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Spacing Influence
on Crop of Corn
Experiments of Particular
Interest in Sections Where
Two Types Are Grown.
IPrepared by the United State? Department
of Agriculture.)
Experiments to determine the In
fluence t>f space between hills of corn
on the yield per plant and per acre
have been conducted for several years
by the United States Department of
Agriculture, and the results published
In Department Bulletin 1157, now
ready for distribution. The results
are of particular interest to those por
tions of the United States where both
the single-ear and prolific types of corn
are more or less commonly grown.
Two Varieties Described.
The single-ear type is described as
having resulted from continuous selec
tion toward one large ear per stalk, al
though under favorable conditions two
well-developed ears may be produced.
As contrasted with the single-ear type,
the prolific Is distinguished by the
normal production of more than one
ear per stalk. The ears usually are
smaller.
As both types are grown extensively, It
Is of agronomic interest to know which
yields more efficiently under ordinary
field conditions where the production
of the plants is likely to be Influ
enced by irregularity of stand and by
the Inequalities of germination, soil,
and growing conditions. The purpose
of the present Investigation was to
study the reaction of these types un
der conditions that provided a wide
range in the environment, obtained In
this case by altering the spacing of the
plants.
Prolific More Productive.
In these experiments the prolific type
was more productive than the single
ear type. It also was more efficient
in increasing the yi£ld per plant and
In increasing the number of ears per
plant. While the single-ear type was
more efficient in Increasing the weight
of the ear, the prolific type produced a
larger yield per acre because increas
ing the number of ears was more effec
tive than increasing the weight of the
Individual ears.
The experiments indicate that In
sections to which both types are adapt
ed In general the prolific will be the
more productive under conditions of
general field culture because of its bet
ter adjustment to varying conditions.
- Those interested in this bulletin may
secure It free of charge by writing to
the United States Department of Ag
riculture, Washington. D. C.
Feeding Pigs Skim Milk
Makes Them Gain Faster
The animal husbandry department
of the New Jersey agricultural ex
periment station recently conducted a
feeding trial with skim milk for mar
ket pigs. Two lots of ten pigs each
were used. The pigs were of sim
ilar age, weight and breeding at the
outset. Lot No. 1 received shelled
com. wheaf middlings, and digested
tankage. Lot No. 2 received the same
feeds, plus 50 pounds of skim milk
per day. A self-feeder supplied the
grain rations for both lots. The in
crease in gains made by the skim
milk lot over the cost of the grain
justified the feeding of five pounds of
skim milk per pig at a cost of
53 cents per hundred pounds for
the milk. Furthermore, the pigs grew
much faster and were ready for
the market at a much earlier date.
The skim milk should be pastuer
ized, if from tubercular cows, as pigs
at this age are highly susceptible to
the disease. There is practically no
difference between feeding the milk
sweet or sour, so long as one method
is adhered to regularly.
Steer Needs Much Feed.
To put on fat. a steer must eat large
quantities of feed. To induce him to
do this, make your feeds palatable.
Goose Eggs Scarce.
Goose eggs are hard to get. Not
many years ago they sold at 25 cents
each or less, and last year during the
laying season they sold from 40 to
60 cents each.
Watering Garden Plants.
In watering such plants as beans
and tomatoes it is a good plan to allow
the water to run slowly and keep pull
ing the hose along the row as tbe soil
becomes thoroughly soaked.
Poor Horse Management.
The lagging step, dull eye, and
rough coat tell better than words the
lack of judgment in feeding and man
agement of the work horse.
Hard to Beat Corn.
It is very bard to beat corn alone for
the fattening of cattle on good blue
grass, even when oil meal Is selling far
cheaper than it Is now.
Avoid Too Heavy Feeeding.
Too heavy feeding hns a tendency to
upset the sow’s digestion and cause
weak or dead pigs at birth.
Grade or Scrub Bulls
Used in This Country
Low Average Milk Produc
tion Per Cow Is Result.
(Prepared by the United States Department
of Agriculture.)
Seventy-five per cent of the dairy
bulls in use in the United States are
either grades or scrubs. They are
bulls from ancestry that has not been
bred generation after generation for
large and economical production of
milk and butterfat. This fact, says the
United States Department of Agricul
ture, accounts for the low average pro
duction per cow in this country.
