The Schulenburg Sticker (Schulenburg, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 22, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 28, 1909 Page: 3 of 8
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GOOD PROFIT IN TRUCKING.
The first important essential in se-
lecting a farm for market gardening
or for truck farming is that of land.
The practical gardener does not
look so much to fertility as he does
to drainage, location and the possi-
bilities of improvement.
Given a soil that is reasonably fer-
tile and plenty of manure, labor and
intelligence, and he can soon improve
it and make it an ideal garden spot.
Every time a load is hauled to mar-
ket the team brings back a load of
manure from the city.
Horse manure is better adapted for
garden crops than other manures, as
its mechanical effect upon the soil
loosens it and makes it better adapt-
ed for small and tender crops.
At all times of the year when the
teams are not employed on the farm
they are kept busy hauling manure
from the city to the compost heaps
on the land.
The most skillful gardeners are
using such plant foods as nitrate of
soda, sulphate of ammonia or some
other chemical food to make the
plants grow faster or mature earlier.
Great skill must be exercised in
using these chemical plant foods and
the conditions must be. right when
they are applied.
When manure furnishes the fertil-
ity on the garden or truck patch the
care and handling are important
items for the gardner to look after.
The most practical method is to
haul in heaps convenient to where it
is to be used and pile in flat heaps
and well tramped down, so that it
will be well wet down every time
it rains.
Some gardners haul water and wet
the manure heaps down when there
is danger of them fire fanging or
burning.
Market gardeners apply all the way
from 20 to 100 loads of manure to
the acre, according to kinds of crops
that are to be grown and to the condi-
tion of the soil. Many find it profit-
able to keep a few hogs to work over
the coarse manure and get it in con-
dition to spread evenly.
The market gardener should be
close to the city markets and keep
well posted on the market conditions
from day to day, and be ready to
take advantage of the favorable mar-
ket conditions.
The truck farmer should be in
some community where a Jarge
amount of truck is grown and where
buyers are attracted by the quality
and quantity produced.
It seldom pays a man to go into a
country and go into the truck farm-
ing business unless he has enough
of his own crops so that he may
ship in carload lots to the city deal-
ers.
The man who has charge, of the
produce must be an expert, for in
marketing produce much depends
upon the manner in which it is sput
up and the condition that it is in
when it reaches the buyers.
The most important secret of suc-
cess in marketing produce might be
told in a few words: Cater to the
demands of the market; produce just
such vegetables as the demands of
the market call for and offer them at
just the times that the people want
them.
Th more favorable the combination
of these conditions the more certain
you will be of success.
Start in on a small scale and try to
fill a want already existing, rather
than go into the business heavily and
compete with the experts who have
an etablished trade.
Don't try to educate people's indi-
vidual tastes, but plan your crops
so that they will meet the demands
of the most critical buyers.
In packing your vegetables strive
to have uniform quality in all pack-
ages and bunches. Have all of the
vegetables in one package as near
alike as careful selection can make
them.
Have everything clean and attrac-
tive and well graded. Careful sorting
and packing are just as necessary as
skillful growing.
Retail dealers like to do business
with men who can be depended upon
to keep their engagements and sup-
ply them with the right kind of vege-
tables regardless of the weather and
otl&er conditions.
It is not the purpose of this article
to explain what some skilled gardener
has accomplished in growing some
special crop, for it would read too
much like fiction.
However, these great yields are not
made by amateurs or city farmers
who have had no experience previous-'
ly in the business.
Among the special crops that are
adapted for the truck farmer to grow
may be mentioned cabbages, celery,
onions, melons, asparagus, tomatoes,
early potatoes, cauliflower, turnips,
cucumbers, and so on.
Trees for Waste Spots.
Many poor foils, now waste spots
on the farm, would become profitable
if planted wish the right kind of for-
est trees and cared for in right way.
There is money in most of them if
they are set to work producing wood
lots and forests. But knowledge and
judgment are necessary and a bad
guess may be cosily.
Many trees do well in these soils—
cone-bearing trees in particular. The
farmer is fortunate whose land has
no poor spots. Few land owners are
so well off.
Turned the Frog Pond Into a Small
Money Mint.
