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CONDUCTED BY PROF, HENRY G. BELL
The object of this department le to plane at the ser-
vice of our farm readers the advice of an acknowledged
authority on all subjects pertaining to soils and crops.
Address all questions to Professor Henry G. Bell, In
care of The Wilson Publishing Company, Limited, Toren.
to, end answers will appear in this column In the order
In which they are received. When writing kindly men-
tion this paper, As space Is limited it le advisable whore
immediate reply Is necessary that a stamped and ad.
dressed envelope be enclosed with the question, when
the answer will be malted direct.
12.8;: --bast fall 11 plowed seven
acres of clay ;nam. Has been in sod
For ten years I understand. I intend
putting it in sugar beets if I can get
it "contract" from the factory. If you
thick it advisable. I can manure part
of it by hauling it from city, four
miles. Would you fertilize the rest
of it?
Answer:, --1 believe it surely would
pay you to fertilize your sugar 4 eet
ground in addition to such manure as
you may be able to obtain to put on
it, Quoting from actual tests the
Wisconsin Experiment Station reports
that it obtained an increase of 49.1
per cent in yield and 47,3 per cent in
sugar content by fertilizing sugar
beets. The Division of Chemistry at
Ottawa quoted iu 1916 an experiment
which =ogee] where without fertil-
izing they got 81 bushels to the acre.
By the use of 1331 lbs. of high grade
fertilizer per acre they increased this
to 070 -bushels to the acre.
For fertilizer on beets I would ad-
vise you to use a mixture containing
from 3 to 4 per cent annonia, about
8 per cent phosphoric acid and about
3 to 4 per cent potash. See that this
is worked into the soil thoroughly at,
the time the seedbed is being pre-
pared for the sugar beets. Apply the]
fertilizer at the rate ;of 500 lbs. peri
ACM.
Certainly under normal c.ircurn
stances if you are not too far away
from the factory sugar beet;; is a good
crop to grow. The cultivation cleans
your soil of weeds and the alerp-
rooted nature of the trope eters the •
soil so that the m: •hanical conditi n
is greatl • Lenefitre by geawing the I
strop, A nurliom clay loans supple
mental with fertilizers as indicated
Amid produce a large tonnage df'
high grade sugar beets,
L.J.:--',{'ill you tell me how much
seed of tlno various clovers and;
grasses to sow per acre, and whether/....,'
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different soils need different
amounts? Also, if there is alfalfa
that will not heave out. We got a
geed catch, but the next spring it
heaved out until it didn't amount to
much. Our soil is a gravelly clay.
Answer: -It fs common to sew
front 10 to 18 lbs. per acre of the vari-
ous clover seeds, although fairly gond
catches have been obtained under con-
ditions of superior sell preparation
by a Less amount, When glass and
clover is mixed it is common to use
about 8 lbs.lov f c and
clover ab out 4 lbs.
of grass seed per acre. The fact that
the seed is being sown on different
types of soil has not as much to do
with the quantity as has the nature
of the soil preparation. Of course if
the soul is not itt first class mechan-
ical condition it is necessary to in-
crease the amount you mention so 315
to allow for some of the seed not
germinating. There is no alfalfa that
may not be heaved out of the soil by
the action of freezing and thawing.
The thing to do is to drain your soil.
It is pretty clear proof if the clover
f or alfalfa heaves that the water
which conies from the fall rains,
stands in the soil, where it freezes and
heaves the crops. Draining is the
only cure for such a condition.
Subscriber—I hare five acres of
sandy soil from which I took off as
crop of rye last year. What can I
plant this to next spring to get a crop
of hay the same season?
Answer: -The only mixture that
will give you a crop of hay the same
season that you sow it is a mixture
of °•nett grain as barley and oats or
peas and oats. These niay be sown
at about the, rate of a bushel each to
the acre. If rut when green they make
a good quality of nutritious hay, ps-
specially the mixture of peas and
oats.
H. J.: -Can you give me full direc-
tions about spraying an apple orchard.
