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30808The question then may be asked, was there anything to market?
59485WHERE IS CELLAR WINTERING ADVISABLE?
28730If the Spaniards could find such vast treasures in America, why should not the English do the same?
358161727( Bontoc?).
40888''What,''they cried, in contempt,''a plow made of pot metal?
40888''Will you sell this?''
39869How Can We Help You?
39869WHAT IS DYNAMITE?
33243The land was suitable, the location was suitable, but who''s going to run a dairy on$ 10,000 an acre land? 33243 What does a man want a cow for?
40670CHAPTER II COKE OF NORFOLK: FATTIER OF EXPERIMENTAL FARMS_"Seest thou a man diligent in his business?
40670Can not we, as agriculturists, say the same with equal truth?
40670Might it not be possible to do away with them also, and leave only the driver?
40670Three years later a friend said to him"Cyrus, why do n''t you go West with your reaper, where the land is level and labour cheap?"
34562How was the landside handle attached?
34562Of what material is the moldboard of the 1838 plow made?
34562This raised two questions: Why, and for how long, was wrought iron used for the moldboards of the Deere plows?
34562WHY A"STEEL"PLOW In view of the facts and the probabilities based on them, how is the legend of the John Deere steel plow to be explained?
48741But who are they that"_ despise the day of small things_?"
48741Can the_ police_ and the_ gens d''armes_ be sufficient substitutes?
48741Can there be order, economy and security, under such circumstances?
48741If_ habits_ can thus control the_ passions_, to what important uses might not a wise legislation turn them?
48741Why should I not?
48760Are not riches uniformly invested with the magic power of extenuating the faults, and magnifying the good qualities of their possessor?
48760But who can tell how wide thine influence reigns?
48760For who can trace thy wild eccentric course, Or paint of mental light the lovely source?
48760I invoke thine aid, Whose wondrous force, what strain has e''er display''d?
48760When an individual is supposed to be affluent, have we ever known his merit to be unjustly overlooked or disregarded?
59579Are not those farms which are situated upon the sea- shore sufficiently supplied with salt by the winds which are constantly sweeping over them?
59579As a starting point, it will, perhaps, be most instructive to inquire, what are the constituent elements of wheat?
59579Do you think that it would answer in a compost heap, or would it be preferable to put it into the cattle- yard or hog- pen?
59579Granted; and is not Buffalo the same?
59579How shall they be best supplied?
59579How shall they be provided for?
59579Johnson remarks that this is the case, and if this is so, would not the application of this sea- mud be too strong?
59579What mischievous young horse have you there?
20168And what produced this change?
20168Are those who cry_ wolf_ the loudest, entirely clear themselves, of a fondness for fat mutton?
20168But why?
20168The questions, then, which the farmer should now ask are,"which is best for me to buy, guano or coarse manure?"
20168Which is most wicked?
20168Who can wonder that barren lands have remained barren?
20168Who will not wonder if they still continue so, with such fertilizers as their owners might possess to render them otherwise?
20168perhaps you inquire, do you give these samples of rascality in England?
5350And are these men strong and happy?
5350And why should he be when he leads time by the forelock, and uses all there is?
5350But who would risk a reputation so clad and so environed?
5350Can one wonder that the Japanese loves his country or that they are born and bred landscape artists?
5350Can the farmers of our south Atlantic and Gulf Coast states, which are in the same latitude, sometime attain to this standard?
5350Must American agriculture ultimately feed sixteen people where it is now feeding but one?
5350Shall we be able, when our numbers have vastly increased, to permit all needful earnings to be acquired in a better way?
5350To the question,"What yield of sweet potatoes do you expect from this piece of land?"
5350What did the operation of this machine cost?
5350Who need believe they did not look beyond the imagery and commune with the Eternal Spirit?
33178( When are we to have the Penikese for the rural backgrounds?)
33178And Thomas Tusser, good husbandman, rejoiced that these bounties cost no cash:"What cost to good husband, is any of this?
33178Are we to make righteous use of the vast accumulation of knowledge of the planet?
33178But beyond this, how shall he take them into himself, how shall he make them to be of his spirit, how shall he complete his dominion?
33178Does the mothership of the earth have any real meaning to us?
33178Has our daily fare been honest?
33178How shall he become the man that his natural position requires of him?
33178If the farmer is engaged in a quasi- public business, shall we undertake to regulate him?
33178Is it desirable to have an important part of the labor of a people founded on ownership?
33178Is it essential to social progress that a day''s work shall be full measure?
33178May we not once in the year remember the earth in the food that we eat?
4525Another Great SermonHave you read it?
4525But what form of phosphorus shall we apply?
4525Is Land a Safe Investment?
4525Is the Soil Inexhaustible?
4525On the same basis, what would land be worth that produces 40 bushels of corn and equivalent values of other crops?
4525People sometimes ask,"How much of the phosphorus in raw phosphate is available?"
4525Where Is Nitrogen?
4525Will the manure from one cow serve to enrich 10 acres of land?
46995And what is the amount of inexpediency?
46995Are not the lands open to all, and disposed of at public sale?
46995Are not their arms and limbs as capable of labour, and their bodies of fatigue?
46995Are the slave holders of the south a privileged order, that these labours would demean them?
46995How many substantial rail fences would be erected, where there is now scarcely a brush bulwark against the encroachments of man or beast?
46995It might be asked, why will not a small chimney vent all the smoke of a small fire, in a large fire- place?
46995Were his services rewarded?
46995Were troops to be raised for the defence of the republic?
46995What are we to think, Gentlemen, of the purity of your motives, or the sincerity of your professions?
46995Where then is the inequality and the oppression?
46995Who will give away a hundred dollars and their interest for ever, for the sake of receiving twenty dollars of his own money as a premium?
46995Would the cinchona of commerce have the same efficacy?
46995[ 8] Did exigencies of state require a general or dictator?
46995and is there nothing to cheer the heart of the patriot in the reverse?
46995methinks I hear some hardy son of the field exclaim--"who is this that promises to improve our mode of farming?"
48759Thee, Mary, with this ring I wed-- So, fourteen years ago, I said.-- Behold another ring!--"for what?"
48759To we d thee o''er again?
48759_ Why not abrogate the rule, and while impertinent intrusion is kept at a distance, receive honest worth on the level, as man should receive man? 48759 ''How happens it, M. Le Comte,''said the Duchess''that while we all feel so much interest in the cause of the Americans, you say nothing for them?'' 48759 ''_ Sells_ hats?'' 48759 --Why not? 48759 And if not, to_ how many_, and to_ which_, of its regular constituents, are we to ascribe them? 48759 And who would exchange the blessings of freedom, for the repute of having eclipsed the whole human race in feats of valour and deeds of arms? 48759 Com''st to tell us Winter''s fled? 48759 Dost thou droop thy head in wo, Poor glory of an hour? 48759 I happened there when the question to be considered was, Whether physicians had on the whole, done most good or harm? 48759 What could ten thousand high- sounding titles add to the reputation, or contribute to the internal satisfaction of these sages? 48759 What then is the use of that word?'' 48759 Why thy cheek so pale? 48759 Without rain or other means ameliorating the soil, what would be the aspect of the globe? 48759 and will he come, and shall we be Restor''d once more to life, and liberty? 48759 what the situation of man? 48759 what the state of vegetation? 30975 But some one raised the chickens in market for the market- price, and why not I?"
30975But the great question in bee- culture is, How to prevent the depredation of the wax- moth?
30975But the practical question is, How can wheat be most surely and profitably grown?
30975Does a maple need so much more food than a pine, or is it in the habits of the trees?
30975How shall it have vitality if most of them are removed?
30975How shall such locations be made dry, and these evils prevented?
30975How shall we plow?
30975Is not clay a very tight soil?
30975Is not this an important branch of farming operations?
30975Now wherein is their utility?
30975Shall it be drilled or sowed broadcast?
30975Shall we plant thick, as in a nursery, and then transplant, or shall we plant where they are to grow?
30975The leaves are the lungs of the tree, and how can it grow if they are mostly removed?
30975The one question is, How can I grow wheat surely and profitably?
30975What better service can some Southern gentleman do for his own chosen and favorite region than to write such an article?
30975When should plowing be done?
30975When, how, and how much, shall we plow?
30975Why is this?
30975Why, then, is a heavy clay useless for potatoes?
30975_ How much_ is it best to plow land?
27274A problem of considerable difficulty is presented in the question, How many individual plants will a certain piece of soil support in a healthy way?
27274But do you think that it is barely the salt- peter, imbibed into the seed or root, which causeth this fertility?
27274If it be asked, Are the nitrogen, phosphoric acid, and potash in farmyard manure present in the proportion in which crops require these constituents?
27274Now what may it be that endues these liquors with such prolifick virtue?
27274The great questions which had first to be solved by the agricultural chemist were,--What is the food of plants?
27274The question, therefore, of greatest interest in connection with the formation of these nitrate- beds is, Whence has the nitric acid been derived?
27274This being so, how, he asked, could it be the original source of the carbon of plants?
27274What is the source, or, what are the sources, of plant- nitrogen?
27274_ Conclusion._ In conclusion, it may be asked how far are the artificial sources of nitrogen able to make good the loss?
27274_ Is Nitrate an exhausting Manure?_ The common charge brought against it is, that it is what has been termed an exhausting manure.
27274_ The Cause of the Heat of Fermentation._ It may be asked, How is the decay, or fermentation, of vegetable matter, such as farmyard manure, caused?
27274_ What constitutes Fertility in a Soil._ The question, What constitutes fertility in a soil?
27274and,--What is the source of that food?
27274or rather, To what is it due?
165941580) being revived where are anie better to be found?
16594And can they make even at the year''s rent?''
16594Can any one doubt that if there had been a systematic robbery of the smaller holders on enclosure they would not have risen''en masse''?
16594How many men has the self- binding reaping machine thrown for a time out of work?
16594How was it that cottages had increased so much in rural districts, which are of course alluded to, in spite of enclosure?
16594If members of Parliament, rich men riding good horses, could not get to London, how did the clumsy wagons and carts of the day fare?
16594On the contrary, says he, who among the country people live lazier lives than the grazier and the dairyman?
16594What must remote country roads have been like when these important highways were in this state?
16594What other class is content with such a scanty return?
16594Where find ye?
16594Where would many tenants be if commercial principles ruled on rent audit days?
16594Why has this sturdy class so dwindled in numbers, and left England infinitely the weaker for their decrease?
16594Why then was this most obvious improvement not more generally effected?
16594Why?
16594[ 60] Were the manors as isolated as some writers have asserted?
16594in summer; if one man''s food was reckoned at half his wages, how far did the other half go in feeding and clothing his family?
26313Does your father want you to take charge of the farm and manage it so that you can make your training count?
26313Does your friend desire to buy land in any particular locality?
26313How much does your father expect to pay you?
26313Why?
26313( 1) How nearly do the conditions, especially those of soil and climate, of the given location correspond to the averages of the state?
26313( 2) Do chestnut trees grow naturally upon your land?
26313( 2) How much larger yields may be expected on account of better methods employed?
26313( 3) What is your altitude?
26313( 3) Will there be a general increase or decrease in the price of crops during the coming years?
26313( 5) Will the products be sold for cash, or may they be turned into animal products at an increased profit?
26313Can the commodities be sold for the December farm price?
26313How are these existing rural forces to be made more effective?
26313How is the yield per acre to be determined?
26313How much will it increase in value?
26313Indeed, one of the most common questions asked is, What do you think of this state or that state or this region or that as a place to farm?
26313To what extent, by the judicious holding of products, can advance in price be obtained?
26313What has it to do with the price of wheat?
26313What has the teaching of physiology to do with the one- room schoolhouse in Indiana with its modern system of plumbing?
26313Why do persons usually sleep on the second floor, while horses and cattle are placed in the basement?
26313Why, then, has such progress been made in recent years?
26313Why?
26313Will potatoes sold at the time of digging bring less than the December price?
26313Will wheat or maize held until May bring a higher price?
29057And have they in return for the advantages which it proposes to them, given it that countenance and encouragement which it claims at their hands?
29057And stranger still-- why should he put himself in antagonism to its success?
29057And were they not then considered, even by themselves as well as by others, as occupying the very lowest position in the scale of society?
29057And why, then, should any farmer in this State hold back from giving this Institution his cordial and hearty support?
29057Are they not found in our Legislative Halls in fair proportion with men of different pursuits?
29057Are they not regarded as being on a level at least with those of other callings in social importance?
29057Assuming all this to be undeniably true, where can be found more potent agencies in the work of elevation than Agricultural Colleges?
29057But although the farmers have emerged from this condition very slowly, yet what is their position now?
29057But have the farmers of this State, as a class, heretofore recognized this fact?
29057But what was the social position of the farmers, let me ask-- even in this highly favored country-- fifty or sixty years ago?
29057But will this probably be so?
29057Do they not occupy positions of confidence and trust in society?
29057Is it necessary that he should be a dolt in order to be fitted for his vocation?
29057Is knowledge-- a knowledge of those sciences which are intimately connected with agriculture as an art-- of no value to the farmer?
29057Is the Institution itself responsible for all these mistakes?
29057Let me here say to the objectors and fault- finders,--suppose all this be true?
29057Or, will his enjoyment, in his daily round of toil, be any greater because unconscious that he is groping his way along in the dark?
29057Who should?
29057Why then do men ever oppose or neglect their own interests?
29057Will ignorance and bad husbandry increase his crops or enable him to find a better market for his products?
29057Will it elevate his thoughts and desires to higher and nobler aims, or inspire him to"look from nature up to nature''s God?"
29057Will_ ignorance_ give respectability, or sweeten the toil of the husbandman?
29057more cloth with the same money?
29057who_ then_ is to blame?
11238And why should not the Nation profit by the experience of its citizens?
11238And, if we do fail to recognize it, can we reasonably expect even a fairly good reputation at the hands of our descendants?
11238But after that has been achieved, is there nothing more to be done?
11238But what is the case with the farmer?
11238Can we reasonably fail to recognize the obligation which rests upon us in this matter?
11238For whose benefit shall they be conserved-- for the benefit of the many, or for the use and profit of the few?
11238How have the agricultural schools and colleges and the Departments of Agriculture of State and Nation met this situation?
11238One point of view asks,"Is there any express and specific law authorizing or directing such action?"
11238Shall we conserve those resources, and in our turn transmit them, still unexhausted, to our descendants?
11238The fundamental question which confronts us is, What shall we do with it?
11238The great fundamental problem which confronts us all now is this: Shall we continue, as a Nation, to exist in well- being?
11238The old saying,"Who ever heard of a man shouldering his gun to fight for his boarding house?"
11238The other asks,"Is there any justification in law for doing this desirable thing?"
11238The overshadowing question before the American people to- day is this: Shall the Nation govern itself or shall the interests run this country?
11238The question we are deciding with so little consciousness of what it involves is this: What shall we do with our natural resources?
11238What city does not regret some ill- considered franchise?
11238What is the conclusion of the whole matter?
11238What is the next step?
11238What is the reason for the enormous movement from the farms into the cities?
11238What specific things can the women of the Nation do for conservation?
11238What will happen when the forests fail?
11238Who is to blame because representatives of the people are so commonly led to betray their trust?
6104But for many days afterwards I felt quite lonely and sad without my poor little pet-- yet what could have been done?
6104Do you think we were much to be pitied?
6104F---- dared not stir from his"bad eminence;"so Helen and I wended our slippery way up to him, and in answer to his horrified"Where is your habit?"
6104F----said, quite disdainfully,"You do n''t mean to say you''re really frightened?"
6104Have I ever told you that our post- office is ten miles off, with an atrocious road between us and it?
6104I immediately inquired if he had been out of doors that morning?
6104I inquired if she knew how to ride?
6104In her own cottage at home, who did all these things for her?
6104It is not a palace is it?
6104It was now nearly seven o''clock, quite dark, and freezing hard; we were most anxious to get on, and yet what was to be done?
6104Of course, the constant thought was,"Where are the sheep?"
6104Shall New Zealand have never a fable, A rhyme to be sung by the nurses, A romance of a famous Round Table, A"Death of Cock Robin"in verses?
6104Was it not good of her?
6104What could I say?
6104What was to be done?
6104Who could think of their"Ego"in such a glorious presence, and with such a panorama before them?
6104You''ve heard of St. George and the dragon, Or seen them; and what can be finer, In silver or gold on a flagon, With Garrard or Hancock designer?
487482 What shews transcendent wisdom in a man? 48748 4. Who is the poorest man?
487485. Who is the richest man? 48748 Would you like to turn from that which is wrong?
48748And does the distiller differ from all those, in any other respect, than that he makes while they sell the poison for the purpose of its being drank?
48748Are both these culpable, and shall those who import and sell it by the cargo, escape obloquy?
48748Are we to be interdicted the_ moderate_ use of them, because others drink to excess and get drunk?
48748Aside from the singularity of this case, the inquiry naturally presents itself, could the milk of the cow have been put to a more profitable use?
48748Better to lonely sit i''the douf spence Than catch the sough o''words without the sense.-- Ye winna promise?
48748But who, when I am snatch''d from thee Will hush thy trembling sighs?
48748Did ever an Irish parliament make such a blunder as this?
48748E. AULD AGE Is that Auld Age that''s tirling at the pin?
48748Holinshed says,"when our houses were built of willow, then had we oaken men?
48748Is it not probable that her milk made an addition of at least_ 600lbs._ to the quantity of pork?
48748Shall we deny ourselves the_ reasonable enjoyment_ of them, because others become_ intemperate_?
48748What constitutes supreme goodness in a man?
48748What is the fairest quality in a man?
48748What is the greatest folly in a man?
48748What is the most headstrong vice in a man?
48748What is this food that gives to plants their developement, and maturity, and powers of reproduction?
48748Would you like if ladies would visit you, and speak comfort to you, and help you to be better?
48748Would you tell them your griefs?
48748_ What?_ eagerly exclaimed Emma.
48748says he,"it may be asked by the reader, are we required to relinquish the use of wine and ardent spirits, in order to prevent their abuse by others?
4509How shall we explain the good effect of warm water on branches in a resting state? 4509 I find,"they say,"that such acres are held as''lots''at wildly speculative prices"and they ask"Where can I find such land?"
4509When Adam delved and Eve span Where was then the gentleman?'' 4509 (What Shall Our Boys Do for a Living?"
4509A Vanderbilt among cultivators, or the other fellow who makes the''average''?"
4509But the question is, how can all be helped?
4509Can you take pride in an Empire on which the sun never sets when you think of the courts in which, as Will Crooks says, the sun never rises?
4509Do you suppose the owner business would pay if it were run in the same way that his farm is run?
4509How are you to treat a lad who has naturally an inclination for the work on the farm?
4509How can you make soup of it?"
4509How shall one start bee- keeping?
4509How would you like to grow this dainty salad right in your living room and cut several crops from a single planting lasting nearly three months?
4509In the first place, where is the idle land?
4509Is it not the divorce of the people from the soil?
4509Is there no escape?
4509No?
4509Now what''s the matter with your helping your county and country and humanity by organizing those two hundred waiting buyers in your own town?
4509Now, how to store these boxes when they are not in the sunny places near the windows?
4509Remember about the present increased and changing prices and costs?
4509She got the acres, built her house, and raised one fine crop of-- swans?
4509Then what can you do?
4509What is the root of our social and spiritual ailment?
4509What is wrong with us?
4509What may not be done by practical learning and applied intelligence?
4509When the eve is cool?
4509Which are you to be?
4509Why?
4509You remember the story of the wonderful coon that Chandler Harris tells?
4509in gardens?
4509nuts grafted on wild trees?
4509partridge berries?
11555And why should we not care to do so?
11555But what ails her?
11555But what it is that? 11555 But,"said I,"what sort of place do we really mean to take?"
11555Have you any houses to let at such a distance from town, with such a quantity of land, such a number of rooms?
11555Have you got a card from Mr.--?
11555Is it far?
11555Then why not take it at one?
11555Well, then, who will buy a cow that is sure to be dead to- morrow or next day?
11555Well,said the writer,"why not make the butter yourself, till you can suit yourself with a new servant?"
11555Well,we asked,"what does it depend on?"
11555What have we made?
11555What of that?
11555Where can we hope to find a house which will be suitable for ourselves, six children, and a small income?
11555Where shall we live?
11555Why, George, what can the pony want with sugar?
11555& c."Oh, yes madam,"said the smiling clerk, and immediately opened a large ledger;"what rent do you propose giving?"
11555And after all, what have you made by your butter- making, pig- killing, and fowl- slaughtering?"
11555But now arose a difficulty which had not previously occurred to us: Who was to make it?
11555Have any of our readers ever seen the densely- loaded wagons which enter that market?
11555Here H. stopped him saying,"Pray, Mr. N., did you not purchase your children a pony, and did it not catch cold and die in a month afterwards?
11555I.--WHERE SHALL WE LIVE?
11555Must we give it up?
11555Now what could I complain of?
11555WHERE SHALL WE LIVE?
11555We inquired, Why?
11555What in the world could that mean?
11555What shall we not make now that we have more stock, our ground well cropped, and, better still, have gained so much experience?"
11555What were we to do?
11555Where, indeed?"
11555cried I;"how much do you intend to give a- year for all these conveniences:""How much?"
11555get the staircases fixed, the doors and windows put in, the walls papered and painted?"
11555must we give up all hope of eating our own butter, and regard the money as lost which we had just expended for the churn, etc.?
35696But how shall we obtain fertilizers?
35696Then why not leave them the field?
35696--"But would n''t you have a young man study in order that he may become a good farmer?"
35696A thousand?
35696And how shall any one be enlightened and assured on the point, unless by the aid of Science?
35696But how?
35696Can we doubt that this steady recession of our Egypt, our Hungary, is destined to continue?
35696Five hundred?
35696He who has a farm already, and is content with it, has no reason to ask,"Whither shall I go?"
35696How can we have good Fairs, if those who might make the best display of products save themselves the trouble by not making any?
35696How many tuns of earth ought a farmer to be obliged to turn over and over in order to obtain therefrom a hundred bushels of Corn?
35696How nearly have we realized this?
35696If he does the best he can, what better_ can_ he do?
35696If so, at what profit?
35696If the produce is sold, most farmers know how much it brings; but how many know how much it cost?
35696Most farmers fail to keep accounts with their several fields and crops; yet what could be more instructive than these?
35696Of course, he must improve and enrich it; but with what?
35696Ought we to do it?
35696Say the Corn brings 75 cents per bushel, and the Oats 50 cents: was either or both produced at a profit?
35696Shall not all who can do so at moderate cost resolve to test on their own farms the advantages and benefits that may be secured by Irrigation?
35696Shall not these things be considered?
35696The good farmer begins by inquiring,"Wherein was my soil originally deficient?
35696Then why did they not try?
35696Two hundred?
35696WILL FARMING PAY?
35696Why should not our Atlantic slope have its Lombardy?
35696Will Farming Pay?
35696Will it Pay?
35696Will it pay?
35696_ Five_ thousand?
35696and how?
35696and of what has it been exhausted by subsequent crops?"
21022A thin layer of clay_ a_ entirely prevents the water running through] If water can not get through can air?
21022And are you sure that your litmus does not contain excess of free acid or free alkali?
21022Are there any pebbles left?
21022Are you quite certain of your result?
21022But what would happen if instead of a piece of clay one inch long you had a whole field of clay?
21022But why should the liquid clear?
21022Can a brick be changed back into clay?
21022Can you find out with a microscope?
21022Can you find the worm holes in a garden lawn?
21022Can you see the separate particles of mineral matter?
21022Can you tell whether it is acid, neutral or alkaline?
21022Did this moisture have any effect on the soil?
21022Did you test the distilled water with litmus paper?
21022Does any portion of the soil burn?
21022Does it seem damp or dry?
21022Does this dried mud consist of very tiny grains of sand or of some material different from sand?
21022How do the plants manage to get water on dry days?
21022How have the appearance and properties of the soil been changed by drying?
21022How large are these?
21022How long does it take before the water becomes quite clear again?
21022How many different sorts of peat can you get samples of?
21022How much plant food is there in the top soil?
21022If so, how large are they, and of what kind of stone?
21022If so, what conclusions do you draw?
21022In what way do dead leaves get carried into the soil?
