La Grange Journal. (La Grange, Tex.), Vol. 34, No. 3, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 16, 1913 Page: 2 of 8
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BEST ANNUAL LEGUME
Soy Bean Is Also Valuable for
Feed for Live Stock.
Vary Desirable In Short Rotation and
Can Be Grown for Use All Sea-
son— Soil Fertility May Be
Reatored by Plante.
(By C. V PIPEn >
For Intensive farming the soy bean
Is the best .annual legume to grow for
forage from the southern part of the
cotton belt to the southern part of
the corn belt
Tbe soy bean, whether used as hay,
grain, straw or ensilage, Is very valu-
able as feed for live stock.
Soy bean hay is practically Identical
In feeding value with alfalfa and
Typical Soy Bean Plant
yields from two to three tons per acre.
To make good soy bean hay the crop
must be cut when about half the
pods are full grown or when the top
leaves first begin to turn yellow.
Soy bean grain Is more valuable
than cotton seed meal as a supple-
mental feed In the production of pork,
mutton, wool, beef, milk and butter
A bushel of soy beans Is at least twice
as valuable for feed as a bushel of
corn. As the grain Is hard It Is usual-
ly desirable to grind It Into meal
for feeding. This Is best done by
misting with corn before tbe grinding
to prevent gumming up the mill.
Harvesting ordinarily should be
done when the leaves first begin to
turn yellow, as the quality of the
straw rapidly deteriorates thereafter
and the yield of seed will be practi-
cally as large as at any later time.
From one and one-half to two tons
of straw per acre are not uncommon.
If soy beans are grown for tbe seed
alone, and sometimes this Is desir-
able, the harvesting can be done eas-
ily by waiting until all the leaves have
fallen.
Soy bean straw. If the crop Is cut
before the leaves fall. Is fully as valu-
able for feeding as timothy hay for
cattle, and Is eaten by stock with
much relish. Even when the harvest-
ing Is delayed until all the leaves have
fallen, stock will eat the straw read-
ily.
It Is necessary to give the soil thor-
ough preparation In order to be suc-
cessful with soy beans. Only fresh
seed or seed which has been tested
for germination should be planted.
The seed should be planted shallow,
not to exceed two Inches In depth,
and preferably In rows 30 or, better,
36 Inches apart to permit sufficient
cultlvaelon to keep down weeds.
For harvesting soy beans a mower
with or without a side-delivery at
tachment, a self-rake reaper, or a
self-binder can be used. A binder
can be used only with the tall vari-
eties. The threshing can be done with
a grain separator by using blank
concaves and running the cylinder
much slower than for small grains, or
by the use of machines specially de-
signed for handling soy beans and
cow peas.
Soy beans and cow peas can be
grown together satisfactorily; the hay
of such a mixture Is better than either
crop alone and the yield Is generally
greater. In planting the two together
the seed should not be covered too
deeply, as deep planting will result In
a poor stand of soy beans.
BERKSHIRES SUITED TO SOUTHERN CLIMATE
Excellent Type of Berkshire.
Mr. J. D n. DeP.ow of Nashville.
Tenn., In a letter to the Farm Home
gives the following reasons for his
preference for the Berkshire breed of
swine "I prefer the Berkshire hog to
any other breed of swine.”
1. Because the Berkshire sows are
the most prolific of any breed of hogs
In the world, and when I say "prolific”
1 do not only mean that they farrow a
greater number of pigs, but that they
raise a greater number. In other
words the bows are the best mothers
In the world and the best milkers
2. Because the Berkshlres are bet-
ter suited to the southern climate than
any other hog. They have great
vitality, and can resist extensive heat
and cold better.
3. Because the Berkshire can be
profitably fattened at any age and
grow larger and quicker than any
other breed, to any desired weight.
4 Because the meat of the Berk-
shire Is firmer, sweeter and cures bet-
ter than the meat of any hog In the
world. They may not make as much
lard as some breeds, but they make
enough, and when the superior quality
of the meat Is considered, there Is no
comparison No ham In the world can
equal a Berkshire ham In flavor and
quality. It Is not too fat.- The lean
meat predominates with Just enough
fat to make the meat of the Berkshire
palatable and fine beyond comparison.