There are numberless ways where-
by clever country boys can make
money. Let me tell you how my
friend, Clyde Rushing, a little tow-
headed fellow of 13, made a lot of
money.
Clyde lived near a certain city on
the east bank of a small river. The
west side of the bottom is low, whle
sloughs, and liable to sudden over-
flows. For this reason there are no
houses on the west side until you
get out of the bottom. But there are
a good many truck patches or market
gardens.
There was a great many bull-frogs
along the river and sloughs. Clyde
had a little 22-caliber target rifle, and
could easily kill them, but getting
them afterward was not so easy, for
a bull-frog sits with its head always
toward the water, ready to spring in
if frightened. And even if you shot
its head off it is almost certain to
make one spring before it dies.
Clyde had tried to kill some frogs
for the market many times, but it
was so difficult to get them that he
had about stopped wasting ammuni-
tion upon them. But one day in early
spring he heard that frogs' legs were
bringing fancy prices in the city and
he determined to make another strong
effort to get some of the frogs.
The next day he took his target
rifle and went into the bottom after
the frogs. He shot several big ones,
but as usual they all jumped into the
water. At last he found a big one
sitting on the bank about 10 feet
from the edge of the water, with its
head turned in that direction.
He missed and the bullet went into
the ground just under its neck, bulg-
ing up the sticky earth and bouncing
the frog an inch or so off the ground.
Strange to say, it did not jump, but
lay perfectly still, so the boy ran up
and grabbed it.
Then he saw that he had not hit it
at all, so he stuck his knife blade
through its head to kill it. Even then
it did not show much signs of life. It
seemed to have been stunned by the
force of the bullet so near it.
He put it in the basket under his
arm and went on, wondering at this
mystery. Before long he found an-
other large frog. He shot its head
off and it made a spasmodic leap
which carried it far into the river.
Something now suggested that he
shoot into the ground near the next
frog to see if there were really any
virtue in that. So when he found the
next one he aimed at the ground
right under its head, and, sure
enough, it acted as though dead and
he ran and got it by the leg and
stuck his knife blade through its head
as before.
After this he always aimed at the
ground just under the frog's haed or
body and strange to say he always
got his frog. But when he hit one,
whether he killed it or not, the sting
of the pain seemed to counteract the
stunning effect of the bullet near it
and it always jumped.
Within two hours from the time he
made this discovery Clyde had se-
cured a dozen large frog, which he
took home, dressed the hind legs
nicely and carried them to town and
easily sold them for $2 to one of the
hotels.
After this Clyde killed a dozen
frogs every day in the week almost,
selling them to the restaurants or.
hotels for at least $2 a dozen.
What Clyde did you can do, my boy,
if you live on a river near a city or
large town. And even if you live in
the country where frogs are plentiful
there is still a chance for you to
make some money on them, for you
can dress the hind legs, pack them
in cracked ice and express them to
a large hotel in the nearest city and
sell them at a good price.
Early Winter Work.
Put a half pint of carbolic acid in
the whitewash for the poultry house
and apply it before the cold weather
sets in.
Don't fail to put in a barrel 05 two
of road dust for the hens' winter
dust bath.
Sell off all the old ewes.
If the shed for the sheep leaks at-
tend to it at once. A wet sheep be-
comes a sickly one.
It is a temptation to stuff new corn
into any animal on the farm. Too
much is worse than too little.
How' the manure pile does grow—
unless it is distributed on the fields
at least once a week.
One day's work will clean up the
yard and garden. How untidy a neg-
lected place looks when the sonw
goes off in the spring.
Pack sweet potatoes in dry sand
and keep in a warm and perfectly
dry place.
Now the rats begin to leave the
farm for more comfortable quarters
in the cellar. Stop every place where
they can enter.
Have the children been supplied
with rubber shoes? Rubber boots
are bad if worn for longer than an
hour or two at a time.
Fence Rail Philosophy.
A little brain work this winter will
save leg work next summer.
When the mule's shoe gets loose
we hustle him off to the blacksmith
in a hurry. But when mother's shoes
wear out are we in such a hurry to
get fp the store?