21022Is any moisture given off?
21022Is any residue left after heating to dryness?
21022Is it fine or in lumps?
21022Is the soil equally friable at different times of the year?
21022Is there any change in its appearance after heating?
21022Is there any effervescence?
21022Is there any evidence of vegetable matter in the soil?
21022Is this because clay is lighter than water?
21022Is this solution acid, alkaline or neutral?
21022Peat mould, peat moss litter, sphagnum moss, turf for burning, dry moor peat?
21022WHAT IS THE SOIL MADE OF?
21022What becomes of the fragments thus carried away by the water?
21022What colour is it?
21022What do you notice?
21022What fraction of the soil is fine enough to go through the gauze?
21022What has been the capacity of the soil in gallons per square yard?
21022What has the plant food been made from?
21022What is the material this time, sand or clay?
21022What will be the effect of these moisture differences on plants?
21022What would have happened if the sample had been dug out during wetter or drier weather?
21022Why did it flow quickly at the bridge and slowly elsewhere?
21022Would that shrink also, and, if so, what would the field look like?
21022in a garden path?
21022{ 1} CHAPTER I WHAT IS THE SOIL MADE OF?
17683A mouthful? 17683 Are you Nell?"
17683Can a saloon- keeper take too much beer?
17683Do you base your calculations upon last fall''s crops?
17683Do you call that a candle?
17683Good?
17683So it was n''t your home?
17683Upon what do you base your calculations?
17683What is it, Yik?
17683What is the matter with him?
17683What shall we do?
17683Why did n''t he take his coat off?
176832. Who is the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court and who his associates?
17683But where was this one to appear?
17683But, supposing him to have got this sound animal; what has he got?
17683By the way, how is your store coming on?
17683By the way, where are the poor deluded woodchucks, muskrats, and Old Settlers, who told us we were to bask in mild etherialness all winter long?
17683By the way, you are getting up a report of this grand assembly, I suppose?"
17683Could Harry White be a cattle thief?
17683How d''do, Mr. Blank?
17683How did I happen to find her?
17683How has it advanced?
17683How is your paper coming out?
17683How much did you make for your share?"
17683How will we propagate this valuable race of the cherry?
17683Is it not by the invaluable aid of men who have given their whole lives to the solution of some special problem?
17683Is not the expert swine- grower the successful man?
17683It plainly indicated to these observers that some important event was impending, and what could be more important than the birth of a great man?
17683Now brother farmers, I have moved the adoption of appropriate names for every farm in the land; who will second the motion?
17683Petted, well- housed, demure, and sleek; Three times a day he is called to feast, And why should he not be quiet and meek?
17683There is a beautiful little song entitled,"What is Home Without a Mother?"
17683What are the laws in regard to drainage passed by the last Legislature?
17683What can I do for them?
17683What do you s''pose marm''ll say?"
17683What is it moves that jeweled throng of dainty worshippers?
17683What is the reason of this?
17683What nobler employment in which young men can engage?
17683Where had we been?
17683Where was Jack?
17683Where was Yik Kee?
17683Why have they not been introduced?
17683You are here drumming up custom, I suppose?"
17683You are the man who got drunk and raised a fuss on a street car?"
17683which could be supplemented with another of equal interest, to wit:"What is Home Without a Name?"
17683whispered Ted, cocking his revolver?
59316= Computation.= What kind of computational ability do you want your computer to have?
59316= Ease of Use.= Is the program fairly easy to use?
59316= Effectiveness.= Does the program do what you want it to do correctly and consistently?
59316= External Storage.= What kind of external storage does the system use, floppy disk, hard disk, or tape?
59316= Help.= What help can you get if you run into problems?
59316= How to Choose a Microcomputer System= Should you buy a microcomputer?
59316= How to Select Software= The key criteria for selecting good software are the following: Does it meet your needs?
59316= Input and Output Devices.= What kind of output do you need?
59316= Memory.= Does your computer have enough memory to run the program?
59316= Memory.= How much memory, or information storage capacity, do you need?
59316= Recommendation.= Does the program come from a reputable source, or does it come with a recommendation from someone you trust?
59316= Training.= What training is available in the use of the new equipment?
59316= Value.= What equipment and software programs come with the basic package, and are these items included in the base price?
59316= Where to Look for Good Software= Where do you find good software?
59316And does it have good support documentation?
59316Are there instructions in the program or in the written documentation?
59316Are they free or at nominal cost?
59316Are they readable?
59316Can you add memory and other components later if you need to?
59316Do you need an 80-column or 40-column monitor?
59316Do you need color and strong graphics capability?
59316Does he or she have the patience and skills to learn to operate the computer, and to enter the large amounts of data that will be required initially?
59316Does it do what it says it will do?
59316Does it guide you through the program?
59316Does the company or store from which you plan to buy offer a service contract, and how much does it cost?
59316Does the company provide updated versions periodically?
59316Does the computer come with a standard operating system so that it will be compatible with a range of software programs?
59316Does the program have a"help"function?
59316Hard or floppy?
59316How big a screen do you need?
59316How do you decide on a system that''s best for you?
59316How do you select useful computer programs( software) and equipment( hardware)?
59316How far away is your dealer and where will the computer actually be serviced?
59316How would you actually use it to help you run your operation better?
59316If the hardware uses floppy disks, is the disk drive included as part of the computer package or does it come separately?
59316If you have a computer or plan to get one, what information can you obtain with your computer that will be useful for your farm operation?
59316Is a second disk drive included in the package or does it come separately?
59316Is there a company phone- in service you can call if you need help?
59316Is there a hotline you can call for help if the program has a problem you ca n''t solve?
59316What can you do with a small computer once you outgrow it, and you want to get a bigger one?
59316What happens when the computer is down( not working)?
59316What kind of a disk drive(s) do you need, single or double density?
59316What quality screen image do you need?
59316What would you do with your computer system?
59316Who will be operating the microcomputer?
59316Will it serve the computing needs you have identified for now and later?
59316Will you have to carry your computer to their site for servicing, and how long are you likely to be without it?
59316and"Which computer will run that program?"
29665And who made me drunk? 29665 Are you troubled with cold feet on retiring?"
29665Did n''t I tell you this sort of business had got to stop?
29665Dreaming,is him?
29665Drunk, as usual,she said, harshly,"when were you anything else?"
29665Have you the impudence to follow me here? 29665 I suppose you would like to learn how to avoid them?"
29665I wish to present to you--"What?
29665Jane, do n''t you know me?
29665Lack culture, eh? 29665 Mean?
29665Names? 29665 Oh, he did n''t?
29665So?
29665Strange I wanted to see it, was n''t it? 29665 Well,"said the old fellow,"is that all?
29665What do you mean?
29665Where d''ye s''pose?
29665Where''s Derby?
29665Why, father, you do n''t know Mr. Spickle, do you?
29665***** Arthur--"I say, what do you mean by fighting my hog all the time?"
29665*****"What did that lady say?"
29665A trouble and a disgrace, am I?"
29665As the first man below must be consulted, why not the second, and how far this side of the Gulf is the limit of this trespass?
29665Best made of bread or biscuit?
29665But has n''t that man at Cape Girardeau a level head?
29665Can blue- grass be grown successfully mixed with other grasses?
29665Can it be grown on low, wet land?
29665Can you tell me how badly oranges were frosted during the late cold spell in Florida?
29665Did he call me names?"
29665Did he find it-- and is he satisfied?
29665Did n''t I tell you that I would see you to- morrow?"
29665Do you chop it, and how fine?
29665Dreaming, do you call it?
29665Got another one?"
29665Has setting trees on a fence line as posts for barb- wire been a success?
29665How can I secure a blue- grass pasture?
29665How much seed to acre?
29665How thick should they be when complete?
29665I have not come to collect the bill you have referred to, but--""What?
29665I hope he''ll have a better temper than Brooks, and I wish----Who''s that?"
29665If so what kind of tree is the best?
29665Is there a record of colder weather at Charleston, S. C., Savannah, Ga., if so when was it?
29665Is there any justice in requiring them to submit to another trial between themselves and those they have once vanquished?
29665J. H. J. WATERTOWN, WIS.--Give us the best remedy for chillblains?
29665Last year at this convention the talk was upon"How shall we supply the demand?"
29665Look here, Mr. Blume, d''ye know you''oughter told me that long ago?
29665Starting with the question,"WHAT IS MANURE?"
29665Take the girl, if that''s what you want, but say, did n''t I tell you to bring the bill to- morrow?"
29665The American Cultivator:"Can you tell we what kind of weather we may expect next month?"
29665This might be more dignified, and after a time effectual, but how shall we make France and Germany stop shipping their poisoned goods to this country?
29665What do you know of the facts?
29665What of it?
29665What season and what soil is best adapted to secure a good catch?
29665When the Savior of men raised His finger to heal, Did He ask if the sufferer was Gentile or Jew?
29665When thousands were fed with a bountiful meal, Was it given alone to the faithful and true?
29665Where only such confusing advice and direction can be given is it becoming to stamp it as official?
29665Where''s your overcoat?"
29665Whose Cold Feet?
29665Whose feet did you suppose I meant, my mother- in- law''s?"
29665Will the hardy catalpa do, if so what distance apart?
29665and how much seasoning to a given quantity?
29665and if chicken or ham, how prepared?
29665or do cooks always guess at it?
29665where is that overcoat?--what have you done with it that you have n''t it on-- where is it?"
12140And now,concluded Cossinius,"which of you Italian swine breeders will stand forth and tell us of his herd?
12140And what kind of a villa is this,said Axius, turning to Merula,"where there are neither the ornaments of a town house nor the utensils of a farm?"
12140Are they those concerning feeding cattle, of which you spoke to me yesterday?
12140Has the festival of the seed- sowing drawn you hither to spend your holiday after the manner of our ancestors, by praying for good crops?
12140Quid meruere boves, animal sine fraude dolisque Innocuum, simplex, natum tolerare labores? 12140 What are the quarters of the moon,"said Agrius,"and what bearing have they on agriculture?"
12140What are you doing here?
12140What?
12140Where, then, Axius, do you wish me to begin?
12140Would you think it possible,said Fundanius,"for any thing to grow in such a region, and, if it did grow, how could it be cultivated?
12140You who have travelled over many lands,said he,"have you seen any country better cultivated than Italy?"
12140[ 68]But,"said Fundanius,"suppose I inherited a farm like that, what should I do to avoid the malady you describe?"
12140And who does not know the fame of the fish ponds of Philippus, of Hortensius, and of the brothers Lucullus?
12140And will you see this?
12140Did it come out of the Illinois tunnel?"
12140Do we not see some things grow best in the spring, others in summer, some in autumn, and others again in winter?
12140Do you sell to the butcher the hogs which you raise at your farm for more than Seius sells his wild boars to the meat market?"
12140Does any one want to exclude any thing else?"
12140For of two things of equal usefulness, who would not prefer to buy the better looking?
12140Have not Sergius Orata( goldfish) and Licinius Murena( lamprey) taken their cognomens from fishes for this reason?
12140How?
12140In other respects the traditional formula is employed thus: the buyer says to the seller,"Do you sell me these sheep for so much?"
12140Is it an art, and, if so, what are its principles and its purposes?"
12140Is not Italy so covered with fruit trees that it seems one vast orchard?
12140On the other hand, what useful thing is there which does not only grow but flourish in Italy?
12140To the funeral?
12140We all sprang up and cried out together"What?
12140What has happened?"
12140What is the second?
12140What kind of vineyard?
12140What oil with that of Venafrum?
12140What shall I say of large cattle?
12140What shall I say of the health of these animals who never have any?
12140What spelt shall I compare with that of Campania?
12140What wheat with that of Apulia?
12140What wine with that of Falernum?
12140When we had approached them Axius, smiling, said to Appius:"May we come into your aviary where you are sitting among the birds?"
12140Whose funeral?
12140[ 47] In what land does one jugerum produce ten, nay even fifteen, cullei of wine, as in some regions of Italy?
12140[ Footnote 34: Was this ensilage?
12140_ Of preparing the seed bed_( LXI) What is the first principle of good agriculture?
17512And what reason does he advance?
17512And you have no trouble now in exposing yourself to the winds of the Atlantic?
17512But what has that to do with old maids?
17512But what have roast beef, red clover, bumble- bees, and field- mice got to do with old maids?
17512But where do the old maids come in?
17512Did, eh?
17512Give an example?
17512Is there no way to soften care, And make it easier to bear Life''s sorrows and vexations?
17512Is you gwine to get an overcoat this winter?
17512Let me see, what will the relationship be? 17512 Marry, ma''am?
17512Mother,said Mrs. Wimbush,"what on earth brought you here?
17512No? 17512 Well, about the old maids?"
17512What did I know of love till you came here?
17512What have you been learning this morning?
17512What is a limited monarchy, Johnny?
17512What new monkey shine is that?
17512What on earth has got the woman?
17512What, in your opinion, Captain, was the cause of the loss of the City of Boston?
17512Why is it up hill all the way?
17512Why, do n''t you see? 17512 AM I A SCOT, OR AM I NOT? 17512 Asked my heart always, in joy or in sorrow,Will it please Robin, the thing that I do?"
17512Brookshank?"
17512But if all this be true the question at once presents itself, Why have not American women engaged largely in sericulture?
17512But what is our foreign trade?
17512But what was all this fainting about?
17512Ca n''t you find time to write a few lines to the readers of THE PRAIRIE FARMER?
17512Can we do without separators?
17512Can-- will you be content with that, Or will you further tacks me?"
17512Do n''t you perceive that the bumble- bees would soon become exterminated by the field- mice if it were not for--""Old maids?"
17512Do you see the point?"
17512Does the basket willow have to be cultivated like a field crop?
17512Going to get married, or what?"
17512Have you no butter, eggs, fowls, honey, or bees- wax to sell from this good farm?
17512How is it?
17512How many brood- frames are necessary in one hive?
17512How many colonies can be kept in one locality?
17512I heard her sob:"And if I could, I''d get my lessons awful good, But what''s the use of trying?"
17512I may rely upon your consent?"
17512Is it advisable to have a standard- size frame for all bee- keepers?
17512Is n''t it about time the Department of Agriculture at Washington sat a little down on this man who writes too much with his pen?
17512Is there more than one kind, and if so which is best?
17512Mr. Granger, what are you doing these long winter evenings?
17512Mrs. Ellwood, much to the chagrin of her husband, remarked:"This seems to me a better device than your own, do n''t it to you?"
17512Now if file love you just a bit, What further can you ax me?
17512Now is Providence to be charged with this disparity?
17512Now, first, who was Juniper?"
17512Oh, in that wonderfu'', wonderfu''meeting, What shall I say to him?
17512One said to the other"By the way how is that Catarrh of yours?"
17512SYKES''SURE CURE FOR CATARRH;''oh, why did n''t I know of it before?
17512She has said so, do n''t you see?"
17512THE FIRST QUESTION TO BE ANSWERED IS,--is the diamond pure-- a genuine stone?
17512The material?
17512The second question is, IS THE PAPER A DESIRABLE FAMILY JOURNAL?
17512What can I say about it?
17512What can be done to prevent adulteration of honey?
17512What has Dr. Loring to say on the subject?
17512What kind of soil is best adapted to its cultivation?
17512What shall we do with second swarms?
17512What woman can not talk better when she knows she looks well?
17512When will you be old enough to attend to business?
17512Which are best-- deep or shallow frames?
17512Which is the most salable section-- one- half, one, or two pounds?
17512Who can be indifferent in the face of our great perils, and recounting the losses by foreign restrictions and inhibition?
17512Why this difference?
17512Will we not, fellow- contributors?
17512You will accept him, of course?
17512that it is a handsome ornament for a living room or library?
17512what will he say?
38955And do you regard your cure as permanent?
38955But did n''t they try to relieve your miseries?
38955But how can these be discovered?
38955But how did you finally recover?
38955Butter? 38955 Can you hit the lady for the gentleman, Johnny?"
38955Come, Willie; why, what''s the matter? 38955 Consulted them?
38955During your residence here have you experienced the bad results of living in this climate?
38955Have you any more of that prime Scotch ale?
38955How old are you, my son?
38955How will it end?
38955How?
38955Is this what you came to tell me?
38955Judging from your recital, Mr. Ashley, there must be wonderful curative properties about this medicine?
38955Of course you consulted the doctors regarding your difficulty?
38955Pa, I have signed the pledge,said a little boy to his father, on coming home one evening;"will you help me keep it?"
38955Tell me, to what bills do you refer?
38955To go back to the original subject, Mr. Ashley, I suppose you see the same familiar faces about the lobby session after session?
38955Uncle, when sis sings in the choir Sunday nights, why does she go behind the organ and taste the tenor''s mustache?
38955Was it not an idea?
38955Was that not better than this?
38955Well, I have brought a copy of the pledge; will you sign it, papa?
38955Well, you wo n''t ask me to pass the bottle, papa?
38955What do you think of it? 38955 What have you to drink?"
38955What proportion of these blood- bills are successful?
38955Where''s the ale, Willie?
38955Why?
38955You do not regard the lobby, as a body, vicious, do you?
38955You remember Frank Dobb, who belonged to our old Pen and Pencil Club, and who ran away from that Cuban wife of his just before I left home? 38955 ''Is this a question,''said he,''from a man like you? 38955 ''Were there not of old,''said I,''many great manufacturers in this city?'' 38955 A nice life for a fellow to lead, eh?
38955Are there any which do not blight?
38955Ashley?"
38955Ashley?"
38955But he slipped his hands into his pockets, looked appealingly at McGilp, and said, shrugging his shoulders,"You see how it is, Mac?"
38955But how is this to be accomplished?
38955But, Captain, do n''t you suppose there were giants there long ago, in the former generations?
38955Can Congress longer hesitate in this matter of providing an efficient law for protection from contagious animal diseases?
38955Can not THE PRAIRIE FARMER start a boom that will lead to the establishment of an Arbor Day all over the State?
38955Can you give me the facts?
38955DR. J. F. SCHLIEMAN, HARTFORD, WIS.--Are there any works on the cultivation of the blueberry, and if so could you furnish the same?
38955Dilly- dally Dilly, How can you be so slow?
38955Do you know of any parties that cultivate them?
38955Do you know, Mr. X., that I never knew he had been married till after he had fled?
38955Finally, said he, What has that got to do with my question about buying cattle and sheep at the stock yards?
38955H. HARRIS, HOLT''S PRAIRIE, ILL.--Will it do to tile drain land which has a hard pan of red clay twelve to eighteen inches below the surface?
38955Had the other woman tired of him already?
38955How many of those people became customers?
38955How would you class it?
38955I asked myself, or was it really true, as his father had told me, that he had fled alone?
38955I demanded of a peasant, who was reaping grain on the sands of the sea- shore, how long ago this change took place?
38955Is not blue grass pasture the best thing I can give my hogs?
38955Know ye not that cities are not now part of the human economy?
38955L. C. LEANIARTT(?)
38955Might n''t the former race have been giants?
38955Now why could we not make some use of this grass, and of others, such as quack- grass, which defy so persistently all our efforts to destroy them?
38955Now, Puddin'', you can blow those things pretty straight, ca n''t you?"
38955Professor-- And I suppose you know something about the Patagonians and their habits?
38955Professor-- But how could you know that they used not to be giants?
38955Professor-- But how did you satisfy yourself?
38955Professor-- How did you ascertain this fact, Captain?
38955Professor-- I wanted to ask you, Captain, about the size of the Patagonians-- whether they are giants, as travelers have reported?
38955Shall I follow the directions you gave Mr. Perkins in THE PRAIRIE FARMER, February 9?
38955The father was deeply moved, and turning to his brother- officers, he said:"Gentlemen, do you hear that?
38955The point upon which I beg leave to differ from the gentleman is, should a farmer have a smattering idea of everything pertaining to farming?
38955This is all there is of it; simple, is it not?
38955What could I do when my brother- officers called-- the father had been in the army-- if I was a teetotaler?"
38955What do you say?
38955What else could I reply than,"Why do you lead it then?"
38955What evidence could you get?
38955What is the phylloxera, and what shall I do to my grape vines if they infest the roots?
38955What is your name, my son?"
38955What must we do?
38955What pears would you recommend for this latitude?
38955Why continue the tale?
38955Why do n''t Bismarck try this home remedy for his complication of gout and trichinà ¦?
38955Why do n''t you try To be more spry, And not dilly- dally so?
38955Why not?
38955Why?
38955Will it be necessary to keep them out till the grass gets a good start?
38955Will you please regard this as a kind of an introduction into your"association?"
38955Willie, have you your temperance pledge?"
38955You remember Frank left some things in my care when he went away?
26975A perennial question in agricultural education is: What is the function of the agricultural college?
26975And if he can, is he to be an aristocrat, a landlord, a captain of industry, and to bear rule over the mossback?
26975And is the tribe of mossbacks destined to increase and become a caste of permanent tenants or peasants?
26975And the test question is, Will this line of work yield me the growth, the culture, I desire?
26975And where is Hesperia?
26975And why not?
26975Are there not for them some of the blessings that come from a highly organized society?
26975Are there not, in the country also, opportunities for the co- operation of mind and heart for common service?
26975At the outset the queries may arise, What is meant by rural social science?
26975But do they differ in this respect from their cousins of the town?
26975But have not the women of the country some resources of a similar character?
26975But have we yet reached the heart of the question?
26975But if every country pastor can not have a social- service church, is it not possible that every country church shall have a social- service pastor?
26975But in his heart of hearts he ponders the deeper questions: What may I become in real intellectual and moral worth?
26975But is it insoluble?
26975But is the charge wholly just?
26975But the burden of the suggestion at this point is this: Can not the churches unite sufficiently for a thorough religious and sociological canvass?
26975But what are the elements that yield culture to an individual?
26975But what of that?
26975CHAPTER V CULTURE FROM THE CORN LOT[2] The question of questions that the college student asks himself is, What am I going to be?
26975Can I extract culture from the corn lot?
26975Can it announce, in sound terms, its proposed group policy?
26975Can it develop efficient leaders?
26975Can it lend the group influence to genuine social progress?
26975Can not the Granges of New England profitably co- operate more fully?
26975Can the farming class secure and maintain a fairly complete organization?
26975Can the new farmer maintain the same relative social status?
26975Can they not in some way break the bonds of isolation?
26975Could not boards of agriculture co- operate to some extent, especially in farmers''institute work with general plans and ideas?
26975Do they stunt or encourage the inner life?
26975Does not the price of wheat mean as much to the hard- working grower as to the broker who may never see a grain of it?
26975Does not this discussion at least show the supreme importance of the question?
26975Does one say, this is asking too much of the burdened country pastor with his meager salary and widespread parish?
26975How can rural teachers learn to appreciate the social function of the rural school, except they be taught?
26975How can this co- operation be brought about?
26975How far can this idea be developed in the country school?
26975How is this man to be reached, inspired, instructed?
26975How large a man, measured by the divine standards, will it be possible for me to grow into?
26975If they can not federate on a theological platform, can they not unite on a statistical platform?
26975If they can not unite for religious work, can they not join hands long enough to secure a more intelligent basis for their separate work?
26975In view of the facts which have been given, I think if one were asked to give a direct answer to the question, Is the farmer keeping up?
26975Is he not indeed the logical candidate for general social leadership in the rural community?
26975Is not Ben Bolt''s new top buggy as legitimate a topic for discussion as is Arthur John Smythe''s new automobile?
26975Is the ambition to own a fine farm more ignoble than the desire to own shares in a copper mine?
26975Is the country continually gaining in those things that are fundamentally important and that minister to its best life?
26975Is the farm problem one of technique plus business skill, plus these broad economic considerations?
26975Is the idea of a genuine New England fair a mere dream?
26975Is there any good reason why this ambition is not worthy, or why its goal should not be won?
26975It may be asked, How does the order manage to advocate public measures without becoming involved in partisan squabbles?
26975Know what?
26975Let me ask if the pastor has any other road to power except_ to know_?
26975May not the grove at Turtle Lake yield as keen enjoyment as do the continental forests?
26975Shall we not all work together for the betterment both of the farm and of the farmer?
26975So the question will arise, Can he get any help from education in the handling of the business phases of his farm?
26975The surface query is, What am I going to_ do_?
26975WHAT IS THE FARM PROBLEM?