Also about pruning. The orchard on
this farm has been neglected for
years.
Answer:-Spaceace would not permit
our giving full instructions for the
spraying of the apple orchard, In-
deed you would do much better to
write the Ontario Agricultural Col-
lege and ask them for their spray
calendar also their literature regard-
ing pruning. These will give you ex-
ert information regarding the ques-
tion in hand.
Beside spraying and pruning you
should look to the fertilization of
your orchard if you expect to bring
it back quickly to the most prolific
bearing. Neglected orchards in Ohio
Fertilizing the
Tenor
rays
Because: -
1, Fertilizers supply well bal-
anced food for orchard trees.
This means desirable wood -
growth,
2. Fertilizers cause fruit to fill
and mature uniformly.
3, Fruit borne by trees that
have been properly nourished
with fertilizers is superior in
size, color and flavor.
4. Fertilizers cause great in-
crease in yields.
Write for Pamphlet No. 3,
Soil and Crop
Improvement Bureau
Of the Canadian S'ertlllzer 5es'n.
1111 Temple Bldg., Toronto, Ont.,
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iV h e n properly
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ve 1 1 1 overcome
(Mills in from 30
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It thus prevents
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quicker and hot-
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aftermath of
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This remedy Is worth its weight In
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in
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were made to yield 145 per cent mor
by proper fertilization of the crop. A
prominent apple grower of Blenheim
Mr. W. M. Grant, renovated an old or
chard of Ort acres so that now it I
yielding over 1600 bushels of apples
He used about 12 lbs• per tree of
high grade fertilizer, scatteringeci
around about the area covered by th
branches of the tree and working i
into the soil as the orchard was tilled
W.W.:-Il have an old 'meadow tha
I want to put into wheat in the spring
What fertilizer is•neceseary to get it
into good shape? It was not plowed
last full. •
Ahtswer•:-After spring plowing
your meadow I would advise you to
use a fertilizer front 2 to 3 per cent
ammonia, 8 per cent phosphoric acid
and 1 to 2 per cent potash, applying
it to
the soil at the rate of about 250
lbs to the acre. If you have a grain
drill with fertilizer sowing compart-
ment you will get the best implica-
tion by putting the fertilizer on in this
way. If you cennot get such a drill,
fairly good application can be gotten
by broadcasting the fertilizer before
the last disking and harrowing.
11.8.: -Would you advise buying a
tractor for a hundred -acre farm, fair-
ly level? Would I need to remove!
many fences? I have never used a,
tractor. Is it hard to manage? Full'
particulars will oblige.
Answer: -It is hard d to answer your•.
question regarding the advisability of
buying a tractor. Provided a consider -I
able amount of the land on your Weill
i$ under tillage and you are wiser,
enough to town so that you can grow
considerable stoney crops I believe al
tractor is en economy. It can be
handled must profitably if the fields;
are of t shape that farm machinery
ets
can be used without much end -turning.
:is a rale the average tractors on the
market aro comparatively easy to
operate, (s,pecially if the operator is
somewhat of a'• mechanic and is will-
ing to give sufficient attention to
keeping the parts of tho machine in
good shape. For definite information
I vantld advise yeti to apply to the
Faint Mechanics Department of On -1
tarso Agricultural College and con.
suit with the engineers of a gout1 trac-
tor company,
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enterprises will hold its
Aral Great Sale of Raw Furs
IN MARCH
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inferior southern varieties, the company will sell to the
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Buyers from London, Paris, New York, Chicago and other
great distributing centres have already arranged to attend
the MARCH SALE.
The widespread interest shown by, buyers clearly indicates
the unusual scarcity of raw furs; unmistakably points to an
unusually keen demand, particularly for the finer furs—
Canadian goods. We think we are not unduly optimistic
in predicting
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Making the Country Store Work
for the Farmer.
