Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 August 1911 — BE WISE; STICK TO FARM. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

BE WISE; STICK TO FARM.

It Stand* For Everything Attractive, Wholesome ahd Profitable. For the restless bo.v or girl whof wants to go away from the farm ant? get out intu-the big world something. no better bit of earnest reading can be found than this extract .from the New York Independent. “The new farm children." it says, “live a third dispensation. The sciences began to take held of the land at leas, fifty years ago. but there was an off clearing necessary. The transition period was protracted, mainly because the land was already in possession of u race of farmers that must die off.

“The agricultural college applied the sciences to tillage and to crops and to animal life on the farm tweuty-tive years ago. It was slow work, not only to awaken the farmer, but to investigate, discover, and then to apply. The age is now rapidly falling into the hands of men who are alive to the great fact that production has never yet approached its maximum. The orchard has all this while, thanks to moths and caterpillars, become more and more an entomological laboratory. Gradually it has came about that not a thing can be grown on the land without a fight. This has not by any means been a permanent loss, but has wakened a spirit of scientific examination and determination to master conditions. The microscope and the crucible are as necessary today as the plow and the hoe. The farm boy is not without stimulus, nor is he without interesting conditions; rather it will now take the brighter boys to do the farming. “The development of farm machinery and the application of new forces on the land have gone on at the same time. In every department of the home, in the house as well as in the barn, machinery takes the plaee of men. and the help problem Is now driving us to a still more complete age of mechanism. “There is no lot on earth so enviable today as that of an American farm boy or girl. They have room, fresh air, beautiful surroundings, While the arts and sciences are involved in their work, and isolation is absolutely abolished.

“Nothing can be gained any longer by quitting the farm. It stands for everything that is attractive, wholesome and profitable; but at the same time it stands for the new and the stimulating. Country life cannot be made dull, unless it wilfully severs itself from advantages that are freely offered.”

WILD MUSTARD GREAT PEST. Not Useful Like Its Eatable Cousins, but an Indefatigable Menace. About as troublesome a weed as the farmer the world over has to deal with is the charlock or wild mustard. It is prolific in the extreme 'fffid, unlike Its black and white cousins, is not only worthless, but harmful. About the only way to control it is to use a spray

made up of either a 2 per cent solution of copper sulphate or a 15 per cent solution of iron sulphate. The quantity needed is from fifteen to twenty gallons to the acre, and American grain growers go after it with a sort of watering cart. It is particularly obnoxious in wheatfields, not only choking growth, but making the harvesting of the crop a matter of great difficulty. Creek an Ideal Farm Hand. A wideawake farmer noticed that his creek, if dammed at a certain place, would produce a six foot waterfall. He built a dam and put in a water wheel—a S3OO turbine that yielded twenty-five horsepower. Over the water wheel he built a powerhouse in which he placed a dynamo for the water wheel to run:"' The electricity was wired 1,700 feet to the farm buildings. Then he put his electricity to work In every possible place about the premises. He heated and lighted the house, did the cooking and the washing and ironing, did the sweeping and dusting, beat eggs—and at three different speeds too—turned the ice cream freezer and in summer ventilated the house with fans. Now with a vacuum milking machine he milks twenty cows, two at a time; drives the cream separator, churns, pumps water into every room in the house and into the of each horse and cow, drives lathesland drills in a workshop, drives a circular saw to cut cordwood and drives an ensilage cutter. It pays to be up to date.

SPRAYER TO DESTROY WEEDS.