26975What are his tools?
26975What are some of these regular agencies?
26975What are these needs?
26975What classes of people may be expected to welcome and profit by instruction of this character?
26975What does this adaptation consist in?
26975What is it that makes the new farmer?
26975What results have I been able to discover growing out of this work?
26975What shall be his attitude toward them?
26975What was my ideal in organizing such associations?
26975Who is he?
26975Will agriculture as a business, will the farm life and environment, contribute to the growth which I desire for myself?
26975Will not the farmers rally themselves to and league themselves with the men who are trying to forward the best interests of the farm?
26975Yet would we expect from either system the same social fruitage that has been harvested from our American yeomanry?
26975and, What is there to be investigated and taught under such a head?
5992And do you really mean to say you drank it, Salter?
5992Are we going into the water?
5992Are you not_ very_ lonely here?
5992Are_ you_ going, then?
5992Good gracious, F----,I cried, when we had passed,"who is that man?"
5992Have you ever gone to see a London club?
5992How about the carriage?
5992How big were the mushrooms?
5992How can you be fond of thousands of anything?
5992How is that, Palmer?
5992How many have you got?
5992Is it possible you are crying about that?
5992Is the ground level?
5992None, I am happy to say,I answered peevishly,"What could Nettle and I have done with the horrible things if we had caught any?"
5992What are we going to have for supper?
5992What in the world has happened?
5992What in the world have they to do with each other?
5992What is it? 5992 What will you take for that little grey filly when she is broken?"
5992Where did you learn to cook?
5992Where: oh, where?
5992Why did you go?
5992Why did you think you should find gold here?
5992You do n''t mind being left?
5992And how do you think he did it, with two pillars of hice for legs?
5992Arrah, why could n''t ye let it be thin?"
5992As for the kitchen, its state can not be better described than in my Irish cook''s words, who cried,"Did mortial man ever see sich a ridiklous mess?
5992At last he said, with the sweat from sheer agony pouring down his face,"Look here, matey: could n''t you hump me out in the snow again?
5992But through all our pleasant, happy little bustle ran the constant thought:"What shall we do for more country?"
5992Can you get on your legs, think you?"
5992Could any thing be more propitious?
5992Did he die?"
5992Do n''t you hear Pepper say he wants me?"
5992Do you know that it is not the custom anywhere, in any civilized country, for gentlemen to remain seated and covered when a lady comes into the room?
5992F---- flung the hall door wide open, and called out,"Who''s there?"
5992F---- laid his hand down over a large wash of light green paint and asked,"Now what sort of country is this; really and truly, you know?"
5992For a moment, and half- awake, an old tropical reminiscence floated through my sleepy, startled mind:"Can it be an earthquake?"
5992Has anybody ever reflected on how difficult it must be to get a chimney swept without ever a sweep or even a brush?
5992He looks heart- broken, poor fellow, does n''t he?"
5992Her last words were,"Ca n''t you send me a paper or hany thing printed, mam?"
5992How was I to get fresh servants, and above all, what was I to do for cooking during the week they were away?
5992I fix my feet firmly against the batten, and F---- cries,"Are you ready?"
5992I was the first to hear the noise, and cried,"Who''s there?
5992I wonder if any one has any idea what hot work it is making a bed?
5992If a sheep- farmer thinks his sheep are not in good condition, one of the first questions he asks his shepherd is,"Are there any pigs about?"
5992In the shafts stood poor shaggy old Jack, looking over his blinkers as much as to say,"What do you want me to do now?"
5992John''s?"
5992Might I stop here for a bit?"
5992Mr. U---- was just beginning to say"Look here: do n''t you think we ought to take turns at this?"
5992Now why ca n''t you all do the same, here?"
5992Now why was this?
5992People have often said to me since,"Surely you would not like to have lived there for ever?"
5992The ice would bear, and what more could skater''s heart desire?
5992Was it a morning for low spirits or sobs and sighs?
5992We had done all we could within working distance, but what was, the use of digging in drifts thirty feet deep?
5992We said to each other while we were hastily dressing,"How shall we ever catch the horses?
5992Well, now, do n''t you ask that pretty Miss A----, who has just come out from England, to come and stop with you, and then we could have some music?"
5992What are you doing?"
5992What can be more enchanting than the prospect of spending such sunny hours in that glorious bush?"
5992What words can describe the pleasure it is to inhale such an atmosphere?
5992When I mentioned my grievance in the drawing- room to the gentlemen, I only got laughed at for my pains, and I was asked what else I expected?
5992Where could you find a gayer quartette than started at an easy canter up the valley that fresh bracing morning?
5992Who could bear malice in the presence of such dreadful pain?
5992Who does not know the peculiar_ smell_ of tracing- paper, with its suggestions of ownership?
5992Who so proud as the young mother?
5992Why do n''t you come too?
5992Why need I go on?
5992Why you might be weather- bound or kept there for a month, and what shall I do then?
5992Will any one believe that after such a perilous journey, I could actually be persuaded to try again?
5992Will you like to come too?"
5992You''ve got a piano, have n''t you?
5992[ Note: the shearer''s demand for a few minutes rest] whilst his companion inquired pathetically,"What was the use of flaying a dead man?"
5992and oh, would the next be equally good?
5992what is it?"
22040''Does it inconvenience you?'' 22040 ''Inconvenience, sir?
22040''Invest it? 22040 And did you do nothing?"
22040And did you still make no attempt to save yourself?
22040Anything else, sir?
22040But the_ finale_?
22040Is it a fact that the corn is too poor for manufacture into eggs?
22040Well, then, will ten thousand pounds do?
22040What is the nature of it, may I inquire?
22040Why did n''t you take the matter in hand and check it right where it was?
22040Why does n''t everybody do so? 22040 Willing?
22040You do n''t care to know my name or residence?
22040You wo n''t laugh at me, will you?
22040''What does he want?''
22040***** Was Noah''s voyage an arktic expedition?
22040--And the moon; do you see the moon?
22040--Will you continue the conversation in the garden?
22040And he said what have I?
22040But how is it provided in a majority of cases?
22040CHARLES VAN METER, SPRINGFIELD, MO.--What is the best work on Grape Culture?
22040Can any thing be done to remedy the difficulty?
22040Did he think it paid?
22040Do n''t you think a man of eighty has lived long enough?
22040Does not such an experience as this justify me in making a public statement?"
22040EDITORIAL-- Will You?
22040Eh?
22040F. J. ST. CLAIR, URSA, ILL.--Who was the first President to issue a Thanksgiving Proclamation?
22040Going to get married, or what?"
22040Has any one tried it as a preventive to pear blight?
22040Have I ever commanded you to do an unreasonable thing?''
22040He laughed heartily, and replied:"Oh, yes, she has told me everything, I suppose: but was n''t it funny?"
22040How much?"
22040If a cow gives more milk on one side than the other, does it indicate the sex of the coming calf?
22040If so, what is the remedy?
22040Is it the angle- worms?
22040Is there not room for a similar exhibition in the great stock State of Iowa?
22040It was just the reverse of funny; do n''t you think so madam?"
22040J.--Anyhow, you do not doubt my love?
22040Let us sit under those maritamboues will you?
22040One said to the other"By the way how is that Catarrh of yours?"
22040SUBSCRIBER, PEOTONE, ILL.--How many kinds of soils are there, and what crops are best suited to bottom and what to upland soils?
22040SYKES''SURE CURE FOR CATARRH;''oh, why did n''t I know of it before?
22040THE FIRST QUESTION TO BE ANSWERED IS,--is the diamond pure-- a genuine stone?
22040The second question is, IS THE PAPER A DESIRABLE FAMILY JOURNAL?
22040Then Uncle Ned he sed:"Johnny, was that the punkin vine wich your bed once had a bizness connection with?"
22040Think you that these changes can be wrought without earnest and careful effort?
22040Uncle Ned sed:"Did he put up at the same way side inn wich was patternized by Jonah wen he pennitrated to that part of the morl vinyerd?"
22040V.--I pardon this epitrope, but pray use less metaphor and more litotes in the prosopography you dedicate to my modest entity-- J.--What will you?
22040V.--This reticence?
22040Virginia-- Where are you leading me to, John?
22040WILL YOU?
22040What do you want?
22040What is the cause of a cow going dry in one teat?
22040What kind of tile did he use and how was the work done?
22040When we were alone she said:"Are you sure no one can overhear us?"
22040Where can I get the beans for planting?
22040Who shall care for me now?
22040Why am I disturbed?
22040Why do we not hear from West Liberty or Cedar Rapids?
22040Will you Read the poems, the jokes, the news, the markets, the editorials, the answers to correspondents?
22040Will you give me the names of parties engaged in the cultivation of the crop in Illinois and Wisconsin?
22040Would you not like to invest it?''
22040You wo n''t think me an idiot, will you?"
22040do you see*** V.--Why this aposiopesis?
22040or for the rust in the blackberry and raspberry?
22040or for the yellows or leaf- curl in peach trees?
22040or mildew on the gooseberry?
22040or the grape rot?
22040willing?"
169001?
16900ATTITUDE OF THE SOILS TOWARDS WATER Which soils have the greater power to take in the rain which falls on their surface?
16900Are these forces acting on the soil at the present time?
16900As to the fourth question, How far do roots reach out sidewise or laterally from the plant?
16900CHAPTER II ROOTS USES OF ROOTS TO PLANTS Of what use are roots to plants, or, what work do they perform for the plants?
16900CHAPTER X SEED PLANTING HOW DEEP SHOULD SEEDS BE PLANTED?
16900CHAPTER XIV STEMS WHAT ARE STEMS FOR?
16900DRAINS How can we get rid of this surplus free water?
16900Do these plants in any way resemble one another?
16900Do they have any influence over the conditions which are favorable or unfavorable to plant growth?
16900Examine the sand, clay and leaf mould, comparing them as to color; are they light or dark, are they moist or not?
16900FUNCTION OR USE OF FLOWERS TO PLANTS Of what use is the flower to the plant?
16900FUNCTIONS OF THE PARTS OF THE FLOWERS Now what are the uses of these parts of the flower?
16900HOW DEEP SHALL WE PLOW?
16900HOW WERE SOILS MADE?
16900How can we bring about these conditions?
16900How can we check this loss?
16900How can we tell whether or not our seeds will sprout if properly planted?
16900How deep do they penetrate the soil?
16900How did the bean get up?
16900How did the water get out of this soil?
16900How did they manage to reach out into the soil so far from the plant?
16900How do the roots do this work?
16900How does continuous cotton culture affect the economics of the farm?
16900How does cotton culture affect plant food in the soil?
16900How does cotton growing affect soil humus?
16900How does cotton growing affect soil texture?
16900How does cotton growing affect soil ventilation?
16900How does cotton growing affect soil water?
16900How does the root take in moisture and food?
16900How far do they reach out sidewise or laterally from the plant?
16900How is the pollen carried from flower to flower?
16900How may we check losses of heat from the soil?
16900How much water does a plant transpire or throw off from its leaves?
16900How near do they come to the surface of the soil?
16900How near to the surface of the soil do you find roots?
16900How shall I plant seeds so as to help them sprout easily and grow into strong plants?
16900If so, can we control them in their action for the benefit or injury of plants?
16900If the soil of our farm is largely clay, what happens to the rain that falls on it?
16900In answer to the question,"Why is this?"
16900Is a knowledge of these facts we have learned about roots of any value to the farmer?
16900Is free water good for the roots of farm plants?
16900Is it of any value to the plant grower to know these facts about leaves?
16900Is this fact of any value to the farmer?
16900Many times the questions will be asked: Why did n''t those seeds come up?
16900Now is it possible that soil water may be lost or wasted and if so can we check the loss?
16900Now what is the relation of the different kinds of soil toward heat or what are their relative powers to absorb and hold heat?
16900Now why is this?
16900Of what value is it to the farmer to know that many of the roots of his farm plants come very near the surface of the soil?
16900Of what value is it to the farmer to know that the roots of farm plants penetrate to depths of five or six feet in the soil?
16900Or where does the root grow in length?
16900Or which soils will keep moist longest in dry weather?
16900SOURCES OF SOIL WATER From what sources does the soil receive water?
16900The next thing to find out is: What conditions are necessary for the root to do its work?
16900The question was this: Of what value is it to the farmer to know that roots enter the soil to a depth of three to six feet?
16900The second question,"How deep do the roots penetrate the soil?"
16900Then, in studying our plants, which part shall we study first?
16900To the first question,"In what part of the soil are most of the roots?"
16900WHY DO WE SPADE AND PLOW?
16900What are the reasons for these facts?
16900What becomes of this moisture?
16900What can we do for our clay soils to help them to absorb the rain more rapidly?
16900What can we do for our sandy soils to give them greater power to take moisture from below?
16900What can we do for our sandy soils to help them to hold better the moisture which falls on them and tends to leach through them?
16900What effect will such a system have on the conditions necessary for plant growth?
16900What has become of the fresh air that was in the bottles when the seeds were put in them?
16900What is plant food?
16900What is the effect on plant food in the soil?
16900When all is ready we will study the root system of each plant and answer these four questions: In what part of the soil are most of the roots?
16900Where does this come from?
16900Where does this come from?
16900Which do you think is the most important group?
16900Which part of any or all of these farm plants is of greatest importance to the plant itself?
16900Which soils have greatest power to hold the water which enters them?
16900Which soils have the greater power to absorb or pump moisture from below?
16900Which soils have the greatest capacity for film water?
16900Which soils will hold longest the water which they have absorbed?
16900Why are sandy soils called warm soils and clay soils said to be cold?
16900Why do n''t we plant corn in December?
16900Why do not the seeds sprout easily in the bottle which is more than half full?
16900Why do the trees in thick woods have most of the living branches and bear most of their leaves away up in the top of the tree?
16900Why does the farmer raise these plants?
16900Why is this?
16900Why is this?
16900Why is this?
16900Why is this?
16900Why is this?
16900Why is this?
16900Why not plant cotton in November?
16900Why not plant melons in January?
16900Why was the dry clay warmer than the dry sand?
16900Why were the wet humus and clay cooler than the wet sand?
16900Why?
16900Why?
32863Can she_ bake_?
32863What,says the cottager,"has all this to do with hogs and bacon?"
32863_ Can you milk?_He could not; but_ would learn_!
32863And how, then, is it possible, that unwholesomeness should distil from the udder of a cow?
32863And is not a fourth, or even an eighth, part of this weight, sufficient to go down the throats of a family in a year?
32863And now, how are these to be had_ upon the same ground that bears_ the cabbages?
32863And ought not this to be a lesson to fathers and mothers of families?
32863And what is the_ result_?
32863And what is there worthy of the name of_ plague_, or_ trouble_, in all this?
32863And what should we see at last, if this infernal THING could continue for only a few years longer?
32863And whence does it come?
32863And, pray, what can be pleasanter to_ behold_?
32863And, shall a starving man be hanged, then, if he take a loaf to save himself from dying?
32863And_ why_ are they not to be deemed unmerciful?
32863Are there twenty- two square miles covered with the Wen''s market gardens?
32863Are we not to despise a_ thief_?
32863Beset with wants, having a mind continually harassed with fears of starvation, who can act with energy, who can calmly think?
32863Besides this, however, why should we not_ export_ the articles of this manufacture?
32863But has not Nature made the country girls as pretty as ladies?
32863But, after all, what need had we of any_ authorities_?
32863But, at any rate, is the salary of the"ASSISTANT OVERSEER"necessary?
32863But, how stands these matters now?
32863But, if a_ part_ of the ancient law remain, shall not the_ whole_ of it remain?
32863But, if such be her state in the house of an employer, what is her state in the house of a_ husband_?
32863But, was it_ possible_ to believe this?
32863But, why so good, so generous, to FELONS?
32863Can any man, who knows any thing of the labourer''s life, deny this?
32863Can any reasonable creature believe, that, to save the soul, God requires us to give up the food necessary to sustain the body?
32863Can it be_ religion_ to regard as blessings those things, those very things, which God expressly numbers amongst his curses?
32863Can not that be dispensed with?
32863Did Saint Paul preach this?
32863FIRST, where are_ we_ to get the_ Indian Meal_?
32863He, who, while he spread the gospel abroad,_ worked himself_, in order to have it to give to those who were unable to work?
32863How should it be otherwise?
32863How should they?
32863How, then, are they to contend against Irish butter and Dutch butter and cheese?
32863How, then, are we to reconcile this with_ morality_?
32863How, then, could the Wen be supplied, if it required_ ten rods_ to each family?
32863If she can neither bake nor brew; if she be ignorant of the nature of flour, yeast, malt, and hops, what is she good for?
32863If you add five of these pounds to a woman''s wages, is not that full as well employed as giving it in wages to the baker''s men?
32863Is it not better employed for you?
32863Is it not better than time spent in the ale- house, or in creeping about after a miserable hare?
32863Is not this state of things perfectly monstrous?
32863Is that nothing?
32863It is_ labour_; but, what is_ exercise_ other than labour?
32863It may be asked, Where is the mill to be found?
32863Law is always law: if one part of the law may be, with impunity, set at defiance, why not another and every other part of the law?
32863Must he have as much as_ all the widows_, or_ all the old men_?
32863Needs there any thing more to make us cease to wonder at seeing labourers''children with dirty linen and holes in the heels of their stockings?
32863No poor- laws?
32863No poor- rates?
32863No_ select vestries_?
32863Now, how much garden ground does it require to supply even a large family with_ garden vegetables_?
32863Now, is not this an enormous evil?
32863Now, then, how fare the prisoners in the jails?
32863Now, with what show of justice can these laws be maintained?
32863Ought not they to consider that the habits which they give their children are to stick by those children during their whole lives?
32863Stop the exchange between Leghorn and Yorkshire, and, does Yorkshire_ lose part of its custom_?
32863Surely that Lancashire can never be_ in England_?"
32863The answer is, Where is there not a mill?
32863The question was, then, would these precious seeds_ grow and produce plants in perfection in England_?
32863There is no farmer who does not at least fifty days in every year exclaim, when he gets up in the morning,"What shall I set_ them_ at to- day?"
32863These last are right; but what have these things to do with the treatment of the poor?
32863To be without sure and safe friends in the world makes life not worth having; and whom can we be so sure of as of our children?
32863Was not this father discharging his duty by this boy much better than he would have been by sending him to a place called a_ school_?
32863What do we want more than this to convince us, that the main body of the people have been_ impoverished_ by the"Reformation?"
32863What have these things to do with the horrid facts relative to the condition and starvation of English people?
32863What is it, then, that they_ do_ with the eighty rods of ground in a private garden?
32863What is the object of Government?
32863What need had we even of_ reason_ upon the subject?
32863What reason have we, then, to presume, that our children are not to do the same?
32863What shall we see next?
32863What then will people not do, who regularly undertake the business for their livelihood?
32863What would he have said?
32863What_ is it_, then?
32863What_ justice_ is there, then, in calling upon this man to take up arms and_ risk his life_ in the_ defence of the land_: what is the land to him?
32863Where can that_ Hampshire_ be?
32863Where is the justice of the peace?
32863Where is there such a man, who can not trace to this cause a very considerable part of all the mortifications and sufferings of his life?
32863Where, amidst all this starvation, is the overseer?
32863Who would think himself safe, if at the_ mercy_ of such a man?
32863Why do they take care to have it then?
32863Why should any one have such desire?
32863Why, you would say, to be sure,"Where is the LAW; where are the constables, the justices, the juries, the judges, the sheriffs, and the hangmen?
32863Why_ buy_ this, when you can_ grow_ it in your garden?
32863With what satisfaction will they learn that straw, twenty times as durable, to say nothing of the beauty, is to be got from every hedge?
32863_ Abundant food_ is the main thing; and what is there that a rabbit will_ not eat_?
32863and is it not better employed for the community?
32863are there_ no poor- laws_ in Lancashire?
32863duty on that straw, and to have it platted here; and that it would_ not answer_ to turn into plat straw of just the same sort grown in England?
32863where is the wheat to be got?
32863where is there not a market?
39483Should I give the child everything he cries for, or withhold the desired object until he quits?
39483What shall Children Read?
39483275 Impatience of Parents 276 What of Predestination?
39483ALL HAVE A RIGHT TO CULTURE And then, a second question we need to ask ourselves is, Whom is education for?
39483Also, what about the literature in the home?
39483And are they to continue to have their careers determined by mere chance and incident?
39483And if the latter be your choice, what helpful agencies are you bringing to bear upon the situation?
39483And then, the bitterness and anguish of soul of the mothers of these lost members of a high humanity-- what of that?
39483And where were the boys?
39483And why not have this scheme made out by_ highly trained experts_ as is the case with the school course?
39483Are some foreordained to success and others to failure?
39483Are the boys and girls to be left to shift for themselves?
39483Are we spoiling our Boys who have the Best Chances in Life?
39483Assuming first of all that the girl instinctively desires to preside over a home of her own, how can she best be prepared for that place?
39483BUILDING A GOOD LIFE 1 What is a Good Life?
39483BUSINESS TRAINING FOR THE COUNTRY GIRL 235 Is the Country Girl Neglected?
39483But how about the problem of teaching her to take up her daily tasks willingly and with a joyous heart?
39483But what is to be done?
39483But what of the children whom he brought in to"educate"?
39483But what of this particular boy''s early training?
39483But what_ is_ a good life?
39483But, how may we best interpret this question?
39483By what rule do men succeed in their callings and by what different rule do other men fail?
39483Can not one be instituted, say, for the township?
39483Can not some movement be instituted for bringing about a radical change?
39483Chapter I,"The Awakening"; Chapter II,"Am I a Genius?"
39483DO YOU OWN YOUR DAUGHTER?
39483Did he enjoy equal advantages?
39483Did his parents when married really know anything about rearing children?
39483Do we desire that she become a shrewd money- maker and successful a some sort of commercial life?
39483Do you want her to take her place among the men and be forced to do some sort of man''s work in order to obtain her bread?
39483Does the College rob the Cradle?
39483Does the high school now in existence actually serve through its courses the best interests of young people who come in from the neighborhood?
39483Does this thing need to continue?
39483During the last decade, what has been the trend of the young men and women who have gone from the home district to high school or college?
39483Even then, the question must be raised: Will this new position probably prove helpful as an introduction to a better form of occupation?
39483First of all, we must ask, What are the ordinary forces which need to be brought into service in the development of children?
39483First of all, we must keep asking the question, What is education for?
39483First of all, what in a practical sense is a satisfactory business training for a young woman, a farmer''s daughter in particular?
39483First of all, what is the proper way in which to regard the boy''s work?
39483Had he a daughter?
39483Happiness 6 Is the Human Stock comparatively Sound?
39483Have any of the best of them returned to the farm?
39483Have you always kept the freest of all workers, your wife, from doing too much?
39483How about this?"
39483How long must this carelessness continue?
39483How long should the boy be held to his task before being allowed a holiday or recreation period?
39483How shall we measure the strength and force of the human character other than by the bigness and the purity of the daily thoughts of the individual?
39483How shall we state this question?
39483IS THE COUNTRY GIRL NEGLECTED?
39483IS THE HUMAN STOCK COMPARATIVELY SOUND?
39483If one of the work mules becomes lame or reveals a bad disposition, should the owner take it to an electrician for advice?
39483If she is a poor housekeeper, how can she expect her daughters to excel in that finest of all arts?
39483If the family cow becomes locoed or shows an unusual result in her milk product, should one consult a piano tuner?
39483Is it not a matter which the mother should think about most seriously in relation to the training of her daughter?
39483Is the boy for the sake of the work, or the work for the sake of the boy?
39483Is there a prohibitive tuition fee?
39483Is there a type of education and training which specifically fits and prepares for each of the native callings?
39483Is there an inherent strength in some and a native weakness in others?
39483Just when and how much should the boy and girl be allowed to go among the young people of the community?
39483Must Children have Children''s Diseases?
39483Now, what playthings may easily be provided in such homes?
39483Now, why not the same forethought in planning the necessary amount of the other exercises?
39483Or, have these institutions been a means of sending them away as permanent city dwellers?
39483Or, what can be done to improve the present neighborhood relations to the high school that may be already within reach?
39483Prepare her to deal with Grafters 246 Should there be an Actual Investment?
39483SHOULD THE FARMER''S SON FARM?
