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6 NEWS AND VIEWS FOR THE PROGRESSIVE FARMER v Every Farm Should Have A Small Home Orchard; Dr. A. M. Soule Tell How Have you a home orchard? If not, iwhat do you expect to do about it? |. Dietitians tell us that the acids -and mineral salts whict fruits con tain are essential to the welfare of ;the human body. These statements apply to both the young and the old. ; Undoubtedly, if we would reduce ‘the amount of meat in our daily ra tion and increase the consumption of fruit, we would be healthier and bet ter off in all respects; not because •fruit would supply us with so much cheaper food, but because we might derive from it more easily digested •and essential elements than we obtain -from a heavier meat diet, and in ad dition thereto, there would be much ysss likelihood of toxic poisons de veloping in the system. The orchard should constitute an important feature in associatoin with every farm home. Statistics show that the great majority of our farmers do not possess a satisfac tory orchard; hence, the family is , beinp’ denied an essential part of the dietary to which it is entitled. The communitj r in general suffers ' on account or the lack of an adequate . number of home orchards. Towns cities can not be supplied with • any surplus of fruits, and so we -continue to consume thirty-five per cent of meat in our daily diet; where as, this quantity should be reduced for health and efficiency’s sake to fifteen per cent. Orchard Not Costly An orchard .is not difficult to es tablish, nor should it be such a very costly undertaking. Even in these days of high prices from fifty to seventy-five dollars will purchase a sufficient number of trees to provide the family with all the different va rieties of fruit adapted to the par ticular section of the state in which ft resides. If this orchard is given proper ,care and attention, there will be a surplus for sale. This might very appropriately be given to the chil dren on the farm. Let the boys and girls care for the home orchard and be partners in the revenue obtained therefrom. This will stimulate their interest in horticulture; offer them a reward for the time and effort de voted to pruning, spraying and caring for the trees, and tend to mgke life in the open country more attractive to them. From any point of view, the farm er can make no better investment han in the establishment of an or chard. The area selected should or dinarily be about one acre in extent. It should be relatively high and well drained. The richer the land the better. The site selected should be free from grass and stubble and the ground should be turned this month if possible. Planting should be done as soon as the leaves fall. If the land is thin, rye or rye and hairy vetch may be planted on it as a e.over crop and turned under in the early spring. - The young trees may need some fertilizer in order to insure their growing off vigorously, but not much money need be expended in this di rection when the orchard is first set out. The orchard should be given good, clean cultivation and an at tempt should not be made to grow very much in the way of intertilled crops between the trees unless he land is very rich. Those who want to make a begin ning in the home orchard will find that if strawberries are set out this month;, they will become well estab lished before cold weather sets in, and one may count on a light yield the next spring. This crop will re spond to the enrichment of the land and to a heavy coating of yard ma nure before it is plowed. Things to Avoid ■ One reason why many of the or chards have failed is because the proper varieties were not selected, nor were they set out at the right time or the correct distance apart. A failure to prune has also resulted in many orchards proving unprofit able, and the farmer who is not will ing to spray or worm his trees can not hope for his investment in the -home orchard to prove a financial success. In Georgia we have three quite dis tinct soil and climatic areas. Horti culturists have given much consid eration to determining the adapt ability of various fruits to these areas. So much work has been done, along this line that safe recommen-’ Nations as to what ta select and plant can now be made for the guidance of he farmer. For the information of nr readers these lists as prepared d approved by the horticultural di ■iion of the State College of Agri iture are printed below. This constitutes expert and relia e advice. It has taken a great deal ’ money and effort to gather this together and collate it. .Any one who is interested in es . ablishing a home orchard in north, middle or south Georgia should study ;these recommendations very carefuly -and be governed largely thereby. Keep these i’sts in a convenient place as you will need to refer to them often n the near future. Expert Advice Varieties suitable for a one-acre home orchard in North Georgia; - Ist row: 3 apple and 3 pear trees: varieties: 2 Yellow Transparent and 2 Early Harvest apples; 1 Keiffer, 1 LeConte and 1 Seckel pear. Set 30 feet apart. 