5. Because the Berkshire Is the old-
est strain of hog now In general use.
and on that account has the advan
tage of having been bred along a par-
ticular line lunger. In other words the
Berkshlres have the pull of a long line
of ancestry which makes them breed
true to kind. The other breeds of
swine are comparatively new breeds,
coming from “crosses,” and have not
been bred long enough to Insure al-
ways getting the mast profitable type.
COWPEA GOOD AS EGG F00D]one Rive them a test as food
' for the poultry.
Flock of Hens Nearly Doubled Prod-
uct and Were Free From Ail-
ment—Easy to Raise.
Cowpeas are not only relished by
hens, but are excellent egg food for
them. One successful ooultryman
gives this experience: The peas, aft-
er maturing, were harvested and
stored In dry lofts, and thrown to the
fowls In scratching pens, where they
were scratched over and searched for
during the day.
After a few days the egg supply
was visibly Increased, and within a
few weeks almost doubled that from
an equal number of hens kept In sepa-
rate quarters and fed on other grains
The hens seemed to like he small
branches and leaves, and would eat
every particle except the hard, stiff
stems.
The general health of the flock was
excellent, and not a single hen
showed the least symptom of a“llment
during the winter season Consider
Ing the ease with which cowpeas
mav he rMsed tt seems that every-
Harmful Com Smut.
Corn smut Is found In almost ev-
ery part of the country where corn Is
grown. Some years seem to be
worse than others, due probably to
favorable weather conditions Al-
though the loss Is usually not as
great as In some states further south
and east, It Is nevertheless consider-
able. Most farmers consider the loaa
too small to demand any attention,
yet the aggregate to the state is un-
doubtedly large. It should be noticed
that the toss Is not measured by the
deformed ears alone, but also by the
loss vigor and yield In plants where
other parts suffer from smut. Special
care should therefore be exercised
with the sugar corns
Good of Rotation.
Generally, rotation of crops In-
creases the amount of humus, tbe In-
crease being greatest when clover la
plowed under.
Watch Made of Glass.
Josef Baler, & glaascutter of Mu-
nich, after many years of patient
toll, has succeeded In putting together
a timepiece whose every wheel end
screw, with the frame and each of
tbe three covers is made of glasa.
Advice to Borea.
successful after-dinner speaker
the other day at Atlantic City:
iwe my success to tbe fact that
always brief and to the point 1
» asked 8enator Depew how long
an after-dinner speaker ought to
speak. ‘About two minutes—unless
by that time he has struck rich ore,*
the senator replied. ‘And If he hasn’t
struck It, he should at once atop bor-
ing.’ *
Foundation of Heroism.
A light supper, a good nlght'a aleep
and a fine morning have often made
a hero of tbe same man. who, by In-
digestion. a restless night and a rainy
morning would hava proved a coward.
—Lord Chesterfield.
PRODUCTION OF EGGS IN COLD MONTHS
DEPENDS ON FEED AND CARE GIVEN HENS
Houses Should Be in Good Shape and Birds in Good Health—Keep
Them Busy Working Through Deep Litter for Their Morning
Meal to Instill Vigor—Dust Bath Is Essential.
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Interior of Well Furnished Poultry House.
As the winter months are on
and the eggs are soaring high in
price. It means that good care should
be taken of the fowls. See that the
houses are In good shape and the
birds are In good health. Now Is the
time to give a little condition powder
In tbe mash to regulate their systems
If they are sluggish after the moult,
as It will liven them up for their
work.
During the cold days, writes C. L.
Parkhurst, In Feathers, get a good,
deep litter to make them work for
their morning feed, as It will give
them vigor. Don't feed too much, so
that they will fill up and sit around
and get In the corner and mope. Give
them a small allowance in the early
morning, so that by ten o’clock they
will be ready for a little green food
that will liven them up again and keep
the ball rolling. About one o’clock
they will reliBh a small feed of mash
or ground bone.