39483SHOULD THERE BE AN ACTUAL INVESTMENT?
39483Should Women work for their Living?
39483So at last there is being raised the very important questions, What is the matter with the country boy?
39483THE FARM BOY''S CHOICE OF A VOCATION 275 Should the Farmer''s Son Farm?
39483THE FARM BOY''S INTEREST IN THE BUSINESS 220 What is in your Boy?
39483THE FARM GIRL''S PREPARATION FOR A VOCATION 290 What is the Outlook?
39483THE RURAL HOME AND CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT 26 What Agencies build up Character?
39483The Developmental Method 281 The Farmer Fortunate 282 What College for the Country Boy?
39483The first question raised in such cases is, What is the particular moral defect of the individual?
39483The home church and Sunday school?
39483The instinct to play, to fight, to steal, to run away, to work(?
39483The local society in which he moves?
39483The temptations that may lie near about him?
39483Then, how would it be to set apart an hour or more each day, regularly, for the rest and relaxation of the mother, and call it"Mother''s hour"?
39483Tuberculosis, is it inheritable?
39483WHAT AGENCIES BUILD UP CHARACTER?
39483WHAT IS A GOOD LIFE?
39483WHAT IS IN YOUR BOY?
39483WHAT OF PREDESTINATION?
39483WORKING THE GIRLS IN THE FIELD Is there any justification for requiring a girl to work in the field with the men and boys?
39483Was it the same as that of the others?
39483We can not answer rightly the question, How much work for the country boy?
39483What are they?
39483What can be done, therefore, to nourish and build up the best possible thought activities, especially in case of the rural boys and girls?
39483What did she know about money and the common affairs of business?
39483What does it mean?
39483What is a fair allowance for the boy for what he does and for his spending money for the Fourth of July, Christmas, and the like?
39483What is a fair allowance for the girl with which to purchase her clothes and for her pin money?
39483What is the secret of the striking difference in the result?
39483What of the recreation he enjoys?
39483What of this sort can be done to cause him to return to his assigned tasks with greater zeal and enthusiasm?
39483What specific readjustments are needed in his home life in respect to the amount of work required of him?
39483When should each of them be told this and that about the secrets of life, and where may helpful literature thereon be obtained?
39483When should this be introduced into the boy''s life and when that into the girl''s life?
39483Why Back to the Farm?
39483Why is it?
39483Why is this?
39483Why not see to it that there be secured a few enticing volumes of the clean and uplifting sort?
39483Would you give it to him to stop his crying, or withhold it?
39483Would you return his plaything to stop his crying, or let him cry it out?
39483_ A rest period._--How would it do to plan for the mother a daily period of rest and relaxation?
39483and What can be done to help him?
39483or, What classes should have the benefits of it?
39483or, do you earnestly desire that she find some sort of worthy woman''s work?
39483second, What are the causes?
39483third, What will reconstruct his character and give permanent relief?
20772= EXERCISE= Do you know any trees in your neighborhood that bear both wild and budded or grafted fruit?
20772= EXERCISE= How does the squash bug resemble the plant louse?
20772= EXERCISE= How many apples per hundred do you find injured by the codling moth?
20772= EXERCISE= Why do things mold more readily in damp places?
20772A DAIRY] With these facts in mind we are prepared for an answer to the question, What is an ideal ration?
20772AN APPLE TREE SHOWING PROPER CARE] Do you know the large moth that is the mother of the tobacco worm?
20772Are earthworms a benefit or an injury to the soil?
20772Are they deep or shallow feeders?
20772BIRDS What do birds do in the world?
20772But in case this misfortune has happened, how can the land be again made fertile?
20772Can oats be treated with bluestone?
20772Can you distinguish between healthy and diseased wood?
20772Can you explain?
20772Can you find any plants that have their stamens and ovaries on separate individuals?
20772Can you find any twig that does not show a distinct line of separation between diseased and healthy wood?
20772Can you find cocoons that have been emptied by this bird?
20772Can you recognize the seeds of the principal cultivated plants?
20772Can you see any place where heels have resulted in rotten or hollow trees?
20772Can you see the rings of growth?
20772Can you tell surely from the outside how far the twig is diseased?
20772Can young people who love their country and their country homes engage in a nobler crusade than a crusade for improved highways?
20772Could water enough be found?
20772Did you ever notice how poorly the cob is filled on a single cornstalk standing alone in a field?
20772Did you ever smell it as you passed an affected field?
20772Do all leguminous plants have equal numbers of nodules?
20772Do bees fly in rainy weather?
20772Do bees usually limit their visits to one kind of blossom on any one trip?
20772Do plant roots penetrate clods?
20772Do you ever find pollen on them?
20772Do you ever see the woodpecker hunting for these same cocoons?
20772Do you find any heels?
20772Do you find any spots with reddish borders and white centers?
20772Do you find some that are fine or fibrous?
20772Do you get the same result from different horses?
20772Do you know any fungi which may be eaten?
20772Do you know any one who selects seed potatoes properly?
20772Do you know of any fields that have been treated for smut?
20772Do you know of any one who uses bluestone for wheat smut?
20772Do you know that this is a serious disease of the strawberry?
20772Do you now understand why fruit is heated before it is canned?
20772Do you remember the bright bubbles of gas you have seen rising in sweet cider or in wine as it soured?
20772Do you see any evidence of poor pruning?
20772Do you see why?
20772Do you think that the whole service of the birds is to be beautiful, to sing charmingly, and to rear their little ones?
20772Do you think this is true?
20772Do you want to know the cause of this disease and how to prevent it?
20772Does cold weather trouble sheep?
20772Does it grow elsewhere?
20772Does not its proper production deserve the best thought that can be given it?
20772Does the mold grow where you planted it?
20772Does the tree catch the disease?
20772EXERCISE Can you recognize drones, workers, and queens?
20772EXERCISE What causes milk to sour?
20772First, how will you recognize this disease?
20772From these facts is it not clear that if you wish to improve your land quickly and keep it always fruitful you must practice crop- rotation?
20772Has the removal of branches ever resulted in serious decay?
20772Have you ever opened the fleece and observed the clean skin in which the fibers grow?
20772How are they arranged?
20772How can this be done?
20772How could you have prevented this?
20772How do the roots compare in area with the part above the ground?
20772How do these compare with the distance from quarter to shoulder?
20772How do these nodules help the farmer?
20772How does the height at the withers compare with the height at the croup?
20772How does the length of the head compare with the thickness of the body and with the open space, or"daylight,"under the body?
20772How does the scab injure the value of the potato?
20772How fast does the ovary of the apple blossom enlarge?
20772How is this to be prevented?
20772How long are the roots of mature plants?
20772How long before the tree shows signs of injury?
20772How long does it take them to root?
20772How many apples does he thus save?
20772How many are there?
20772How many ears of corn do you find on a stalk?
20772How many pounds ought a fleece of wool to weigh?
20772How many really healthy leaves can you find on a strawberry plant?
20772How many similar opportunities do you think are lost?
20772How many times longer is the body than the head?
20772How much does your state or country lose thereby?
20772How should a poor and shallow soil be treated?
20772How should milk be cared for to prevent its souring?
20772How was it then?
20772How was the soil formed?
20772How was this rock changed into workable soil?
20772How will a long rainy season at blossoming- time affect the apple crop?
20772If all should live and be arranged in single file, how many miles long would such a procession be?
20772If swine- raising be his business, how long ought he to guess what crop on his land yields him the greatest amount of hog food?
20772If we take a cutting from a poor plant, what can we expect but to grow a poor plant like the one from which our cutting was taken?
20772If your home is not well stocked with all the principal kinds of fruit, do you not want to propagate and attend to some of each kind?
20772Is the kingbird really an enemy to the bee?
20772Is there any land near by that could support a tree and is not now doing so?
20772Is there any way by which this can be done?
20772Is this a true bug?
20772Is wheat pollinated by insects or by the wind or by some other means?
20772MILKING- TIME] What, then, is an ideal ration for a dairy cow?
20772Now, has it ever occurred to you to ask why all blackbirds are black?
20772On which is it most abundant?
20772Ought the man who wants to make his farm pay be less prudent and less far- sighted?
20772PARTS OF THE PISTIL] Do you know any plant that produces seed without flowers?
20772Perhaps you are ready to ask,"How does the mouthless plant drink its stored- up water?"
20772READY TO BEAR] How is an apple tree made?
20772Refuses to Heal-- Heals promptly] How is a peach tree made?
20772SECTION V. DRAINING THE SOIL A wise man was once asked,"What is the most valuable improvement ever made in agriculture?"
20772Should a colt be fed on one kind of forage when the land that produced that forage would produce twice as much equally good forage of another kind?
20772Should bees be kept in an orchard?
20772Should not his past failures and his past triumphs decide his future?
20772Should not this fact suggest efforts to raise just as good crops without having to buy so much fertilizer?
20772Since the water which a plant uses comes through the roots, can the morning dew afford any assistance?
20772THE MOISTURE OF THE SOIL Did any one ever explain to you how important water is to the soil, or tell you why it is so important?
20772There are two questions that the dairy farmer should always ask himself: Am I feeding as cheaply as I can?
20772WHICH WILL YOU RAISE?]
20772What are some of the ways in which this can be done?
20772What are the chief varieties of apples grown in your neighborhood?
20772What causes iron to rust?
20772What damage does fruit mold do to peaches, plums, or strawberries?
20772What does the turning black prove?
20772What does"worn out"mean?
20772What effect has the kind of flower on the flavor of the honey produced?
20772What happens?
20772What is a good apple tree worth?
20772What is meant by the protein of a food?
20772What is the best method of prevention?
20772What kinds of flowers should the beekeeper provide for his bees?
20772What kinds of insects visit the clover?
20772What per cent comes up?
20772What per cent of fruit is thus injured?
20772What per cent of these substances do you think is pure carbon?
20772What should we learn from this?
20772What tools are used in tillage?
20772What was the money value of the butter produced by each if butter- fat is worth twenty- five cents a pound?
20772What will be the result?
20772What would be the loss to a farmer who planted a ten- acre clover field with seeds that were 80 per cent bad?
20772Where and how were these glaciers formed?
20772Where will clods do the least harm-- on top of the soil or below the surface?
20772Which cow yielded the more butter- fat?
20772Which keeps longer?
20772Which makes the better clothing, coarse or fine wool?
20772Who cares to buy wilted, bruised, spoiling vegetables?
20772Why are cowpeas, clover, and alfalfa so important to the farmer?
20772Why are sheep washed before being sheared?
20772Why are weeds objectionable in a growing crop?
20772Why do unclean utensils affect the milk?
20772Why does the farmer cultivate growing corn and cotton?
20772Why is a two- horse turning- plow better than a one- horse plow?
20772Why is crop- rotation so necessary?
20772Why is it better to feed the farm crops to animals on the farm rather than to sell these crops?
20772Why is the soil wet under a board or under straw?
20772Why should a poor and shallow soil be well compacted before sowing the crop?
20772Why?
20772Why?
20772Why?
20772Why?
20772Why?
20772Will a soil that is fine and compact produce better crops than one that is loose and cloddy?
20772Would a ration of corn meal and corn stover be a desirable ration?
20772Would a ration of cotton- seed meal and cotton- seed hulls be a model ration?
20772and, Am I feeding the best rations for milk and butter production?
20772cherries?
20772currants?
20772figs?
20772grapes?
20772plums?
20772some fleshy like the carrot?
20772the cowpea?
20772the flax?
20772the sourwood?
20772wet weather?
32949Any pleasures? 32949 Description of my average working day?
32949How old is she?
32949Why do n''t you speak for yourself, John?
32949With what do you mix your paints?
32949''What is it?''
32949''Which way do you go to get to Grassville?''
329491 II THE HEART OF THE PROBLEM 13 III IS THE COUNTRY GIRL HAPPY ON THE FARM?
32949And can they then walk off, holding the frame in this way, and keep the position firmly and gracefully?
32949And that she shall recognize no difference in her standard for the morality of both the young man and the young woman?
32949And the daughter?
32949And thus is she being happy?
32949And who would want to tie them down, anyway?
32949Are the shoulders well back?
32949Are there many of these?
32949B.: How to Amuse Yourself and Others CAMPBELL, H. S.: The American Girl''s Home Book of Work and Play CANFIELD, D.: What Shall We Do Now?
32949But are you not afraid to stay in your cabin alone on your lofty butte?
32949But do they not mind the deep changeless silence in those distant solitary places?
32949But how about rattlesnakes?
32949But is it really so?
32949But may we not expect even more?
32949But the Indians?
32949But then again, would the state of things be bettered if this important initiative were placed equally in the hands of women and men?
32949But what farm woman of the old days ever gave"so many other pleasures,"or"too many places to go,"as reasons for not reading?
32949But what is this Open Door?
32949But where is the tall young daughter, and where are the papers for her and the books about her needs?
32949But where shall she begin?
32949CHAPTER I THE COUNTRY GIRL-- WHERE IS SHE?
32949CHAPTER III IS THE COUNTRY GIRL HAPPY ON THE FARM?
32949CHAPTER XXV THE PLAY IN THE HOME O little bulb, uncouth Rugged, and rusty brown, Have you some dew of youth?
32949Can any one ask the question?
32949Can any one doubt that she will ask for such things as she believes are necessary to her highest efficiency, and insist upon having them?
32949Can it be that the Country Girl has in some measure reached this point by doing what Lot''s wife did-- by simply looking behind her?
32949Can they take full, deep, long breaths?
32949Can we entertain the hope that the city cousins will come to the rescue?
32949Can you fail to see and feel it?
32949Casting her eye along back over the generations, did she see anything that appalled her?
32949Did she take it?
32949Do their chests stand up good and strong?
32949Do we not need this also to help lift the ban of loneliness and to supply that elasticity of spirit that means life to us?
32949Do you not fear that war- whoop?
32949Does he include the farm laboratory among the"industries"?
32949Does her husband appreciate what a wonderful woman fate has assigned to him?
32949Does she make the most of his efforts in her behalf?
32949Does she sleep the very sleep of the dead the whole night long, and is she all day the widest awake being that can be found for miles around?
32949Does the Country Girl sufficiently appreciate our Uncle Sam?
32949Dost thou love me, fair one?"
32949For how can a town with all those advantages hold up its head among the towns of America if it has a church building and no church therein?
32949For without that, she reasons, what is there to look forward to?
32949Friend Bowerman says to Rachel his wife,"What sayest thou, Rachel?"
32949Happily this is the story of an exceptional incident; but how may it be prevented from becoming common?
32949Has she an appetite to startle one fully three times a day and even more often, if something good to eat is being made?
32949Has she no games?
32949Has she the chance to grow and fill full the possible round of her own personal development?
32949Have you a crimson crown?
32949Here are six million girls of the countryside-- what can they do to redeem the country from this dull silence and unmelodious tedium?
32949Hope is the anchor of the soul; and without something to hope for, how can one hope?
32949How can we get a kitchen like that?
32949How do we account for this great interest in singing?
32949How hard can they hit, how fast can they run, how high can they jump, how much can they lift, how free are they from pain, and how happy are they?
32949How many fruits, vegetables, foods of all sorts, are made the home of these various kinds?
32949How many hours will it take to show that certain processes will render each variety a safe food?
32949How many kinds of bacterial life are there?
32949How many young students must give years to the business of finding out what we may use and what we may not?
32949If that is so, then this life_ is_ favorable to moral development, is it not?"
32949In fine, is she receiving her share of possible growth?
32949Is her face expressionless and too old for her years?
32949Is her face full of expression, with smiles and dimples all the time?
32949Is it not clear where the true greatness of America lies?
32949Is it worth while?
32949Is not the duty of the girls who are a little older or who have been away to school or college perfectly, translucently clear?
32949Is she full of love and affection toward each member of the family, and endless in her devices for their comfort and entertainment?
32949Is she having her chance to show all that she is able to become?
32949Is she having her share of content?
32949Is she listless and suspicious and sensitive?
32949Is she round- shouldered and heavy of step?
32949Is she suppressed and sodden in mood?
32949Is she the life of the home, with a word and a joke for everybody and is she a perfect mischief among the other children?
32949Is the Country Girl happy on the farm?
32949Is the chin well down and back?
32949Is the daughter not doing her share?
32949Is the system, which was evidently designed to foster justice and happiness, accomplishing this end for a reasonable majority?
32949Is there any one who does not know what the word"blaze"means?
32949Is there room to put down just one more story?
32949It means-- but why should I tell mothers what that means?
32949KING[_ rushes in excitedly_]--Where is my daughter?
32949KNIGHT-- And wilt thou elope with me?
32949May not the Country Girl of the next generation be expected to do something adequate and wonderful with these good gifts of heaven?
32949May we, however, ask a further question?
32949Now what has been forgotten?
32949Often they are not, but whose fault is it?
32949On the next Sunday there were five and one of them was blind; and what do you think?
32949One girl on a Western ranch is very much interested in the subject of-- what do you suppose?
32949Or is she full of spirit and enthusiasm, a perfect dynamo of energy?
32949Or is she in her heart dissatisfied and glowering?
32949She follows it and follows it-- and what is the end to be?
32949She should-- but does she?
32949Should she not do so?
32949Some one may say, Why then touch her in this obliviousness of her unfilled possibilities?
32949Surely within the oven one can see A roast... what else on earth would smell so good?...
32949The British officer however steps toward the parents, leading the maiden by the hand and says:"Friend Bowerman, may I have thy daughter for my wife?
32949To what extent, then, does the farmstead offer opportunity for such growth?
32949What about a vital minority?
32949What about exceptional cases?
32949What barrier can there be to a woman''s progress?
32949What business?
32949What can she do?
32949What could be more delightful than owning one''s own land, having one''s own house, digging in one''s own soil, and being one''s own and only boss?
32949What have you been praised for doing?
32949What is that Country Girl thinking of, that she should waste this opportunity?
32949What is there about life in the open that gives to genius its incentive?
32949What is there that any one girl can do about such a thing?
32949What must be rectified in order that the machinery may be wholly approved?
32949What prevents them?
32949What processes will protect each kind from becoming harmful to human life?
32949What sufferings to certain individuals?
32949What then shall be done?
32949What wrongs can be found?
32949What, in fact, might they not do?
32949When the wrong is done, and the girl is lost, does the college girl in her home town take it to her own heart as in part her responsibility?
32949Where did she get it?
32949Where is the Country Girl and what is happening in her department?
32949Which will be the most economical?
32949Who but a girl of the great untrammelled Northwest would call the weather reports a home convenience, or think of including homemade soap?
32949Who can tell?
32949Who would not spring to help?
32949Why does she not do something for those girls?
32949Why does the shepherd invariably possess a flute?
32949Why not in the house?
32949Why not record the farm- supplies on the day book at market prices, as if they did come from butcher and grocer?
32949Why not search for it?
32949Why should not the church door be a place for the exchange of free will offerings of all kinds?
32949Why should not this be done in every small town?
32949Why these special parts of the world should move in this direction, who can tell?
32949Why, then, does she feel so great a need for sheer money?
32949Why, then, if the Country Girl wishes to become efficient, should she not have a"score card"of her own?
32949Why?
32949Will any States fail to show their appreciation, and to meet the offer of the beneficent Uncle Sam?
32949Will it be long, sweetheart?
32949Will not the same thing be true of woman in the farmstead?
32949Will the Country Girl be obliged to inherit this deprivation?
32949Would the young men suffer themselves to be ensnared by the unbelated suggestion, remain in the rural environment and found their homes there?
32949Would they allow themselves to be tied down in a place where they do not desire to be?
32949_ Inscription on an old English pitcher._ CHAPTER III IS THE COUNTRY GIRL HAPPY ON THE FARM?
32949_ Margaret Widdemer._ CHAPTER I THE COUNTRY GIRL-- WHERE IS SHE?
32949dividing and subtracting; it is economics-- averages, outgo and income, the wage, the unearned increment, the community; what, in fact, is it not?
32949dost thou have no pity for me?
32949not found my daughter?
16525And my gardens, too?
16525And will you sell it?
16525Are n''t you going to credit anything to health, and good times generally? 16525 Are these things worth$ 100,000?"
16525Are you really glad to get back to it? 16525 Break away, daughter, do you want a steam launch with your yacht?"
16525But how about your friends, Polly?
16525But how is one to know? 16525 But what about the boys, Polly?"
16525But what if Anderson sets fire to your piggery, or lightning strikes your granary,--how about the expense account then?
16525But, me friend Jarvis, what is this you have on your face? 16525 But, suppose the Company were in duty bound to do this thing for you, and suppose it should refuse; would that be a good reason for quitting work?
16525Ca n''t you have a telephone put into the farm- house? 16525 Can you send more?"
16525Country life fits us like paper on the wall,said I,"but how about the youngsters?
16525Do you know how much it is?
16525Do you like the plan? 16525 Do you mean that there are more pearls than swine, Mr. Jack?
16525Do you mean the house alone?
16525Do you think I could manage a farm?
16525Do_ your_ pigs get lost when you are away?
16525Does it come out just even$ 44,000? 16525 Finished the farm- house?"
16525Fun comes high at this time of the year, does n''t it, Polly?
16525Have they sowed the alfalfa and cut the oats?
16525Have you decided to keep''dottes? 16525 Have you settled the moulds he is to be run in?"
16525How about Jack?
16525How are you going to seed the north forty?
16525How do you figure values here?
16525How does the contagion travel, Doctor?
16525How long have you had that up your sleeve, young woman? 16525 How many cows are you going to milk?"
16525How much do you want to spend for the house?
16525How''s that?
16525Jack, whom will you ask? 16525 Lonesome, is it?
16525Now see here, old man, what would be the good of selling this factory for$ 100,000? 16525 Now, what would be the result if you struck on these robbers?
16525Of these fifty, can we count on twenty- five pullets?
16525Or the trees you''ve planted?
16525Polly, how much is 16- 1/2 times 320?
16525See here, boys, do n''t you see that you''re sending your noble Swede to his Lutzen before his time,--not dead, indeed, but dead drunk? 16525 Sir Tom,"said I,"shall I send for a priest?"
16525So you do n''t want to go back to that tall house, madam?
16525Sure he''s all right, and as fine as silk; but why did you give him to me? 16525 That applies to other things besides post- splitting, does n''t it?"
16525That includes horse keep, I suppose?
16525That would be doing pretty well, would n''t it? 16525 This dull, brutish condition is self- imposed, and to what end?
16525Well, Bill, I thought you would like him, and we were neighbors, and--"You thought I would save you the trouble of keeping him, did n''t you?
16525Well, men, what do you want? 16525 What breeds of cows have you handled, Thompson?"
16525What can you do with a forge?
16525What do they come for if they do n''t want the place we described? 16525 What do you buy cedar posts for, when you have enough better ones on the place?"
16525What do you get in return? 16525 What do you have to pay for them?"
16525What do you suppose a good one would cost?
16525What do you suppose fire insurance policies are for? 16525 What do you suppose they will charge per ton on their platform?"
16525What has it cost you to date?
16525What have crows hiding got to do with corn, I''d like to know?
16525What kind of things does this young lady make, dear?
16525What percentage of hatch may we expect from purchased eggs?
16525What things does the Herr Doctor speak for?
16525What time can I breakfast? 16525 What will have to do?"
16525What will the paper on your bedroom wall be like?
16525What will you do if the men go out?
16525What''s the matter with the bull, Jackson? 16525 What''s the matter?
16525Who is match- making now?
16525Who said he was?
16525Why do you throw down the Plymouth Rocks? 16525 Why, of course you can; you''ve managed your business, have n''t you?
16525Will you ever have to increase the debt?
16525Will you have one lump or two?
16525Will you sell this plant, Williams?
16525Will you take twenty per cent advance on what the books show? 16525 Would you like to see a clergyman?"
16525You started out with a plan for a$ 10,000 house, did n''t you? 16525 A man is not a slave, to be made to work against his will; but, on the other hand, is he not a slave if he is forced to quit against his will? 16525 A saddle horse and dogs galore would square me with Jane, beyond question; but what about Jack? 16525 After resting a few minutes, Sir Tom said:--Me lady Laura, do you mind that prayer song, the second verse?"
16525And I do n''t think$ 125 is much, do you?"
16525And how much interest do you add?"
16525And who was to gainsay her?
