Ligonier Banner., Volume 45, Number 9, Ligonier, Noble County, 19 May 1910 — Page 2
By Maud Ballington Booth n* The “Little Mother’’ of the Prisons’ r
l.' Jumbo: A Heart Stor_y ‘
A gentlercaa was once 3howing a ecollection of gems to a friend, dazzling his eyes with tray after tray of glittering, . sparkling wealth.. Diamonds, rubies, . emeralds and sapphires, each were displayed In thelr turn, but he kept to the last his most prized treasures, a small collection of opals of great-rarity and value. When at last they were uncovered, the guest was surprised and disappointed. They were dull,"and lacked the color and luster ~he expected to see. He expressed his disappointment, while their owner gathered them into -his hand, closing his fingers over them, and continued telling of their worth and of his delight In having become their possessor. Then he. passed to other subjects, and had apparently for the time forgotten his opals.. A few minutes later he called back his Irlend’s - attention to these special gems, and opening his hand displayed them te his astonished gaze. They were transformed. Now they seemed aflame; with fire, palpitating with light, glorious in the rainbow tints of thelir beauty. With a quiet’smile their owner, explained simply that they needed the warmth of the human hand to awaken them to life. - ' :
There are many gems that the God of heaven covets for his diadem that seem very unlovely to the eyes of the world; -hearts that’ are hard, souls unrespansive, natures unloved and uniovely; no graee or virtue, no gift or talenf to make them desirable;- nothing'noble of worthy to shine forth and catch the attention of othérs. May It not be that they but await the touch of human sympathy, which opens the way to the acceptance of the Touch Divine? 1s it not possible that when that' touch has reached them, they too iay' shine forth with an honor, virtue, beauty and strength never dreamed of before, so that earth may be the richer and heaven the brighter for thelr redemption? e
" It: was In the early days of my prison work, in the first year of the alstory of the Volunteers of America, that “Jumbo” came to me, and .his :’g)mlng was in this wise: I was very busily engaged In opening my mail, and my secretary had had strict orders that on no account could I recelve callerg. The order had hardly been issued before it was disobeyed, and a knock at the door broke In upon my quiet. Explaining the reason for this interruption she sald: “There is a. man here who says he must see you, no ‘one else will do, and from the look and manner of ‘the man, I think he comes from ‘up the River.'" In the prison world of Sing Sing, that abode of the caught and sentenced is called ‘up the River.” 1 laid down my work, or this, was a caller who had a prior *lajm, and needed me more than the writers of the letters 1 was opening, 20 thev must wait. When he came Into my office, it was with the look -and ‘manner, the word and tone that not only proclaimed him one of “the boys,” bypt.also marked him the typl*al Bowery Boy at that. I rose to ‘greet him, but before 1 could voice my welcome he anncunced “Well, I've * some,” and throwing back his head, he laughed as though it were the funniest 'statement in the world. 1 pulled a “chair up to the side ofthe desk, and assured him fhat I-was very glad of his coming, and hoped that I could help and serve him in some way. TalkIng the seat he laughed merrily again, and announced once more “Yes, I've come.” He added “You can bet your life, there's not one of “the Boys” up the River who thought I really would come. You try it when next you ‘are there; ‘tell them 1 came to you, and ,Just see what they say about it. ‘Bet your life they won’'t believe it possible!” I saw at once that there was more to his coxjfllng than appeared- on the surface, and little by little 1 gained the. story. “You see, Little Mother” he sald, “I was hot a member of your league. [ am not even religious. Re-ligion-ain't in my line. I want to be honest with you, and so I tell you this, and to speak the truth, I did not want to ccme to you. 1 was born and brought up to if. and uever did nothIng else for a living. 