2d row: 7 apple trees. Varieties: A Kinnard, 2 Rabun, 2 Yates, and 1 Stayman. Set 30 feet apart. 3d row: 7 apple trees. Varieties: .2 Terry. 2 Yates, 2 Winter Queen and 1 Stayman. Set CO feet apart. 4th row: 12 peach trees. Varie ties; 4 Carmen. 4 Mayflower, and 4 Greens.boro. Set IS feet apart. sth row: 7 peach and 4 pecan trees. Varieties: 4 White English and 3 Hiley peaches; 4 Stewart pe cans. Set poach trees 18 feet apart and pecans 54 feet apart. 6th row: 12 peach t’-ees. Varie ties: 6 Elberta and 6 Georgia Belle. Set IS feet apart. 7th row: 4 plum, 4 cherry and 3 figs. Varieties: 2 Wiki Goose and Abundance plums; 2 Blackheart and 2 Early Richmond cherries; 3 Celes tial figs. Set 18 feet apart. Bth row: 22 grapes. Varieties: 8 Concord. 7 Delaware and 7 Dia mond. Set 10 feet Between rows and 8 1-2 feet in row. 9th row: 16 grapes. Varieties: 7 Niagara, set 10 by S 1-2 feet; 4 Scuppernong and 5 Thomas (musca dines), set 10 bq 16 feet. 10tb row: 1S blackberries and 15 dewberries. Varieties: 9 Early Har vest and 9 Erie blackberries, and 16 Lucretia dewberries. 11th and 12th rows: 500 strawber ries. Varieties: Aroma. Klondyke. Missionary and Lady Thompson. Set 5 feet between the rows and 18 inches in the row. Varieties suitable for a one-acre home orchard in middle Georgia: -Ist row: 3 pfear and 4 apple trees. Varieties: 1 Keiffer; 1 LeConte and 1 Seckel pears; 2 Yellow Transpar ent, 1 Horse, and 1 Early Harvest apples. Set 30 feet apart. 2nd row: 7 apple trees. Varieties: 1 Terry, 2 Wines&p and 3 Yates. Set 30 feet apart. •--3rd row: 7 figs and 4 Japanese .persimmons. Varieties: 4 Celestial and 3 Brown Turkey figs; 2 Hya kume and 2 Goshio persimmons. Set 18 feet apart. 4th row: 11 peaches. Varieties: 6 Mayflower and 5 Greensboro. Set 18 feet apart. sth row: 7 peach and 4 pecan trees. Varieties: 2 Stuart and 2 Schley pecans; 4 White English and 3 Hiley peaches. Beach trees set 18 feet apart and pecan trees 54 feet. 6th row: 11 peach trees. Varieties: 6 Carmen and 5 Hiley peaches. Set .18 feet apart. 7th row: 11 peach trees. Verities: 5 Georgia Belle and 6 Elberta. Set 18 feet apart. Bth row: 6 plum and 5 cherry trees. Varieties: 3 Wild Goose and 3 Abundance plums: 2 Blackheart and 3 Early Richmond cherries. Set 18 feet apart. 9th row: 22 grapes. Varieties: 7 THE ATLANTA TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL. Niagara, set 10 by 8 1-2 feet; 4 scuppernong and 5 Thomas (musca dine), set 10 by 16 feet. 11th row; I'B blackberries and 15 dewberries. Varieties: 9 Early Har vest and 9 Erie blackberries; 15 Lucretia dewberries. Set 10 by 6 feet. 12th and 13th rows: 500 straw berries. Varieties: Aroma, Lady Thompson, Klondyke and Mission ary. Varieties suitable for a one-acre home orchard in south Georgia. Ist row: 3 pear and 4 apple trees. Varieties: 1 Keiffer, 1 LeConte and 1 Seckel pears: 2 Horse and 2 Early Harvest apples. Set 30 feet apart. 3rd row: 7 figs and 4 Japanese persimmons. Varieties: 2 Celestial, 2 Lemon, 1 Green Ischie and 2 Brown Turkey figs; 2 Hyakume and 2 Goshio persimmons. Set 18 feet apart. 4th row: 11 peach trees. Varieties: 6 Carmen and 5 Hiley peaches. Set IS feet apart. ) sth row: 7 peach and 4 pecan trees. Varieties: 4 White English and 3 Hiley peaches; 2 Stuart and 2 Schley pecans. Set peach trees 18 feet apart and pecans 54 feet. 6th row: 11 peach trees. Varieties: 6 Carmen and > Hiley. Set 18 feet apart. 7th row: 11 peach trees. 5 Geor gia Belle and 6 Elberta. Set 18 feet apart. Bth row: 4 Kumquats and 4 Sat gumas, set 9 feet apart, 2 sweet and 1 purple seeded (Spanish Ruby) pomegranite, set 18 feet apart: 2 Chinese quinces, set- 18 feet apart, and 1 Abundance and 1 Wild Goose plum, set IS feet apart. 