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Farm ard Garden PROPER CARE OF EGGS. Mistake to Hold Them For Higher Prices Says Philadelphia Writer. Where can the Illume !*• properly placed fit tile presence of had eggs In the maikets? What are the causes? The Kansas State Agricultural college piures the hlame, at least In part with the farmer for the following two reasons: First some few farmers de liberately lake eggs to market which they know are not fresh because they reason that the merchant Is compelled to take them or lose their trade; sec ond and by far the greatest reason. Is because of ignorance on the part of the farmer as to how to sell eggs, says n writer In the I’hiladetphia Record. It is indeed a bad practice to trade off the eggs at the village store. Some merchants even offer 2 cents a dozen more for eggs sold for trade than they do those sold for cash. The price of goods is raised to meet the defi ciency in the profit from the eggs. The farmer makes almost nothing by the competition. As these merchants take the eggs as they come, it Is an incentive for some . ■ - .Hill:- d-Lw A ' ■ •..-,»rj. ..yy TRAP NEST IN OPERATION farmers to make an extra effort to supply the merchants with all the eggs they can get, and all the weeds, or chards. barn lofts, etc., are forced to give up their sometimes rather ancient supply of eggs. When the clean, fresh eggs are gath ered they must be kept In a c!eau, dry, cool place until marketed Good egg cases in such a place, kept up off the Moor, make excelleut receptacles for keeping eggs. Holding eggs for better prices might look like a shrewd business move, but It is not. There is nothing that counts so strongly In a man's sucuess as repu tation. and the farmer upon whom great confidence is placed for market ing nothing but prime slock is the man that Is sure to win out. During hot weather eggs stale very quickly. Therefore It is advisable to collect several times n day. lu fact, that rule is enforced the entire year on the farm of the writer—in winter to prevent their being chilled or crack ed, in summer to avoid their being staled by heat. The life of a fresh egg is generally computed at three days. Therefore to guarantee freshness they should be marketed two or three times a week. Grading eggs according to size and color, endeavoring to have uniformity 3ti each shipment, is a good business move, especially when a retail trade is being supplied If before marketing the farmer will rnndle his eggs he will not only feel doubly sure of their condition, but he can safely guarantee them. An egg tester can be purchased at any poultry '' “ CAPON READY FOR MARKET. supply bouse for about 35 ceuts. This 'will Bt over au ordinary house lamp. With this tester in a dark room the eggs can be easily candleu. An absolutely fresh egg when held up before the egg caudle should be Very clear and only the dim outline of the yolk be visible. There should be mo air cell visible. Any other than that is not absolutely fresh. At the large end a clear space known as the air cell becomes larger as the egg grows older, caused by the evapora tion of the water content of the egg ijf a dark spot is noticed it is either a rot or a developing germ. A red blood ring is caused lay a dead germ. Whiter Streaks in the shell Show that it is cracked. Thus eggs may be graded 4>y caudliug into fresh, stale, cracked mud rotten classes. Instead of letting the hens run around anywhere in the weeds and lay tlielr egirs. the farmer should pro vide proper nests for them. The trap nest Is an excelleut idea, and when Mrs. Hen gets used to This kind she will have no other. This care would Improve the quality of the eggs, be cause the “outlay.” so to speak, would always be discovered early. Another source of profit which too many farm [>eople ignore Is the pre paring of capons for the market Geld ing a male chicken always Improves dls fie<h for the table, and it Is well to put caponlzed fowls In a pen by themselves for fattening IRRIGATION IN WINTER. Result* Verv Satisfactory Where Tried In Western States. When water is applied either to bare oi; or to crops outside tne regular irri -■:stien season it is termed winter Irri tation. The practice tints far lias been • ■Mined largely to the warmer parts l ilie arid region It nas become well •stnbiislied hi Arizona and California art is being quite rapidly extended . | ans of Oregon. Kansas and the lucky mountain slates experience has shown that a deep •• tentive soil Is capable of storing a irge quantity of water. On account f the fluctuation ot western streams of ;l kinds, from the small creek to Ihe 11 ge river, the greatest foyv of water ■fteii comes at a season when there Is •asl demand for it. In a few loeall ies adequate storage facilities have asm provided to retain the surplus, at as a rule it is allowed to go to vaste. Tlie passage of so much waste ,ater led to tile introduction of winter rrigation. and In nearly every case ae results have been satisfactory, i he chief differences between winter ir.tl ordinary irrigations are the larger column* used, the crude manner ot '•onveyliig and applying the water and lie dormant or partially dormant e«n lit ion of the plants at the time of ir rigation. In Fresno county. Cal., water Is turned Into the canals in .innunry and February. The large canals of the iodesto and Turlock districts run nore than hnlf a head during tile Int cr luilf of February. This Is the rainy period in both these localities. ; and the soil is usually too wet for plant growth, hut water is applied to alfalfa fields to fill up the subsoil so i as to provide a surplus for the rain , less summer when water Is scarce. Resides furnishing a supply of much j needed moisture, winter Irrigation when conditions are favorable, pre vents winter killing and improves the mechanical condition of the soil. UNIQUE WINTER PLOWING. Snow Plowed Under It Said to Be “the Poor Men’s Manure." Most farmers unhitch and turn lu when snow begius to fall, but here we have a picture of a Vermont man who finished his fall plowing after the ground was well covered with the whiteness. Snow has been called the poor man’s [ manure because it washes from the ; atmosphere as it falls some nitrogen J In the form of nitrate of ammonia and | sometimes nitric acid. The atmos- ] phere contains