1 guess too, I -was bern ddle, for I never worked outside of prison in my life, nor in prison either if 1 could, help it. "1 did not go to your meetings up in Sing Sing, as:l say, religion ain't in my line. But I saw the change it made in ‘my old pals. They said, ‘Look here, Jumbo, yYou h3ve bgen in prison time and time again, and it's time you quit! This kind of life don’t pay, and if you are ever going to turn over a new leaf {t's time you began now. ‘Vell, I told them that was all true eirqugh, but what was the use? How could au old-time crook make anything .ol his life? Tken they said ‘The Little Motber.wants us to go to her; and ghe’'s rromised to give us a chance,’ but I said, ‘Oh ggt along, I'm not going to ‘mmpose on her. I ain’t religious, and she don’t want me. But they talked and talked and said ‘give her a chance to prove her word' and at last I said. ‘All right, I will go to her, but - blexs your sou’, they know me, and I don‘t believe they thought for a moment l&would kee\p my word. But yon can o back, Tittle Mother, and tell thers I've comie.” Then a change passnd over him. He turned from the joke of the thing to the tragedy beneath the gurface. In a few terse sentences he lald bare the barren past. He did not beast of his crimes, he did not make light of his sins; he simply stated all the facts as a patient might speak of symptoms in consulting a physician, and then he turned andi asked for my verdict. © “Say, Little “Mother, will you: have me in Hope -hall, Is it worth having a try at me? T don’t know that I'll like a straight lifs, I don’t know that I'll want to stay. -1 don’t know: as T can be honest, but 1 am ‘willing to iet you try if you think it's any use.” [ assured him thatvl_‘ -did think it well worth while. I des.eribed the Home we had opened for just such men. I told how well many ‘of them were dolng, and then I wrote ‘8 letter of introduction to the superIntendent :in charge of Hope hall ~which would insure him a welcome.
Before he left, as he stretched out his hand to bid me good-by, I sald, “Now, before you go, I .want you to kneel down with me: we will pray for God's blessing In| the step you are taking.” A look of| bewildered terror swept across his face. Evidently this was not In his line, for he gasped out, “Oh né! I couldn't, I never prayed in my whole life." But seeing the look of resolution in my face, he added politely, “Well, I'll kneel down, but you will have to do the praying.” 8o we knelt together In the presence of the One who can gather In his tender and loving bands the broken and contrite hearts of .men, changing them and gifting thfi with the wondrous new things of .. My Jfriend- knelt holdIng tight to his hat for moral support, while his eyes,"wide 6pen. were fixed upon my face, ready to take alarm at any unexfl)ected religlous manifestation, and [ tried to talk as simply and naturally as I could to the God whom I knew to/be very near at hand.
When he left me, I knew that Jumbo would turm up at Hope hall, and that he would give the new life at least a falr trial. | What a wonderful change was wrought in the next few months. Jumbo became a very earnest, industrious member of our Hope hall family. He came forth a truly converted man, and his heart was filled with a simple, earnest faith which made him realize that after all, religion was ¥ery much In his line, when ‘that line was to lead him to a straight path and honest work for a living. 2 The day tame at last when: Jumbo was to glj:idllate and take a ne‘\&plam fn the world, and I might sai‘;.t?hat now he was known by his own nage, and his prison nicknamgdroppod’ from him to be| ised only by a few of thase whom he| had known In the old-ife. Again he was announced at myi’éffice. Agaln I wrote him a letter of introduction, this time to the employer ‘who was /to glve -him his first chance, and then as he arose to leave me, he held me tightly in his clasp, and tears gathered in his eyes as he sald, “Little Mother, I' can’t tell you all the dear ‘Home has meant to me, or how grateful T am| but I am going out to my new life 'to prove it. [ tell you -the Hope Hall boys shan't be ashamed of me. [ will be worthy of the trust placed In me; I will be a credit to the Home, and make it easler for those that come after me.” Again I said as 1 hadsald before, “Shall we kneel together and ask God's _blessing on this new| step you are takimg? His face lit up with Joy. “Indeed we will, Little Mother” ‘he responded, and as we knelt to prayghe opened his heart to his God with the simple, unstudied fervor of| a c¢hild:"*He went to his new place full 'of hope and ambition, and letters full of his new experience came to me through the mails. Very original and very earnest reports they proved to be. .