In 1921, there were less than 80,000
purebred bull calves registered by the
breed associations. But this probably
does not represent half the purebred
bulls born in 1921. The 80,000 or more
that were not registered, were probably
slaughtered because their breeders
were not able to market them profit
ably. This is because the average
farmer is not yet convinced of the ad
vantages to be derived from the use of
purebred sires. If every purebred buil
calf born in this country were raised, it
would take a three or four years’ crop
of calves to replace the grade and
scrub bulls (numbering approximately
00,000) that are being used in dairy
herds. When it is considered that not
all purebred calves are worthy of be
ing used, even on grade herds, and
allowance is made for the normal
death rate and other factors that enter
to cut down tlie number of purebred
bulls raised, the above estimate of
three or four years could safely be in
creased to five or six years as the time
that would be required to replace the
scrub bulls.
Only 3 per cent of our dairy cattle
are purebred, and the supply of pure
bred bulls would be wholly inadequate
if the farmers of the country could
only appreciate the benefit it would
be to them to head their producing
herds with pi ebred sires of good pro
ducing strains.
Use of Acid Phosphate
Does Not Injure Soil
Not infrequently the fear is ex
pressed that the continued use of acid
phosphate on land will increase the
sourness of the soil. Experimental
evidence, however, shows that this
fear is unfounded. In fact, there is
evidence to show that it has a slight
tendency to reduce the acidity. A
number of experiments have been
conducted in which heavy applications
of acid phosphate were made on cer
tain plots for a long period of years.
The results show that these plots are
not as sour as plots receiving no treat
ment.
The term “acid phosphate” is pri
marily a trade name; derived from
the fact that it is made by treating
raw phosphate with sulphuric acid.
This name has been largely respon
sible for the erroneous opinion. There
Is nothing in the material which will
injure the soil. Its use may confidently
be expected to produce entirely bene
ficial results.
Milk Is Valuable Feed
to Keep Chicks Healthy
Milk is a valuable feed for young
chicks, as it not only stimulates the
many forces requircu norma!
growth but aids in the prevention of
diseases. Sour milk or buttermilk Jn
many cases actually proves a remedy
for coccldiosis, the most dreaded of
all chick diseases.
As long as the chicks can be kept
growing rapidly <hey are less suscep
tible to disease of any kind, but es
pecially to coccldiosis and it is largely
on account o’ its aid in warding off
this disease that many poultry raisers
have come to consider milk as being
essential for chicks during the first
eight weeks.
Concentrates Necessary
to Insure Thrifty Sows
The amount of concentrate neces
sary to insure a thrifty sow and a
thrifty litter is small. And only In
rare cases will it be necessary to buy
supplements. On dairy farms no bet
ter protein feed can be given than the
skim milk. If milk is not available,
alfalfa, clover, soy bean or cowpea hay
will be satisfactory. This hay should
be fed in low racks and may be placed
In the lots to be consumed at will.
Cause of Chick Loss.
Diarrhea, which often causes heavy
losses in chicks, may be caused by
allowing the little, chicks to eat feed
that has accumulated on the ground,
feeding floors or in hoppers where it
becomes moist and moldy or sour.
Kill Unworthy Chicks.
Kill on sight and destroy any
chicks that are weak, unthrifty or
show signs of “pasting up behind.”
Cull Out Weak Ewes.
Cull out the weak and unthrifty
ewes Just after shearing.
HENRY COUNTY WEEKLY, McDONOI’GH, GEORGIA.
Good Progress on Roads
Seen During 1923 Season
(Prepared by the United Statea Department
of AcricaHura-)
The 1923 road-construction season
opens with the prospect that there will
be about the same amount of road con
struction as last year, which was a
very satisfactory one, according to the
bureau of public roads. United States
Department of Agriculture.
""Returns from 21 scattered states
show that in these states there will be
available $288,000,000 for road work
as compared with $273,0000,000 spent
in the same states last year. On fed
eral-aid work, which constitutes some
thing like half of the total construc
tion, there was under construction on
March 31 work estimated to cost $258,-
000,000 as compared with $233,000,000
12 months previous.
Wages of labor are generally slight
ly higher than a year ago, with the
exception of the Pacific coast, where
the same rate prevails. The greatest
increase is in New England, where the
present level is approximately 30 per
cent higher than the level of a year
ago.
The general outlook is considerably
better than one year ago, when the
railroad and coal strike loomed as dis
turbing factors. Added to this is the
fact that the designation of the sys
tem of federal-aid highways is now
completed in 33 states and practically
complete in most of> the others. With
a definite program for accomplishment
laid out road work can proceed much
more smoothly.
Front latest reports It appears that
30 states now tax gasoline as compared
with four states at the beginning of
1921. Most of the revenue derived
goes for road purposes, and bureau
officials regard this as a step in the
right direction. With road users paying
a more equitable share of the cost, high
way finance is placed upon u firmer
foundation.
Maintaining Good Roads
Is Most Important Task
It is axiomatic with householders
that “keeping up the house is the
truest economy.” And so most of us
watch for signs of decay about our
premises, and we putty and paint and
repair, to guard against the heavy ex
penses that would be the certain pen
alty of serious neglect.