varying amounts of j these substances, but in very minute quantities. Just after au electrical j PLOWING SNOW IN VERMONT. storm the quantity is increased, as the electricity converts some of the free nitrogen of the atmosphere into these available forms. There are more ui trates and ammonia salts in the at mosphere near cities than in the coun try, as these substances are found in the escaping smoke of factories. Rains and fogs and even bail wash the atmosphere of nitric acid and am monia salts. After a dry spell a heavy shower will contain sometimes com paratively large quantities of these substances, and a late snow in the spring of the year, when the weather has been previously dry, will contain probably a larger quantity than even a rain, for the reason that the snow is more finely divided than the rain drops and washes the atmosphere more completely. There are annually brought down in rains, snows and dews about nine to ten pounds of nitrogen available for plant food to the acre. This, if bought in the form of commercial fertilizers, would cost, say, $1.75. I assume, therefore, says M. A. Scovell of the Kentucky experiment station, that Is why snow is called the poor man’s manure, as it at least assists in bring ing this much available nitrogen to the soil. Some Bad Farm Conditions. Two hundred dairy farms in a dozen states were investigated and inspected tnd rated according to modern stand ards of dairy sanitation. __Out of the 2Cr places Inspected The highest scor ing dairy was entitled to 99. S points out of the possible 100. The lowest scoring dairy was entitled to only 9.58 points The average score of the 200 inspected was 3004 out of the possible 100 (Htinis. Some of the stables were found to be badly ventilated, badly built and too small for rbe number of cows kept. An examination of the milk palls and the strainers used on these 200 farms made clear tile fact that these things are often not so clean as they might he and as clean as people using them Imagine Traces of old milk were found in many seams and covers, and In only fifty-eight places 'ould all the milk utensils be pronounced super ficially clean- thar is. thoroughly wash cd and scalded and given a full score for lhat condition. Milk coolers were found In use on forty-eight farms. Not over ten thermometers were found in use on the 200 farms, and in at least 10T. Instances positive knowledge re garding the temperature of the milk could not be obtained except by the use of the investigator's own thermom eter. CUCUMBER CLAIMS. How Our Alaskan Citizen* Stake Out a Salad. A encumber does not stand much show on the Seward peninsula, Alaska, according to ileury M. Hoyt, ex-dis trict attorney at Nome, who amused the house committee on territories at Washington the other day by describ ing the agricultural possibilities of the far northwest. Mr. Iloyt gave the committee his views on a bill provid ing for a legislative council for Alaska, but branched off upon the subject of vegetables. “You can grow cucumbers and let tiro upon the Seward peninsula,’’ he said, “by planting dose to the steam exhaust of an elet trie light house When a cucumber vine shows signs of fructifying a fellow may take a visit ing card, tie It to the vine and tlnt - stake a claim upon the cucumber. When the encumber grows lip It is the property of the claim holder.” “How about fruit? You can grow thnt, can’t you?” asked Chairman Hamilton. "It will have to be hardy fruit with the thermometer 80 below sometimes." responded Mr. Hoyt. The witness said he knew nothing about the agricultural conditions in the interior, which were painted in glow lug colors by Delegate Wickershnin of Alaska. Mr. Hoyt, who is now attorney gen eral for I'orto Rico, told the committee that the character of the flouting pop illation of Alaska made inadvisable an elective legislature. He recommended the appointment of its members by the president, saying that the people of Alaska were too widely separated to get together on local needs and elec tions. A legislature in part elected and In part appointed, he said, also would bring trouble, us [Kilty jealousies would crop out constantly. “FRET NOT THY GIZZARD.” That’s How Dr. Pearsons Has Lived Happily to Be Ninety. Dr. D. K. Rearsons' ninetieth birth day was celebrated quietly at bis Hinsdale home near Chicago the other day. "it might as well have been my fortieth," said the philanthropist when asked how he felt. ”1 never felt bet ter in my life. How do I do it? Well, ever since I was a young man I have followed out a plan of life that I think Is the best if you want to be happy. “There’s a well known German mot to which says, ’Meusch, aergere dieli nlcht.’ Literally translated it means ‘Man, do not fret.’ I make it ‘Fret not thy gizzard.’ Be contented. Make those around you happy and you will be happy as a matter of course. Ev ery man should marry young and be contented. “Mrs. Pearsons, who died four years ago, married me when I was twenty seven years old. We lived together fifty-nine years, and I can say truth fully that during all that time 1 never had opportunity or occasion to fret. “Young men should remember to ex ercise a lot. Automobiles and horses are useful in their way, but your own feet will prove your best friends if you walk them around enough. I never fail to take my daily walks. Also I believe In the early to bed, early to rise adage. Go to bed at 7 p. m. If possible and get up at the same hour next day earlier If you want to, but never later.” Dr. Pearsons said that he had no further gifts to announce to his forty seven children, as he terms the col leges In twenty-four states which he has assisted by gifts of money. Rattled. He—l trust you have forgiven me for not recalling your name the other evening, although I remembered your face perfectly. She—Oh, yes; but my name Is such a plain one I should think you would have remembered it quite as readily. lie—Not at all. Your name isn’t half as plain as—er—beg pardon;your face Is ; mueh more aristocratic than your—l mean to say that your name Is harder than— FISHING! We Fish for YOUR Business by using as Bait Guaranteed Drugs and Prices! Honesty and Politeness! Come to See Us. TAYLOR& KENNiNGTON. BANG! BANG! BANG! The First Shot only Makes the Game take Notice. 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