I was starting for a visit to Sing Sing one day about six months later, and for [lack of time at the office, 1 brought guite a batch of mail to read on the train It so happened that in the mall there were two letters about Jumbo, pne from his employer, one from himself, both of them such a revelation of his new lite that I determined to share them with my Volunteer League “Boys” who would be gatheréd In the prison chapel to meet me. When the time tame, I told the story as I have told it here, of the manner of the man's coming, avoiding only the name. Then I read the, letter from his employers in which they thanked me for sending them such a man, so| earnest, so hard-working, so Christian in his life, that, they added, he had been a blessing to them all. Then ‘came the letter from the man himself. It was written as a Bowery boy would write, with plenty of quaint humor between the lines. But there was onel sentence especially.calculated to strike that audience. He was: speakof what| it meant to be trusted after all his years of haunting distrust, and then sald, *‘Just think, Little Mother, what happened to me to-day! I was working ‘with my employer at a faraway part of the farm, and he had to gO, in hefore me, but wanted me to be on time for the noon meal, and what dad you suppose he did? Why he left his gold watch with me to see the time by! What do you think of that?” ' To understand fully the purport of this; the reader should know that this boy's specialty in his crooked career had been what is known by the profession as “lifting watches.” He had hagd many people”s watches in his keeping in the past, but they had never been léaned to him willingly, so that act on the part of his employer appeared to him the very climax of trust and confidence. All through the story. those hundreds of boys in my
THE PRIMER LESSON o OCHWARTZ.) . ’ /f : s . ¥\ 1 : "Aj"fl \ . ~ .:-? i ::qa G & ‘ /[o-n S “’h‘@ TN 7-. Y LITTLE FELIX L Ice-Cream. _ Pick-le. : ~ Doc-tor. How it Rains. Why does._lit-tle Felix cry? Let us ask him. What does he say? He says.his Tumtum hurts, He has eat-en too man-y Pick-les with his Ice cream. : : ! . .lgoor Boy! May-be he ‘will live. But Ma-ma hag called the Doc-tor. . Poor Boy; then he will Die. - e
rrison audience listened with breath 'ess attention, and. &t the finish | 'eaned over the desk and asked them ‘f they won!d like to know his name. You eould have. heard the provertial rin drop in any part of that great charel as they bent forward eagerly }wnm.ng, ard then | whispered the Inan*q “Jumbo ™ Silence for one i stunned moment, then they threw back thelr heads and laughed and laughed as [ haove npnever heard an audience lavgh before or gince Nor could | restore order. Every time they ‘ maneged to control themselves, some- | one would be overpowered by mirth, ’ and the whole crowd would break out i into shouts and roars of laughter IfOfi“loern came hurrying in from the Icell-bouse to see what on earth the imtt!e' Mother was doing with her | “Boys,” to find a mirth-racked audi | ence, and a very perplexed Little | Mother wondering what on earth was so funny in her story = When the officers gathered what it was, they too showed signs of risible collapse, and it was only afterwards that [ fully underi stood the reason why Then I learned * that Jumbo's dislike of work was the | joke of the prison. He was by all classed among those born idle. No one could make him work. . At one time he felgned madness, and did it most successfully that he might have a vacation at the State Insane asy lum, to the great amusement of the “Boys” who knew that he had planned it so as to escape work. The idea of i his having reformed and being in love twith hard work on a farm was to ithem almost Inconceivably funny. After the meeting an officer who had ‘ heard the news as {t spread through
the prison came to me and said, “Is ft really true that you got hold of Jumbo and got him to work and live honestly?” When ] assented he added “Well, that beats all. He was in my gang, but was the hardest man to get any work out of in this prison. Besides this, he was a born thief, and all the time he was in here he kept stealing anything he could steal, not because he really wanted the things, but just to keep his hand in. If that man has reformed, there is hope for anybody.”
That was over twelve years ago. Jumba has proven steadfast. He has had many difficulties to face. He has come to his places of hard test and trial. He has sometimes almost lost courage. But he has made a good record In life. He has held positions of trust, and has treasured away many good recommendations won by faithful and earnest service. No detective or police-officer dogs his steps now. No prison cell has ever opened its doors to him again. He is married, has a happy home, and the shadow of the »nrison walls i 8 so far in the past that its memory serves only as a contrast to the glad sunshine of the present. (Copyright, 1910, by Joseph B. Bowles.) j Benefaction, ‘Willlam Mafcon! gave the forfeited lives of 47 men back to their families with all the possibilities of support, comfort and protection appertaining therewith. _ Mr. Marconi's benefactions are peculiar in that they are chiefly concerned with the physical salvation of the ablebodied, rather than with the ailing and the¢ decrepit. In this Mr. Marconi himself is singularly rewarded. Immeasurable gratification must glow within his consciousness with the news of the consummation of each of his marvelous gifts to his fellowmen.