But when it comes to municipal
what is our practice?
Usually* long periods of positively
wanton neglect. This is especially
true of our roads, which are an im
portant part of our municipal prem
ises.
We build our macadam streets,
bolster them up with a good founda
tion, surface them with the best ma
terial at hand, roll them, view the
finished job with satisfaction and then,
like a slovenly home owner, pay no
further attention to them until they
have fallen into such a disreputable
state that the steam roller must come
with its plows, tear them to pieces and
begin a work of complete reconstruc-
Hnn
Practically all of the nations of Eu
rope have long ago learned the econ
omy of road maintenance. As you
traveled over the beautiful, hard
macadam roads of France you ob
serve, at intervals, small piles of
broken stone and gravel. And for
every dozen miles of road there is a
road patrol with his one-horse cart,
who labors incessantly at filling up tbe
little depressions, xnts and holes, with
his ever-ready supply of good material.
Once filled, the damaged spot is wet
down thoroughly and tamped, and the
road becomes again an integral whole.
The thrifty househcVfers of France
have thus carried into the housekeep
ing of their municipalities and prov
inces the economics which they prac
tice about their own hearthstones.
—DubuQtJe (la.) Times-Joumal.
Little System Is Used
in Dragging Highways
The trouble with most dragging it
that it is done with sc little system
and with so little perseverance. Roads
which are dragged after every rain
can be distinguished readily from
those which receive attention only
now and then through the season.
Still, the poorest job of dfagging will
Improve any road in which clay is
present in any large amount. In some
localities where the roads are grav
eled it is customary to run a drag
over them when wet. This, of course,
is not because of reasons similar to
those which govern the use of this
implement in the case of dirt roads,
but because the gravel responds more
readily to treatment when it is soft
than it does when it is dry. A smooth
er and more uniform effect Is produced
under such conditions.
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A Philippine Ensign.
Among the recent graduating class of
the United States Naval academy was
Jose E. Olivares, from the Philippine
Islands, the first native-born resident of
that country to receive his commission
as a full-fledged ensign in the navy.
He was born at Iloilo, P. 1., twenty
four years ago and received bis early
schooling at the College of Engineering
in the islands. He entered the Naval
academy in 1919 and managed to make
a creditable showing in his classes and
In athletics. —New Herald.
Unreasonable Request.
“Do look at your jammy mouth,” ex
claimed the nurse. “I can’t, Nnnna,”
replied the child. “My face is on it."
Meat
|M| of the Wheat
1 I I OTARCH is the “meat” of the wheat berry, ft
II I O>s the great energy-producing element of the
J/l // gram- Bui, in order to do you any good, it must
ill //f be thoroughly digested, and it is right here that
ml //\ such a food as Grape-Nuts renders special service.
U Jf & Grape-Nuts, made from wheat and malted barleg,
y/l I supplies the meat of the wheat in most digestible form.
/AM That * s b eca . use * n the making of Grape-Nuts
!l/A\//n a ar^ e P r °P° r tion of the starch is converted into
Iff y/\\ dextrins and maltose—forms into which all starch
v| /A\\ elements must be changed before they can be as
\jj\ similated by the system.
111 Y\ Grape-Nuts not only digests easily, but also
« a^S * n digestion of other foods.
I Vk _ Crisp, delicious Grape-Nuts with milk or cream
m \ *s a complete food. It supplies the life-essential
Wu » vitamin-B; also iron, phosphorus and other im
l|| portant mineral elements for nerve, tooth, bone
\\'\ and other body structure.
\ The daily use of Grape-Nuts is a form of health
U insurance which has demonstrated its value for
w more than 25 years.
Grape=Nuts
•*’ FOR HEALTH
“ there's a Reason*
Yoor grocer has interesting details of our offer of over $7500.00
for Grape-Nuts Recipes. Ask him about it; or write to Recipe
Dept., Postum Cereal Co., Inc., Battle Creek, Mich.
The Lure.
It w:ts at tlie Darktown IntenMy
Amalgamated Baseball league ope«&«R_
A batted ball went over the fence, ft*-
stantly all hands of both teams wad
for the fence and scrambled over after
the ball.
“Why,” asked a visitor, “why <lo aff'
the players go after that ball?”
“They ain’t goin’ after th’ ball ’*#•*-
cial, mister,” said the gatekeeper, fltot
they’s a watermelon patch on th’ ofitawr
side of that fence!” —Richmond Tlum-
Dlspatch.
To Be Exact
Judge—Have you ever been convinc
ed before?
Prisoner —No, always after.