16525Are they hand- painted?
16525But do you think you can secure this paragon?"
16525But how about the children?
16525But what''s the matter with the old lady''s quarter across your south road?"
16525But what''s the use of charging the farm with interest when you credit it with our keeping?"
16525But why did you say dehorn the cows?"
16525But, supposing it only pays expenses, how can you put on as much style on the interest of$ 100,000 anywhere else as you can here?
16525By the way, how much of an ice- house shall I need?"
16525CHAPTER XVII WHAT SHALL WE ASK OF THE HEN?
16525Ca n''t I do something for you?"
16525Ca n''t they drive the butter- cart out each morning and home after school?
16525Ca n''t you hold them?"
16525Can you make nails?
16525Could I live in a better house, or have better food, better service, better friends, or a better way of entertaining them?
16525Did n''t you want to stay longer?"
16525Did you ever see weather made to order before?
16525Do I charge my orchards for this time?
16525Do n''t you see that it makes little difference what we call our expenses out here, so long as the farm pays them and gives us a surplus besides?
16525Do n''t you think you can help the men, Lars?"
16525Do n''t you think you''ve been a little extravagant?"
16525Do n''t you want to get rid of those five scrub cows?"
16525Do these animals feel no joy in the performance of service which is bred into their bones and which it is unnatural or freakish for them to lack?
16525Do they expect we are to change our plans of life to suit their personal notions?"
16525Do you feel_ very_ bad, Jack?
16525Do you find it in the union?
16525Do you know how long it is since I have had them?
16525Do you know where you can place them?"
16525Do you like the prospect?
16525Do you realize, Polly, that the maids in the house get$ 1300 out of the$ 5300,--one quarter of the whole?
16525Do you really think farming is all beer and skittles?"
16525Do you roll up your sleeves and wear a leather apron?"
16525Do you suppose I am going to let these visions become contaminated by practical knowledge?
16525Do you suppose these men are here from charitable motives or for their health?
16525Do you think we can get a glass of milk of the''farm lady''?"
16525Does n''t that count for anything?
16525Does that frighten you, Polly?"
16525Get some good men out here, wo n''t you?"
16525Have you any idea as to where it can be had?"
16525Have you any idea how many posts it will take to fence this farm as we have platted it?
16525Have you evicted the poor widow, and she on her deathbed?
16525Have you got to pay interest on it?"
16525He does n''t live up to his possibilities, does he?"
16525Headman?"
16525Her brown hair has floated in my dreams until I have cried out for help; what would her face have done?
16525How could I place the money so that it would bring me half the things which this farm brings me now?
16525How have you done it?"
16525How long are you going to stay out?
16525How many did we keep in the city?"
16525How much of it do you suppose there is?"
16525How much will it cost to get them out?"
16525How was I to know that Polly would hail from that quarter?
16525How?
16525I can have a saddle horse now, and keep as many dogs as I like, ca n''t I, Dad?"
16525I do n''t know everything yet, do I, Thompson?"
16525I found by experience, that if one would have bird neighbors( and who would not?
16525I think that''s a fair showing for the three years, do n''t you?"
16525I was reckless then, and hoped the total would be great, for had not Polly said that she knew I had got the worth of my money?
16525If I had more land, would I increase my stock?
16525If this were true, these two persons were just what I needed; but, was it true?
16525If we had good luck with the sixty chicks, how many would grow up?"
16525In return for this$ 3 a year, what do I give my hens besides a clean house and yard?
16525Is it due to pure air and sunshine, making redder blood and more vigorous development, to broader horizons and freedom from abnormal conventions?
16525Is n''t he all right?"
16525Is n''t that great?
16525Is the Company under obligation to lose this money for you?
16525Is there anything better under the sun than fried salt pork and milk gravy?
16525Is this a load which thinking people would impose upon themselves?
16525It is hard, sir, not to do a hit of a hammer for weeks or months with a family on one''s hands and winter coming; but what can a man do?
16525It was pretty of her to say that; but what else would one expect from Laura?
16525Jack?"
16525Jackson sent for his horse, and just before he mounted, I said,"Are you thinking of selling your farm?"
16525Joining her, I said,--"I have mapped seven forties; have you finished one?"
16525May I write and find out?"
16525My first greeting was,--"How''s the farm, Polly?"
16525My poultry was to be white, and white predominated in my cows; why should not my swine be white also,--or as white as their habits would permit?
16525No, I guess I wo n''t sell the paternal acres; but who wants to buy?"
16525Not since I knew you well, did I?
16525Of the turnips I could feel more certain, for doth not the poet say:--"The 25th day of July, Sow your turnips, wet or dry"?
16525One day Jane said:--"Dad, what do you think of the Russian wolf- hound?"
16525Or does a close relation to primary things give a newness to mind and body which is granted only to those who apply in person?
16525Say, Dad, why not have one?"
16525Shall my work stop because you have been called out for a holiday?
16525Shall the weeds grow over these walls and my lumber rot while you sit idly by?
16525Shall we do it, Polly?"
16525Silk thread would advance in proportion, and how does the manager know that he can replace his silk when needed, even at the advanced price?
16525Some one will say:"How can you make hens pay if they do n''t lay more than eight dozen eggs a year?
16525The experiment is yours, is n''t it?"
16525The farm is yours, is n''t it?
16525The question ought always to be, How much can a cow eat and drink?
16525The social side of life is quite as important as the commercial, for though we gain money, if we lose happiness, what profit have we?
16525Then he was Gustavus Adolphus,--for had he not come to the aid of the Protestants when they were in sore need?
16525There is land enough now and to spare, but will it be so fifty or a hundred years hence?
16525They called him Lars Porsena,--for had he not fought gallantly?
16525They had done well without a husbandman; what could not others do with one?
16525To live on our lawn, did I say?
16525To paper the wall?
16525WHAT SHALL WE ASK OF THE HEN?
16525Was I to flush two at once, and would they fall to my gun?
16525We must n''t think of it as a dog; it''s a barzoi; that is n''t too much for a barzoi, is it?"
16525We were all very fond of Jessie, and who could help it?
16525What are you to do with this?
16525What could I do with a priest?
16525What could be more unnatural?
16525What difference does it make whether you charge interest or not?"
16525What do I care for that?
16525What do you think of Judson as a probable dairyman?"
16525What do you think of that?"
16525What do you think we could sell this one for?"
16525What does Jane say?"
16525What in the world have you done with it?
16525What kind of investment will pay better?
16525What more can she ask?
16525What shall I do when you quit work?
16525What sort of business will give larger returns in health and pleasure?
16525What wages do you pay?"
16525What will become of my interests while you are following the lead of your bell- wethers?
16525What would I do if disease should appear?
16525What would one think of the manager of a silk- thread factory who sold his raw silk, just because it had advanced in price?
16525What would you say to a proposition of$ 10,000 for one hundred acres along my north line?"
16525When did I ever insist on anything, Mrs. Williams?
16525Who has done the cutting down of this trip?
16525Why did n''t you keep him for yourself?"
16525Why do you insist upon eight weeks?"
16525Why does the universal farm- house hang its gable over the public road, without tree or shrub to cover its boldness?
16525Why should I?"
16525Why, John Williams, do you mean to tell me that you borrowed this money?
16525Will you follow me through the search for the land, the purchase, and the tremendous house- cleaning of the first year?
16525Will you send for a lawyer?"
16525Will you stay on these terms?"
16525With all outdoors to choose from, why ape the crowded city streets?
16525With much to apologize for in barn and pigsty, why place them in the seat of honor?
16525Would I take$ 20 apiece for these trees?
16525Would he be better reconciled to his fate after spending his nine months between field and sty?
16525Would it appeal to them with the same force as to us?
16525Would it be satisfactory to us and to them?
16525Would these boys fight for the girls they had with them?
16525You bought it with your own money, did n''t you?
16525You save$ 50, do n''t you see?"
16525not, How little can she get on with?
16525times 320?
45154Big Boy BlueLooks After the Sheep] RAISING GOATS Boys, are you really serious about making some money?
45154But who wants it and what for?
45154What are they good for?
45154What you pay?
45154Wo n''t chu gimme one o''yer flowers?
45154( Why not use a piece of a tin can if you have strong shears?)
45154( Would n''t you almost as soon work as to look for an easy job, anyhow?)
451542?
45154452 OUTDOOR WORK I THE BEST WAYS OF EARNING MONEY Could n''t you use more money if you had it?
45154An Odd Job That is Never Out of Date] Why should grown men monopolize the kindling business?
45154And where do apple seeds come from?
45154And would n''t it be a good idea for some boys to begin a plantation of holly now so they can reap the harvest later?
45154Are n''t they beauties?
45154Are the exquisite"moleskin"garments sometimes seen in furriers''windows really made of tiny skins of this despised little quadruped?
45154Are the girls popular and good- natured?
45154Are the seed pods of one plant all alike?
45154Are the surroundings bare and ugly?
45154Are the wild plums all forgotten?
45154Are these mere holes deep enough to crawl into for safety?
45154Are they interested in local affairs or do they tell each other of the great things they expect to do when they get away?
45154Are those steep hills covered with brush and good- for- nothing trees that look too hopeless?
45154Are you a good citizen if you let such a dog run at large?
45154Are you going to be a good citizen?
45154Are you hard hearted enough not only to break and enter, but also to burgle his hoard?
45154Are you patriotic?
45154BRINGING BACK THE SONG BIRDS How can boys and girls bring back our song birds?
45154Because there is good money in it?
45154But do you believe there are any farm hens whose portraits will appear in the big magazines?
45154But does he ever plant any big sweet nuts along a fence row and take care of the young trees till they are big enough to take care of themselves?
45154But does he realize that the best time to carry the manure out is while it is new?
45154But does it, when your mother and sisters make it into butter, for example?
45154But does the grass die where the tunnels run?
45154But how did the footless, helpless grub get there and when?
45154But how many cow owners know which cows pay their board with a bonus, which barely keep even, and which are eating their heads off?
45154But in the meantime what is the skunk doing?
45154But most fathers want the potatoes cut before planting and who is to do it but the boys and girls?
45154But now what can you do to- day?
45154But what do the hives look like inside?
45154But what is this ferment?
45154But what of a colt?
45154But who cared for a trifle like that?
45154But who does not love to ply the hose?
45154But who ever heard of a burglar alarm on a beehive?
45154But who is going to harvest the tree seeds?
45154But who likes to see a grown man in a pony carriage?
45154But whoever thought of getting one that showed the seed pods?
45154But will the florist buy those leaves which have the brown spots( or spores) on the under side?
45154Ca n''t you imagine how surprised and disappointed they are to find their grandmothers living in city houses, even in flats?
45154Can he not hear you coming a mile off?
45154Can you afford to make your sirup into sugar at this rate?
45154Can you afford to run the risk of young chickens getting lice as soon as they are hatched?
45154Can you beat them at their own game?
45154Can you draw your own inferences?
45154Can your father afford to keep that kind of a cow?
45154Can your father or you afford to keep money invested in any cow that returns him less than a dollar a year over and above the expense of feed?
45154Canned grapes are pronounced"no good"by all the family, and grape marmalade is full of"splinters of glass,"though how they got there who can say?
45154Could you do as neat a piece of work?
45154Did any one ever visit the shore and come home without a pocket bulging with shells?
45154Did it not occur to you that you could make home- made ice, supply the refrigerator in coldest weather, and make ice- cream whenever you want it?
45154Did n''t the first chocolate cream you ever made look like a chestnut gone wrong?
45154Did not my elder brother now own a beautiful mare and colt, and had he not started with a pig?
45154Did you ever feel anything so funny?
45154Did you ever hear any one show any enthusiasm when passing a flock of mongrels?
45154Did you ever make cider on your farm?
45154Did you ever pour off the vinegar from a jug and find a mass of jelly- like substance stopping the mouth of the jug?
45154Did you ever see a greater development in that direction?
45154Did you ever wonder where the nursery men get the thousands of apple trees they sell every year?
45154Did you see that one last year in_ Collier''s Weekly_?
45154Digitalis in the drug store is foxglove in the garden; but who ever thinks of gathering its leaves and finding a market for them?
45154Do boys and girls find the beeches by instinct just as the mice, the blue jays, the squirrels, and the foraging hogs do?
45154Do boys and girls know what public spirit is?
45154Do mothers know anything about swimming?
45154Do n''t you know Aunt J---- says that all the_ Coprinà ¦_ are edible?"
45154Do n''t you like to be asked for your opinion?
45154Do n''t you like to hear engineers, miners, sailors, inventors, animal trainers, cowboys, foresters, and other workers talk about their work?
45154Do they do it in a primitive way or are their methods worthy of the up- to- date American youngster?
45154Do you blame him?
45154Do you know how your little village strikes a stranger?
45154Do you know the owners of such animals?
45154Do you know what Oliver Herford said of the mole?
45154Do you know why it takes so much longer to gather a pint of beechnuts than the same amount of hazel- nuts?
45154Do you live on a farm where the hills are too steep to plow and the only crop that amounts to anything is the crop of stones?
45154Do you remember young Abe Lincoln splitting rails?
45154Do you salute the flag at school, and then go out and break the game laws?
45154Do you suppose there are many 200-eggers on farms with all their supposed advantages?
45154Do you want the one on"House Construction"or the one on"Feeding Pullets?"
45154Does he hoard for winter, or hibernate?
45154Does he know that dirt in ice and dust from streets may be deadly if they get into milk?
45154Does he know what milk is?
45154Does it include your sisters and the other boys''sisters?
45154Does n''t it make your mouth water?
45154Does n''t that read like sound advice?
45154Does n''t that sound like a book on what children should eat?
45154Does this not hint at mystery and something higher than mere intelligence?
45154FRANK MITCHELL A BOY FEEDS SIX THOUSAND HENS IN HALF AN HOUR What do you know about that?
45154From apples?
45154Gathering Wild Flowers for City Children] DANDELION GREENS Do your folks cook dandelion greens?
45154Gyp Has An Ax to Grind] Did you try to teach your dog to retrieve by ducking him?
45154HAWS Is there any good reason why some of the people who used to be boys should never have a chance to taste any thorn apples now that they are older?
45154Has he a nest, and where and what is it?
45154Has it never occurred to them to practise it?
45154Has the burdock any vulnerable spot they wondered?
45154Has the mother the sweet and patient look that the best mothers have?
45154Has the owner an exit as well as an entrance to his home?
45154Have they gone south?
45154Have you a suitable place for chickens?
45154Have you ever tried the experiment of sorting and grading the nuts you gather?
45154Have you had experience in building, painting, and planting?
45154Have you not often seen children returning from a walk in the woods bearing handfuls of columbine?
45154Have you seen a wild- eyed cow being literally dragged behind a wagon, scared past endurance and behaving like a savage creature?
45154Have you seen beautiful"curly"places in fine woodwork?
45154Have you seen it smoke?
45154Honestly, now, is your dog worth his keep?
45154How about the farm dog, boys and girls?
45154How about your dog?
45154How are boys and girls going to find out what animals can do, how they live, how they make a living?
45154How are the boys of the family liked in the neighbourhood?
45154How can you make your own home a more desirable place for your brothers and sisters to live in?
45154How did they get there?
45154How do the seeds germinate and when?
45154How do you know that they are young grasshoppers and not fully grown ones of some tiny race?
45154How does the creature get out anyway, and what is it like when it first arrives in the open?
45154How high in front must it be to provide space for your door and window?
45154How is the change brought about?
45154How long does it take a baby to learn what"no, no"means?
45154How low at the back can you make it without bumping your head when you go inside?
45154How many can show records to make good that claim?
45154How many of us are ready to do that at sixteen years?
45154How much can you count on your bees earning?
45154How much pay?"
45154How shall he do it?
45154How soon would you learn to swim by that method?
45154How would you like to grow pheasants?
45154If all your neighbours have bronze turkeys and the flocks are always getting mixed, why not try the buff or black or the white Holland?
45154If dust gets into that little puddle that ought not to be on top of the bottles does he wipe it off with a dirty rag, ignorant of the danger?
45154If good wheat can be grown by modern methods, and wormy apples prevented by spraying, why should n''t trout be caught in grandpa''s old brook?
45154If the grapes grow on an arbour what more delightful occupation can you imagine than spending a day or two converting the perfect fruit into nectar?
45154If the making of honey is mysterious, what can we say of wax production?
45154If the mother keeps poultry, the boys pigs, and the father raises horses and cows, then why should not the girls raise sheep?
45154If you can get skim- milk cheap why not buy a bunch of young cockerels and stuff them for market?
45154If you can help paint the barn, why not the house?
45154If you can plant trees in the orchard, why not shrubs in the door yard, and vines over the porch?
45154In making and erecting each piece ask yourself,"Will this be easy to clean?"
45154Is This Work or Play?]
45154Is it not evident that his life is one long series of narrow escapes?
45154Is it plain and unadorned and uncomfortable?
45154Is it some mortal ailment or mere"weakness of intellect?"
45154Is it winter?
45154Is it worth while for you to do this when the rest of the people do not?
45154Is the seed pod of the white one like that of the yellow?
45154Is there a little hay and dust in the pail?
45154Is there anything worth doing that does n''t take time and work?
45154Is there more than one tunnel?
45154Is there something wrong about boys and girls who prefer boxed berries and smooth hands to wild fruits and scratches?
45154Is"goin''plummin''"entirely out of fashion, even in the prairie states?
45154It is easier to go out and earn the money and give it to them to spend, but where do they come in?
45154It was perhaps a young Boston housekeeper who asked when her market man offered her Pekin ducks for her table,"How are they esteemed?"
45154KILLING WEEDS Weeding is the boy''s job, is n''t it?
45154MUSHROOMS"Are you sure these are good mushrooms?"
45154Must all fruit come out of boxes and have that stale taste of the town?
45154Must it lose its characteristic aroma and give off only that general"markety"smell?
45154Must the moth break the threads in getting out, or is the cocoon woven in a manner to provide a gateway when it shall be needed?
45154No eyes, no ears; but what use has a mole for either?
45154Now how is it made?
45154Now who expects to get stung all over?
45154OUTDOOR CLUBS Have you a boys''club in your neighbourhood?
45154Of course it would be good with game, but can you imagine eating barberry jelly with corn- fed pork or with fat mutton?
45154Or a big handful tied up in a grimy handkerchief?
45154Or a girls''club?
45154Or if there is n''t any idle land can you not persuade him to lend you an acre or so for experimental purposes?
45154Or if you live in Montana would you exchange buffalo berry marmalade with a Florida friend for guava jelly or preserved cumquats?
45154Or, if you sell cream, would n''t you want a cow whose milk tested high in butter fat?
45154Preserved calamus root, too; who buys that unless it is Br''er Rabbit?
45154RAISING GUINEA FOWL What would you expect if you ordered"American pheasant"from a bill of fare in a London restaurant?
45154SHELF FUNGI Have you seen those outgrowths on dying and dead trees which stand out like a shelf?
45154SWARMING Did you ever wonder why bees swarm?
45154Soft as velvet, eh?
45154Some say the supply has given out, but who believes such tales?
45154Sumach too, has great decorative value, yet whoever saw it in a florist''s window?
45154THIMBLEBERRY Do you know the thimbleberry?
45154That children''s lives depend upon the care he gives it?
45154The pulp was squeezed dry and thrown away, was n''t it, at your cider mill?
45154The stub prevents healing] But if there is a limb to be cut off a tree in the door yard who is likely to be delegated to the job?
45154Then was it possible those blessed geese had been spending their precious vacation days gathering bay berry leaves?
45154They called it"mother"did n''t they?
45154To such boys and girls I say,"Did you ever see any pheasants?"
45154WHAT GOES ON IN THE BROOD CHAMBER?
45154Was there anything wonderful in this?
45154Well, that time has come, but, who ever went to a shop and asked for a weasel tippet?
45154What are his conspicuous characteristics?
45154What business has a spider in the wasp''s nest, if it is her nest?
45154What can a boy not do if he has the opportunity?
45154What can be done with those wasting apples?
45154What can you do to make your own particular corner of the country a better place for you and your companions to live in?
45154What do you know about that?
45154What does your father have a manure pile for?
45154What else is an old creek like that good for anyhow?
45154What is a violet''s seed pod like anyhow?
45154What is a weed anyhow?
45154What is that yellowish object that rolls from among the ruined adobe walls?
45154What is there about it?
45154What kind of stories do you like best?
45154What kinds of clubs do boys like?
45154What makes it do this?
45154What more can you say about watermelon or strawberries?
45154What other farm crop will do as much?
45154What shaped roof will be easiest to build, most economical of lumber, and most satisfactory as a rain shed?
45154What will please them more than to know that you have a keen sense of honour?
45154When a crowd of boys meet together, what do they talk about?
45154When do the pods open and how?
45154Where are the insects in winter?
45154Where did the little tree come from whose top was cut off after the first bud was set?
45154Which shall you follow?
45154Who has a better right to the ashes than the boy who manages the ash pan?
45154Who has not heard old men say that?
45154Who picks all these nuts in the woods?
45154Who says now that the mink has disappeared?
45154Why do people, whose only fitness for telling stories lies in their having an imagination, make up such yarns about real things?
45154Why is this?
45154Why not have a club that the boys will take an interest in and a club that the girls will take an interest in?
45154Why not make up some neat attractive cases, each containing a little collection illustrating the four stages of the growth of this insect?
45154Why not provide her with a still more convenient forked stick as some bee- keepers do?
45154Why not put some thought on the very business he is engaged in?
45154Why not train a dog or a sheep to turn the crank?
45154Why should you not benefit by this?
45154Why was that?
45154Will not busy boys and girls make better citizens than idle ones?
45154Will not our bees work just as cheaply as those in foreign countries?
45154Will you do this?
45154Will you try it?
45154Will you try?
45154Would n''t it be a triumph to raise a family of these wonderful birds?
45154Would n''t it be worth while for the domestic science or cookery teacher in a country school to show her pupils how to utilize these home products?
45154Would n''t you, if you live in northern Michigan, like to exchange a pot of thimbleberry jam for one made in North Carolina from persimmons?
45154Would you ruin a fine young tree just beginning a life of usefulness?
45154XI MAKING THE COUNTRY A BETTER PLACE TO LIVE IN I once asked Professor Bailey,"What is the most important farm crop raised in the United States?"
45154You believe everybody ought to know how to swim, do n''t you?
45154You can find frenzied advertisers trying to disprove these statements, but do not your own observations bear me out?
45154You have seen a fine board ruined by a knot hole?
45154You like him, of course, but is he a loafing, worthless, sneaking, sheep- killing dog?
45154You see patches of dead grass on many lawns, but do you find moles at work in these same lawns?
45154You used to have a literary society in school, and it failed?
45154_ Inky Caps._--You never expect to gather your dinner from an ash heap?
36031Whose boat is that?
36031Why not?
36031You do? 36031 ( Applause) And yet they tell you that these waters do not belong to the Federal Government? 36031 ( Applause) Now, is the State ready to surrender any rights that it may have in the waters of the stream to the Federal Government? 36031 ( Applause) President BAKER-- Is the motion seconded? 36031 ( Applause) What are the prospects of getting cheaper food to eat? 36031 ( Applause) What is the result? 36031 ( Applause) Why was the American Nation founded? 36031 ( Applause)***** Miss BOARDMAN-- Mr Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen: Of what value would Conservation be without human life? 36031 ( Applause)***** Professor CONDRA-- Ladies and Gentlemen: A question has been sent to the Chair:Will the Congress close this evening?"
36031( Confusion on the floor) Who brought this anyway?
36031( Laughter and applause) But what does that mean?
36031( The resolution was adopted) Professor CONDRA-- Would it not be in order to hear from the Executive Committee relative to the work in Missouri?
36031( Voice:"Now, what do you think of Tawney?"
36031***** A DELEGATE-- Mr Chairman, are the propositions advanced by the Governors to be discussed?
36031A VOICE-- What is the question?
36031Am I correct, Mr President?
36031And then we asked,"How do you make that out?"
36031And this has another side?
36031And we asked in that connection,"Who owns the Mississippi river?
36031And we asked,"Have n''t people gone there and attempted to buy that land of you in order that they might settle upon it?"
36031And what next?
36031And who are enemies of Conservation?