Somewhere on this globe thers should stand a noble monument to the: invention of wireless telegraphy. It should be in the form of a mighty choral hall, and called, perhaps, the Hall of Joy, held sacredly in waiting for only great gatherings of human beings, thrilled with the one inspiration of thanksgiving for some immense benefit—llike the end of a war, or the saving of a ship, or the invention of anesthesia. »
Hideous Poverty In England.
A correspondent of the Boston Transcript, writing from England; says: ‘“No country in the civilized world has such hideous and debasea poverty as England.. Such sodden, bleary, hopeless derelicts as may be seen anywhere about the streets of London of Manchester or Newcastle or Liverpool it is impossible for the untraveled American ta conceive. The London Lancet itself has observed that there is notling dirtier in the world than the pocrer sort of British workingman. Soraething s radically wrong with conditions that cause such ‘pauperism.
Early Mail Carry'ng.
.In 1793 certain individuals hired a man to go from Castine to Wiscasset ‘and .carry letters and Pap2rs once a fortnight. He walked the whole dis tance over the route. Tha. next year postmsaters were appointed and mail sent once a week by carriers on horse. back. - Rufus Crane, the first post master, in Warren, ~ollected 20 cents as his pay for his first three months of work.—Lewiston (Me.) Journal.
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ETWEEN three and a half and four - million poles, most of them of cedar, are purchased ' and used by the telegraph and telephone companies ~of the United States each year. The average life of these poles is from twelve to fourteen years. e Three sources of supply are open, the white cedar from the northern lake region, ldaho cedar from the Rocky mountain country and red cedar from the Pacific northwest. Cedar is used because of its straight growth, although in some regions redwood, chestnut, fir -and cypress are employed. . The cedar is the most durable and it is the preferred timber. The red cedar grows to a greater height than the other varieties, and almost all the extremely tall poles are from the states. of Washington and Oregon. Twenty feet is the minimum height for telephone poles. The pole getting industry is distinct from general lumbering. It has its own special crews and ‘its own special nomenclature. The sawlog man is a lumberjack, the pole cutter a cedar savage. The cutting is done in the fall and winter months, and the hauling season i{s from the early freezing period till the spring thaws. Cruisers pick out and mark the timber that is to be cut, and a compass man runs the lines. After him come the foreman and the crew that lay out the camp - and put up the necessary buildings to house the men and horses and store the. supplies. Then comes the roadmsking. Roads are laid out as nearly direct as possible from the standing timber to the landing place next the railroad, allowing for grades and elevations. Trees are cut down close to the ground and a smooth bottom is prepared for the road, which is invariably of ice. If snow precedes the coming of the road gang ploughs are utilized to get it out of the way and give the frost a chance at the ground, often swampy in character. A number of tank sleds that sprinkle water on the roadway are kept running in alteration with :a ‘machine called a rutter, which cuts deep ruts in the ice road as it slowly forms. When finished: the road is composed entirely of ice a foot or so in thickness, with six or eight-inch ruts on each side. These ruts are made for the purpose of furnishing a place for the runners of the pole-laden sleds to
glide-through and thus make hauling an easy task.
Pole cutting is done usually by piece work, but in order to prevent the cedar savage from hunting out the bunches of timber most to his liking the foreman causes the strip for each pair of men to work in to be marked off by a line of blazes along the-trees. He must confine his operations to merchandise timber, avoiding the crooked trees. :
As he goes he must make a path through which the trees may be rolled or slid down to the read or so that the horse and chain that snake them thither may be able to work with ease. This is insisted’ upon by his boss. He must exercise ‘skill in making the cut trees fall in such a way that they can be easily handled with branches and tops removed. ; Hauling begins as soon as the road is completed and the cutters get a sufficient supply stacked up ahead. The peeling is usually left until after the winter rush is over and the men are brought from the woods to the yards. The bark is removed either with a heavy draw knife or-a 4 by 8inch chisel with a four or five-foot handle called a spud. : :
The pole cutters are usually supplied with a list showiLg the sizes desired. Long experience enables them accurately to judge the size of a tree at a glance. The smallest cuts are seven feet tall and dre sold for fence posts. = Longer sticks are used for shed timber. All over 20 feet go into the pole class. . This practically insures the cutting of all the stands. -
Newspapers in China.