Much wise farm gospel has been
sprrad abroad for years, but some
people never heard of it until James
J. Hill gave out. something new.
An overtired body makes a dull
mind No doubt about it. Go slow.
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Tea! bicycles! tobacco! cheese! and
gin! Thes^ and a perfectly flat coun-
try cut in every way by canals and
dotted with windmills which chiefly
don't grind corn! You can, of course,
spend your time in the towns, seeing
fine pictures and finer buildings; but
if you want to know what Holland is,
and not what she was, go out into the
country-side. We sometimes imagine
that a country given up to pasture is
a poor region, or else agriculturally
depressed; but the Dutch and the
Danes know better. The former m&ke
cheese, the latter butter—this suits
their respective grasses.
When you are alone in a big foreign
town your only companions are wait-
ers and guides who probably come
from Germany and certainly expect a
tip; but in the friendly country you
meet natives and receive hospitality.
And so it came "about that, although a
perfect stranger, I went about chat-
ting with them on their farms for a
fortnight. In the morning I would set
off on my cycle, generally along some
high dyke road protecting fields which
30 years ago were a lake, and, after
passing a score of laborers—off to
their work on cycles, too—would drop
down to a little farm. You meet your
hosts in the same order everywhere.
First, the children swinging on the lit-
tle drawbridge over the waterway, or
fishing from its side with a float;' then
the women, old and young, working
away inside.
The dairy and the house are one
building. It is different in Denmark
where they make butter, because but-
ter-making requires a steam engine for
pasteurization and, therefore, a sepa-
rate butter factory. But all the best
Dutch cheese is made on the farm. As
you enter the open door, you find your-
self in an inch of water, in the com-
pany of two or three smiling and
sturdy maids, churning and scrubbing
and swilling. Down on the right is a
cellar containing large vats, where the
cheese is curdled by the rennet that
is stored in the row of bottles which
for once do not contain gin. Beyond
the main room is a long cool chamber
where the mother is stamping and
pressing yesterday's make, or else
feeling the rows of ripening cheeses
on the shelves. She will tell you
which are the. best qualities, which the
heaviest, and how several, from weak
milk, have lost their shape. Out of
the hot yard, through the adjoining
cowhouse, which is so cool and clean
that they use it as a sitting-room in
summer, comes at last the master
ready for his early lunch. "Engels-
man," his wife announces, and he
raises his cap with a friendly nod.
These caps are all the same—black
alpacas with a peak. You then enter
the parlor, and while they discard
their wooden shoes you carefully wipe
yours. You gladly accept a glass, of
milk, but they will probably take tea.
They make their tea in the teapot,
with a little spirit lamp under it, dis-
pensing altogther with a kettle. Along
with this goes bread and cheese,
which is much softer than our cheese
and not so ripe when It is eaten. The
entertainment closes with a cigar;
and you hid your hests good-morning,
with an envious glance at some fine
old Dutch cupboard, which has been
In the farmer's family for centuries.
I saw one chest in a pilot's house in
the Island of Vlieland which bore the
date 1640, and was an heirloom of Ad-
miral Van Tromp, who swept the
British seas in the early days of Oli-
TEACH CHILD SELF-CONTROL.
SfrtlWmy PiOTairp Described by r?it
fpurt to Be a i^osi Hojoyablc Slvtot
AT THE DA/RY J*
ver Cromwell. I was very much inter-
ested to see on one farm an apparatus
for making gas on the premises by
means of a water-pump. It reminded
me of a byre I once saw in Denmark
lighted with electricity made by a
windmill. v
Now agriculture in Holland and
Denmark is undoubtedly flourishing,
and this is not the case in England, to
judge by the diminished rent-rolls and
thinned countryside. Why is this?
It is not from any superiority of farm-
ing technique. England is the model
country in breeding and machinery,
and the continent acknowledges its
debt to her. They import English stock
and English machines. But there are
two big differences. First, the spirit
of landlordism is absent over there.
