Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, December 17, 1920, Page 19

| FRIDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 17, 1920 H i i ! { i . _ THE BEMIDJ1 DAILY PIONEER i . A SORCHUM SHOWS | LARGER ACREAGE More Than 5,000,000 Acres Uti- lized in Growing of Crop in This Country. MOST EXCELLENT FOR FORAGE Most Serious Disadvantage as Pasture or Solling Crop Is Danger of Prus- / sic ‘Acid Poisoning—Culiti- vated Rows Best. The growing of sorghum for forage In this country has Increased until the | 1918 crop amounted to more than 5,000,000 acres, according to Farmers’ Bulletin 1158, just issued by the Unit- ed States Department of Agriculture. Most of this acreage was located in the southeastern states and in the southern half of the great plains. Useful Hay Crop. Sorghum is most useful as a hay crop in the southern states because of its certainty of producing a crop and on account of the failure of ordinary hay crops, such as timothy and alfalfa, in that section. Both the sweet sor- ghums and the grain sorghums are ex- ceflent silage crops. The department advises that stockmen in the great plains area can avoid the loss of thou- sands of cattle by feeding sorghum silage which has been stored at a small expense in pit silos. The principal varleties of the sweet - sorghum, copsidered from a forage standpoint, are the Minnesota Amber, Red Amber, Orange, Sumac, Honey and Gooseneck. The grain sorghums most valuable for forage are the Black- | bull, Red, Pink and Dwart kafirs. One Serious Disadvantage. The most serlous disadvantage in the use of sorghums as a pasture or | soiling crop Is the danger of prussic- acid polsoning. Almost every farmer who has grown sorghum as a farm Harvesting Sweet Sorghum for Sirup Making. crop knows that it is danpgerous to allow cattle to eat even a small quan- | tity of green "ir hum before It has o5t office—Landon Punch. foot.” matured. The wild animals of Africa are said to avoid sorghum instinctively. while it {8 young, refusing to eat it until it has ripened; but domestic ani- mals in America show no such intu- ition. No sure remedy for prussic- acid polsoning has been fcund. Doses of glucose (corn sirup) or large quan- tities of milk will prove beneficial if given in time. enced in the southern states than in those farther north. Sorghum ylelds about equally well whetlier planted ‘in close drills or rows 40 inches apart, the department finds; but the cultivated rows are most de- pendable in seasons of loy rainfall. SHORT ‘LIFE OF FARM TOOLS Farmer Must Stand Pntt\y High Acre Charge on Most of His Labor- > Saving Devices. The life of farm tools i3 short'at the best and if a tool is given shelter its life depends upon the number of acres it has covered. If the ‘tool is left out all winter its life is not de- pendent upon the number of ackgs it covers but -upon how long it can re- gist the elements. It may be interest- ing to know the average life of some common tools. A manure spreader is useful, on the average, eight years; the sulky plow is good for twelve years of hard work, while the average life of mowing machines, side deliv- ery rakes and gas engines is twelve years. If a person will take the first cost and then add on to it the Interest on the investment and annual depre- clation, taxes, etc., then divide this sum by the number of acres he has used it over, in most cases he will find that he has a pretty high acre charge on most of the tools he keeps. Grain binders will show an acre charge of about sixty cents; grain drills twenty-six cents; corn planters twenty-two cents; hay loaders seventy- five cents and disk harrows forty-five cents. OVERCOME CHESTNUT BLIGHT Hybrid Trees Are Quite Resistant to Disease and Produce Nuts of Good Flavor. Chestnut orchards which have been practically annihilated by a blight of Japanese origin may be restored through efforts of the United States Department of Agriculture. Ten years’ experimentation has shown that it is ' possible to cross the chinquapin, a dwarf chestnut, with the Japanese chestnut, which is blight resistant, and that the hybrid trees thus produced are quite resistant to the disease and yleld nuts of good flavor and quality. Gratitude, A clerk employed behind the coun- ter at a post office in the south of Eng- land recently rescued a young girl from drowning. In order’ to show thelr appreciation of the young man’s bravery, local residents have now de- elded to purchase their stamps at his @hristmas. Cheer for All the Pear ‘A solid year of Christmas cheer! Smiling faces and happy hearts! crossingl bridges! Who does not long for Well, there is such a ing it. No time for worrying and a way to make that true? way and many are find- Give Christmas presents that are useful and will be appreciated the year ’round. They’ll recall to mind daily the happy occasion when they were given and received. Thus will the Spirit of Christ- mas be kept green. People who put thought into their giving are saying “Merry Christmas” electrically, this year especially. Such presents invariably impress with their lasting elegance and good taste, yet they are not expensive. And the the instant appreciation ir great service commands of the user. There’s something electrical for all on your list, something they’ll be the happier for having and using. Come and