Two years ago the Peking Gazette celebrated its millenary. Originally it appeared at intervals and in a very rudimentary form. Today it is modern, its diurnal publication being three editions. Great changes have been made in 50 years, and since the Boxer rebel--lion the number and boldness of the newspapers have increased. There are seven different styles of writing, viz., the ancient, the literary, the flowery, the common, the “demi-vulgaire,” the familiar and the epistolar}:. The papers for the people are printed in the common style and some have sdopted the new alphabet sanctioned by the government. Greater reverence i{s shown to the press in China than in other countries. Old papers are never put to base uses, they are collected and burned in the pagodas. The Chinese believe that profanation of newspapers it followed by blindness. ; " Her Kind. : : “What kind of a character is old - Miss Gaddy?” b *“She is one of those who do not beYeve snybody else has any.” 1
As each pole is cut it if\marked with the cutter's number and checked up by a man whose task it is to keep tab on the work. ¢
- Sometimes at the railroad landing place, but usually in the assembling yards, the poles are sorted according to size and decked, which means piled up. The greatest activity follows the Christmas season, when each crew is working at top speed to keep ahead of the next crew that handles the poles., 3 This top speed is again reached as breaking up time comes, when thaws arrive. The mbelting ice turns its streams into the ruts during the day and the tank wagons are kept going all' night to furnish ice in place of that ‘which the sun has melted. When the weather gets too warm the road soon disappears and that puts an end to the hauling and likewise to the cutting. When this' happens earlier than usual the first indications of a break-up cause a general hustle and a pretty race ensues to get out the timber before the roads become useless.
Notwithstanding the good pay it is difficult to keep the men at work all winter. - From the cedar savage down te the road monkey, the man' whose duty it is to keep the ruts free from all rubbish, there are among the loggers many nomads who drink heavily, chew snuff and smoke strong pipes and unconcernedly throw up one job, knowing they can get another just as good at the next camp. These roamers are known as camp inspectors from their making the rounds during the winter. g
As the renewals are estimated to require nearly 3,000,000 poles a year, not counting the new poles put up, the end of the cedar supply is iln sight. The forestry department figures that it will not last longer than fifteen years and the most optimistic supply men don’t think there is more than a twenty years supply ahead.
Considerable damage is being done to telephone, telegraph and electric light poles by members of the woodpecker family. These birds originally buflt their homes in the dead or dying trunks or limbs of trees, but for some reason best known to themselves have come to the conclusion that the peeled pole offers better conditions for a home. .
They have become so ravenous of late that their depredations are attracting considerable attention among those who are compelled to use quantities of wooden poles. Their activities spread over a wide portion of the Urnited States, notably in the south, southwest and central west. Cedar poles seem to be the ones most frequently attacked: The birds bore into them at any height from the ground, and the holes which they make are often two or three inches in diameter and four or five inches deep. It would, of course, not be a difficult matter to exterminate 'thesel birds.” However, this is not desirable, as they are among the most beneficial 5 forms of bird iife native to this country, because they destroy large num-° bers of insects which seriously damage forest and food crops. It seems, therefore, that methods should be undertaken to compel the birds to revert to their former habit of boring rather than to exterminate them. Frequent inquiries have been made by the forest service in this conneection, but the only information to date which the government has! been able to obtain is that on a casual inspection of treated and untreéated pole lines In Louisiana. In that region it was found that poles which had been impregnated with creosote’ oil were not attacked by the birds, whereas untreated poles under the same conditions were very severely injured. Whether or not creosote will prevent such attack is not .definitely known, but the service is investigating this problem, and should this oil prove a preventive it will fulfil a two-fold purpose: It will protect the poles from decay and destruction from ] animal life. s
Millions in Theaters.
