Profit  Books.  Whyf  Because 
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whole  world  for  yoOr  product-  After 
ten  years  of  publicity  w»»  have  convinced  the  fur  trade  that 
New  York  If  the  logical  as  well  as  the  most  profitable 
market  for  the  shipper  Send  for  price  list  and  ship  to 
M.  F.  PFAELZER  &  CO* 
115  West  29th  Street.  Desk  61,  New  York 
prosper.  I  can’t  explain  why  this  is 
true,  except  that  the  folks  have  the 
“vision.”  It  used  to  provide  them  some¬ 
thing  to  think  about  in  the*  long  hours  of 
solitary  reflection  which  is  a  part  of 
farm  life,  aims  and  purposes  and  char¬ 
acter.  When  problems  of  corn  culture 
ceased  to  occupy  the  mind,  problems  of 
life  used  to  he  thought  out  while  t  lie* 
plow  turned  the  furrow  and  the  milk 
foamed  in  the  pails  under  tho  full-uddered 
cows.  There  were  no  “problems  of  rural 
life”  when  the  country  church  was  domi¬ 
nant.  Now  conditions  of  unthinkably  oe- 
knighted  heathenism  prevail  almost  under 
the  shadow  of  great  towns,  and  lauds  lie 
idle  because  the  people  have  no  vision.  A 
different  attitude  of  mind  prevailed  then 
toward  work.  To  get  this  attitude  of 
mind  back  into  the  Country  the  govern¬ 
ment  is  spending  thousands  of  dollars  to 
teach  farm  women  new  methods  of  wash¬ 
ing  dishes  and  the  men  new  ways  of  sort¬ 
ing  potatoes  All  this  is  missing  the 
mark;  it  is  making  the  whole  less  than  a 
part.  Confessedly  the  attitude  of  mind 
is  the  root  of  every  social  difficulty  on 
the  farm,  the  same  as  the  selling  end  is 
the  weak  part  economically.  It  is  a 
spiritual,  not  a  material,  lacking — pretty 
much  the  same  that  obtains  in  the  cities. 
But  momentum  carries  cities  forward, 
where  the  country  gets  stalled  because  it 
is  not  generating  motive  power. 
UNION  Needed. — And  yet  the  supposed 
leaders  of  thought,  the  clergymen,  who 
used  to  occupy  positions  of  leadership, 
spend  their  time  bickering  over  insignifi¬ 
cant  denominational  differences  whereas 
they  might,  were  they  bigger  minded, 
unite  on  essentials,  have  strong,  vigorous, 
dominant  churches  and  fewer  of  them, 
presided  over  by  men  who  are  molders  of 
character. 
Get  right  down  to  it,  and  the  problem 
is — as  was  stated  by  one  of  the  govern¬ 
ment  agents  one  day  after  he  had  been 
trying  to  inject  a  new  spirit  of  hopeful¬ 
ness  iuto  a  downcast,  discouraged  farmer 
— a  problem  of  "souls  not  soils.” 
Questions  About  Alfalfa  and  Potatoes 
I  have  a  small  plot  which  was  sown 
in  Alfalfa  last  Fall  and  made  a  good 
crop  of  hay.  I  spread  one  ton  of  pul¬ 
verized  limestone  to  the  acre.  Lack  of 
rain  after  the  second  cut  caused  the  Al¬ 
falfa  to  decline  and  crab  grass  took  its 
place.  I  would  like  to  plant  potatoes  on 
it  next  year.  Would  the  lime  be  present 
in  sufficient  amount  to  scab  the  potatoes? 
A  sandy  t.wo-nere  plot  was  sown  to  Al¬ 
falfa  last  Fall,  treated  ns  above;  balf  of 
it  was  Alfalfa  soil  and  it  made  good. 
The  other  half  was  poorer  soil  and  poor 
crop;  however  now  it  is  nil  tilled  with 
weeds  of  all  kinds.  Would  it  pay  to  cut 
it  with  a  disk  and  reseed  with  Alfalfa 
and  Alsike  and  a  little  Timothy,  or  would 
the  best  thing  be  to  plow  it  and  reseed 
it  or  plant  corn  on  it  next  year?  B.  B. 