36031And who but ourselves( and each for one another) shall pass upon our credentials as to our honesty of purpose in this great work?
36031And why not?
36031And, last, may I say a word or two for some of the by- products of Conservation in Red Cross service?
36031Any remarks on the motion?
36031Are our people still better fed and more cheaply that work in the factories, that work for the railroads, that work in the mines?
36031Are there any other committees to report?
36031Are there any remarks?
36031Are there any remarks?
36031Are there any, and why?
36031Are you ready to vote on the amendment?
36031Briefly, then, of what does the American Red Cross organization consist?
36031But how can the Nation be indifferent to the very stuff out of which it is made?
36031But what is the condition now?
36031Can you, therefore, Ladies and Gentlemen, ask if in view of these facts the Government of Great Britain is interested in your efforts?
36031Chairman CLAPP-- Will the gentleman make a motion to that effect?
36031Consider Scotland-- a poor and barren country, yet who would dare to call poor the land of Scott and Burns and Carlyle?
36031Did n''t the boy who grew 150 bushels of corn to the acre_ do_ something?
36031Do its waters belong to the States through which those waters flow?
36031Do we want to bring men from Central America?
36031Do we want to bring them from Mexico?
36031Do you know it is your own salvation to do so?
36031Do you remember the history of irrigation in the valley of the Po, in Italy?
36031Does n''t that develop the country?"
36031Does the Federal Government own it?
36031Finally she asked,"John, why do n''t you say something?"
36031First, considering the prime purpose to preserve and protect the forest, what has been the result?
36031Fourthly and finally, what kind of education is it that the new needs call for?
36031Gentlemen of the Congress, was the question of State rights, the_ real_, genuine doctrine of State rights, behind that demand?
36031Governor NORRIS-- Has led?
36031Has the Federal Government this right?
36031Has this course been right?
36031Have n''t they done a great deal of work to develop your irrigation projects?
36031Have we lagged behind the National Government?
36031He heard one of them say to the other,"They are having a great fuss up there in Congress over this Ballinger- Pinchot controversy, are n''t they?"
36031He tells us that this Reclamation Service is costly-- thirty, forty, or fifty dollars an acre, to be paid in ten years without interest-- for what?
36031How are the cities, towns, and villages in those States to grow if so large a portion of the land is closed to the husbandman?
36031How do the people of the Old World raise big crops?
36031How do they keep that land up?
36031How have these things been accomplished?
36031How shall we reach the people who have not yet been reached, and who in all probability will not be reached by anything published in the usual way?
36031I have told you of the genesis of the soil- robber; is he here in the Mississippi valley?
36031I would like to ask Governor Norris if it is not a fact that the Federal Government has led in irrigation in Montana?
36031Is Montana entitled to take a place in the kindergarten class in the school of Conservation?
36031Is all of this to be changed with the new interest in industrial life?
36031Is any_ real_ interest of the women of the land in danger?
36031Is any_ real_ interest of women inseparable from the interests of the fathers, husbands, brothers, and sons of the women of the land?
36031Is it because they fear that we will fail to develop the country rapidly enough?
36031Is it seconded?
36031Is n''t it awful?"
36031Is n''t that a resource worth conserving?
36031Is n''t that worth thinking about?
36031Is that Conservation?
36031Is that motion seconded?
36031Is that your pleasure?
36031Is the Chair sustained?
36031Is the Gentleman from the State of Washington present?
36031Is the technical, in other words, to take place of the liberal?
36031Is there a second to the motion for his election?
36031Is there any interest of women to be compared in vital importance to themselves, with the conservation of true womanliness?
36031Is there any other field where Conservation could produce results so immense and so important?
36031Is there any other where it bears so directly upon our economic future, the stability of our Government, the well- being of our people?
36031Is there in the country that intelligence, that self- denial, that moral courage, and that patriotic devotion which alone can bring us safely through?
36031Is there not need of a conservation of higher things?
36031Let a man go to town and become a lawyer or a doctor for ten or fifteen years, and then return to the country, and what is he good for?
36031May I tell my own experience?
36031Men with enthusiasm?
36031Mr ROSS-- Does the Chair rule that I am out of order?
36031Mr ROSS-- Mr Chairman-- President WALLACE-- Has the Gentleman a motion to make?
36031Mr ROSS-- Will the Chairman please announce what the motion is?
36031Now where is there worse farming than there?
36031Now, are we capable of passing legislation to preserve our water resources?
36031Now, are you doing that in Minnesota?
36031Now, does all the water thus garnered from this immense watershed to flow through the State of Louisiana belong to the State of Louisiana?
36031Now, what is our educational establishment, as it stands over against the body of our material resources?
36031Now, what will be the result practically?
36031Now, what will happen?
36031Now, who is suffering?
36031Now, who was so improvident?
36031Ought it to be administered by the Government and disposed of for its profit, or opened to the people and shared with the States?
36031Perhaps we may first ask ourselves: Why are we here?
36031President BAKER-- Are any opposed?
36031President BAKER-- Is the Gentleman a Delegate from the State of Washington?
36031President BAKER-- Will the house be in order?
36031President WALLACE-- Are there remarks on that question?
36031President WALLACE-- Has the Gentleman any motion to make the order of business?
36031President WALLACE-- Is there a second to the nomination of Mr Gipe for Recording Secretary?
36031President WALLACE-- What is the further business before the Congress?
36031Shall we grasp at a shadow in the stream, like the dog in the fable, and drop the substance to sink away from us beyond recall?
36031Shall we hold the corporate plunderer to strict account, and let the single separate plunderer go scot free?
36031So far as communism of capital is concerned, did not Cleveland''s graphic statement adumbrate the conditions as they exist today?
36031So the virgin forests went into private ownership; and Mr Hill will tell you,"What of it?
36031Take the great Mississippi; to whom does the Mississippi river belong?
36031That is a highly intellectual job, is n''t it, for an American citizen, to grow food for a Danish cow?
36031That would be going some, even in these days of"frenzied finance,"would n''t it?
36031The best sites are already taken away from the people; shall we bend every energy to save what remains?
36031The friend asked him,"Why have you chosen these peculiar dimensions for your wall?"
36031The great question to each one should be: Where and how does Conservation apply to me?
36031The real problem is,_ how we are going to furnish bread to the people at a price that they can afford to pay_?
36031The real question is simply this, Who can best regulate the special interests for the country''s good?
36031They had secured all the other sites along that river-- and for what purpose?
36031This will be realized if I ask,"How many of you knew that we have such an association,"and"Did you know that it is now in session"?
36031To whom are we answerable but to ourselves, the people?
36031To whom does it apply?
36031Voices:"What''s the matter with Heney?"
36031Was any of it sold to actual settlers?
36031Were they doing it for development?
36031What came we here to do?
36031What did President Taft say this morning?
36031What do you do then?
36031What do you know about that country?"
36031What does this mean?
36031What has been done with it?
36031What is Conservation?
36031What is being done to train the great body of mankind to whom this important task of Conservation is entrusted; and are the present measures adequate?
36031What is the purpose of this Republic?
36031What is the question before the house?
36031What is the use in talking to Delegates now about calling the States in alphabetic order at 9 oclock on next to the last day of this Congress?
36031What is this doctrine that the banker has become the censor of the individual''s needs and actions with his own money?
36031What more absurd disposition of our timber land could have been made than the laws under which it has passed to private hands?
36031What shall it profit to conserve everything else on earth if we fail to conserve the spirit and fiber of our citizens, young and old?
36031What shall we do with the unattached man, to make him also responsible?
36031What was done with it?
36031What wonder fires were set to burn the choppings and make pastures?
36031What worth have forests or mines or any material wealth, gained at the sacrifice of so much vital force?
36031What, then, will society do with those persons who rob society?
36031When we presented it to our Legislature, what do you think has happened?
36031Where did bad farming begin, do you think?
36031Who are Conservationists?
36031Who shall estimate the wealth of Scotland''s contribution to the world and to America?
36031Why does the public abhor and obstruct the physician in his study of anatomy, dissection, and autopsy on the human body?
36031Why have we built them up so fast; why have they risen to such tremendous figures?
36031Why is it that some of these men who have profited by our mistakes and our improvidence in the past are fighting against this Conservation movement?
36031Why must doctors from time to time be themselves forced to urge the necessity of making every hospital a teaching and research institution?
36031Why not?
36031Why then does the public, as an aggregation of individuals, allow itself to become suspicious of the medical profession, an aggregation of physicians?
36031Why, my friends, do you know what we gave to Mr Hill?
36031Why?
36031Why?
36031Will somebody second my motion?
36031Will you not help us in that, and so help develop the land and make it productive?
36031Would you take the water away and stop the reclamation of the arid West?
36031You can not trust the State?
36031You may ask,"What has Rhode Island to conserve?"
36031You may say, What interest have we, who are not a manufacturing people, in the mines and the water- powers of other States?
36031You say, Give to the Federal Government the right to the water- powers of the State and forever prevent the further reclamation of our land?
36031[ 3] President WALLACE-- Shall we vote on these Vice- Presidents selected by the Delegates from the different States?
36031_ How_ can you account for it?
36031a democrat interested in_ water_?"
36031sounded by the culprit?
36031when the question of frauds against the land laws was in discussion?
31105[ K][ Is the composition of the inorganic matter of different parts of the plant the same, or different? 31105 *****[ How does under- draining prevent drought?] 31105 A calcareous soil? 31105 A clay soil? 31105 A loamy soil? 31105 A marl? 31105 A peaty soil?] 31105 According to what two rules may we apply mineral manures? 31105 Are all soils formed from the rocks on which they lie? 31105 Are humus and humic acid of great practical importance?] 31105 Are plants created from nothing?] 31105 Are the alkalies soluble in their pure forms? 31105 Are the ashes of all plants the same in their composition?] 31105 Are their small ashy parts important? 31105 Atmospheric?] 31105 Atmospheric?] 31105 Atmospheric?] 31105 Can carbon and earthy matter be taken up at separate stages of growth, or must they both be supplied at once?] 31105 Can protein be formed without nitrogen? 31105 Can soils always be rendered fertile with profit? 31105 Can these ingredients be more cheaply obtained in another form? 31105 Can they be artificially changed from one to another? 31105 Can this be learned entirely from observation? 31105 Can we determine the cost before commencing the work? 31105 Carbonic acid?] 31105 Could most soils be brought to the highest state of fertility? 31105 Describe the_ universal_ cultivator?] 31105 Do all mineral manures possess all of these qualities?] 31105 Do all soils decompose with equal facility? 31105 Do neutrals combine with other substances? 31105 Do peroxide and protoxide of iron affect plants in the same way? 31105 Do plants appropriate the nitrogen of the atmosphere?] 31105 Do these distinctions affect the fertility of soils formed from them? 31105 Do we know that different plants have ashes of different composition?] 31105 Does a soil formed entirely from rock contain organic matter? 31105 Does barn- yard manure contain sufficient potash to supply its deficiency in worn- out soils?] 31105 Does continued decomposition continue to prepare material to be leached away? 31105 Does it affect soils in the same way?] 31105 Does oxygen unite with other substances? 31105 Does sub- soiling overcome drought? 31105 Does the atmosphere contain other matters useful to vegetation? 31105 Does the carbon retain them after they reach the soil? 31105 Does the proportion of carbonic acid in the atmosphere remain about the same?] 31105 Does the use of night soil produce disagreeable properties in plants?] 31105 Explain the production of heat in the lungs of animals? 31105 Fifth? 31105 For most other purposes?] 31105 Fourth? 31105 Fourth? 31105 Fourth? 31105 From the second? 31105 From what arises the chief benefit of top dressing the soil with manure in autumn?] 31105 From what may the first class of proximates be formed?] 31105 From what source do plants obtain their phosphorus?] 31105 From what source is the inorganic part of soils derived? 31105 From what source may we obtain chlorine?] 31105 From what sources may potash be obtained? 31105 Give an instance of matters in the soil that are to be rendered available by mineral manures?] 31105 How are acids produced in the soil?] 31105 How are proximates divided? 31105 How are some rocks affected by exposure to the atmosphere? 31105 How are these tiles laid? 31105 How are these various effects better produced in deep than in shallow soils?] 31105 How are they carried to the soil? 31105 How can you prove that charcoal absorbs the_ mineral_ impurities of water?] 31105 How do drains affect the excrementitious matter of plants?] 31105 How do mineral manures sometimes improve the mechanical texture of the soil?] 31105 How do plants and animals benefit each other? 31105 How do plants obtain their carbonic acid? 31105 How do plants obtain their hydrogen and oxygen?] 31105 How do plants obtain their organic food? 31105 How do plants take up ammonia?] 31105 How do rocks differ?] 31105 How do such manures increase the organic matter of soils?] 31105 How do the proportions of organic or inorganic parts of soils compare with those of plants? 31105 How do under- drains increase the benefits of irrigation?] 31105 How do under- drains prevent the formation of a crust on the surface of a soil?] 31105 How do we supply silicates? 31105 How do you classify the inorganic constituents?] 31105 How does carbon give the soil power to absorb moisture?] 31105 How does carbonic acid affect caustic lime in the soil?] 31105 How does charcoal overcome offensive odors? 31105 How does charcoal protect composts against injurious action of rains? 31105 How does frost affect rocks? 31105 How does it accelerate the disintegration of its mineral parts? 31105 How does it affect animal manures in the soil?] 31105 How does it affect its organic parts? 31105 How does it affect manure? 31105 How does it affect manures? 31105 How does it compare with charcoal for this purpose?] 31105 How does it compare with forking over?] 31105 How does it deepen the surface soil?] 31105 How does it differ in quality?] 31105 How does it enter the plant? 31105 How does it form nitric acid? 31105 How does it hold water for the uses of the plant? 31105 How does it keep them moist?] 31105 How does it neutralize the acids in the soil? 31105 How does it obtain a part of its moisture?] 31105 How does it prevent the abstraction of heat from the soil?] 31105 How does it prevent the escape of ammonia?] 31105 How does it produce sorrel in the soil? 31105 How does it warm the lower parts of the soil?] 31105 How does lime affect soils containing coarse particles? 31105 How does lime prepare the constituents of the soil for use? 31105 How does man resemble Sinbad the sailor?] 31105 How does potash affect the soil?] 31105 How does sub- soiling resemble under- draining in relation to the tillering of grasses? 31105 How does such treatment affect soils previously limed? 31105 How does the burning of coal benefit vegetation? 31105 How does the growth of clover, etc., affect the soil?] 31105 How does the inorganic matter enter the plant? 31105 How does the oxidation of the particles of the soil resemble the rusting of cannon balls in a pile?] 31105 How does the plant obtain its carbon? 31105 How does the soil obtain its organic matter? 31105 How does the value of poultry manure compare with that of guano? 31105 How does this principle apply to the soil?] 31105 How does this relate to the fertility of the soil? 31105 How does under- draining improve the mechanical texture of the soil? 31105 How far from the surface of the soil may organic constituents be carried by water?] 31105 How have the Genesee and Mohawk valleys been affected by this removal of phosphoric acid?] 31105 How is ammonia supplied? 31105 How is bone- black made? 31105 How is it affected by cold substances? 31105 How is it affected by the growth of plants?] 31105 How is it formed? 31105 How is it reproduced?] 31105 How is lime prepared for use? 31105 How is super- phosphate of lime made? 31105 How is the chemical character of the soil to be ascertained? 31105 How is the sap disposed of? 31105 How is the_ soluble_ ash of the digested food parted with? 31105 How is vegetable matter rendered useful as charcoal?] 31105 How large a part of plants is carbon?] 31105 How many kinds of matter are there in the ashes of plants? 31105 How many pounds of sulphuric acid are contained in one hundred bushels of wheat?] 31105 How may ashes be used?] 31105 How may it affect excrementitious matter of plants? 31105 How may it be carried to the soil? 31105 How may it be protected against loss?] 31105 How may it be used? 31105 How may it be used? 31105 How may it sometimes improve sandy or clay soils?] 31105 How may its absence be detected? 31105 How may its deficiency have been caused? 31105 How may liquid manure be made most useful?] 31105 How may magnesia be supplied, when wanting? 31105 How may night soil be easily prepared for use, and its offensive odor prevented?] 31105 How may sandy soils be made retentive of ammonia?] 31105 How may sulphuric acid be supplied? 31105 How may the acidity be overcome?] 31105 How may the trenches be dug?] 31105 How may the value of organic manures be estimated? 31105 How may this be prevented?] 31105 How may we account for unhealthy bones and teeth?] 31105 How may we detect ammonia escaping from manure?] 31105 How may we obtain soda? 31105 How much carbonic acid is contained in a ton of carbonate of lime? 31105 How much carbonic acid is thus liberated? 31105 How much lime does a ton of slaked lime contain? 31105 How much of chemistry should farmers know?] 31105 How much of their carbon may plants receive through their roots? 31105 How must an analysis be used?] 31105 How must organic manures be managed? 31105 How must silica be treated? 31105 How must the food of plants be supplied? 31105 How must the food of plants be supplied? 31105 How should old leather be treated? 31105 How should samples of soil for analysis be selected?] 31105 How should they be applied? 31105 How should they be treated? 31105 How their inorganic? 31105 How would you compost bones with ashes? 31105 How would you treat a soil containing protoxide of iron? 31105 If a farmer were asked-- what is the use of_ weeds_? 31105 If a piece of tainted meat, or a fishy duck be buried in a rich garden soil, what takes place? 31105 If analyzed, what does it yield? 31105 If any portions of the food are not returned in the dung, how are they disposed of?] 31105 If plants were allowed to complete their growth without a supply of this ingredient, what would be the result?] 31105 If slaked lime be exposed to the air, what change does it undergo? 31105 If the soil represented in the third column contained all the ingredients required except potash and soda, would it be fertile? 31105 In the growth of a young plant, what operations take place about the same time?] 31105 In what condition is solid dung of value as a fertilizer? 31105 In what manner does the digested part of food escape from the body?] 31105 In what part of the grain does phosphoric acid exist most largely?] 31105 In what parts of the plant, and under what influence, is carbonic acid decomposed?] 31105 In what proportion should ashes be applied to muck? 31105 In what proportions? 31105 In what quantities should pure salt be applied to the soil?] 31105 In what quantities should salt be applied to composts? 31105 In what way would you prevent the escape of ammonia?] 31105 In what way?] 31105 Inorganic? 31105 Inorganic? 31105 Inorganic? 31105 Inorganic? 31105 Into how many classes may proximate principles be divided? 31105 Into what three classes may they be divided? 31105 Is any atom of matter ever lost?] 31105 Is any soil inexhaustible? 31105 Is carbon ever permanent in any of its forms? 31105 Is charcoal taken up by plants? 31105 Is food put out of existence when it is fed to animals? 31105 Is it so to the growing plant? 31105 Is it the lime, or its crop, that exhausts the soil? 31105 Is its fertility indicated by its mechanical character?] 31105 Is lime containing magnesia better than pure lime? 31105 Is phosphoric acid important? 31105 Is sawdust of any value?] 31105 Is the ease with which these changes take place important? 31105 Is the heat produced by the decomposition of organic matter perceptible to our senses? 31105 Is the same kind of rock always of the same composition? 31105 Is the subsoil usually different from the surface soil? 31105 Is there any relation between the ashy part of plants and those of animals? 31105 Its inorganic matter?] 31105 Its nitrogen? 31105 Its oxygen and hydrogen? 31105 Its second? 31105 Leaching?] 31105 Liquid manure? 31105 Marls? 31105 May all soils be brought to the highest state of fertility? 31105 May mechanical effects be produced by chemical action? 31105 May oxygen be considered a manure? 31105 May the same atom of nitrogen perform many different offices?] 31105 Meadow Hay| 280| 600| 800| 140| 70 Clover Hay| 280| 500| 800| 186| 80 Pea Straw| 250| 500| 900| 246| 30 Rye Straw| 270| 900| 760| 26|? 31105 Mechanical?] 31105 Mineral? 31105 Must animals have a variety of food, and why?] 31105 Must the matter taken away be returned to the soil?] 31105 Of the acids? 31105 Of the carrot and turnip? 31105 Of what are animals composed, and how do they obtain the materials from which to form their growth?] 31105 Of what are plants composed?] 31105 Of what do the first class consist? 31105 Of what does it consist? 31105 Of what does it consist? 31105 Of what does it consist?] 31105 Of what does organic matter consist? 31105 Of what does the manure of man consist?] 31105 Of what does the organic part of soils consist?] 31105 Of what other substances does it form a leading ingredient? 31105 On what depends the kind of plow to be used?] 31105 On what do its fertilizing properties depend? 31105 On what do the benefits of leached ashes depend? 31105 On what does the energy of this effect depend? 31105 On what does the usefulness of all these matters in the soil depend?] 31105 On what does the value of animal manure chiefly depend? 31105 On what does the value of flour depend? 31105 On what examination must improvement be based? 31105 On what must the depth of under- drains depend?] 31105 Page 55? 31105 Should deep plowing be immediately adopted? 31105 Should its color be darkened?] 31105 Sparlings?] 31105 Talcose slate? 31105 The breath?] 31105 The inorganic? 31105 The insoluble? 31105 The second? 31105 The second? 31105 The second? 31105 Their disadvantages?] 31105 Third? 31105 Third? 31105 Third? 31105 To asparagus?] 31105 To what does Liebig compare the consumption of food by animals, and why?] 31105 Under what circumstances is animal fat decomposed?] 31105 Under what circumstances is the animal''s own fat used in the production of heat?] 31105 What amount is needed for this purpose? 31105 What are chemical manures? 31105 What are often found in them?] 31105 What are organic manures, and what are their uses? 31105 What are organic manures? 31105 What are some of its agricultural uses?] 31105 What are some of its benefits?] 31105 What are some of the uses of lime?] 31105 What are the advantages of preparing manures in this manner? 31105 What are the advantages of this moistening? 31105 What are the fertilizing properties of woollen rags? 31105 What are the offices of leaves?] 31105 What are the offices performed by the inorganic part of soils?] 31105 What are these compounds called? 31105 What are they?] 31105 What becomes of the nitrogenous parts? 31105 What becomes of these when exposed to the atmosphere? 31105 What can you say of the air circulating through the soil? 31105 What can you say of the remark that lime exhausts the organic matter in the soil?] 31105 What can you say of the use of whole bones?] 31105 What can you say of the_ lasting manures_?] 31105 What care is necessary concerning the use of magnesia?] 31105 What change does carbonic acid undergo after entering the plant? 31105 What changes take place after ammonia enters the plant? 31105 What circumstances have occasioned the difference? 31105 What classes of action have manures? 31105 What compounds does it form with alkalies?] 31105 What condition of the soil is necessary for the reception of the largest quantity of carbonic acid? 31105 What course would you pursue to raise potatoes on a soil containing a very little phosphoric acid and no potash?] 31105 What do we aim to do in composting?] 31105 What do we call the two divisions produced by burning? 31105 What do we first learn in analyzing a soil? 31105 What do we learn from the analyses of barren and fertile soils?] 31105 What do we mean by muck? 31105 What do we mean by the mechanical character of the soil? 31105 What do you know of silica?] 31105 What does economy of manure require? 31105 What does evaporation remove from manure? 31105 What does feldspar rock yield? 31105 What does hay contain? 31105 What does it contain? 31105 What does liquid manure lose by evaporation?] 31105 What does the solid dung contain? 31105 What does_ milk_ remove from the food?] 31105 What effect has it on the mechanical condition of the soil?] 31105 What effects has ammonia beside supplying food to plants?] 31105 What else does it furnish them? 31105 What else does the dung contain? 31105 What enables it to change its condition?] 31105 What fertilizing gases exist in the atmosphere? 31105 What gaseous compounds are formed by the decomposition of manures?] 31105 What has this removal of phosphate of lime occasioned? 31105 What holds it in its vapory form? 31105 What instance does Liebig give to show its existence in grass? 31105 What instance may be cited to prove this?] 31105 What instances can you give of this?] 31105 What is Glauber''s salts? 