One chilly fall day a typewriter d,ise as a factory town of 5,000 to
e salesman stepped off at a country 10,000 people.
railroad junction, with a couple of- How can a country store serve
hours' watt ahead of him. There was country people?
no town there at all -just one ramble In many ways. When the mer-
e ing general store. The storekeeper chant with a new stock of horse blan-
kets -reminded farmers round about
that the timeliest come to keep horses
comfortable he made a beginning in
service -simple enough, but on the
right lines.
One of the most thriving country
e stores known to the writer es in a vil
. lage of 200 people itt sparsely settled
farming country. This store operates
had opened a big box and was takin
a out horse blankets. The salesma
t watched hint.
e "Have you got any printed Letter
t heads?" he asked suddenly.
"Yes. Why?" said the merchant
t "I believe I caro ,help you sell thus
horse blankets," replied the salesman
Ho had a sample typewriter. Sitting
down with some carbon sheets he
quickly wrote twenty-five letters to
farmers whose names were' given hint
by the storekeeper. He told thorn
that a new load of horse blankets had
come in, named the prices, and re-
minded folks that it was humane and
also good business to look after a
horse's comfort.
"When I come back this tvayinext
month I am •oin • to ask you to bu
going Y
14 typewriter," announced the sales-
; matt. "I am sure those letters will
make you want one,"
Several weeks later the atocekeeper
I was waiting with a typewriter order,
for -the letters had brought him
several hundred dollars' worth of
trade. Farmers had never got a heel -
noes letter from hint Were. They
crime itt to buy horse blankets on his
friendly tip, and aleo bought outer
things.
For fifteen years or more the coun-
try general store has been ailing,*
Until lately country storekeepers be-
lieved that the trouble was price
competition of =nil-otvier houses --
many still believe it,
But now it is gradually becoming
clear that competition is not a minter.
of pekoe t s, • i +
a at all, but of service to
fanners, here and there over• the
country the storekeeper in a farming
town has demonstrated that with see -
vice tp one's fain customers it •is pts-'
Bible to build up a big business in the
steadiest place. There are not many
such stores yet. But in scattered
Places merchants enterprising' enough 1
to go after farmers with service have
proved that the principle was rig}nt, t
either mail -owlet competition nor a
email' town are handicaps. Venters
is 1
trefer to tiny neat home ,if they nee, 1
iven service, and even to pay a little-
ore for convenience. A tonntry)
tore serving a population of from a
00 to 2,000 buys as much merchan- t
g
n
+'root which it drawn eustomera? This!
wore bus a staff of t:,rre-7 n14ute
tees• 'a ai in ntf>rlaai o v]tach1
tut -Ili -1p i a esee orale for semice
I ar racer .I ,net inter fn to build n i,tftnI
the store can hop him wit•. tun+al
:turf hardware, lcorme r• :moth luta
i'.aining the Child to
be Self -Reliant.
new baby --it is quitlly re partrvi, and le `I L1R:SATIONAI. LESSON.
his wife is eonptattila; od, aril thew NLitlttAlty LI.
',dere serves ley stain"; the things t.hta*
I thus nerd. 1
!'eter and Cornelius. Acts 10:1-11:1
City department more:: serve wo-
men, understanding thee they aro the
purchasing 'agents of tile It roe, with
a perplexir • resnonslee, flt, on their
hands. This store lies built up
at service to c:ettntty esteem]. the per-
t -Lasing agents for• farm helmet, lltty-
ho the farm home needs painting.
Somebody will c•ho°se the paint .mei
the color. This storekeeper 3,144311111C3
that it will be a wumari s r: lea=n,
ani sees that the farmer':: wife has
color charts and paint prices. City
women buy things 'n small packages
--starch in one -pound b=ore, crack -
ars in ten -cent cartons, tea in ote-
pound packages. (.!wintry people
have more pantry space and go to
town infrequently. So this mtu.hant
• gives serv,.e by selling starelt in epe-
cinl three -pound boxes, erne:ars in
ten -pound drums and tea in tem -pound
neck:tgos. A lot of attention is like-
wise paid to wTtat, goes on around the
countryside. If a farther buy,; a new
auto, the store knows the day he
drives it ltume, and he is invited to
bring it around so the storekeeper
can see it, If the farmer's daughter
is going to school this fall, she will
need a sweater, and the store writes
about sweaters to Mary herself, and
• waits on her personally when she
comes to buy, respecting her choice
before that of her parents, and treats
' her with an understanding of the
personal importance of that sweater
to herself.