9th row: 22 grapes. Varieties: 8 Concord, 7 Delaware and 7 Diamond. Set 10 feet between rows and 8 1-2 feet apart in row. 10th row: 16 grapes. Varieties: 7 Niagara, set 10 by 8 1-2; 4 scup pernong and 5 Thomas (muscadine), set 10 by 16 feet. 11th row: 18 blackberries and 15 dewberries. Varieties: 9 Early Har vest and 9 Erie blackberries; 15 Lucretia dewberries. Set 10 by 6 feet. 12th and 13th rows: 500 straw berries. Varieties: Aroma, Lady Thompson, Klondyke and Mission ary. Handling a Strawberry Bed in Au’’ » tumn K. J., Byron, Ga., writes: I wish to know what to do with my strawberry bed. It is now cov ered with grass. Should the plants be taken up and reset? They have been in this place three years. Also, I would like to know how to get rid of moles and rats. They undermine my garden apd eat the roots off the vegetable*?. If your strawberry bed is over grown and matted with grass, it would be well for you to take up some of the young plants and set out a new bed. This would be good time of the year to do this work. The. sooner you transfer the plants, the better. Plant them out in rows about th*ree feet apart and set one plant every twelve inches in the drill. Only young plants should be set out. A strawberry bed should, as a rule, be renewed every three years. If you can enrich the bed with well rotted yard manure, it will be a great advantage. Top dresing the ground and spading the manure in would be good practice. Strawberries respond to liberal fertilization. We would put on commercial fertilizer only in the spring of the,- year. It should be put alongside the drill row and not too close to the plants. It is very difficult to destroy moles in a garden. My own plan has been to watch their burrows and go out early in the morning when they are likely to be at work, and kill them by 1 means of a fork. Traps can be used to some advantage. One can pull open the runways and fill them with cotton which has been saturated in carbon bisulphide. This material is inflammable, so you must never use it in association with light or when smoking. , Rats can best be destroyed by cleaning up the trash in or about your garden. They generally find hiding places under refuse which may be put in piles for the purpose of causing it to decay as rapidly as possible. A good dog will also help some in this direction. Probably the rats in question live in outbuildings and feed on the ma terials placed therein*. The best plan is to clean these buildings out and make them rat proof. The use of vaccine and other materials has only wroven fairly satisfactory, and where they have a chance to get out and roam about in gardens, would hardly prove effective. Seeding Hairy Vetch in Southwest Georgia J. B. G., Columbus, Ga., writes: I desire to plan vetch and oats together on sandy land. Should rhe vetch be inoculated and can I • secure the material from the col lege? I also have seventy acres which I wish to plant in Appier oats. Should they be inoculated? •In planting hairy vetch with oats we have not, as a rule, inoculated the seed. It has not seemed neces sary to do this in many localities. On land, however, where this crop has not been grown previously, inoc ulation may often prove to be desir ab’e. In your case, if you decide to inoc ulate, you can purchase the material needed from any large seed house. Most of the cultures on the market now are of good quality, hull direc tions to follow in using this material are sent with it. These should be very carefully and accurately carried out if one expects to gain material benefit from the use of inoculating material. The Georgia State College of Agriculture does not manufacture or handle inoculating material. Oats do not belong to the legumin ous family and inoculation would not be worth while as no benefits could come from the use of this material in association with non-»leguminous crops. We would, however, treat the oats with formaldehyde so as to min imize the damage which otherwise might be done. In using formaldehyde, proceed as follows: Take one pound of forma ]in, wnich is the trade name for a 4.0 per cent solution of formal« eh y de, and dilute with fifty gallons of water. Spread the oats on the floor or on a canvas and constantly shovel them over while the mass is being sprayed, or sprinkled, with the formalde hyde. The surface of every grain should be entirely covered with the solution. , The oats should be left in a pnt for two or three hours and then spread out to dry. Each bushel of grain requires the use of about one gallon of the solution. Be careful to see that the material used is of standard strength and is promptly and effectively applied. Otherwise, its application may prove Ineflective. Applying