THE FARMER'S FORUM
The Farmer's Forum Farm Frost Maps DOUBTLESS many farmers were caught napping this year by Jack Frost. Those who did undoubtedly made a determination to avoid similar losses next year. In this...
...Such maps are simple to make on some morning after an especially hard frost that has left its marks upon vegetation...
...After the Holiday Mamma (reprovingly): Gertie, did you tumble into bed without saying your prayers...
...The best time to do it is when the first signs of the Winter soltsice begin to appear...
...The demonstration agent in a county where a creamery is in operation remarked the other day that it was astonishing how few pure-bred sires are found in the county, and it was also disgusting to find so many farmers in the county breeding to grade bulls (even low-grade bulls...
...With the data obtained from a survey of this kind, or from a series of surveys, it is easy to draw a frost map of the farm for future reference at crop planting time...
...A Farm and Culture AMAN should have a farm or a mechanical craft for his culture...
...they can contrive without my aid to bring the day and year round, but I depend on them, and have not earned by use a right to my arms and feet.—Ralph Waldo Emerson...
...Swat" the Grade Balls WE WILL never be able to make any creditable record in the creamery and dairy business in the South until the grade bulls are sent to the butcher pens, and pure-breds are substituted, says J. Z. G. in The Progressive Farmer...
...A Juvenile Deteckatif Johnny's ma found him rummaging in the pantry one day...
...I feel some shame before my woodchopper, my bush-man and my cook, for they have some sort of selfsufficiency...
...In this connection, an excellent suggestion has been made by Eric R. Miller, the forecaster of the United States "Weather Bureau at the University of Wisconsin...
...It is possible for one good pure-bred sire, costing $100 to $150, to be worth several thousand dollars to a community within five or six years, and if the grading up continues for a period of eight or ten years the cows of the vicinity will become so nearly pure-breds that for utility purposes they will be equivalent to pure-breds—all the result of using pure-bred sires that cost each individual farmer a mere trifle if purchased under the co-operative plan...
...The Local Union that decides to "swat" the grade bulls and bring to the community pure-bred bulls from good record blood lines makes the most profitable investment that it is possible to make, in proportion to the investment...
...So did I," answered the little fellow, "and I was looking for 'em...
...Gertie: Mamma...
...We must have a basis for our higher accomplishments, our delicate entertainments of poetry and philob-ophy, in the work of our hands...
...Miller says: "Why not make a frost map of the farm...
...Manual labor is the study of the external world...
...she exclaimed...
...It's a terrible indictment against our business judgment and intelligence that we stupidly and indifferently fail to realize the opportunities that are presented in this profitable field of neighborhood co-operation...
...And then after a deserved reputation is established for a distinct breed, the buyers will seek that vicinity when they want that breed, and that means easy and profitable marketing...
...I thought it was burglars...
...The advantages of riches remain with him who procured them, not with the heir...
...You see, I 'spected I'd be pretty tired tonight, so I said an encore after my prayers this morning.—Puck...
...Oh, it's you, you naughty boy...
...Crops with an extra long growing season or with an uncertain date of maturity could then be planted with greater security from early frost damage...
...It is easily possible to make a community noted for something, if a distinct breed of cows or hogs is selected, as should be done...
...Ex...
Vol. 7 • December 1915 • No. 12