The country neighborhood and the
country store are hound up together.
Big cities and big city stores con-
'stantly exert a destructive influence
upon both. If the country store is
losing business and the country neigh-
, borhood losing population, the same
onfluenees are probably at work,'
Country merchants used to insist that
it was the farmer's duty to patron-
; ize them, and grumbled when they
' saw goods coming in from the mail-
order houses, or watched farmers'
wives taking the train for a city
! shopping tour. But to -day the coun-
try merchant thinks along another
Line -he admits that It is his duty to
i serve farmers, and through good ser-
vice bring customers to his store.
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A Little Bear Story.
Once upon et funny time a little 'w
polar bear went to sleep on top of an
Eskimo's house and slept and slept I
and slept. Pshaw, it was four days t
before he awoke and then he was stiff
as his great-grandfather Sltaggyhair.
Why he could hardly limp home and 1
when Mother Petal. Bear saw him d
-snuffling into their big cold comfort- a
able snow house she threw up her
paws and telephoned for Doctor Pen-
guin
Golden Text,--Romtuts 10: 12.
10: 1-8, Cornelius was a centurio
that is an .fficer of the Rornan arta
,•orrespondtng to our captain. Six
them were usually attarhed to a eo
hort, or inattalion of 800 to 1,000 m.
but they were sometimes detached to
special duty. The town of Caesarea n
t}le sea coat was the resilience of th
Rotuen „ evernee, and tea:; proi,abl
arrfaolr 1 at this time by a band, o
ruiu.t`t, of volunteers from It.tly, hent
.ailed "the Italian bend," (orneli'
'mei a hone of his own, and a ilgh
place in the regard of the Jewtt, a
may Mem hem, e'esia II then, fo
to
years, He te t5 evidently 0 rad
«,f r titi tlonal:y i, rtt. -itararter, tic.
you , ;at i tc ui, 11, 1 k; ally, "one ib;
hared 1 r 1 with all nes it,us wiz
ata emelt Idol, to the rot.pie at
prayed tot,,d..10tt" Ile a goo
oldies and 31'•nt-.man, in tr • hes
!ienee r
that r'
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c heti] Peter, cf, 1 n: of
r n;at
of the t o nc 1 ,f Je s (:' t t t 0r
11115 tints, or n°", d, ,int 1 nt ,, bu
tt i3 ur;,l tbh th t he, had t & 'e 1.0
117.1 In the visio0 wheel einem to en
he teas inotrti ted to invite 1et+•r
visit hien.
e-10. Peter "fell into 11 tr ane." Th
house -top, flat and easily reached it
oriental houses, was a favorite reser
for prayer. In a trane, or day -dream
while he waited for the food nhie
they ,prepared for him, he saw a v i -ii
which touci o1 very closely hi Lewis,
prejudices and traditions. The ancien
law which it had Leen an escentbt
part of his religirtn to Miser -re, for
bade the use of certain kinds of mea
(See Deut, 14.) But the vision bad
him put aside that law, when tha
tihich was sot before him Gor had
made clean. The plc! law and custem
had its value, but Peter has to learn
that there is a higher law. Thus he
is prepared for the coming of the mes-
sengers and the invitation of Cortne-
Iit,s. Compare Mark 7: 14-23.