That will keep them busy until their
night feed, which should be of hardy
grain and warm, so their organs will
have some work to do overnight, in
this way they will welcome you every
time you go In the house w’lth their
song and cheer that means health and
vigor. It won't be many weeks before
the eggs will begin to come your way,
and you will get a good return for
your work. A good many think If you
feed a hen In the morning and give
a little Ice water to drink that Is all
you should do. But the more we work
with our hens the better the returns
we will get.
£very time you go in your house, If
It is ten times a day, pick the litter up
in a pile and put in a handful of
w'heat, and see what enjoyment the
birds will have kicking it around and
singing as they do It. This shows Joy
and happiness. If you keep this up
all winter, you will not have any sick
and puny birds. When breeding sea-
son cornea your stock will be full
of vigor, and the result will be fer-
tile eggs, strong and vigorous chicks,
that if properly 1: tched and brooded
will grow up t' good and healthy
stock that will be a pleasure for you
EXPERIMENTS IN
USING SKIMMILK
Feeding Value of Alfatf-a.
AlfaHfa leave* contain moat of the
ceding value of the alfalfa plane
to see and the neighbors to enjoy.
The duBt bath Is Just as essential In
winter In keeping the fowls free from
lice as It Is in summer. Lice multi-
ply In winter as well as In summer;
not so rapidly, of course, yet fast
enough in the average poultry house
to make life a torture to the hens If
nothing Is done to keep the pests In
check. The dust bath will help in the
fight against the pests as much as any-
thing else.
The dust must be dry when put
out for the fowls’ use. Chickens will
not dust In damp earth in cold weath-
er. The dust should be fine also. As
it is collected, sift It, so as to discard
all the stones and lumps. The sup-
ply of dust in the poultry' house ought
to be renewed at frequent intervals.
Hence the Importance of collecting
a considerable amount of it.
In two or three weeks the dust
boxes will become fouled, and they
should be emptied then and refilled
with a fresh supply. On very cold
days It Is a good idea to slightly warm
the dust before taking it to the chick-
en’s quarters. Where the flock la not
large, and only a small amount of dust
Is required, It can be warmed In the
house without much trouble. Then,
when It Is taken to the poultry quar-
ters, place It In the sunshine or the
light of the windows.
Another Important essential for the
poultry flock Is a plentiful supply of
grit. This probably Is a more Import-
ant essential than the dust bath. A
hen may get a long without the dust
bath, but she cannot get along without
grit. Grit is the hen’s teeth. The giz-
zard of a fowl requires it, and when
this organ does not contain grit the
food consumed by the fowl cannot be
digested, and consequently It Is
wasted.
The birds that are not equipped to
digest their food properly are not go-
ing to lay many eggs, even if they
keep In good health; but the chances
are that they will not keep in good
health. Bowel trouble In the flock
can be often traced to an insufficient
supply of grit, and a large number
of the hens may die from this cause
PAYING HENS ARE
FROM BEST STRAINS
Found Best at South Dakota
Station to Stick to One
Kind for Good Pork.
Profitable Birds are Delight
the Eye and Help to Fill
Pocketbook.
in a report of a recent test at the
South Dakota Experiment Station to
determine the comparative value of
sweet sklmmllk, sour sklramtlk and
buttermilk with corn for pork produc-
tion. the following statement is
found:
"Each bushel of corn fed without
milk yielded an average of 11.9
pounds of pork. Each bushel of
shelled com fed with 154 pounds of
sweet skimmilk yielded an average of
17.9 poundB of pork. Each bushel of
shelled corn fed with 153 pounds of
sour sklmmllk yielded an average of
17.6 pounds of pork. Each bushel of
shelled com fed with 153 pounds of
buttermilk yielded an average of 17.7
pounds of pork. The records shows
that an average of 163 pounds of milk
and one bushel of corn yielded Fn
average of 17.7 pounds of pork.
From which two lessons may be
drawn. First, what Is generally
known, that milk added to com makes
much more economical ration than
com alone. And second, that the hog
makes as efficient use of any one of
the forms of milk as of either of the
others
So from a practical standpoint It
doesn't matter whether we feed sweet
sklmmllk, sonr sklmmllk or butter-
milk It no doubt Is best, however,
to stick to ene kind. As to palatabl)
tty. Individual taste, that probably
♦arte* In hoy*, as it does In people
some like the milk best In one form
and some In another, and we can't
Mease all ^
The paying hen Is usually hatched
from a paying strain. The paying hen
that comes out of a flock of good-for-
nothing birds Is seldom met and Is
not worth hunting for. It takes time.
