RED CLOVER CAN INEXPENSIVE SHELTER SUITABLE if, colored by mefallic salts, the goede PURSUED BY GHOSTLY SHIP is a little jewel box containing amethysts. FOR BACK YARD POULTRY FLOCK Edgar Rice BmTooghs BE SOWN EARLY Tradition of Modern Flying Dutchman A beautiful statuette, eight Inches That Massachusetts Fishermen high, of a woman dancing, has recently Firmly Believe In. been placed In the Morgan Gem hall of the American Museum of Natural The burial of Johp Winters, recalled History, in New York city. It to old-time fishermen a tradition of a Many Farmers Plant as Early as is carved out of a perfect block of modern Flying Dutchman with its translucent^ sapphire (blue quartz) February, Even While Snow ghostly crew that was believed to from Uruguay. roam the seas in pursuit of a ship that Is On Ground. had sent them to the bottom, relates Climate and Agriculture. a correspondent from Gloucester. Winters The surprising idea that an arid was the last survivor of the SEED SELECTION IMPORTANT climate is the most favorable for agriculture crew of the Gloucester schooner, is explained by a report on Charles Haskell, which in a storm in the Columbia Basin Irrigation Project March, 1869, ran down and sank a in the state of Washington. In such a Salem schooner and its entire crew on Plant Is Hardy and Not Injured by climate plant growth is stimulated by Georges fishing banks. He died at Ordinary Cold, and Sowing May Be almost Continuous sunshine, there Is the Fishermen's Snug Harbor in his Done While Other Farm Work wk no night chilling of the soil following eighty-second year, repeating almost nvaiic Is Comparatively Slack. cloudy days, and crops are harvested to the last the tale of the ghost ship promptly without spoilage by rain, the supposed to have pursued the Haskell Department (Prepared by the United States products being greatly improved and throughout its career as a fisherman. of Agriculture.) the harvesting cost lessened. The Red clover has been styled the .corner chief advantage of all, however, is stone of agriculture in the North Once off Eastern point, at the entrance Central and EJastern states. control of the water, which by artificial of Gloucester harbor, Winters Many farmers will begin laying the irrigation can be supplied at the said, a schooner ran down the wind, corner stone as early as February, best time and in the quantities needed hove alongside the Haskell, and its when it is customary in many sections by' the crops. The scant rainfall of phantom crew climbed the rigging, declaring to sow red clover on the surface of the the Columbia basin area has been a themselves the ghosts of the snow, so that it will sink into the soil preparation for the new method, for Salem fishermen. with the first thaw in the spring. Red the moisture has not been sufficient to Winters and others of the Haskell's Plan of a Simple Backyard Poultry House. clover is hardy, and Is not injured by leach away the stored plantfood, but crew refused to fish in the ship again This writer has had a life experience ordinary cold and the fact that it can there has been drainage enough to 3, laid on edge and with the upper (Prepared by the United States Depart and a new crew was taken on. These calculated to develop imagination be sown at a season when work on the ment of Agriculture.) prevent the accumulation of alkali corners rounded off. makes a good returned with a similar story of ghostly Piano and packing boxes can he and the ability to delineate adventure farm is comparatively light adds to salts, the most soluble of the earth's roost. A pole, or even a piece of visitations at sea, took their dunnage successfully converted into adequate and romance. He has been the economy of Its cultivation. constituents. board 2 or 3 inches wide, may be bags and quit. Another and still a soldier in the regular army, a gold backyard poultry houses, but many The first important point to be observed used. If the roost is of light material a fourth crew were shipped, but each miner in Oregon, a cowboy and owners of small flocks prefer a building is the selection of good seed, and fairly long, it should be supportefl\in came to port with a renewal of the A Mastered Fear. storekeeper in Idaho, a policeman in erected especially for the purpose, say specialists of the United States the center, as well as at the Government officers in India compile story of a ship shrouded in white and Department of Agriculture Considerable Salt Lake City, a sales manager in because it usually presents a better ends, to prevent it from sagging badly. queer statistics. For example, a specter crew, and the Haskell was Chicago and in 1917 was major of appearance in the back yard. For care should be used in this respect An allowance of 7. to 10 inches they" have recently reported that in hauled-up, unable to get men. It finished well in advance of the time of infantry in the Illinois Reserve Militia. such, poultry specialists of the United of roost space per fowl, according to 1919 the persons who