30-42 God As: ro Rr t niter ar Per-
sons-. The gist only of Peter's speech
is given. He must have spoken at
much greater length. 111 begins' v, ith
very humble and ilt-ere eonf . <i013
of -the troth which It has learned. I
u not rare, orb lord, c:• mime. or
trams and forms of .ell lou J C a
that make a man acceptable (>n.i
The Old Testament itself might hare
made that plain to the web ill4form,.,i
Jew, if its more spiritual teaching
It a
had not been obscured by the ent-
plrasis put by priests and i'ltarisees
upon °beery�:nice cf the law. lee 201
example, Micah 6t n-8; Iso,
Psalm 51: 1ti-17, and e;gmciaily
Psalms 15 add 24. i onn,are also horn.
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1'he Wortl Which Ile Sent iv. 4',)
is the gospel message, the substance
of which is the story of Je:=.us of
Nazareth, lto, that God anointed him
•itlt the IIoly Ghost and with power'
(v, 38.) Peter assumes that they
lave heard the story, and declares
hat Jestis, who was crucified, is risen
again front the stead. And, he said,
"We are evitnessee," "We saw what
Be did in the country of the Jews and
n Jerusalem, We 'witnessed His
eath, We Saw Him and ate
nd drank with Him after He
rose from the dead. His coming was
foretold by the ,prophets. To every-
one that believeth in Him, his sins!
The development of self-reliance ip
of vital importance in child training
and etie cermet begin too early to
teach children to help themsely
g Often, ;t la very much harder and ma
take no re time to let them do so
thing than do it oneself; but time a
n, effect are not wasted when they a
y thus spent.
oP The hest -way to help a child to
en • come self-reliant is to give him sim
✓ pled duties at first, adti+ng more diff
n cult ones as he grows older. At
n early age, every baby will try to tak
• off his shoes. Jncteacd of voiding hi
✓ fur doing this, show him how to d
o it and also how to put theft int aged
'f After learning this, he will soon t
o to manage the rest of his clothing
✓ before long. he will be able ice dres
n end 3nd^ess 1 ince elf• with very Intl
help.
f -.:if a., t;:o' and orderliness mach
a deeel :, 111 in 0 child at the sante time
i fir the litho ,ewe .vho crus take ou
d arod kat away his men toys, may pla
1 with tl.ent when he will. 1f he. ha
• 11 1 1r .for s e r
1 •t hine and keep
• o e et1i i r in its place, lie can hav
t emelt acre freed.= for play, and wil
1 gut h :t ' 1tr wait. for &ons,nte to cum
to to his t ranee.
-' 0ft.er ,t a hit l asks for help in dei
+,utcihiug w•hn•lt he could du for hint
t :,elf if- he only knew l,ow. Too oft
t a busy or impatient. mother will wai
upon her child to save time. and th
k the next time he wants the sante help
nn ha will coxae to her again. If th
1 mother had tuken a few moments the
first time to show him how to help
himself, there would have been no
t sccond time. For examplenot long
e ago a little three-year-old 'boy came
to me and asked for a drink, I told
hint to go into the kitchen and get
it, but he said he could not reach the
glass. "Olt, yes, you can,' I replied,
"1 will tell you how. Get a chair and
push it near the table; then stand
Ion it and nee 1f you can't get the
31)11ss." H- did at he tea:; told and in
a few minutes came winning to me
with a beaming nae e :saying,. I'm a
lig boy no..; I Cart get a eice,: all ley
myself."
self."
Self-reliance means confidence in
r ..elf. It tete cent rely upon his own
ast: ors, he most, certainly develops
them. A child who is taught how to
cross the street properly develops his
;tearing, seeing and lea: cling powers.
Of course, we as mnotlter=
must
guide the child who is self-reliant in
the right direction and -the best way
to do this is to put tante faith in ltd=.
Let him •realizo that we expect him
to de the right tt thin
g t aced in
g nearly•
every inatan•e he will do it, because
he feels his mother's confidence in
him. In other words, we must: always
leek fur the hest in our children in-
stead of something -with.- Which to
fend fault and that if she would eor-
rect smaller faults, remembering that
we are sometimes exasperating our-
selves. A certain mother once com-
plained that she did not know evhy
her child Was so naughty when she
tried to punish him for every misdeed.