see. Minnesota Electric Light & l"ower Co. Elks Building Phone 26 Less trouble is expefi- . | | BETTER SIRES CAMPAIGN A flock of 20,000 poultry, single-comb white leghorns, s all standard bred, is one of the largest to be enrolled in ! the “Better Sires — Better Stock” campaign conducted by the United States Department of Agriculture and co-operating agencies to ¥mprove the average quality. of domestic animals and fowls*in the United States. This flock, In King county, Wash, ranks among the largest and best utllity flocks in (he coun- try, The owner also reported a herd of 173 Holstein cattle and 21 Duroc-Jersey swine. ——————————, RIDDING FIELDS OF GOPHERS Poliséning Is by Far Most Effective Means of Exterminating De. structive Rodents. Trapping and fumigation are two of the more commonly practiced meth- ods of ridding fields of gophers, but poisoning is by far the more eflective, although great cnre must be exercised in order to prevent poisoning of either the operator or farm animals which have access to the field. very ac- tive poison must be used, as, for ex- ainple, strychnine or eyanide of potas- sium. Pieces of potato, apple or sweet potato poisoned with s chnine eap- sules wer the purp very well, and raisins or prunes treated in this way have been found to give very good results. CARE FOR FARM IMPLEMENTS Moldboard and Shovels of Plow and | | films can borrow them if they comply Cultivator Should Be Treated to Coat of Grease. The wheels of the plow and the cul- tivator have stopped turning and need no more oiling nor greasing this win- ter. But be sure that the moldboard fand shovels have been treated to n coat of grease. A generous applica- tion of axle grense mow will save a generous application of elbow grease next spring. 2 i i Sardinla’s Wheel Windows. Many of the medieval Sard churches bad _fine wheel windows In thelr wesf \fronts, writes A. R. Giles In the Journal of the American [Institute of Architects, but the greater num- ber of these have had their tracery ruined by being walled up in order to put a kitchen glass window In the middle. « The Trouble. Patience—What's become of Percy. who used to go with you so much? Patrice—Why, a cloud came into his life, “About the size bf a man’s hand, I suppose?” . “No; exactly the size of my papa’s FILMS SAVE TIME %‘ut rto Good Use by Department " ,of Agriculture. Pictures of Educational Value May Be Borrowed From the Government at Little Expense. The motion picture Is a thme saver. | Suppose a county agent is showing a group of farmeérs how to construct a wooden silo; with the motion-picture what it would take him days to show. oy actual demonstration. Suppose a aome-demonstration agent wishes to show a model kitchen in Massuchu- setts to a group of farm women Iin Nebraska. A trip from the Great Plains to. the North Atluntic Is not necessary. The thing can be done in a_few minutes with the motion-picture projector and a reel of, films. The United States 6upm1mcnt of Agriculture is using the motion pie- ture in a great muny ways, Kilms already made cover 112 agricultural subjects. There are 460 reels more than 460,000 feet of film a 2 able for distribution. All of this film Is_in circulation, most of it constantly. | During the past 12 months more than 700,000 persons saw one or more of these films. The films were in use, not only by the extension workers and other em- ployees of the department, but by state colleges of agriculture, farm burenus, chambers of commerce, womens' cfubs {and various other organizations, as well as motion-picture houses. Persons desiring to use any of these commercial with some necessary regulations. Ap- plications can bé made through the county agent, the director of estension of state agricultural college, or any other oflicially co-operating agency. The borrower does not have to pay anything for the use of the films, ex- cept the cost of transportation. The whole matter Iy explained iin detail in Department Circular 114, which has just been printed and coples outfit he can'show thém Iy 15 minutes - CARDS and CARDS We have this year, as in former years, the best selected line of Christmas cards ever shown in Bemidji—Cards with appropriate mes- sages for Mother, Father, Sweetheart, Friends and acquaintances. Prices from 1c to 50c. CHRISTMAS BOX CANDY Christmas Hard Candies and Chocolates Cigars in Christmas Packages Tobacco in Fancy Jars Cigarettes in Xmas Boxes—In Al]l Your | cular gives a'list of ail ! ture reels, it explains in detail the borrowing process, it outlthes ‘the pro- | cedure for those who ivould rather buy |t!