24. 
yield per acre. While yield and bread- 
making quality were both improved by 
the use of fertilizers, they were not im- 
proved to the same extent by the same 
fertilizer. No constant relationship be- 
tween the percentage of protein in the 
grain and flour and the bread-inaking 
value was apparent, and while it is con 
sidered possible to increase the amount 
of proteids in flour by the use of nitro 
genous fertilizers it is stated that the 
bread-making value is not proportionately 
increased. The increase in nitrogen con- 
tent in some instances imparts a negative 
value, as a part of the nitrogen is in non- 
proteid forms. The results, as a whole> 
are taken as showing that not only the 
yield of wheat, but also the bread-making 
value, can be enchanced by increasing the 
soil fertility, and that a very close 
relationship exists between the amount 
of available plant-food in the soil and the 
quality and bread-making value of the 
wheat produced on it.—H. 
(Minnesota Station Bulletin 102). 
Snyder 
Miscellaneous Items. 
In a bushel of wheat there are about 
550,000 seeds. 
Raise and feed all the roots you can, 
but do not expect to fatten cattle without 
grain. 
In fattening animals, the quicker they 
can be fattened the greater will be the 
profit. 
Desirable qualities in a herd are fixed 
by a long line of careful selections and 
breeding. 
Mature pigs that are thin may be made 
to gain half a pound a day on lucerne 
withoué grain. 
A sire that is kept idle in the stable 
half the year is more liable to beget weak 
foals than the mare is to throw them. 
Lucerne performs an important part in 
the pig industry, and should be grown on 
all farms where this can be done success 
fully, 
The brood mare should have a few 
hours’ exercise in the yard or on the road 
every day. It does not pay to keep her 
confined. 
THE AUSTRALIAN GARDENER. 
January 1, 1909 
In starting with sheep no one should 
get the idea that he is taking up a line 
of live stock raising that is going to 
manage itself. _ 
Horses which are judiciously fed and 
well groomed will stand double the 
amount of hard work they would under 
careless treatment. 
Cattle have 32 teeth, which are divided 
into 24 grinders and eight nippers on 
front and lower jaw, They have no front 
teeth on front upper jaw. 
Sheep are more likely to give trouble 
going under fences than over, and 
especially if the fencing is of wire and 
stretched over rolling land. 
A driving horse ordinarily cannot 
travel more than 50,000 miles during his 
lifetime, even though he does not go 
lame, says an American motorist. 
The best land on the farm is none too 
good for lucerne. One seeding on goil 
adapt-d to it will yield three or four good 
crops of hay each year for from five to 
ten years. 
It takes three years to get a horse’s 
mane to lie properly after it has been 
hogged, if indeedit ever does so. The 
horse dealer can, however, usually lie 
without special difficulty, 
Pigs suffering from scours may be 
helped and many times cured by feeding 
them on milk that has been boiled, and 
to which a pint of scorched flour has 
been added for each gallon. 
The merino sheep was introduced into 
England from Spain in 1787. For 
centuries the Spaniards guarded the 
breed so carefully that they would only 
permit the wool to be exported. 
‘Public prosperity (says a Chinese 
philosopher) is like a tree. Agriculture 
is its root, industry and commerce are 
its branches and leaves. If its roots 
suffer the leaves fall, the branches break, 
and the tree dies.” 
Don’t fail to prov'de good shade for 
the pigs during the hot weather. No 
animal suffers from the heat worse than 
the pig, and. owing to his inability to 
perspire, craves for 2 pool of cool water 
to reduce his temperature. 
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