The farmer generally owns his farm,
and a sturdy independence pervades
the placel I asked a Dutch farmer
who had studied a year in England
what struck him most there, and he
said: "Why, the fact that your Eng-
lish farmers allow their fields to be
ridden over by the hunt." There was
a good deal in this answer, for the
cap-touching, compensation-demanding
attitude is altogether opposed to a
real and sensible pride in one's farm
and fields. Secondly, the generally
equality of the farmers, who cultivate
50 to 100 acres apiece. Consequently
they can work together. This is shown
most signally in the excellent socie-
ties they have for the joint purchase
of their raw materials and the sale of
their finished produce.
Appeal to Reason Will Usually Pro.
duce Good Results.
The modern theory of child training
is to shift the responsibility of wrong-
doing to a child's own shoulders. It
is early taught to weigh right and
wrong and count the cost.
Mothers who are in despair over the
behavior of their children should try
making them free agents. Show them
plainly how unpopular they are mak-
ing themselves by their horrid be-
havior. Appeal to the reason. Teach
them to form their own decisions and
abide by the results.
A child so trained usually acquires
self-control when other children are
having parental control punished into
them.
This method of training is not feas-
ible, however, without parents have
the good judgment to keep in such
close touch with their little ones that
they can act as counsellor, as a last
court of appeals and as presiding
judge, whose decisions are final.
A mother of a large and interesting
family said: "If I had a dozen children
I would have to evolve a different way
to train each one according to its
idiosyncrasies."
Instead of mourning over a child's
misconduct, study to make it good in
spite of itself. Keep it so well that a
happy disposition comes natural.
Teach Mary or John self-government,
but at the same time let it be thor-
oughly understood that you are gover-
nor-in-chief in disputed points.
One mother who had ideas on self-
rule for her children allowed those
children to be terrors to the neighbor-
hood. Even in church she would sit
placidly by while they crawled under
the pews to pinch the worshipers in
front or slyly ran pin£ into the next
person.
A mother who does not know the dif-
ference between self-control and lack
of control had better abide by Solo-
monic precepts of child training. Ap-
plied judiciously, this method of mak-
ing a boy or girl a free agent has
been found to work well in the interest
of family peace.
A birthday dinner which is to be
given next week is so charming in its
appointments I can hardly wait to
tell about it for the benefit of others
who may claim the first month in the
year for their natal day. I used to
think that winter functions were not
half so pretty as summer ones, but of
late it seems as if nothing could be
more suggestive of hospitality than a
room warm with red and green deco-
rations, quantities of candles and a
blazing fire in an open fireplace, with-
out which no up-to-date house is com-
plete.
To return to our dinner: The table-
cloth is of cluny lace to be laid over
red silk, with a huge cake for the
center piece, surrounded by a wreath
of red candles and red carnations,
which do not fade as quickly as roses.
The mantelpiece is to be banked
with poinsettias, and a novel as1 well
as decorative feature will be the in-
dividual and relish dishes, all to be of
red Bohemian glass. The place cards
are to have the verse for January writ-
ten in red ink and they are to be deco-
rated with red beads in lieu of gar-
nets.
The gift for the birthday girl is to
be a handsome garnet ring set in sil-
ver, which will be presented on a ring
holder of red Bohemian glass. The
maid is to bring it in on a tray when
the dessert is served.
There are to be eight guests, all
college chums. After the dinner there
will be a theater party, chaperoned by
the birthday girl's mother. Afterward
there is to be a chafing dish supper,
with a delicious welsh rarebit. Each
girl is to ask her best boy friend to
this. It all sounds exciting, but as
this mother said to me: "You just
have to let them do things, so you
just might as well be in touch with
it all. It pays in the end to keep pret-
ty close to your daughter."
Isn't she a wise woman? Would
there were more like her. She is the
same one who always sits up to wel-
come her daughter home, no matter
how late the hour, and she is bright
and interested, too. And, what is
more, her first question is: "What
time is it?"
There is a whole sermon right there.
Ponder it ye who have young daughters
just entering into the joys of social
life.
European Cities.