Limestone to Opening Clo ver A. B. C., Cornelia, Ga., writes: I have just bought a car of ground limestone. My young clo ver is just coming up. Will it hurt it to put on the lirrwrnow? I want another car and am pay ing $4.18 delivered. Is this too much? Will the college tell me about the quality if I send a sam ple? Ground limestqne may be applied to land at almost any season of the year. There is no objection to your putting it on now. We think it ad visable to wait until your clover has attained some size so as to avoid its being injured or damaged mate rially by driving over it with a wag on and team. Yon can. of course, apply lime stone by distributing it with shov els from a wagon hed, through the .agency of a manure spreader or a lime drill It should not be put out in piles on a clover field. Uniform distribution over the ground is also MAKING GAS FROM STRAW IS U, S. CHEMIST’S JOB HL w i ■ W III® • - ® - • WASHINGTON. —Straw gas is the latest. The bureau of chem istry of the department of agriculture is making experiments at the Arlington experiment station, near Washington, in its efforts to per fect a method of making gas and even gasoline from straw. The first process is baking the straw to get a carbon. Harry T. Roeths, in charge of the experiments, is shown in the picture placing straw in the oven. desirable. Harrowing it into the soil is not necessary though we always advise this practice provided young clover such as you describe is not al ready growing on the land. We presume you are paying about the same for the crushed limestone as it would cost you from any other source. We have not made a test of the material about which you in quire, but presume it to be of good grade. The company, no doubt, will furnish you with a guaranteed analy sis. I" the event you send a sample to the college at Athens, I will be glad to advise you as to the merits of this particular grade of limestone. It is generally considered advisable to have an article that runs high in carbonate of lime. Seeding Crimson Clover in the South W. T. P.., Eatonton, Ga., writes: I wish some advice in regard to planting crimson clover; also as to inoculation and best soil for same and amount of seed per acre? Crimson clover should be planted In Georgia during this month. The season is so dry now that it would hardly pay to sow it even if you had the ground in good condition. I think it would be better to wait until a good rain comes and until there is plenty of moisture in the land to in sure the rapid germination of the seed. The land intended for this crop should be put in the best possible condition before seeding is under taken It is desirable to lime it at the rate of one ton per acre. Crushed raw rock should prove very satisfactory for this purpose. It should be put on some days in advance of the intend ed date of seeding and harrowed into the soil. Any way will be satisfac tory which insures its general dis tribution over the land. Where crimson clover has never been sown before inoculation is somewhat desirable. We have had good results both with and without inoculation. Our experience inclines us to inoculate this crop, however, if undertaking its cultivation for the first time. You should have no trou ble in securing artificial cultures of high quality at very reasonable cost. Full directions for its use will ac company the inoculating material and you should fellow these out mi nutely. Crimson clover will do very well on any of our soil types in Georgia, provided they are in good phvsica) condition and contain a fairly liberal Unt T . of e i d , ily available plant food. It probably will do better on soils of the Tifton sandy loam type than on the heaviest clays In other words, It is a little hard er to establish possibly on our red tllan on a loamy type of soil hen once a good stand is obtained howeyer, excellent result® may be sdiV‘ C tyre^ d ° n any ° f ° Ur fading This is a crop valuable for the en richment of the soil if turned under as green manure and for the making of hay, provided dt is cut when just coming into bloom; otherwise the awns on the head's may become hard and cause boluses to > form "‘e, hard hav a The«P £ nima ’ s cons uming the na>. These have been known to kill amm.a’s. There is no danger how gestion r s° W T h S ’ nSr thS hay if Br Thi ’ !h e w| o „'’ t e "e C e??,'jl M ' ,on wllh a,,y ° f G-EOKGIA AS a SWEET STfiTE " w Pavenport. lowa, pri.es. Ate wish some informa the re f ard tO the extent of the use pl sweet