New  Jersey. 
We  should  go  ahead  and  plant  potatoes 
on  this  land,  but  we  should  be  careful 
to  soak  the  seed  before  planting  in  the 
formalin  solution,  which  we  have  often 
described.  The  ground  limestone  is  not 
ns  likely  to  increase  the  scab  on  pota¬ 
toes  as  the  burned  lime  is,  and  in  the 
case  mentioned  after  a  year  and  a  half 
we  doubt  if  the  limestone  will  show  any 
effect.  As  a  matter  of  precaution  we 
would  surely  soak  the  seed.  The  fact 
seems  to  be  that  ground  limestone  hav¬ 
ing  a  more  gentle  action  upon  the  soil 
than  the  burned  lime  is  not  so  likely  to 
increase  the  amount  of  scab.  In  the  case 
of  this  two-acre  plot  our  plan  would  be 
to  chop  it  up  with  a  disk  and  make  a 
seeding  of  Timothy  and  Alsike  clovci’. 
It  is  too  late  now  to  expect  to  get  a 
stand  of  either  Alfalfa  or  Sweet  clover. 
Next  Spring  if  this  stand  of  grass  and 
Clover  would  warrant  it  we  should  let  it 
go  and  cut  for  hay.  If  on  the  other 
hand  the  catch  was  not  good,  the  whole 
thing  could  be  plowed  under  at  the  right 
time  for  corn.  The  Timothy  and  the  Al¬ 
sike  going  in  now  can  be  used  either  as  a 
cover  crop  for  plowing  under  or  as  a 
meadow  after  several  years  of  cutting,  de¬ 
pending  on  the  way  it  cuts  through  the 
Winter. 
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The  Farm  Bureau  Discussion 
I  desire  to  express  my  appreciation 
of  your  paper  in  general,  and  especially 
your  efforts  to  increase  the  size  of  the 
farmer’s  dollar.  Also,  I  am  much  in¬ 
terested  in  the  discussion  of  the  farm  bu¬ 
reau  question.  Like  all  others  there  are 
two  sides  to  the  latter.  It  is  clearly 
November  18,  1916. 
impossible  to  obtain  a  practical  farmer 
for  the  office  of  county  agriculturist  be¬ 
cause  a  man  who  could  and  would  prac¬ 
tice  what  he  preaches  would  lie  farming 
for  himself  and  making  more  money  than 
the  usual  salary  of  such  office.  There¬ 
fore  most  of  his  advice  is  theory  only. 
However,  his  bulletins  and  occasional 
visits  stimulate  us  to  better  thought  and 
to  a  certain  extent  to  better  action.  His 
presence  has  a  beneficial  effect  on  old  and 
young,  but  especially  upon  the  young.  It 
gives  them  a  different  conception  of  the 
business  of  farming  from  what  most  of  us 
got  at  their  age.  Of  this  I  have  positive 
proof  as  follows: 
Not  long  ago  a  certain  “young  Ameri¬ 
can,”  my  son,  age  11,  was  building  “air 
cistles”  as  all  boys  do.  Ho  was  planning 
a  way  to  earn  $25.  I  asked  him  what 
he  would  do  with  the  money  when  he  got 
it.  “That  goes  for  my  education,”  said 
he.  “What  do  you  want  an  education 
for?”  “So  I  can  bo  a  better  farmer  than 
you  are,”  was  the  quick  reply.  As  an 
example  of  respect  to  a  somewhat  aged, 
if  not  honorable  sire  the  reply  was  not 
all  it  might  have  been,  but  as  an  argu¬ 
ment  in  favor  of  agricultural  uplift  it 
is  hard  to  heat.  j.  L.  davis. 
Michigan. 
Mead  or  Metheglin 
Will  you  give  me  recipe  for  making- 
mead,  or  as  some  call  it  metheglin? 
W.  T.  z. 
Honey  mead  is  an  intoxicating  drink. 