31105 What is a peculiarity of soot? 31105 What is absolutely necessary to economical manuring?] 31105 What is ammonia? 31105 What is an important use of the first class of proximates? 31105 What is another important part of the organic matter in the soil?] 31105 What is carbonic acid? 31105 What is gelatine? 31105 What is its first- named effect on the soil? 31105 What is its proportion in the atmosphere? 31105 What is necessary in order to cultivate with economy? 31105 What is necessary to the perfect development of animals? 31105 What is nitrate of soda? 31105 What is nitrogenized phosphate?] 31105 What is oxide of iron? 31105 What is phosphoric acid composed of? 31105 What is plaster of Paris composed of? 31105 What is plaster? 31105 What is said of phosphate of lime?] 31105 What is said of the sinking of lime in the soil? 31105 What is silica? 31105 What is the Langdon horse- hoe? 31105 What is the best kind of lime?] 31105 What is the best way to use them?] 31105 What is the condition of chlorine in the soil? 31105 What is the condition of the alkalies in most of their combinations? 31105 What is the difference between the ash of the straw and that of the grain of wheat?] 31105 What is the difference between the soil of some parts of Massachusetts and that of the Miami valley?] 31105 What is the difference between the_ per_oxide and the_ prot_oxide of iron?] 31105 What is the effect of leaching? 31105 What is the effect of the oxidation of the constituents of the soil?] 31105 What is the experiment with the barrels of sand?] 31105 What is the first of these? 31105 What is the first thing to be done? 31105 What is the fixed rule with regard to this? 31105 What is the general name under which they are known? 31105 What is the most economical form for transportation?] 31105 What is the most important compound of chlorine?] 31105 What is the most important of these? 31105 What is the necessity for so large an amount of water?] 31105 What is the object of loosening the soil? 31105 What is the object of slaking lime? 31105 What is the office of vegetation? 31105 What is the organic matter of bones? 31105 What is the peculiarity of sawdust from the beech, etc.? 31105 What is the principal constituent of the potato root? 31105 What is the probable value of the night soil yearly lost in the United States? 31105 What is the profit attending it?] 31105 What is the protein of wheat called? 31105 What is the reason for this? 31105 What is the reason of the superiority of bone dust? 31105 What is the reason of this? 31105 What is the remaining organic constituent? 31105 What is the similarity between making a cart and raising a crop? 31105 What is the use of nitrogen in air? 31105 What is the use of the air circulating among its particles? 31105 What is this called after decomposition? 31105 What is usually the best source from which to obtain phosphoric acid?] 31105 What is washing soda? 31105 What is_ evaporation_?] 31105 What is_ spirits of hartshorn_? 31105 What kind of action have manures? 31105 What kind of manure is charcoal?] 31105 What kind of water is best for irrigation? 31105 What may lungs be called? 31105 What must be done before a soil can be cultivated understandingly? 31105 What must be done to keep up the quality of the soil?] 31105 What name is given to the compounds thus formed? 31105 What occasions these differences?] 31105 What office is performed by the roots of green crops? 31105 What offices does the organic matter in the soil perform?] 31105 What often assist the evaporation of solids?] 31105 What other important use, in animal economy, have proximates of the first class? 31105 What other instances of the same action can be named?] 31105 What part of the animal is formed from the first class of proximates? 31105 What part of the plant contains usually the most nutriment?] 31105 What peculiar qualities does soapers''ley possess?] 31105 What plants contain lime?] 31105 What precaution is necessary in preparing hog manure for use?] 31105 What proportion of the fertilizing ingredients is required? 31105 What rule is given for general treatment? 31105 What should be the condition of the soil? 31105 What stand has been taken by the English government with regard to under- draining?] 31105 What substances are called charcoal in agriculture? 31105 What substances are good absorbents in the soil? 31105 What takes place after it enters the plant? 31105 What takes place when a dead animal is exposed to the atmosphere for a sufficient time? 31105 What takes place when alkalies and acids are brought together?] 31105 What takes place when animal manure is exposed in an open barn- yard? 31105 What takes place when vegetable matter is burned? 31105 What to the second? 31105 What treatment may be substituted for the use of green crops? 31105 What use may be made of its offensive odor?] 31105 What vegetable compounds do the first class comprise?] 31105 What would be necessary to make it so? 31105 What would be the effect of allowing these matters to filter downwards? 31105 What would be the result if they were not so?] 31105 What would result if this were not the case? 31105 When are the services of a consulting agriculturist required?] 31105 When the subsoil consists of a thin layer of clay on a sandy bed, what use may be made of the sub- soil plow?] 31105 When we perceive an odor, what is taking place? 31105 Where and in what manner is the best guano deposited?] 31105 Where does it always exist? 31105 Where does organic matter originate? 31105 Where else is it found? 31105 Which class constitutes the largest part of the plant? 31105 Which contains the largest portions of inorganic matter, plants or animals? 31105 Which course should be adopted in high farming? 31105 Which is generally preferable, this course, or composting? 31105 Which is usually the cheaper plan of constructing drains?] 31105 Which one of them is injurious when too largely present? 31105 Who is the_ practical farmer_? 31105 Why are organic manures plowed deeply under the soil, less liable to evaporation than when deposited near the surface? 31105 Why are seeds valuable for working animals? 31105 Why are under- drains superior to open drains?] 31105 Why do manures give off offensive odors? 31105 Why do unleached ashes, applied in the spring, sometimes cause grain to lodge?] 31105 Why does a wet cloth on the head make it cooler when fanned? 31105 Why does charcoal in the soil cause it to appropriate the gases of the atmosphere? 31105 Why does exercise augment the animal heat? 31105 Why does grain lodge? 31105 Why does it enable us to work sooner after rains? 31105 Why does it hasten the decay of roots, and the comminution of mineral matters? 31105 Why does it keep off the effects of cold weather longer in the fall?] 31105 Why does it make the soil more retentive of manure? 31105 Why does it prevent the throwing out of grain in winter? 31105 Why does not the formation of_ fat_ reduce the quality of manure? 31105 Why does that of the growing animal differ? 31105 Why does this distribution lessen the impoverishment of the soil? 31105 Why does water sprinkled on a floor render it cooler? 31105 Why is flour containing much gluten preferred by bakers? 31105 Why is it called plaster of Paris?] 31105 Why is it especially important for this purpose to maintain the balance of the soil?] 31105 Why is it good for mulching? 31105 Why is it necessary to the growth of plants? 31105 Why is it worthy of close attention? 31105 Why is not a cubic inch of vapor warmer than a cubic inch of water? 31105 Why is super- phosphate of lime a better fertilizer than phosphate of lime? 31105 Why is the cultivator superior to the harrow?] 31105 Why is the heat produced by decay not perceptible?] 31105 Why is the late sowing of oats beneficial? 31105 Why is the motion in the soil of one and a half inches sufficient? 31105 Why is the scuffle- hoe superior to the common hoe?] 31105 Why is the use of green crops preferable in ordinary cultivation? 31105 Why is this course of treatment advisable for garden culture?] 31105 Why is this disintegration necessary to fertility?] 31105 Why is this power of water important in agriculture? 31105 Why may soot be used as a top dressing without losing its ammonia?] 31105 Why should a compost of muck and lime be protected from rain?] 31105 Why should it be made under cover?] 31105 Why should it not be used fresh, from the gas house? 31105 Why should strong currents of water not be allowed to traverse the soil?] 31105 Why should tan bark be composted with an alkali? 31105 Why should this compost be made under cover? 31105 Why should we not use muck immediately after taking it from the swamp?] 31105 Why will not travelling chemists answer the purpose? 31105 Why? 31105 Why?] 31105 Why?] 31105 Will its use ever injure crops?] 31105 Will leached ashes answer the same purpose? 31105 With what proportion of the lime and salt mixture should it be composted? 31105 With what substance does it form its most important compound?] 31105 [ Are the gases in the atmosphere manures? 31105 [ Are these substances of about the same composition? 31105 [ C][ Is the character of a compound the same as that of its constituents? 31105 [ Can each farmer make his own analyses? 31105 [ Can plants use more ammonia than is received from the atmosphere? 31105 [ Can the required proportion be definitely indicated? 31105 [ Do all soils contain a sufficient amount of potash? 31105 [ Do all soils contain enough lime for the use of plants? 31105 [ Does water absorb it? 31105 [ From what other sources may potash be obtained? 31105 [ Give an instance of the success of treatment according to analysis?] 31105 [ How are farmers to be benefited by such knowledge?] 31105 [ How are soils improved by mixing?] 31105 [ How can lime exhaust the mineral parts of the soil? 31105 [ How can you prove its existence in corn stalks? 31105 [ How do the solid and liquid manure of the horse and ox compare? 31105 [ How does charcoal in the soil affect the manures applied? 31105 [ How does it affect the protoxide of iron? 31105 [ How does it hasten the decomposition of roots and other organic matter in the soil? 31105 [ How does it prevent lands from becoming sour? 31105 [ How does it render it warmer? 31105 [ How does lime correct them? 31105 [ How does the removal of water render soils earlier in spring? 31105 [ How does the value of bone dust compare with that of broken bones? 31105 [ How does this principle affect the soil? 31105 [ How does under- draining affect the healthfulness of marshy countries? 31105 [ How does under- draining equalize the distribution of the fertilizing parts of the soil? 31105 [ How does under- draining supply to the soil an increased amount of atmospheric fertilizers? 31105 [ How does water affect decomposing manures? 31105 [ How is ammonia used by plants? 31105 [ How is caustic lime made? 31105 [ How is it obtained by the soil? 31105 [ How is the compost made?] 31105 [ How is the fertility of the soil to be maintained, if the crops are_ sold_? 31105 [ How is their place supplied? 31105 [ How large a part of the ashes of grain consists of phosphoric acid? 31105 [ How many kinds of action have inorganic manures? 31105 [ How may a farmer obtain the requisite knowledge? 31105 [ How may bark be decomposed? 31105 [ How may chlorine be applied?] 31105 [ How may gas- house lime be prepared for use? 31105 [ How may it obtain heat? 31105 [ How may much labor be saved in removing weeds? 31105 [ How may silica be developed? 31105 [ How may silica be rendered soluble? 31105 [ How may the protoxide of iron be changed to peroxide?] 31105 [ How may this devastation be arrested? 31105 [ How may we obtain potash from ashes? 31105 [ How may we protect ourselves against their increase? 31105 [ How much heat does water take up in becoming vapor? 31105 [ How much phosphate of lime will twenty cows remove from a pasture during a summer? 31105 [ How much salt may be used with advantage? 31105 [ How should field plowing be conducted? 31105 [ How should it be prepared for use?] 31105 [ How should sulphuric acid be applied to whole bones? 31105 [ How should the tank be attached?] 31105 [ If applied in large quantities will it produce permanent injury? 31105 [ If this course be pursued, will the soil suffer from the use of lime? 31105 [ If vegetable matter be destroyed, what becomes of these constituents? 31105 [ In what light will plants and soils be regarded by those who understand them?] 31105 [ In what other manners may muck be used in the preservation of manures? 31105 [ Inorganic compounds? 31105 [ Into what classes may manures be divided? 31105 [ Is it a constituent of plants? 31105 [ Is organic matter lost after combustion? 31105 [ Is potash valuable for this use? 31105 [ Is the manure of full- grown animals of the same quality as that of other animals? 31105 [ Is the purchase of marl to be recommended? 31105 [ Is the same true of the other constituents of plants? 31105 [ Is the use of the sub- soil plow increasing? 31105 [ Is there any doubt as to the practical value of analysis? 31105 [ May garden soils be profitably imitated in field culture?] 31105 [ May less water be employed in making super- phosphate from bone dust or crushed bones?] 31105 [ May the satisfaction attending labor be increased by an understanding of the natural laws which regulate our operations? 31105 [ May the subsoil be made to resemble the surface soil? 31105 [ Name some mineral manures which absorb ammonia?] 31105 [ Name some of the benefits of rolling?] 31105 [ Of what advantage are these differences to the farmer? 31105 [ Of what are the bodies of animals composed? 31105 [ Of what do dried bones consist? 31105 [ Of what do the bones of animals consist? 31105 [ Of what do wood, starch and the other vegetable compounds chiefly consist? 31105 [ Of what does a perfect young plant consist? 31105 [ Of what does that part of dung consist which resembles soot? 31105 [ Of what is animal excrement composed? 31105 [ Of what proximate are plants chiefly composed? 31105 [ Of what use is chloride of lime? 31105 [ On what does the benefit arising from irrigation chiefly depend? 31105 [ P][ How large a part of the soil may be used as food by plants? 31105 [ Relate what you know of the properties of vegetable ashes? 31105 [ Should farmers burn bones before using them? 31105 [ Should pure night soil be used as a manure? 31105 [ Should the use of guano induce us to disregard other manures? 31105 [ Should these be applied as a top dressing to the soil? 31105 [ T][ What particular condition of inorganic matter is requisite for fertility? 31105 [ To how great a degree can the farmer control atmospheric fertilizers? 31105 [ To how great a depth will the roots of plants usually occupy the soil? 31105 [ Under what circumstances should the roller be used?] 31105 [ What are absorbents? 31105 [ What are ashes called? 31105 [ What are some of the uses of weeds? 31105 [ What are the advantages arising from burying manure in its green state? 31105 [ What are the chief fertilizing constituents of dead animals? 31105 [ What are the coal- beds of Pennsylvania? 31105 [ What are the first causes of loss of manure? 31105 [ What are the ingredients of the_ improved_ super- phosphate of lime?] 31105 [ What are the most fertilizing ingredients of old mortar?] 31105 [ What are the three kinds of manures? 31105 [ What are the two great rules in mechanical cultivation?] 31105 [ What arrests their farther progress? 31105 [ What becomes of the carbonic acid? 31105 [ What can you say of the manure of sheep?] 31105 [ What can you say of the oxide of manganese? 31105 [ What changes does the food taken up by the plant undergo?] 31105 [ What do English farmers name as the profits of under- draining? 31105 [ What do we mean by gas? 31105 [ What do you know about magnesia? 31105 [ What does chloride of lime supply to plants? 31105 [ What effect has clay besides the one already named? 31105 [ What effect has lime on muck? 31105 [ What is a fixed character of soils? 31105 [ What is a general rule with regard to this? 31105 [ What is a necessary condition of growth?] 31105 [ What is a probable cause of consumption? 31105 [ What is a sandy soil? 31105 [ What is air slaking? 31105 [ What is atmospheric air composed of? 31105 [ What is generally the best way to use salt? 31105 [ What is generally the most available source from which to obtain this alkali? 31105 [ What is geology? 31105 [ What is mulching? 31105 [ What is one of the chief offices of plowing and hoeing? 31105 [ What is organic matter? 31105 [ What is sulphuric acid commonly called? 31105 [ What is sulphuric acid composed of? 31105 [ What is the best form for immediate action on the inorganic matter in the soil? 31105 [ What is the cause of odor? 31105 [ What is the difference between water which only runs over the surface of the earth, and that which runs out of the earth? 31105 [ What is the difference between_ per_oxide and_ prot_oxide of iron? 31105 [ What is the digging machine?] 31105 [ What is the direct object of plants? 31105 [ What is the effect of boiling bones under pressure? 31105 [ What is the effect of using too much sulphuric acid?] 31105 [ What is the effect of water on certain rocks? 31105 [ What is the first consideration for composts? 31105 [ What is the first office of the soil? 31105 [ What is the first step in preparing muck for decomposition? 31105 [ What is the first- named effect of charcoal? 31105 [ What is the general rule concerning the composition of rocks? 31105 [ What is the improved horse- hoe?] 31105 [ What is the most valuable manure accessible to the farmer? 31105 [ What is the object of cultivating the soil? 31105 [ What is the principal source from which they obtain nitrogen? 31105 [ What is the reason for this difference? 31105 [ What is the result if a field be deficient in nitrogen?] 31105 [ What is the similarity between the composition of soils and the rocks from which they were formed? 31105 [ What is the source of the carbon of plants? 31105 [ What is their value compared with that of farm- yard manure? 31105 [ What is water composed of? 31105 [ What kind of soils are benefited by fall plowing?] 31105 [ What kinds of soil are benefited by under- draining?] 31105 [ What liquids are best for moistening the compost? 31105 [ What must a farmer know in order to avoid failures? 31105 [ What must we do to learn the composition of plants? 31105 [ What office is performed by the straw of the buckwheat and pea? 31105 [ What other forms of bones may be used in making super- phosphate of lime? 31105 [ What parts of roots absorb food? 31105 [ What parts of the animal belong to the first class of proximates? 31105 [ What plants are most used as green crops? 31105 [ What power does it give to water? 31105 [ What principles should regulate us in composting? 31105 [ What proportion of organic matter is required for fertility? 31105 [ What proportions of lime and salt are required for the decomposing mixture? 31105 [ What remains after manure has been long exposed to decomposition? 31105 [ What rule may be given in relation to soils formed from the same or different rocks? 31105 [ What rule should regulate the application of manures? 31105 [ What seems to be nature''s law with regard to this? 31105 [ What should be learned before purchasing amendments for the soil? 31105 [ What source of carbon is within the reach of most farmers? 31105 [ What substances are called absorbents? 31105 [ What use may be made of the refuse ley of soap- makers and bleachers? 31105 [ When organic matter decays in the soil, what becomes of it? 31105 [ When plants are destroyed by combustion or decay, what becomes of their constituents? 31105 [ When rains are allowed to_ enter_ the soil, how do they benefit it? 31105 [ Where is soda found most largely? 31105 [ Why are leached ashes inferior to those that have not been leached? 31105 [ Why are small stones better than large stones in the construction of drains? 31105 [ Why are the benefits of sub- soiling not permanent on wet lands? 31105 [ Why are those of the second class particularly important to farmers? 31105 [ Why do soils of the same degree of fineness sometimes differ in fertility? 31105 [ Why do they prevent grasses from running out?] 31105 [ Why does mulching take the place of artificial watering? 31105 [ Why does true practical economy require that the soil should be analyzed?] 31105 [ Why does under- draining increase the absorptive power of the soil? 31105 [ Why is Graham flour more wholesome than fine flour? 31105 [ Why is decomposed bark more fertilizing than that of decayed wood?] 31105 [ Why is grain good for food? 31105 [ Why is sawdust a good addition to the pig- stye? 31105 [ Why is snow particularly beneficial?] 31105 [ Why is the harrow a defective implement? 31105 [ Why is the heat produced by combustion apparent? 31105 [ Why is the manure from butchers''hog- pens very valuable? 31105 [ Why is the retention of atmospheric manures ensured by sub- soiling? 31105 [ Why is the sole tile superior to those of previous construction? 31105 [ Why is there less water in the soil in summer than in winter, and where does it exist? 31105 [ Why may the same effect sometimes be produced by deep plowing? 31105 [ Why may water be considered an atmospheric manure? 31105 [ Why will the ammonia of manure thus made, not escape if it be used as a top dressing? 31105 [ Will charcoal purify water? 31105 [ Will soils, deficient in phosphate of lime, produce good crops? 31105 [ With what materials may under- drains be constructed? 31105 [ Would you manure it in the same way for wheat? 31105 [ X][ When does the waste of exposed manure commence? 31105 valuable?] 31105 | 64| 106| 212| 34| 2? 31105 ||| Lime| 148| 83| 196| 371 Magnesia| 44| 146| 78| 46 Peroxide of Iron| 36? 31105 ||||| Potatoes| 1500| 80| 360| 40| 6 Turnips| 1760| 40| 180[AS]| 30| 6 Carrots| 1700| 60| 200[AS]| 30| 8 Mangold Wurtzel| 1700| 40| 220[AS]| 40|? 5152 - the rows closer together than 3 feet, or should it be planted the usual width between rows, and thick in the rows? 5152 A great part of this land can be cleared of brush and stone, ready for the plow, but what can we sow to take the place of the native pasture? 5152 About when should they be planted, and how much water would they need? 5152 After weaning, what would you advise to feed them? 5152 Also probable age of trees before any effect of said water would be felt by them? 5152 Also the best method to eradicate it? 5152 Also what would the manure from a horse for one year be worth? 5152 Also, can same be planted out right away, or should they be buried in trenches for a while before setting out? 5152 Also, how long it takes asparagus to come into full bearing, and what yield could be expected after two years''growth? 5152 Also, how much should be fed and how often to get best results? 5152 Also, if either sweet or Irish potatoes grown between rows are harmful to either of the varieties of fruit mentioned? 5152 Also, what fertilizer would be best for melons on land that has been planted to melons for the past three years? 5152 Also, what is the meaning of the phrasefour- size basis"?
5152Also, will corn grow good paying crops in same sections?
5152Also, will it pay to put it on a large field of alfalfa?
5152Also, would it injure the vines to be cut down before they die, so as to sow the mulch crop soon as possible after the hops are gathered?
5152Am I correct?
5152Are Brussels sprouts male and female?
5152Are Tap- Roots Essential?
5152Are all these varieties true mammoth Russian sunflowers?
5152Are berries successfully dried in evaporators?
5152Are certain varieties worthless?
5152Are commercial inoculants a safe thing to inoculate with?
5152Are field peas suitable?
5152Are orchards of this kind satisfactory?
5152Are other crops affected by hardpan being so close to the surface?
5152Are sprouted barley grains that may be had from breweries good for milch cows?
5152Are the bad effects of the small roots liable to be serious; also, would lime or any other common fertilizer counteract the bad effects?
5152Are the common bush varieties nitrogen gatherers?
5152Are the seeds of the above injurious to hens or cows?
5152Are the services of a man who takes the entire responsibility of an orchard( citrus) worth more than those of a common ranch hand?
5152Are the soil and climatic conditions suitable?
5152Are there any real objections to this method, and, if so, what are they?
5152Are there any reliable data of experiments available?
5152Are there ill effects from using sea kelp as a fertilizer for orange trees?
5152Are there not other portions of the State where apples could be produced on a commercial basis?
5152Are there pickle factories in the State which would demand them in quantities, and is there much other demand for them?
5152Are there several varieties?
5152Are these beans generally considered eatable?
5152Are you sure they are receiving water enough?
5152Are"horse beans"a leguminous crop and how does their feeding value for hogs compare to cowpeas and Canadian field peas?
5152As one or two years''use of the land is not considered, what is your advice?
5152At present prices of hay, my neighbors who sell theirs, seem to be as well off, with considerable less work; but how about the future?
5152At what age may a cockerel be mated with hens?
5152At what stage should it be applied and in what quantity?
5152At what time of the year should I plant kale, Swiss chard, etc., so as to have them ready for use during the months from February to June?
5152Berseem?
5152Besides are you sure that your lye dip was caustic potash and not caustic soda?
5152But when a three- year- old tree gets above 12 feet high, as many of mine are doing, what are you going to do?
5152Buttermilk Paint How is paint made with buttermilk for farm buildings?
5152Can I allow milk cows to pasture on growing Kaffir and Egyptian corn during the summer?
5152Can I chop off most of the old wood with a hatchet and thereby bring them back to proper bearing?
5152Can I dig these Potatoes and use them for seed at once for another crop, or wo n''t they grow?
5152Can I disc it up heavily and seed in some barley for winter pasture?
5152Can I expect good results in Fresno and Tulare counties without irrigation?
5152Can I get the plants on the coast, and is California soil and climate adapted to the culture?
5152Can I graft French prunes on the Silver trees?
5152Can I graft over a few Ben Davis apple trees 25 years old or thereabouts, but thrifty and vigorous?
5152Can I grow the young trees by using cuttings or slips from these old trees?
5152Can I irrigate and plant a forage crop n July to feed dairy cows this fall and winter?
5152Can I put in Egyptian corn with on assurance of crop, or is it too late?
5152Can I put in a ditch two and one- half feet deep and fill in with small stones for a foot or a foot and a half, until I can afford to buy tiles?
5152Can I raise it successfully and, if so, what is the very best time of year to sow some for the best crop obtainable?
5152Can I sow oats or barley in July upon irrigated mesa land, with the object of making hay in the fall?
5152Can I transplant fruit trees 2 to 3 inches through the butt, about one foot from the ground?
5152Can Royal apricots be grafted into seedling apricots?
5152Can a Man Farm?
5152Can a herd be perfected in this way?
5152Can anything be done by feeding or otherwise to toughen the hoofs and render them less liable to crack?
5152Can grafting be done successfully?
5152Can house plaster be used in reclaiming sour ground and how much per acre?
5152Can it be done by leaching soil from old alfalfa ground, providing it has been plowed up and allowed to stand for a year?
5152Can it be sown in the fall, say November?