potato houses in Georgia. Do most, of the £ a ’L me F s . - raise sw eet potatoes’ d * s the av erage yield per ,e • \v e are eonsidr-rincr the advisabfiity of marketing fabri cated buildings for storing sweet potatoes if there is a sufiieien* market for buildings of this na ture. There was approximately a sweet potato storage capacity in Georgia last year for one million bushels Our crop was 13,000,600 bushels in round numbers, it is thought that about two million bushels of stor age capacity will be completed this summer. Most of the houses are relatively large structures, caring for ;>,OOO bushels and upward. Sweet po tato storage houses can, of course, be built in units which can be added to almost indefinitely. Some houses have a capacity of 40,000 bushels and more. The majority of the sweet po tato storage houses built at this time are owned by co-operative or ganizations, corporations or individu als. Comparatively few have as yet been constructed and operated by in dividual farmers. Presumably, one could build a fabricated sweet potato | storage house as well, as almost any | other type of strucjrtrre. It is our opinion that a concrete structure heated by hot water from a central ly located heating plant will in the end prove the most effective and de sirable type to build. This type is, of course, to be preferred, as there will be no danger of fire associated therewith. There is need for a sweet potato storage house on almost ev ery farm. Practically every farm in Georgia raises some sweet potatoes. There were about 260,000 farms according to the last census. There will no doubt be more according to the cen sus recently taken. The great ma jority of our farmers are, of course, not engaged in raising sweet pota toes commercially. The yield of sweet potatoes is approximately 100 bushels per acre. Two to three hun dred bushels per acre is not an un common yield. The average yield is, of course, always much lower. They can be produced on a profitable basis in some sections of Georgia on good land wisely planted, cultivat ed and fertilized. THE CUX.T2VATIOW OB INDIGO HOT PBOPITABIiE F. R. M„ Macon, Ga., writes: We would appreciate any in formation you can give us con cerning the value and utilization of indigo weed. Indigo is the name of a class of plants 'noted for the blue coloring, matter derived from them. They are tall herbs of the pea family. The one chiefly used for the production of commercial indigo is Indigofera tinctoria. This species is a native of India And may grow to a height of five feet. The coloring matter occurs principally in the leaves and is most abundant in the plant at the time of flowering. Hence, harvesting should be done at this period. The coloring matter is a chemical substance known as indican. This plant has been extensively cultivated in India for a long time, the best quality coming from Bengal. ’lndigo planta tions have been established in Brazil, Central America and Mexico. This plant has been cultivated to some extefit in the south at various times. Its cultivation, however, has never proven to be commercially desirable. You will readily see that it has been produced in those parts of the world where labor is exceedingly cheap. As a money-producing crop it was never able to compete with cotton, tobacco and other food-producing crops ex tensively cultivated in the south. Now that dyes are made so largely from coal tar, the cultivation of the indigo plant has naturally declined very greatly. Tests Upset Belief That Charring Posts Preserves the Wood The old theory that charring the butts of fence posts and tehphone poles preserves the wood has been disproved by a re'-ie-: e:' it ■ cently conducted by the f irest prod ucts laboratory of the forest servi- e, United States department of agri culture, on fences with cl■ erred and untreated posts of varied species. The charred posts proved in these tests to be even less durable th . the untreated ones. Theoretically, an area of charred wood around a post should prevent decay, becau~e char<_O''l d< < -■ cay or encourage the growth of fungi. But the charred area around a post is not usually a solid cover ing. It is check d through in-many places. If posts are s:as ned before they are charred, the char t) 'does not reach to th ' bottom of the sea son cheeks which are always pres ent. If green unchecked posts are charred, checks wi ; ' pen through the chared part as the wood seasons. 