came to their its seagoing as a sand freighter, seeding. This is particularly true at About 1912 he took up writing States Department of Agriculture the size of the birds, should be made. death by snake bite numbered 20,273, and the Salem ship was not heard of present, when a large proportion of as an experiment and produced the suggest plans for a poultry house of If more than one roost is used, they again. and that, in the same 12 months, the red clover seed used in the United first of_the "Tarzan" stories. It was the shed or slope-roof type that will should be placed about 15 inches 58,416 snakes were killed. Further, States comes from abroad. If poor instantly successful as have been make a small flock comfortable and apart. there Is the record of 1,162 deaths by URUGUAY RICH IN AMETHYSTS seed is used the expected crop may be some six or eight novels which succeeded be neat in appearance. tigers, 469 by leopards, 294 by wolves. Provide Simple Nests. a partial or total failure. it. Today, he stands alone in This building is 8 by 8 feet square, 201 by wild boars, 185 by crocodiles, Nests must be provided and may be this country as an author of thrilling, and is 6 feet high in front and 4 feet Good Seed Is Plump. Gems Found in "Goedes," Which Is 118 by bears, 60 by elephants and 33 very simpler Any box about 1 foot Good red clover seed is plump or purely imaginative fiction. "A high in the rear. The house may be Nature's Way of Storing Precious by hyenas. Whatever may be the fear square and 5 or 6 inches deep is well filled, bright with a slight luster, Princess of Mars," one of his most made higher with little extra cost and Stones for Posterity. of wild animals among human beings suitable. An ordinary orange box the color of Individual seeds ranging Fascinating creations, has been selected would be more convenient to work in. it does not seem ever to have deterred with the partition in the middle from violet to light yellow. The individual The northwestern part of Uruguay for serial reproduction in this The ventilator in the rear is not needed settlement in new lands or persuaded serves very we!!, each box forming seeds should be at least medium Is a newly discovered field for the production publication. Do not miss the opening In the northern part of the country. people against living, as they have two nests. The top is removed, the sized and fairly uniform, free of of amethysts, which occur In installment. The roof is covered with roofing paper. in India for centuries, as the neighbors box laid on its side, and a strip 3 adulterants of any kind and from The same material may be used "geodes." The geodes, so plentiful of poisonous serpents and ravishing to 4 inches wide nailed across the seeds of noxious weeds. that they are picked up in the fields, on the sides or if desired the cracks animals.—Toledo Blade. lower front. Nests can be fastened Home-grown seed Is desirable, especially are carried on mule-back or in carts be covered with wooden strips VALUE OF SILAGE against the walls of the house or set in the North, because it is almost three inches wide. Such a house is to the nearest railway station and on the floor. It is preferable to fasten certain to be adapted to local shipped in barrels to Sal to, whence large enough for a flock of 20 hens. One ton of silage equals one them against the walls, as they take conditions. If it is not available, sam- they are transported by river boat to Proper Verb. Dry Floor a Necessity. con of sugar beets. too much floor space if set on the "What do you do?" Montevideo. If the soil is well drained and remains Three tons of silage equal one floor. One nest should be provided "I follow the races." Naturally, it will be asked, What Is dry no floor need be used in ton of clover hay. for each four or five hens. "Follow?" a geode? Originally, it was a hole in the house. Often a slight dampness Three and one-half tons of "Follow is the term, I'm never ahead rock. Water percolating through the can be corrected by filling up the floor silage equal one ton of lucerne of them."—Louisville Courier-Journal. rock deposited silica, making a lining several inches above the outside hay. for the cavity. The lining grew thicker ground with sand, gravel, or dry dirt. MARKETING APPLES I Two and one-fourth tons of and thicker, and after a long time, A Penalty, Indeed. Three or four inches of the surface of silage equal one ton of marsh "Perhaps the penalty for bootlegging the rock were ••weathered" if broken n* the floor should be removed and replaced Information secured from apple-market hay. is not severe enough." to pieces, a hard nodule would with fresh earth once or twice investigations by One-half ton of silage equals "It isn't," replied Uncle Bill Bottletop. drop out. The nodule is a geode a year. The run should be spaced up the United States Department one ton of pumpkins. "A bootlegger ought to be and if, as sometimes happens, the at least once a year. I£...the ground of Agriculture* indicate that relatively