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THE KITCHEN GARDEN.
the boiled cob at “roasting ear** stage.
And, among others, okra or gumbo
makes equally as good soup in win
ter as when fresh in summer. ♦
When It comes to canning and pre
serving, there is little real comparison
between the home canned product
and bought goods. It time is con
sidered as money, canned tomatoes
can be bought probably cheaper than
they can be grown and canned at
home. But how about the results?
If the farmer’s wife should go
through the ordinary canning estab
lishment she would probably conclude
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More Than Two Thirds of the Living
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If the farmer's wife could induce
her liege lord to contribute tae same
care, patience and labor next spring
to the kitchen garden which his
grandfather did during his day, there
would be perhaps a considerable gain
In the household’s economy as ■well as
much satisfaction developed for the
housewife. The old folks insist that
even with the greatly Increased vari
ety and excellence In fruits and vege
tables, due to many plant generations
A TALK WITH SECRETARY WILSON.
GUY ELLIOTT MITCHELL
Secretary Wilson, as the official
head of the great family of American
f&nRQQk **'*
able sat
which ht
Hon of the country.
“The harvests have been heavy,” he
said, “and the farmers will make
more money than in an average year.
The prices on farm products will bo i
lower, but the crops will bring the 1
farmers, nevertheless, more money. ;
Living should ho cheaper, too. The 1
hay and grain crops havo been enor- ;
send our hogs abroad and are eating
more mutton, veal and beef.”
“The present condition and the fu
ture outlook for the American farmer
Is a good one then, Mr. Secretary?”
“Yes, things certainly look well,
generally; yet I believe we are very
near -to a sort of agricultural crisis—
lmrdly a crisis perhaps, but an import
ant and radical change. The farm
hands everywhere are leaving the
farm for the factories. Wherever
there Is any manufacturing you will
iind this to be the ease.
The farmer has pretty nearly reach
ed his limit He is doing about all
he can do with his hands and with the
most Improved labor-saving farm ma
chinery worked by good horses. This
bad condition on the farm is going to
affect production and prices, and that
ry Wilson,
views w^U some- conslder-
sfactlon tne abundant crops
vo blessed almost every aec-
to do every speck of her own can-
Western
Wheat
Scenes.
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avoid setting on
fruit, artificially
ed with coal tar
1 degeneration of
garden, It la In-
Kirk’s
A Q\i©k.rter of
a. Century
of unfailing servica
of selection and breeding by the seeds-
men and scientists, too kitchen
garden on an average Is not no well
planted or tended, ha. lea. variety,
and on th<* whole la much Inferior
to tbo same Institution in the "good
AMERICAN CROWN
the farmer’s family, however large,
can be produced from a good garden,
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very shortly. It la Impossible to Bay Jast
what the effect will be, but n change
Is coming. The farmer must have la
bor, bat with the prices of form pro
ducts as they are now, he can not meet
tho wages offered by the factories;
therefore tho farm bands are gradually
shifting toward the centers—the towns
and tho cities.”
Mr. Wilson Not a Theorist.
“I would like, Mr. Secretary, to havo
a message from you to the American
farmer for tho coming year.”
“Oh, I can never discuss things in
an academic way,” remarked Mr. Wil
son, with a smile. "You will have to
affects tho cost of nctusl consumption.
A great deal goes to tho middleman;
too much, I believe. It is a long and
devious pathway from the farmer to
tho man who cats tho things which h»
lias grown. I gave out a statement
here the other day Intimating that tho
local Washington dealers were charg
ing In certain instances too mneb, and
n dealer came at me with a wrathy
assertion to tho effect that I did not
know what I was talking about and
tjiat bo mado a profit of only forty
per cent
Co-Operation In the South.
“I havo been watching tho Sonth
with a great deal of Interest,” con
tinued the Secretary. “Thoy havo ac
complished more In effecting an or
ganization down there to bring tbo cot
ton producer and consumer together
tluin 1ms been attempted with any
other of otir great agricultural produc
tions. The cotton crop IS a big ono
this year .though not by any means a
record breaker. The grass and hay
crop Is probably the biggest we havo
ever lmd; our corn crop Is probably a
record crop nnd our wheat crop Is one
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“That is the order of ImpOrianM Of
lould put cotton third In Inl
and thnt with thoroughly rich soil,
good seed, a well planned rotation of
garden crops and a medium amount
of hard work-a good wheel hoe will
reduce this lust expense—a very small
“re? will produce a very largo amount
Not only should the table be sup-
S lled from spring to late fall, but
irge stocks of staples sbonld be
nved for winter use. Of courts,
every farmer stores la his cellar po
tatoes, turnips, pumpkins and other
coarse crops, but there aro many
thoroughly rich soil,
>11 planned rotation of
ad a medium amount
portancc—grass, com, cotton, wheat;
though of course, our meat animals,
taken as a whole, are more Important
than any one. Why, tho poultry pro-
ducUon nlono Is worth 400 million dol
lars a year—ns great or greater than
tho valuo of the wheat crop. Wa will
undoubtedly export some very fine
hogs this year—choice com fed hogs.
Fork Is oar greatest meat export A
quarter of a billion dollars wonld
hardly cover our animals exported this
year. I fancy, probably amounting to
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"No, I can not do anything with these \ [i?
hypothetical cases of higher farm edu- 1L 1 ■
cation.” . I -
“WelU. then, 'what should a man do 11 I v
with tho manure which accumulates \\
on hit form?” \ i L
“ITo should pot It on his land,” ro- H|
E lled the Secretary, now thoroughly at
ome; ho should take It out on tbo Jg
land at once and not let It accumulate; S3
haul it ont and spread It on as fast as /r
It Is made. The ground will get the Ik
good of it,” II ■
“Won’t the ammonia evaporate and V\ ■§
the fertility be lost to the soil I” \ Bk
“No, It has been demonstrated by w Ik V''
careful experiments that the hauling O,
out of manure Is the best method. It 7
will go down into the grass roots. It t
will Dot lose the ammonia because am- Is
monla is produced by bacteria and \ — .
theie bacteria flourish only under three gKB
conditions, moisture, heat and oxygen. „ . , ■
There are three classes of bacteria dlate table use
which moat operate npon manure be* sun, they will
fore it la available for plant food. The winter a delict
ammonia bacteria attacks It first; it Is almost equal
then converted by other bacteria Into The same appll
nitrites, and, lastly, by still other bac- our gramlfathc
teria, Into nitrate, when the roots of | staple winter
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that time works wonderful changes.
'thrown into