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Doctor Penguin came with a green! s
umbrella and a big bag of pills. He,
listened to little bear's heart and he i
felt his pulse, then he shook his head
and said:
"fleas caught a terrible -ea ter-
rible-" I
"What?" begged Mrs. Polar Bear, l f
wringing her paws. 111
_ "A terrible HOT!" rumbled Doctor,
Penguln.
"He must have been near a firel", p
hall be forgiven." Upon the little'
o=pens listening with rapt attention
came down manifestations of the Spir-
t's power, for Peter and those who
wore with him "heard them speak
with tongues and magnify God."
11: 1-18. When Peter was come up
to Jerusalem and strict Jews found
ault with him for what he had done,
e simply told the story, sharing his
onderful and convincing experience
with them. What eould 'the narrow-
minded• fault finders do but hold their
eace and give thanks to God?
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a flour bank, It buys flour by the
carload, at the lowest price and
freight rates, and sells farmers cou-
pon books good for five or ten or
more sacks of flour. It has a spe-
edal room for storing flour, where it
is kept dry, clean, and safe from
pests, The farmers who held eau-
, pmts on the flour bank come itt and
take out flour as needed, get the bene-
fit of car -lot pieces and :freights, and
are not troubled with shoring flour
at home.. As coupons are bought
, before the flour is wanted, that furn-
ishes money to finnnce the business;
and the flour !intik draws customers
for other merchandise.
This town had no ire plant -few
country 1010103 of that Size can afford
one. But the stole installed art eight -
ton artificial ice plant, with a cold -
storage 'room large enough to hold a
carload ofeggs, butter, and other
perishables, Partnere bring in per-
ishable etuff during the season of
heaviest production and demist price;:,,
the store paying' thein cash, and bold-
ing produce in its cold -storage plant
until there •s a ear to strip to the city.'
lye is also soli) to the ]'armors to take'
win
Ellett summer this store takes al
neighborhood
covering hath
the things farmers will have to sell;
at harvest and the things they will:
want to buy. This I5 its smple as it'
is convenient. festal cards with
printed reply tonna are mailed to
every farm for 15 miles around, task -1
ng for estimates on what each 'farm
will sell and hay. About ane rau'nter• 1
0 four sends harp his figures, and 1
ereby it brcanues possible to °roan -I
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Hatch early <lticles from vigorous s
readers,
Then all the family 'came and stand
around little bear's - bed and fanned I
hint, and Mother Polar Bear put a; ,,
cake of Ace on his feet and pretty) (wPouf!'
soon, that is, in about titres days, he
was nice and cold again. But after•,
that he never went to sleep over waren'
ovens because he didn't want to catch;
any more colds-pshaw, I mean bets.;
A Home -blade Trailer.
Because of its high nitrogen con-
tent, poultry manure is quite valuable
as a fertilizer, and we find that we
can stake a high-grade fertilizer.
cheaply by conversing it carefully.
e 0450- too
many faults, and that if she would
correct the big evils, the little ones
would disappear. Remember to praise
the child whenever he accomplishes
something new. Develop his initiative,
by helping him to discover things for
himself. Soon he will not only be
helping himself, but others its well;
he will grew more and more consid-
erate-
When You Patint.
I was driving through the country
with my friend Hatton, whose busi-
ness is buying and selling farms.
Real estate is his business; but com-
bined with his commercial instinct is
the soul of an artist. I was comment-
ing upon the number of new farm
buildings that had been erected, or
were in the course of construction as
11•0 drove along when my friend inter
-
1•upted with:
"Yes, you're right; there has been
wondorfu; etimulus in building of
ate due to the general prosperity
mong the farmers. But there le one
Icing you'll see lacking ,in nearly
very instance, --there's no good taste
xbileited in the color scheme of the
buildings, Take fel. instance, the
arm we are passing :tow: The barn
s a bright orange, the garage fa
muted green, and the 'house is a
irty brown,
"Now, it is ;lust ns cavy, tnl e."