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Kansas § OIL EFFECTIVE IN REMEDYING SANDY HIGHWAYS Shifting sand dunes which cover i up a highway soon after it is com- I pleted have formed a serious ob : Stacie to improve road building in some parts of the country, particu- I larly in the northwest. To remedy the evil, the bureau of public roads I of the United States department of agriculture has a more extensive application of the”agency that lias been used in the past to lay dust on ordinary highways—oil. Fifty-three miles of construction I of the Columbia River highway from ; The Dalles eastward lies through sandy country, in many places of a volcanic ash as light as flour. - As fast as cuts are opened up and fills made in this light soil the wind whips out the fill slopes and sand dunes creep into rock cuts complete ly blocking the road. Oil is the only agency yet found to stop the trouble. The equipment used to spray the crude oil consists of- two supply tanks, or drums, in w.hich the oil i s carried from the storage tank at the railway siding, and a tractor, which draws the oiling rig and sup plies the steam through a hose to ■ the compressor tank, which is car ried on a trailer. The oil is heat ed by the steam and forced through a hose v/ith a nozzle consisting of a half-inch pipe. The steam atomizes the oil and sends it in a fine spray for 100 feet or more, depending oik whether the spray is projected in the direction of.the wind or against it. For obvious*reasons, spraying is usually carried on in the direction of the wind. Where sufficient oil is used, this means of controlling the sand dunes is very effective, and it is believed that the cost will not be excessive, though exact figures are not obtain | able at this time. Farm Paoer Declares Jersey Breeders Day Dawns in Tennessee The breeders of good dairy cattle, especially the breeders of 'Jerseys, have the opportunity of a lifetime right now in Tennessee. The increas ing number of co-operative cream enes, the numerous new cream-buy ing stations, the unsatisfied demand for good dairy products, the present low prices of beef cattle, all combine to make the farmer turn his thoughts dairyward. Os course, it is not every farmer who can handle dairy cows profitably, but on thousands of farms tn this section small herds of high producing cows offer the farmer one of the best chanceshe can hope to have to add to his income. This should be a great dairy section. It is fast becoming so. Without dis counting the good qualities of any other bunch of dairy cattle, the Jer sey remains the most economical pro ducer of butter-fat; and it is butter fat that the farmer who sells cream wishes to produce. Tennessee, too, is essentially a Jersey steta. Tennes nessee Jerseys are just as good to day as they ever were. There should be more of them, and there ought to be a steady stream of the best Jersey blood going out from the great herds of this state to the farms on which butter production wi’l be the chief end of the cattle-breeding operations. Some farms are suited to beef cat tle and not to dairy cattle; some farms need, most of all, cattle of the general-purpose type: but on an in creasing number of farms the da’ry cows is the thing. Only good dairy cows are worth keeping, and such cm be had now at very reasonable prices. The opportunity is open for both b’-eeders anti farmers.—Southern Ag riculturist. Bankers and Farmers Have Cattle Exchange That Brings Results Co-operation between bankers and farmers in the acquirement and dis tribution of high-class animal and plant stock is helping to promote a prosperous condition in Wisconsin, the United States department of ag riculture is advised. The Banker-Farmer Exchange con ducted 'under the auspices of the Wisconsin Bankers’ association list ed 2,131 head of cattle, valued at $281,000, during its first year of operation, and obtained inquiries for 1,698 head. The exchange has its headquar ters at Madison, the state capital. A commission of 5 per cent, paid by the seller, is charged on all sales made through listings to cover ex penses, but no charge is made on sales outside the listings. When a farmer lists live stock for sale he signs a statement on the listing blank that the animals are healthy and sound, except when otherwise stated, and that the cattle have been or will be tested for tuber culosis. Male animals to be used for breeding purposes must be pure bred. With every transaction, two banks are concerned, and if there is any dissatisfaction, both banks know it. A breeder can not afford to