This contest was used to liven up
things before the regular game of
cards in which the club indulges once
a week. The cards were foreign pos-
tals with thick white paper pasted
over the address side, on which the
following questions were written:
Where Americans go when they die
Paris
A make of carpets Brussels
What housekeepers like in the cab-
inet Dresden
Favorite-name for a girl ...Florence
Part of the neck and a Roman numer-
al Naples
A toilet water Cologne
A house of prayer and a domestic ani-
mal .'.Moscow
Name of a famous modern writer. London
A girl's name and the French for
, "good" Lisbon
A girl relative Nice
Skilled, part of a needle, and to suffo-
cate Artichoke
What Pharoah saw in a dream......Corn
To draw, a narrow bed and a kind of
tree Succotash
Frozen water with an "R" prefixed..Rica
BEVERAGES.
Cowper's herb that cheers Tea
Adam's ale Water
An accompaniment to a cold, and the
pay of a lawyer * Coffee
A piece of crayon, an exclamation and
not on time Chocolate
The edge of a thing, and to blunder
Cider
To make a hole Punch
A tract of low land Mead
A tropical fruit, and an American
playwright Lemonada
Interesting to Brides-Elect.
This is an incient verselet that may
help a bride to be to decide upon the
month in which to launch her ship
upon the matrimonial sea:
Married in January's hoar. and rime.
Widowed you'll be before your prime.
Married in February's sleety weather,
Life you'll tread in tune together.
Married when March winds shrill and
roar,
Your home will be on a foreign shore.
Married 'neath April's changeful skies,
A checkered path before you lies.
Married when bees o'er May blooms flit.
Strangers around your board will sit.
Married in month of roses—June—
Life will be one long honeymoon.
Married in July, with flowers ablaze,
Bitter-sweet memories in after days.
Married in August's heat and drowse,
Lover apd friend in your chosen spouse.
Married in golden September's glow,
Smooth and serene your life will flow.
Married when leaves in October thin,
Toil and hardship for you begin.
Married in veils of November mist,
Dame Fortune your wedding ring has
kissed.
Married in days of December's cheer.
Love's star burns brighter from year to
year.
A Guessing Contest.
I hope that the readers who have
requested new guessing contests will
appreciate this issue of the depart-
ment, for there has been a special ef-
fort made to get together as many
new games as possible. The answers
to the following all end in "ure," and
they are all words in common use:
Where are cows kept Pasture
The mother of us all..... Nature
What students love Literature
To what many aspire Culture
A name applied to an animal..Creature
What we should lay up in heaven....
Treasure
What most grocers are not generous
with Measure
Of what we do not have enough..Leisure
What artists make.. Miniature
What a speaker uses Gesture
When one leaves .- Departure
A hole .Aperture
" MADAME MERRL
D
The Guessing Contest.
These two contests 'were arranged
by a clever hostess who says they
proved most entertaining to her
guests:
VEGETABLES.
A barnyard product and a vegetable
growth Egg plant
Letters of the alphabet Peas
Employment of some women, and the
dread of all Spinach
To pound Beet
Many of the designs recall the old
polonaise of 1860.
Faded colors are more in evidence
than the distinct shades.
Paris is smiling at present upon
metalized gold and silver net.
A color known as kingfisher is be-
ing shown in the various shades.
Gold and silver lace is being used
for yokes instead of tulle and net.
Sleeves are never worn on ball
gowns nowadays except for the merest
apology.
Ribbons are playing a foremost part
in the construction of the new evening
gowns.
Charming theater hoods, which look
well with every kind of costume, are
made of ermine, with a pale silk lin*
ing.
Piled ffcpir line Haior
Still Many Horses and Mutes.
The government has been taking a
census of the horses of the country,
and reports that there are over 20.000,-
000 horses and nearly 4.000,000 mules
in the United States. This is a great-
er number of horses by several hun-
dred thousand than were reported
previously. The "horseless age" iy
evidently not yet in sight.
Queer Action of Hurricane.
A recent hurricane in Nicaragua
drove the water from the river against
the houses in the town of Prinzapolca
with such force that most were de-
stroyed.
JB
The hair ornaments of this season are unlike those that girls have worn
before. This metal fillet, with gauze wings, is probably the most popular
accessory to the coiffure. The wings are of gold gauze, ornamented with
crystals. They are mounted in front of a thin gold fillet which fits neatly
over the top of the head.
■Ma
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