It  is  said  that  it  will  put  a  man  out  of 
business  about  as  quickly  as  any  liquor 
known.  I  don’t  know  how  it  is  made,  but 
I  presume  the  process  is  about  the  same 
as  that,  of  making  houey  vinegar,  which, 
by  the  way,  is  a  very  superior  article.  I 
have  no  use  for  honey  mead  or  any.  other 
intoxicating  drink. 
The  process  of  making  honey  vinegar 
is  as  follows:  Mix  honey  and  water  so 
that,  the  liquid  will  just  barely  float  a 
fresh  egg,  leaving  a  portion  of  the  shell 
projecting  above  about  the  size  of  a  10- 
cent  piece.  This  mixture  is  allowed  to 
stand  in  an  open  barrel  or  vat  covered 
with  cheesecloth  in  a  warm  room.  The 
time  it  takes  to  turn  into  vinegar  will 
depend  somewhat  upon  conditions,  usu¬ 
ally  from  one  to  two  years.  Of  course, 
there  is  a  period  between  the  beginning 
and  vinegar  stage  when  it  makes  the 
honey  mead.  e.  h.  root. 
Coming  Farmers’  Meetings 
American  Bornological  Society,  Wash¬ 
ington,  D.  C.,  Nov.  16-18. 
Indiana  Apple  Show,  West  Baden, 
Nov.  14-20. 
Wisconsin  Potato  Growers’  Conference, 
Eau  Claire,  Wis.,  Nov.  21-24. 
Paterson,  N.  J.,  Poultry  Association 
annual  show,  Paterson,  N.  J.,  Nov.  21- 
25 ;  Dr.  Gilbert  Johnson,  secretary-treas¬ 
urer. 
Holyoke  Poultry  and  Pet  Stock  Asso¬ 
ciation,  annual  exhibition,  Holyoke, 
Mass.,  Nov.  22-24. 
Qnannapowitt  Poultry  Association, 
third  annual  show,  Wakefield,  Mass., 
Nov.  23-25. 
Northwest  Live  Stock  Show.  Lewiston. 
Idaho,  Nov.  26-Dcc.  2. 
International  Live  Stock  Show,  Chi¬ 
cago,  Ill.,  Dee.  2-9. 
Fourth  National  Conference  on  Mar¬ 
keting  and  Farm  Credits,  Chicago.  Ill., 
Dee.  4. 
Pacific  International  Live  Stock  Exhi¬ 
bition,  North  Portland,  Ore.,  Dec.  4-8. 
Wisconsin  Buttermakers,  annual  con¬ 
ference.  Sparta,  Wis.,  Dec.  5-7. 
Virginia  State  Horticultural  Society, 
twenty-first  annual  meeting,  Roanoke, 
Va..  Dee.  5-7. 
Harmony  Poultry  Show,  Harmony, 
Minn.,  Dec.  5-7. 
Missouri  Poultry  Show,  St.  Joseph, 
Mo..  Dec.  5-9. 
National  Corn  Show,  Minneapolis, 
Mimi..  Dec.  11-16, 
Maine  State  Poultry  Show,  Portland, 
Dec.  12-1  1, 
New  Jersey  State  Horticultural  So¬ 
ciety,  annual  meeting,  Burlington,  N.  J., 
Dec.  12-14. 
.  University  Horticultural  Society  of 
Ohio  State  University,  sixth  annual  show 
of  fruit  and  vegetables,  Columbus,  O., 
December  14.  15  and  16. 
Madison  Square  Poultry  Show,  Madi¬ 
son  Square  Garden,  New  York  City,  Dec. 
29- Jan.  3. 
West  Virginia  State  Horticultural  So¬ 
ciety,  annual  meeting,  Morgantown.  W. 
Va.,  Jan.  3,  1917. 
New  York  State  Agricultural  Society, 
Albany,  N.  Y.,  Jan.  18,  1917. 
New  York  State  Association  of  County 
Agricultural  Societies,  Albany,  N.  Y., 
Jan.  18.  1917. 
Guru  Growers’  and  Stockmen’s  ('(inven¬ 
tion.  Vrbaua,  Ill.,  Jan.  S-Feb.  23,  1917. 
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