risk his standing with his bank by misrep resenting his product. Should he ; attempt it. he loses the privilege of i the service. The farmers are fast becoming acquainted with the ex change and are forming the habit of reporting their wants to the local banks. For Better Stock A flock of 20,000 poultry, all Sin- Comb White Leghorns and all ’anda’d bred, is one of the largest *o be enrolled in the “Better Sires— Better Stock” campaign conducted by the United States department of agriculture and co-operating agen cies to improve the average quality ! if domestic animals and fowls in the United States. This flock, in King county, Wash., ranks among the larg- I egt and, best utility flocks in the country. The owner also reported a herd of 173 Holstein cattle and twen v-one Duroo-Jersey sw’ne RIFLE ML STEEL,/ we .UGAZINE./ TO »OYS ze ChoiceofAixGen, (on four Pions) for Kilins our Mi rjFLE/X Sic Hojlins F?.EE/v ,25c Box. 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Be Stored in Dry When laid by, say the implement experts, the plow should, if possible, be stored in a dry place, away from fej 4# AtW sfesa ■■ A WWI & «■’" ■ s 1 v. Leaving Implements to the Mercy t of Weather Costs Money. contact with the ground. In any case, the bright parts should always be coated with grease to prevent rust. Once the mold board and share have become pitted with rust, an efficient job of plowing cannot be done until the corroded parts again have acquired a polish by use. The United States department of agriculture, of course, does not stop with the plow in its admonition in this regard. Harrows, also relatively simple but tremendously important implements, are, n?.4t to plows, most generally neglected. Many farmers who would not neglect an expensive harvesting machine, say the experts, are careless as to harrows and other implements of this type. But these, also, represent capital invested, and a larger return is possible if they are properly cared for at the end of the season. If harrows are stored urder a shed, the teeth should be supported by blocks or boards, so that they will not become embedded in the ground. All accumulations of earth and U’ash should be removed. This is especial ly applicable to wooden-framed har rows. The earthy accumulations re tain moisture and accelerate decay. When the wooden parts have dried out sufficiently they should be paint ed, to prevent season checking and splitting. As the harrow works in wet earth and close to the ground, deterioration is rapid once checking has started. If the disk harrow is stored in a shed or other* floorless building, the disk gangs should be run upon boards so the disks will not become embed ded in the ground. 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Get the Mower Under Shelter Mowers, more generally than plows and harrows, are put under shelter, but many of them spend the winter at the edge of the meadow where the last cutting of hay was made, and in most cases they are not properly greased, even when sheltered. Get the mower under shelter if possible. In any case, clean the knife bar, wipe it with a greasy rag, and store in a dry place. Place a block of wood or other support under the mid-point of the tongue, so that it will not ac- quire a permanent sag. If the mower is stored with the cutter bar in a vertical position, place a block of wood under the shoe to take the weight off the frame. All accumu lations of vegetable matter and dirt should be removed and all bearings and other bright parts of the machine oiled or greased. Much the same rules ajiply to reapers and binders. The time to care for each imple ment is when its work is finished Pressure of other work, ho ( wever, fre quently makes this inconvenient, but nothing should be allowed to inter fere with getting all machinery greased, and, if possible, under cover before the beginning of winter. Then, as early in the winter as you can find time for it, go over every piece and see what repairs are needed. If new parts have to be ordered', order them at once. A great deal of val uable time is lost every spring wait ing for repair parts to arrive frqjn the city. The best possible use should be made of such housing space as is available, and grease and paint should be used without stint. ■ Any farm implement with bearings and bright parts well protected with heavy grease is better off out in the weather than standing in a shed without any protection by grease or oil. 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