dmfs as cheap, to have one g e .et:til
o1or scheme for all the build ns on
teltfarm. It gives on ttpr deduce•
f unity, and identifies' 101 the bnild-
rgs as belonging to spelt particulate
arm. And this help; wonderfully in
to selling; of the farm.
i
"t
.tlrpuse " he vont on, •fern taking
prospect out to look over as farm:
.0 soon es the property appcatr,e in
le hen practicable, we take the mane a
My trailer was made out of an old-, are from the poultry house and store
fashioned surrey. It was worn very, it in a tight contained• just outside the a
little, and stands up under any week building before .11:is mixed into a for- t
like a new rig, I shortened the polo tibiae% Or, when the poultry ]louses e
to six feet, and had my blacksmith; aro cleaned out, the litter is placed in o
make a coupling for the end, and an-; the manure spreader, tr which is
other one that fits aroma] the rear added etlfout 300 pounds of acid phos- .e
axle of the light car which pulls it. I Pilate to a load of the manure. This i
The surrey didn't rest me anything, combination, we think, makes a m,ix-
anti the blacksmiths work (est file tare equal to a high-grade fertilizer, e
cents, When I Load n pig, I place and we use it to sprinkle lightly over
the lender on the rear of the trailer, meadows or crops requiring heavy t
en which 1 bare a hog box, and we' fertilization of valuable food elements, e
are noon 011 Dur way. We find that in growing rape for e.
l drive about 18 miles an hour, but swine forage, if eve sprinkle immure t.,
take the cornets pretty slow. It does at the rate of about four torts to the
not Neem to require touch extes power.
Of course, a trailer with rubber
tires, hampers, and so on would be
still better; hit this serves vele web,
o. .t.
and will keit!) u r n ••
t until 1 t
going am
ready to buy a truck, or a better t
trnilcr built rspriially :for the work,
1
erre over the. soil after the seed is
,•ow•n, it gives tlto rape a quick Marto el
:cud -Hakes it pro,lur e a very luxuriant
forage. The fertilizer, innila
fernt.
e
'
,octants at high amount of available A
food for plant+, and should only be
met rhdefly an crops that will sup.
port and rretptire heavy fertilization.
£ho effect+ of the 11•eattnrnt is ;teen
car several your; nfterc:are urs the
sue serol crops,
].ifs' of a ketol ';'reek,
i, ,
1 inetor Irerk of vn worst a, r
lith tt ,t .; .
•t,u d ,
rt
].cold he geve 1
a 1.;-),;, or the elites, sluuil,l rue. - la
1ue (100 tn,lee ; oin" treeee b.r c
111311n 1001105 than thee retell scull
eosinto iudicaie goo.l atoning �undi-
io11a 4111d O'eccllr 1 came One :chefld
lxpe0t a Certain amount of repairs,
ilei these repairs should be 1/1101003
ort
tas apparent Went is sec:t., in
Ws way only is it possible to get the
naxitnt,m service front it vehicle,
siglat he is at once strurle be the --
her and neatness of the buildings. It
is the first impression, and it re.
matins -with Min lifter test nrrive upon
the ground. Mid the buildings been
of various colors, they would not have
ppt dal to hien at onto as forming
ie lags' group; stud Owen after reach.
g ten I.lace, there would be 10) die -
lel imp'ressioe coin r see of at ater.4o
Huber of buildings,"
1:0 60 hnndh'nf' tu
g of tare stuff get 1
t away to market donate the rush
0133011,What do you think of a store that has
correspondent in every village and
Vt., 31131 141 as you min. in
How al.eut :some cow t and hens? th
Cbiele, is are jast nee the met of
US. 11 11u y don't Mae to work, they
won't. Inet ad of ihrowing their
grain on a here fitoo, seater it
through light eleee litter end let thrm be
get dome neigh, w ea. ,e for he 11
The sire tan make ser bteelt the
rd. Soul the serails te 'Ile ',miseries