Ninety-eight theaters have cost New York $16,000,000 to build during the last four years, and 32 churches have been "erected at a cost of something less than $3,000,000. For 181 office buildings = $85,000,000 was expended; for stores and lofts, $61,000,000, for 21 hotels, $10,000,000. Altogether 4,149 new buildings have been erected at a cost of $390,000,000, and for repairs $57,000,000 has been paid out. Plans already announced for 1910 and 1911 call for the outlay of $176,000,000 more.
Argument for Simplification.
The reform spellers are always ready with an answer. Since they dropped the final “g” from *egg” some one told Prot Brander Matthews that no self-respecting hen would lay an egg with one “g” and that no self-respect-ing cat would ever begin to purr with one “r.” *“l answered,” says the professor, *“that on the other hand no self-respecting hen woufdnever stand on a leg with two 'g’s” gnd that no self-respecting cat would allow anp one to stroke its fur with two ‘r's. "
R R R T e, t AW e g e & N g, 1| k D i\;-‘__—.-’ s W\ p.w ol & \'. Weeds are cbétly. : A sour mangér is an abomination. Plant the garden when the cherry blooms. T \ Weeds are not a necessity, but a costly luxury. i Make a good seed bedA before planting corn, potatoes and garden. . If you doubt whether a pig enjoys grass give him a chance to show you. The time is fast approaching when the dairyman will find he can’t affofd pasture.. ; The brood sow needs a mixed diet In which there is plenty of food rich in protein. . Feeding cow milk to young lambs is a very dangerous practice, and is very apt to kill them.
Bad weed seeds in screenings or otherwise fed to sheep -or poultry are generally done for.
Clover sown without a nurse crop should- be sown very early in the spring in a mellow seed bed.
You can’t toughen a horse to the spring work in a day. Start in ‘easy. Think how it is with your own shoulders.
Shearing sheep too closely, even when the weather is warm, is bad practise, as either a’ chill or a sunscald is liable to result. & — A mixture of a little salt, charcoal, ashes and air-slacked lime has a gooq effect upon parasites of the digestive system of either young or old pigs.
Enough extra time is wastel§, every year with ‘matted and sodd over weeds to keep our flelds clean\geveral years if the work had been done in time. )
Onions are one of the crops that need regular and heavy fertilization of the whole ground, and one cannot make money with onions if planted wide enough for horse cultivation.
- Keep a full record of your farm operations this year, Unless you do this you will profit little in experience. If you keep a correct record, you may profit in both experience and finance.
Weeds will always be in the land to a certain extent unless every farmer will clean his grain and work to destroy them in place of sowing the seed and trying to cultivate the weeds out, :
Teach your boy how to shoe horses, sharpen plows and use .tools intelligently. He will take pride in making the needed repairs-around the home if allowed the use of sharp tools and encouraged to make the home attractive. .
A practice that i{s in high favor among prominent asparagus growers is to cut down all plants, including volunteer growth, in early spring, to force the beetles to deposit their eggs upon new shoots, which are then cut every few days before the eggs have time to-.hatch.
Standing in the barn will spoil 'a horse sooner than good steady work. When you see his legs begin to stock up, hurry and get him to work at gomething, if it is nothing more than exercising in the yard every day. XKeep that up till you have some real business to do.
To make hogs of 225 pounds at seven months or 250 pounds at eight from early March farrows is more profitable than to have pigs come in April or May or later, since the-early pigs are ready to make use of the pasture while it is at its best and escape stormy cold weather before finished. :
As a rule it is not a good practice to plant potatoes after potatoes on the same land. The crop is more likely to be diseased, and ‘the yield not as good as if planted on a one or twoyear clover sod, or after corn. The spores (or seeds) of fungus diseases, such as blight, scab, etc., will remain in the soil for a year, at least, after the potatoes are harvested.: :
. There is no other food stuff to be found more constantly upon our tables than dairy products, and none that are more worthy to be there; and it only rests with those whao have the handling of such products under their direction to realize and keep in mind the fact that these products are to be used for food and that they must use good judgment and proper care in handling them or the ‘value of having a sanitary dairy barn will be lost. :
It often happens when lambs are born in cold weather, especially twins, that they are too weak to nurse, and it is not always an easy matter to suckle them on their mother, but they can be given cow’s milk from a bottle with nipple attached very easily. It is very essential that the new-born lamb 'should have nourishment as soon as possible, to give it strength, A little cow’s milk given it at such time will soon enable it to get about and nurse from the dam.