|an borrow, it teils how to select a ' projector, and sets forth the advan- | tages of the various kinds. It dis- cusses lights and screens, and it ‘gives ons of words that motion-pic- should know. “Bees” Fooled Napoleon. Napoleon was not satisled with the fleur-de-lys, when he came, to the throne of France, as a royal emblem. He desired something more. anclent, and in secking it he saw what was supposed to be a handful of gold bees, thelr wings encrusted with a red stone of no great val but rich fn fits pure crimson. Tha “bees” were scat- | tered on a green cloth, and Napoleon | inquiriog into thelr orlgin, was told i they had been found in the grave of Childeric when it was opened in 1653. This was ancient enough for the new emperor, and “he “ordered that they be adopted as the imperial emblem forthwith. - The facts are, that what was held to be zolden bees were In reality mere ornamentations, scattered on the har- ‘ pess of horses, especially war horses, o that in parades they would glitter s much as their mailed masters. A wire legs were in veality those that retained the wire devices for fasten- ing them to the leather or trappings. They have since been known as “fleur- ous” The oviginal “bees” discovered In the tomb had been sent as a curi- osity to Louls XIV. It Must Have Been. The seventh-grade puplls were writ- ing descriptions of people, and one rather daring * youngster wrote one about the principal of the building. It star‘ed off: “Our princlpnl has & cold ‘and steely eye) Very much amused, - the teacher of that grade handed it to the principal, who in turn was even more amusged. When she visited that room that af- ternoon she made mention of the de- seription. “It was quite good,” she smiled at the little writer, “particular- ly that part about the steely eye.” e had expected the children to laugh with her, but they remained quite sober. And then a tiny, ed, thn | few bearing what was thought to be . ! her, hand. | | ' . i o N ; ¥ W RN W .~1r1'-] T Please, Miss " she addressed the principal, “T tlih k he could have written a better deberip- tion of you if he hadn’t had (o slgn uis pame to it.” 4 Springs a Leak. i bog After gnining a reputation Al ! fishermen and camping pnrtl? by | many years ef reliable behavion, | Pa- metlla lake, in the mountains of west- orn Orvegon, suddenly sprung a feak Jast summer like a punctured hgsin, according to an articje In Populay Ae- [ Magazine. Toward the end of the season the water surfocey. imd shrunk to a few acres, all’the}igst having dralned out through f 9 in ‘the bottom, ' enlarsied, ‘apparebitly, oy some subterranean disturbam Explain This i “Pop!” “Yes, my son.” “Doesn’t eating satisfy the appe- tite?” “Ql, yes, my boy.” “Well, why is it then the more A man eats the more appetite he Is said to have?” Advancement in India. \ A training school for Y. W. C. A. secretaries, the first of its kind in the country, was opened in Indin, Novems ber 1, directed by a secretary from the Dnited States. Eight young Indian women, the same number as started in the first class of the training schood in the United States in 1904, are In the first class, studying administra. tion of associntion activities, club work with girls and organization of girl students. There are 47 Y. W. C. A. workers in India at prescnt and 161 centers of - work. As It Looked to Him. An old Swede from a northern lum- ber camp visited a clty recently and saw the moving plctures for the first time, Relating his experiences when back at camp, he said, “Ay vent to vun place where dey squirt pictures on de vall.”—Boston Transcript. l ——— Grease in Wallpaper. Press a cloth molst with high-grade gasoline agalnst the paper for about a minute. Do this repentedly, as a single application will remove only part of the grense. wiaarsrens Distinctly Up to Date. “I'm negotiating for-the services of * a hired man.” said Mr. Cobbles, “How are you gefting along?’ “Flrst rate. He scems to llke -my meotorcar pretty well, and the table board andl the jazz records we bought for our phono- graph. Al we've got to do now is to decide on the wages and the number of hours a day he thinks be can work without Injuring his heplth.”—Bire mingham Age-Herald. ) Clotnes and Gleanliness. $t'ls true thai clothes were move apparel. he nobleman wi s fond as his “ladye love” of rich fubrics and ruflies. and the clasp thas heldichis Noating plume to . hisc- velves -hat flashed with real ,gems.. But here is where clvilization takes a-hand. Com- pare the cleanliness of the men of the past with those of the present. In the Sixteenth centw® French g‘qnfiexi\en clutnged their linen once in two weeks, and even at that were deemed reck- lessly extravagant by the English foe so doing. ' ' Clung to Coats of Arms. George Washington used, on his seal and bookplate, the English arms that had been In his family for generations. Even the Quakers among the early sets tlers, although they advocated simple, {sustere living, and abandoned plumes Moar their hats and lace for coat sleeves, would have considered it a re- nuneiation of an inberited right, liko \relifquishing their fumily names, to siveé up the coals of arms granted to Srlu{lr ancestor i Frugal to the End. ' An old woman known for her mlis- efly habits was on her deathbed. She not Joug to live. Presently her lihs moved, and her daughter bent ofer her to catch the lust words. “Rlow out that stump of candle” whispered the old woman. “I cun to die in the dark.” 0 Some Cow! Long Island animal was adver- mfi for sale by her ownmer: “For u‘lq', cow that gives five quarts of lflll a day also two grindstones, one st of harness and a hay rake."—New wk Centrnl Magazine. mes Mac's Confectionery e T F) Favorite Brands. Abercrombie & MeCready THIRD STREET Christmas Suggestions Indian beaded Mocedsins, Indian bedd- ed Hand Bags, Sweet Grass Badkets and Japanese Work Baskets. BOOKS and BOOKLETS |! What would be nicer than a subscriip- ! tion for your favorite Magazine— us take your subsecription. t \ picturesque in past ages and 1)) e s s Well 4% wonien gh-rlml.z.how&x"s'{f‘fi : e —