made to drink his own lickfer Sjlica_ hag. formed^ crystals inside .of is so wet oi" damp that'this condition low prices large crop in cannot be corrected by filling, it is years in the beginning of the best to provide a board floor, as this season make for quick movement will help to keep the house dry, will and rapid consumption, allow easier cleaning, and will promote with the natural result of better the general health and welfare season averages that marketing the hens. A house with a board of inferior grades along Down Goes the Prices on oor should be set on posts or blocks, with good fruit in large crop HAY AND FEED so that it is~5 to 12 above the years is not profitable that the inches ground. When this space is left the effective operation of grade and floor will not rot so quickly and rats package laws may be counted will not be so likely to take refuge upon to aid in stabilising apple under the house. markets. The dropping boards and roosts should be placed against the back wall. Here tliey are out of the way IMPORTANCE OF APPEARANCE and also are least likely to be reached by drafts. The dropping boards should be about 20 to 30 inches from Potato.es Suitable for Baking Wrapped P!ant. Hed Clover the floor, depending on the height of in Paper and Graded Bring the building. This gives space enough Bigger Profit. pies should be obtained from reliable under them so that the hens have dealers'. should be examined These =UNTIL FURTHER N0TICE= room to exercise and is not too high The package in which a product is for adulterants, seeds and shriveled weed for the heavier hens to fly up to. The sold has much to do with its sale. A seeds. should also be tested They New York farmer found it profitable roosts should be 3 or 4 inches above for germination before purchasing to grade and wrap in paper potatoes the dropping boards. If more than a in quantity. single roost is used, they should be suitable for baking piirposes. He got In the absence of more accurate on the same level otherwise^ all the a better price for them and also some methods an estimate should be made advertisement which sold other produce. hens will try to crowd upon the highest of the proportion of true red clover roost. A piece of 2 by 4 or 2 by seed and of weed seeds and other impurities. From red clover seed the separated from impurities, a counted all TESTS OF 29,638 SEED SAMPLES number, should be taken as 100, just as they These seeds should come. be placed between layers of moistened cloth or paper or merely covered in a bed or light soil. A dinner of sand plate, covered with another, is a suitable Choice Timothy Hay germinating receptacle. It can be kept in room, at a. ternperature the living and degrees.. between 65 85. «3R:i C?S Between and sixth days the $23.00 Per Ton the third •v at si.I 3*W sprouting the seeds should ability of 'ft *i(! i\Z Xf Mb vs be shown.' •f f. v** fa is ittf It should be borne in mind that the sowing value of the seed Is represented by the amount of true clover which We have a complete line of Oats, will germinate with reasonable promptness. Thus, if four-fifths of a sample is pure clover, and only threefourths Shorts, Bran and Corn will sprout, then only threefifths. or 60 per cent, of the original seed as offered will grow. Thus, the germinating test, has an important GET OUR PRICES bearing on the worth of seed offered to the farmer. Protects American Farmers. A seed-testing service is maintained by the United States Department of Agriculture, where 29,638 samples' of various. seeds were examined and tested in the last fiscal' year—16,442 in Washington and 13,196 in the five branch seed-testing stations. Similar service is offered by the various state (A b&Q&vm experiment- stations. The department & also exercises a strict inspection service over field -seeds brought from foreign countries, and last year 5,000,000 With This Equipment Grain Dealer* Can Make est* Necessary to Determine pounds of various seeds were rejected "-a- Proper Grade of Grain. or held for cleaning before being allowed During the year ending JuneUO, 1920, the United States Department of to be offered to American farmers. Agricult&ve tested 29,63S samples of seeds for farmiers preliminary to planting OSr' JVO k:. Of ttofcsfc, 16,442 were tested in Washitigjton and 13,196 at the five branches. It is important that the- testing of 81 International Falls, Hi Under the seed importation act' 09.000,000 pounds of seed were permitted seed be doiie early eriobglFthnt a sufficient entry duilftg the fiscal year, which'was more than* the tqjtal for the previous supply ,of pure seed' can be parchased three years. Nearly 5,000,000 pounds were held at port,, more than half -of in time for use and if seedis which was reclaimed and the balance ordered destroyed or exported. Bed to be sent to one of the government Hover and alfalfa, crimson clover, rape seed, and alseke were among tbe or state testing laboratories, at least two weeks should be allowed. i'ph teadtnjr M** Imported.