Dirty pens preea disease.
The root cntter is indispensable.
~ Be sure that the birds are free from Hce. ’ 5 g
Fowls on range get plenty of exer alse in summer,
No one.can be saccessful in dairying with scrub cows. :
Young pigs should be allowed to run at large upon a well-sodded lot.
Never allow the colt to follow the dam while she is working in the field.
Beets may be planted now. They do better when. planted <in a warm soil.
Motherless lambs should be handled much the same as calves reared on skim milk.
The old dirty pen as a factor in hog raising is fast losing popularity, much to the joy of the hog. o )
The common asparagus beetle, under ordinary circumstances, may be held in restraint by the simplest means.
In order to get the best results it is necessary to understand something about the growth of the strawberry.
The fences and gates are the keys to the farm. Everybody forms an opinion of the man and his farm by them. .
The harrow should be more {requently used this spring, For preparation of the soil for the seedbed it is indispensable. )
Mature sows can raise two litters of pigs a year, but the pigs-'should not be .allowed to suckle for more than eight or ten weeks. o
Plow the young orchard as soon as the grass starts to grow and work it every week or two with a disk or cultivator until the middle of July.
Before farrowing the sows need good nutritious bone developing foods. At farrowing time they need something that will stimulate milk production. -
Stockmen often make mistakes in the early spring by turning to pasture too early, before the grass has recelved sufficient body to permit thna animal to get enough nutriment.
Ten cows that average 300 pounds of butter-fat each are worth ~more than 20 averaging 150 pounds. They will eat only about half as much feed and make many .times greater profit. )
As a rule a large, vigorous seed will produce a large; vigorous plant and this would need more room and soil than a smaller one. The season and soil make considerable differencg, too, with the amount of seed.
By having well-defined walks to and from the front gate and outbuildings there will be small occasion for walking on the grass. To tramp the flower bed simply means to have no flowers. No flower soil will stand any kind of abuse.
* When coarse straw is used for bedding, the little pigs often get tangled up in it and#®are unable to. get back to the sow. They become chilled and frequently do not recover. The way to solve the problem is to cut the straw and provide a finer bed.
Every home should have fruit-bear-ing trees. If you have no pecan-grove plant a few trees in the yard or in the orchard. No one loses by waiting for trees to bear except those who*do not plant. The pleasure of fine- nuts will come sooner than you expected. Plant pecan trees now, »
The Supreme court of the TUnited States has decided that the use of natural palm oil as one of the ingredients of oleomargarine to improve the texture, quallt‘y and healthfulness of the product subjects it to the payment of the internal revenue tax of ten cents a pound.
Many good farmers differ, however, on this, many thinking a peck will bring as many or better results. There are varieties of oats with a very large berry which would have to be increased to get the same number of plants to the acre that very small berry oats would give. .
It is always useful to have a high shelter hedge along a field where sheep are running, for this breaks the wind and thus makes things easier for the ewes. Shelters consisting of squared wire fencing nailed in two layers, one on each side of da post, and straw packed in between, are .very economical and useful. :
Young pigs should be fed often, and no more at a time-than they will clean up in a few minutes. Satisfy their hunger for the time, but don’t spoil their appetites by keeping food constantly before them. When food remains over in the trough from one meal time until tfe next, it is sure to be more or less fouled and unfit to eat.
In areas that are weed infested it may be necessary to use caution'in the manure used, when it is applied. For instance, in growing seed oats, if horse manure were used upon the land, and if wild oats were present in the oats fed to the horses, some of them will fiad their way to the field. The necessity of sowing the crop on. a clean field will be so apparent that it need not be dwelt upon
If you are going to milk cows next summer see to it that you milk none but profitable ones. It means work every day in the year, Sundays and holidays included, and poor results are likely to discourage the dairyman. If he can see the dollars come in he will not grumble, but if he ‘gets but littie more out of his cows than the feed they consume is worth, and the majority of farmers get no ‘more than that, there is very little encourage meat in the business. : :
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