It takes money and it takes bom hen
sense to produce a flock of paying
hens. It takes a very little neglect to
send this flock back to the class of
the nonpaying birds.
Paying birds are a delight to the
eye. You show them to your friends
and linger in your description of
what they are and what they have
done for you. This class of birds,
because they pay, receive thought and
attention from you. You will gladly
take care of them; you are willing to
properly mate and feed them, and
you look for fresh blood to improve
them.
Paying birds never make up a large
part of your flock when you sell the
cream of the choice chicks every year.
Money-making flocks are made up of
tbe best you raise, always letting the
second quality go to market.
Paying birds live In houses free
from vermin and supplied with pure
air and water. They get food that Is
needed to bring the profit to the
proper point. Cheap food because It Is
cheap never helped to produce the
paying hen and keep her running to
the nest.
Hens that pay splendid profits are
what the world Is asking for. Is look
lng for and Is demanding Are you
going to be among the breeders who
will fill the orders for UUs kind of
birds?
Comfort for Pigs.
Don't forget the pigs on cold
nights but glva them * good warm
bed of straw.
Woodsman’s Instinct of No Use in a Big City
^well.thatT
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M KW YORK.—John H. Dawson, a
ll West Virginia mountaineer, who,
minus his shoes, stands six feet tall,
and without any drapery over his her-
culean physique, weighs 280 pounds,
and can sense his way through the
most Impenetrable forest, found that
the dull monotony of the exterior of
flat houses of New York and the end-
less regularity of the streets were too
much for his path-flnding abilities.
Dawson arrived In New York the
other morning to go to Binghamton,
N. Y., to buy a farm. He returned
late Christmas eve, having completed
his purchase, Jubilant over his future
home, all his pockets sagging with
gifts and good cheer for his wife and
seven children whom he had brought
here with him. When he reached the
city he found he was up against a
maze of houses that no teaching of
the woodsman could penetrate. Not
used to such things as street numbers,
the woodsman had neglected to write
down his address.
Lawson left and returned by the
same railroad. Leaving tbe Hudson
tube at Thirty-third street, Dawson
trudged down Broadway. The simple
mountaineer walked bravely along,
thinking of bis Beven little young-
sters and the faithful little mountain
woman who with him had dared tbe
terrors of a great and unknown city.
But be had not bothered about the
street address, and could not find his
home. The only description Dawson
could give of the flat house where he
had left his family was so like thou-
sands of other flats that It was practi-
cally useless. Morning found him
still looking All Christmas day, his
heart as well as his body worn out by
bis search, he tramped through the
city, looking In every house that look-
ed like his own, expecting to see tbe
anxious face of his wife beckoning to
him.
Finally Dawson went to a police sta-
tion, but it was way up In the Bronx,
and the police tried In some way to
get Dawson to fix a locality, but he
absolutely could not. Then some one
brought a newspaper lnt« thq station
house. In It was an account of Daw-
son's disappearance. In the first par-
agraph of the story the mountaiueer
found his address. In a minute he
took a subway train down town.
The city may be all right, says Daw-
son, but he feels much safer In the
mountains with the wild animals.
Forgets Home Number; Lands in Station House
/'• HICAGO.—Because his memory de-
w* serted him at the most critical
time—the time to go home—Frank H.
Harlow, a manufacturer of advertis-
ing novelties, after touring the North
Side in a taxicab for four hours in a
vain search for his domicile, was
forced to spend the night at the Chi-
cago avenue police station by the ac-
commodating but irate chauffeur.
When Harlow finally decided that
he would go home the other night he
summoned a taxicab and crawled In.
“Where to?' 'asked the chauffer.
■’Home," was the curt reply.
“Where Is home?” persisted the In-
quisitive driver.
"Why—er — lesh see — er—that’sh
funny. Can’t r’member. Y’ see. just
moved an’ forget where. Somewhere
on North Side WVU find It.”
The chauffeur drove to the North
Side and Harlow kept his eye peeled
for apartment houses. At last he saw
one that looked like "home” and or-
dered the driver to stop. Out he got
and Into the building he went. Ten
minutes the driver waited and then
Harlow emerged.
“They shay poshtlvely I don't live
there,” he said. “Lesh go somewhere
elsh.”
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TO KNOCK
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BLOCK
OF F-
Away they went, with Harlow peer-
ing out of the window at the build-
ings as they flashed past. Again they
stopped before an apartment and Har-
low ambled In.
“Wrong again,” said Harlow com-
ing out.
"Never saw such un'commodatln’
people,” Harlow told the driver. “Rang
every bell and they got mad. Said
I was crazy. Looks just like home,
too. That'sh funny.”
Finally the exasperated chauffeur
looked at his meter. It registered
four hours, a goodly number of miles
and a considerable fare.
The driver bundled his fare back
Into the machine and drove to the Chi-
cago avenue station.
When he heard the story the next
morning, Judge Maxwell discharged
the prisoner.
Ankle-Binding Skirts Keep Cars Behind Time
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I NDIANAPOL1S, Ind.—Tlght-flttlng
I skirts delay traction cars, and
make it almost impossible for con-
ductors and motormen to keep up to
the required schedules. Especially Is
this true In the case of cars which
make many stops. Men at the trac-
tion terminal station estimate that It
takes a woman three times as long to
board a car as it did In the days when
they wore wide skirts.
Doss Shafer, patrolman, stationed
at the traction depot, Is an observing
man, and he has had hts attention
called to the tlght-flttlng skirt nuis-
ance by train crews many times. He
Bays some women trying to board a
car often make from three to five at-
tempts before succeeding.
One woman with a tight skirt hob-
bled to the step of a car the other
day. In each hand she carried a suit
case. After three attempts to board
the car, she said with a sigh: ”1 don’t
believe I can manage It.”
It was then that Shafer stepped
forward. The conductor, who was
ready to start the car, grabbed the
suit cases, and Doss gave the woman
a boost that lifted her to the first
step of the car, whence, In spite of
the tight skirt, she struggled to the
platform, affirmed Samuel Thrasher,
caller at the traction station.
"Tigh skirts certainly delay traffic,"
said Thrasher. "It does not seem
possible, but when It Is found that
thirty seconds longer are required for
a woman to enter a car than formerly,
It Is soon seen that a great deal
more ttme is consumed at stations.
Women to get on a car In tight
skirts generally need help. However,
some of them boost their skirts to
their knees and scramble on without
any help. These new creations of
fashions make It almost impossible
for women to step up the fifteen to
eighteen Inches necessary to get
upon the first step of an lnterurban
car.”
Hats Take Aerial Trip When Gale Hits Detroit
P| ETROIT, MICH.—Unusually high
1/ winds the other day were respon-
sible for a reat deal of sidewalk acro-
batics upon the part of pedestrians
who defied the gale by wearing stiff
hats.
At one time three men ran a foot
race across Michigan avenue at Gris-
wold street In pursuit of elusive head-
gear. At times It seemed as If the
only way to keep an overcoat fastened
In front was to nail the edges to-
gether.
One of the prize feats of the wind,
however, was when a chilly zephyr
went ripping down Lafayette boule-
vard at Griswold street, tearing a
Derby hat from the head of a young
man. carrying' It In eccentric gyrations
through the air, and depositing it un-
ceremoniously upon a ledge In front
of a window on the second story of
the German American bank build-
ing.
“There It goes.” yelled a portly In-
dividual who had hold of his own
bat \jvlth one hand while his other
hand grasped the tails of his
overcoat in an effort to prevent
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him from becoming a whirling der-
vish.
"There it Is,” said a rosy-cheeked
young woman who had an Iron
clutch on a white plume and a
bank of flowers which decorated a
broad-brimmed felt millinery crea-
tion.
The young man who had lost the
bowler stood mournfully on the
edge of the walk.
"How you going to get it down?”
asked a youth, who, In passing,
noted the affair.
"Walt for It to blow down, I guess,”
gloomily remarked the owner of the
hat.
And he did.
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