5152Can new cow manure be put on alfalfa?
5152Can new stock be safely put in the earth from which the old tree is removed?
5152Can potatoes be treated in any way before planting to prevent the new ones from being what is called"scabby"?
5152Can that be cured, and how?
5152Can the Navel orange be grafted on the osage orange?
5152Can these be budded next June or July in the nursery row, or can they be bench- grafted the following winter?
5152Can they be grown in the Sacramento valley in the vicinity of Colusa, and at a profit?
5152Can they be raised on wheat lands without irrigation as an early crop?
5152Can this soil be cropped indefinitely and the crops sold, without returning anything to the land?
5152Can three to four month old cockerels be caponized successfully in summer, and if so, what care, feed, etc., do they require afterwards?
5152Can we break up the land and sow pasture grasses as the farmers are exhorted to do at the East?
5152Can you advise me how I can get rid of slugs in my garden?
5152Can you give a recipe for a durable whitewash which can be prepared simply and in large quantities?
5152Can you give directions for the prevention of injury by the red spider to almond and other trees in the Sacramento volley?
5152Can you give me an idea as to what might be the result of an artesian well in such soil?
5152Can you give me any information on the following points?
5152Can you help me get this thing right?
5152Can you help me scare them away?
5152Can you please tell me what to do for them?
5152Can you suggest a grass or grasses that would do well here?
5152Can you suggest a more profitable variety of potato than the Oregon Burbank?
5152Can you suggest a remedy for it?
5152Can you suggest anything to loosen up the soil?
5152Can you tell me how to prevent falling of the fruit next year and what causes it?
5152Can you tell me if there is any way that I can make the cream whip?
5152Can you tell me of anything I can do to make them bear?
5152Can you tell me what to do for my Loganberries and raspberries?
5152Can you tell me what to use as a spray to kill the flies in my stable?
5152Can you tell me why pink beans which were planted early in Merced county, irrigated four times, hoed four times and cultivated, have no beans on them?
5152Can you tell where I can buy seed of varieties of California six- rowed barley, described as"pallidum"and"coerulescens,"and what the seed will cost?
5152Can you transplant trees two years old with safety to another location in same grove, same soil; etc.?
5152Could I grow it on the hard vacant spots that occur in the alfalfa fields?
5152Could a good carpenter make wages and take care of a small tract for a year or so until well under way?
5152Could that be the cause?
5152Could the large limbs be used to advantage?
5152Cut them back like lemons or let them remain?
5152Do the scions do well?
5152Do they need other varieties for pollinizing?
5152Do they require any different treatment than Bartletts?
5152Do you consider soil which is from 4 to 6 feet deep to hardpan of sufficient depth for alfalfa?
5152Do you consider straw good to plow under for humus, and which kind, wheat, oat, or barley straw, is best?
5152Do you have more than one cropping season, and if so, about what dates are they due?
5152Do you know anything of it, and do you think it would be suitable for reclaimed tule land in the bay section?
5152Do you recommend French seedling stock as greatly to be preferred to that grown in this country?
5152Do you recommend putting fertilizers in irrigating water?
5152Do you regard northern- grown seed potatoes sufficiently better to make it worth while paying freight on them from the State of Washington?
5152Do you think 500 pounds of lime per acre would help a sandy soil which has not been enriched by pasturing or legumes?
5152Do you think it a good practice to soak seeds before planting?
5152Do you think it advisable to use commercial fertilizer on ten- year- old Muirs?
5152Do you think that clover would make one or more cuttings without water?
5152Do you think that the action of the lard on the buds would cause them to rot?
5152Do you think that the sub- soil plow run low enough to break this plow- sole will benefit the land?
5152Do you think there is any danger of burning it out?
5152Do you think this is practicable?
5152Do you think water every fifteen days would be enough?
5152Does Kaffir corn yield as well here as Egyptian corn?
5152Does barnyard manure have any injurious effect on the vines if applied on my vineyard?
5152Does bleaching affect the keeping qualities?
5152Does frost hurt them?
5152Does irrigation work well an adobe planted to alfalfa?
5152Does it harm the mangel wurzels if their tops ore cut off once a month?
5152Does the growing of onion seed exhaust adobe land, and if so, how many years''cropping before it requires rest or fertilizing?
5152Does the idea seem to you to be feasible?
5152Does the soil need to be inoculated for horse beans?
5152Does vetch make good feed for horses?
5152Eastern or California Black Walnuts?
5152First to plow to the trees and then to plow from them, or to plow from the trees and then to them, and your reasons?
5152For a draught horse?
5152For commercial apple orchards which is preferable, trees grafted on piece roots or on whole roots?
5152For instance, if the base price is, say, five and three- fourths cents, what size does this refer to, and how is the price for other sizes calculated?
5152For use in the vegetable garden and the flower garden, what should be mixed with it and in what proportions?
5152For use of young trees, is there any difference in treatment of deciduous and citrus trees?
5152From how many acres could I keep off a freeze of oranges with 1000 gallons per minute?
5152From what is said in"California Fruits?"
5152From whom can I receive instruction or information regarding intensive cultivation?
5152Had I better let these suckers grow and see what comes from them or plant new trees?
5152Has Chevalier barley more value to feed hens for egg production than common feed barley or wheat?
5152Has Longworth Prolific an imperfect bloom?
5152Has it proved satisfactory?
5152Has this method proved successful in saving trees three or four inches in diameter, and how is it done?
5152Have I lost anything by not sulphuring?
5152Have any experiments ever been carried on definitely to decide what causes early blossoming of fruit trees?
5152Have the lands of California any black alkali in them?
5152Have you any better formula?
5152Have"stock melons"or"citrons"any merit as a green food for laying hens?
5152How Many Crops of Onion Seed?
5152How Much Gypsum?
5152How Much Water for Crops?
5152How Much Water for Oranges?
5152How about dry mash?
5152How about melilotus as a cover crop?
5152How about putting first cutting of alfalfa and foxtail into the silo?
5152How are seedlings grown from olive seeds?
5152How can I avoid bad crotches in fruit trees?
5152How can I best fertilize soil that is pure sand?
5152How can I get the head for the tree?
5152How can I get the young roosters off quick and the hens to lay in winter?
5152How can I keep certain insects from getting into my dry beans?
5152How can I make Mangel Wurzels grow in hot weather?
5152How can I make a rat- proof granary for alfalfa meal and barley?
5152How can I overcome strong milk in a three- quarter Jersey cow?
5152How can I prevent the formation of grape sugar in canned grapes?
5152How can I tell when a watermelon is fully ripe?
5152How can I tell whether the soil is good for oranges?
5152How can an enlargement of a colt''s leg, caused from a wire cut, be reduced?
5152How can it be best applied to ornamental trees and shrubbery in a light gravelly soil?
5152How can the presence of pear thrips be detected in a prune orchard?
5152How can trees be induced to bear regularly instead of bearing excessively on alternate years?
5152How can warts be removed from a horse''s hide?
5152How can we rid the alfalfa of weeds?
5152How deep should an olive orchard be plowed?
5152How do you dip hens to kill lice?
5152How do you harvest and pack them for distant market?
5152How do you separate old bark without breaking it in lifting the bark?
5152How does alfalfa succeed on adobe and soils slightly modified from it?
5152How high up is it advisable to apply the wash?
5152How is it cut and handled?
5152How is this avoided?
5152How large a tree will the Yellow Bellefleur apple make if grafted or budded on quince root at the age of 15 years?
5152How large are the trees, and what kind of fruit do they bear?
5152How late can Egyptian corn be planted on good sediment soil capable of growing 40 to 50 socks of barley per acre in good years with ordinary rain?
5152How late in the fall can budding of orange trees be done- plants that are two years old- and what advantage, if any, is late budding?
5152How late in the season will it be profitable to plant cowpeas?
5152How long can alfalfa stand water without being drowned out?
5152How long is it wise to leave protection around young fruit trees set out in March in this hot valley?
5152How many beans could I get per acre?
5152How many buds should be left above ground?
5152How many crops, etc.?
5152How many cubic feet should be allowed for a ton of alfalfa hay loaded on a wagon from the shock?
5152How many eyes should each piece contain in order to make a good growth and be profitable?
5152How many pounds of seed per acre should be used and when is it time for sowing in the San Joaquin valley?
5152How many pounds of vetch seed should be sown to the acre?
5152How many sacks of potatoes are to be planted to an acre, and how many eyes are to be left in a seed?
5152How many tons per acre in the crop?
5152How much alfalfa hay will a two or three- year- old steer eat per day, and about what is the gain in weight per day?
5152How much cold will Phenomenal, Himalaya and Mammoth blackberries stand in winter?
5152How much frost will it stand?
5152How much per acre, how frequently and what seasons of the year are the best time to apply gypsum?
5152How much seed is required per acre, and what is the estimated cost of growing them?
5152How much seed is required to sow an acre?
5152How much seed should be planted to the acre, also should seed be drilled in or broad- casted?
5152How much seed should be sown per acre on good river- bottom soil?
5152How much water does it take( in gallons or cubic feet) to properly irrigate an acre of land for tomatoes?
5152How much water in inches or acre feet is required per acre per year far the irrigation of it?
5152How near can I plow to two- year- old orange trees safely?
5152How near may the hardpan be to the surface before I have to blast it?
5152How often should the water be applied, and which method used?
5152How shall I apply nitrate of soda as fertilizer for roses and other flowers and lawns during the summer months?
5152How shall I make a hot- bed to raise sweet potato plants?
5152How shall I make grafting wax for grafting fruit trees?
5152How shall I make the bridge- graft or root- graft over the trunks of trees girdled by gophers?
5152How shall I plant and handle a crop of Niles peas?
5152How shall I plant them?
5152How shall I prune grape vines, viz: Tokay, Black Cornichon, Muscat, Thompson Seedless, Rose of Peru, planted for a grape arbor?
5152How shall I prune two- year- old orange orchard, also nursery stock buds that are badly injured by frost; how much to prune and at what time?
5152How shall I start, and when, the following seeds: Peach, plums, apricots, walnuts, olives and cherries?
5152How shall we apply it to get the best results?
5152How should it be planted?
5152How should saddle galls be treated?
5152How soon can calves be weaned and not hinder their growth?
5152How soon ought they to bear when grafted on the peach which is past three years old?
5152How wide, then, would you advise making the ridges to suit the mower, and to flood economically, using from 2 to 4 cubic feet per second?
5152How will it do to raise, for two or three years, a lot of orange seedlings between the rows of young three- year- old orange trees?
5152How would you advise feeding animal protein?
5152How would you prune apple trees eight or nine years old that have not been cut back?
5152How, if at all, can this opening be closed without drying the cow?
5152I am contemplating the planting of about five to eight acres of almonds: what variety is best to plant?
5152I have planted a lot of one- year- old cherry trees and would like to know if I should cut them down the same as the apple tree?
5152I planted cowpeas between peach trees which I have kept irrigated; when should they be plowed under?
5152I would like to know if it would be best to use barnyard compost over the surface as a mulch, or would it be best to use plain straw for that purpose?
5152I would like to know if putting any fertilizer around them would help them to put out their leaves, and if so what I should use?
5152I would like to know the best method of eradicating the black scale from my orange trees, whether by spraying or fumigation?
5152I would like to know whether or not dry- plowing land, in preparation for sowing oats for hay, injures the soil?
5152If I cross Registered Shorthorns with a Jersey bull, what dairying value will the progeny have?
5152If I feed part oat hay and part alfalfa hay, together with rolled barley, what ration would be ample?
5152If I put the strychnine on the carrots, and endeavor to poison the gophers, and the hogs get hold of the poison will it kill them?
5152If I take sprouts that come up where the roots have been cut, will they make good trees?
5152If a graft, what form of graft, and approximately when should it be made?
5152If cow peas, how many pounds to the acre?
5152If cut, will more shoots put out in the fall and be sufficient for the next year''s crop?
5152If fall, would it be best to plow the land now, turning in the stubble from hay crop, or wait until time to plant before plowing?
5152If fertilizers were to be used, what kind would you recommend?
5152If it can be done, will the offspring be physically perfect and an improvement, or will it have poorer qualities than its sire and mother?
5152If no rain should come within the next two weeks, would you advise me to irrigate then?
5152If not cut back this winter, will they be more likely to make fruit buds?
5152If not, what may be expected of them?
5152If planted early, what shall we do to keep the weevils out of them?
5152If so, and wheat is not desirable under the circumstances, what?
5152If so, at what time should it be planted?
5152If so, could it be cured like the currant that comes from Greece?
5152If so, how much of it should be spread an an acre?
5152If so, should it not be cut and cured at once?
5152If so, what kind of peach will be best?
5152If so, what would be the value as such per 100 pounds?
5152If so, when is the proper time to select the cuttings, and how should they be planted?
5152If so, which one is best adapted to plant after oats?
5152If there is any loss from an early application, can it be determined by any means?
5152If these are Myrobalan plums, will trees from them be as good as trees from pits that were imported?
5152If this is true, what variety of orange would you plant in a Navel grove- to supply pollen at the proper time?
5152If treatment of the soil is essential, what is recommended?
5152If you can, will you kindly tell me what the insects are an it, and what I had better do for them?
5152If, for instance, we plant seed with three eyes, how many potatoes should we get from that vine?
5152In a patch of strawberries planted this spring, is it advisable to cut off runners or root some of them?
5152In budding over some old peach trees, should I cut away the branch above the bud when the latter seems to have taken?
5152In case of a frost, all conditions being about the same, which piece would you consider to be liable to suffer the more?
5152In cleft grafting walnuts is it necessary to use scions with only a leaf bud, or with staminate or pistillate buds?
5152In other words, do I have to fence against my neighbors''stock, or does the law require him to care for his stock and keep it off my property?
5152In planting an almond orchard would it be of any benefit to dip the young trees in a solution of bluestone and lime dissolved?
5152In planting sweet potatoes, do we have to make hotbeds just like those for tomatoes, or if just a plain seed- bed will do?
5152In planting trees where hardpan is four feet from the surface is it necessary to blast the hardpan, or is there no benefit derived by the blasting?
5152In replanting pears in young orchard, how would it do to take rooted pear suckers, graft the Bartlett on them, and save the cost of nursery stock?
5152In the East we used to plant them in the fall, so as to have them freeze; as it does not freeze enough here, what do I have to do?
5152In the case of grape pomace, would not the large value shown by analysis be chiefly in the seeds?
5152In using vetch for horse fodder, how much barley should be fed with it per day for a driving horse?
5152In what counties is alfalfa most successfully grown?
5152In what direction shall I face open- front poultry houses?
5152In what locality are the best early potatoes grown in California?
5152In what month of the year is the best time to plant them; also how many pounds to the acre to be sowed broadcast on rolling land in Napa?
5152In what part of the State does alfalfa grow best without irrigation?
5152In what way would they benefit the trees?
5152In your opinion, is it possible for one man, of average strength, to take perfect care of a twenty- acre citrus orchard?
5152In your opinion, would the planting of ten acres in berries for drying be a success?
5152Is 4 or 5 feet of the loam enough?
5152Is California wheat shipped in bulk or in bags at the present time?
5152Is Dynamite Needed?
5152Is Egyptian corn fodder good for cows?
5152Is It Mange?
5152Is a concrete floor good for a horse stable?
5152Is adobe land good for alfalfa?
5152Is adobe land good for the peanut?
5152Is alfalfa being used by others in this way?
5152Is any butter- fat lost due to evaporation in dry weather?
5152Is asparagus resistant to moderate quantities of alkali in the soil?
5152Is barnyard fertilizer containing shavings instead of straw, desirable?
5152Is cast or other iron in small pieces plowed into the land of any benefit to trees as a fertilizer?
5152Is cutting the pith of the scion or stock fatal to the tree?
5152Is it a very profitable crop to raise?
5152Is it absolutely essential that orange trees be planted on a southern slope, or will they thrive as well on any slope?
5152Is it advisable to plant canning peaches in April, and will I gain time in growth and development?
5152Is it advisable to plant the trees on the checks rather than between the checks?
5152Is it advisable to thin fruit on young citrus trees?
5152Is it advisable to use oats with alfalfa seeds in seeding for alfalfa?
5152Is it bad for the tree to prune during the active season?
5152Is it bad practice to plant the seed- ends of potatoes?
5152Is it best to prune out orange trees by removing occasional branches so as to permit free air passage through the trees?
5152Is it better to bud in old bark of an old tree or in younger wood bark?
5152Is it better to hill potatoes or not?
5152Is it considered a good plan to set the tree at once in the place where one has died, or is it better to wait a year before replacing?
5152Is it desirable to irrigate peach trees in the fall after the crop is gathered?
5152Is it detrimental to land in future years?
5152Is it feasible to prune five- year- old apricot trees in August?
5152Is it feasible to use wash water, etc., for watering fruit trees and vegetables?
5152Is it good policy to sow rye with clover?
5152Is it harder to start than in other soils or not?
5152Is it harder to start than in other soils or not?
5152Is it necessary in growing the Comice pear successfully, to put some other pear near for the purpose of pollination in order to make it successful?
5152Is it necessary that figs should be grafted in some other roots to keep the gophers from destroying the trees?
5152Is it necessary to feed mulch cows any hay or concentrated feed in addition to green corn stalks?
5152Is it necessary to have male and female trees, and how can one distinguish them?
5152Is it necessary to have young orange trees covered or leave them uncovered during the winter months?
5152Is it necessary to irrigate them or not?
5152Is it necessary to roof a manure pit, if the pit is tight so that all rain on manure is caught in the liquid manure and nothing is lost?
5152Is it possible for a man with a few acres well cared for and carefully tilled to make a living and pay out on a purchase of land at$ 123 per acre?
5152Is it practical to raise corn in the Sacramento volley?
5152Is it profitable to inoculate alfalfa seed before planting to increase its yield?
5152Is it right and proper to breed a pedigreed registered bull to his daughter, who is the offspring of a grade cow?
5152Is it safe to depend on this in part, or will the alkali spread over all the valley and the foothills?
5152Is it safe to plant where the temperature goes below 32 degrees?
5152Is it safe to use arsenical sprays in a pear orchard in which alfalfa is raised between the trees and afterward cut and fed to cattle?
5152Is it so?
5152Is orchard and vineyard brush worth enough as a fertilizer to pay for cutting or breaking and putting back on the land?
5152Is that right?
5152Is that the name by which it is commonly known, and what is the treatment for it?
5152Is the Globe artichoke a profitable crop to raise commercially?
5152Is the curing of alfalfa for grinding different from ordinary; has it to be chopped before grinding, and what is the cost of grinding?
5152Is the currant that grows in the United States in any way related to the currant that grows in Greece?
5152Is the lime from a sugar factory a good fertilizer for either oranges or walnuts; if so, about what amount to the acre would you recommend?
5152Is the plant a perennial?
5152Is the trouble serious and will it spread?
5152Is there a fence law in this State?
5152Is there another strain of Longworth that are not self- fertilizing?
5152Is there any danger in having this in a pit near the house?
5152Is there any danger of a barn burning from spontaneous combustion due to a silo being built in the barn?
5152Is there any difference between the same kind of fruit trees grown without irrigation and with it?
5152Is there any fertilizing value in the hulls of almonds?
5152Is there any foundation to the oft- repeated story about potatoes in the light of the moon running to tops and the dark of the moon to spuds?
5152Is there any harm to vegetable growing to dig sufficient of wood ashes in for mellowing heavy soil?
5152Is there any liquid spray I can use in my spraying that will kill the red spider without injuring the foliage of the almond?
5152Is there any method of overcoming this difficulty?
5152Is there any other early ripening variety better than the Sugar?
5152Is there any probability that later in the season this seed will germinate, or has it rotted in the ground?
5152Is there any profit in sowing gypsum on grain land, say on wheat or oat crop?
5152Is there any reason why bananas would not grow and bear in the vicinity of Merced if they had plenty of water?
5152Is there any reason, climatic or other, why the gooseberry should not be as successfully grown in California as elsewhere?
5152Is there any risk to run in taking cows to an altitude of 2000 from a much lower one?
5152Is there any scientific reason to support the belief that it is injurious to the soil to dry- plow it for seeding to grain this fall and winter?
5152Is there any simple soil test for alkali that can be made without a chemical analysis?
5152Is there any special fertilizer which will make the trees bear more and not prompt such heavy growth?
5152Is there any unusual reason for this, or could irrigation have caused it, and what is the best method of preventing it?
5152Is there any virtue in inoculating plants with the bacteria that some seed firms offer?
5152Is there any virtue in this, and why is it done?
5152Is there any way to make the hair come in its natural color where saddle galls have been?
5152Is there any way to tell when a mare is in foal?
5152Is there anything that will make olives keep their black color when put into lye?
5152Is there anything to be done with the injured shoots now on the vines so as to help the prospects of a crop?
5152Is there danger of injury to seed by coming in contact with gypsum?
5152Is there more than one variety of myrobalan used, and if so, is one as good as another?
5152Is there probable harm from water standing 12 feet from the surface in an orchard?
5152Is there such a thing as a cow losing her cud?
5152Is this a fact?
5152Is this correct in theory?
5152Is this due to climate, lack of sufficient water, or to not having the right variety?
5152Is this so or not?
5152Is this true?
5152Is topping grape vines desirable?
5152Is vetch sown and harvested at about the same time as other crops?
5152Is water put on it when it is put in the silo?
5152Its value as crop to plow under?
5152Jersey bulls are apt to become vicious after a time; is it so to the same extent with bulls of the other named breeds?
5152Kindly inform if this is one of nature''s laws or if there is a possibility of the heifer turning out all right?
5152May I expect to get good results by grafting some kind of peach to 19-year- old almond tree?
5152May this be true in some parts of the State and not in others?
5152My brood sow is awfully fat; how should I feed her so that she do n''t get too fat?
5152Now shall I saw the stub off lower down and try again, or bud into one of the sprouts that have grown around the cut end?
5152Now, where the rabbits have pruned back to 4 or 5 inches the very ones I wanted, what should be done?
5152Oats and Rust Is there any variety of oats that is rust- proof, or any method of treating oats that will render them rust resistant?
5152Or would the cool nights at certain seasons keep them from bearing?
5152Or would you advise replanting the land?
5152Peaches, pears and plums predominate in this section, but would not grapefruit, almonds and English walnuts be just as profitable?
5152Please advise me if it is necessary to plant under half shade?
5152Shall He Irrigate or Cultivate?
5152Shall I cut them off?
5152Shall I prune back heavily a 15 to 20-year- old apricot tree which did not mature its fruit this season, I think on account of neglect?
5152Shall I spray these again with full strength, and when?
5152Shall the old wood be cut away in pruning Himalayas?
5152Should English walnut trees be pruned?
5152Should I calculate the lands to be mowed one at a time in even swaths?
5152Should I cut away all but one trunk or let them alone?
5152Should I have a good crop next year?
5152Should I have samples of this earth analyzed in order to ascertain what the soil most needs?
5152Should I let only one shoot form, and when it is as high as I want it, cut it off as I would a tree gotten from a nursery?
5152Should I plant strawberries in the spring or fall?
5152Should I plow before irrigating, or should irrigation be done before the buds swell?
5152Should beans be hoed while the dew is on the vine?
5152Should heavy growing apricots be summer pruned?
5152Should it be fed whole or crushed?
5152Should it be picked off, thrown on the ground and plowed under?
5152Should not both apple and pear trees be kept down to about ten feet?
5152Should soft feed be given to the mothers of chicks intended for broilers?
5152Should the barley for hog feeding be rolled, ground or fed whole, dry or wet?
5152Should the grain be planted deeper than on ordinary land, and, if so, should a drill be used?
5152Should the little twigs an the lower parts of young fruit trees be removed or shortened?
5152Should the main branches be shortened in a three- year- old almond tree?
5152Should the new shoots of Loganberry vines, which come out in the spring, be left or cut away?
5152Should they be bleached, and, if so, how is it done?
5152Should they be replaced with new stock?
5152Should this be done right away or later?
5152So the question occurred to me, why should it not be a profitable pasture for the dry summers on the coast or foothill ranges of the State?
5152Soils, Fertilizers and Irrigation What is Intensive Cultivation?
5152Some people claim that the feed a hen eats does not affect the egg at all; but if it does not, why do eggs differ in color and quality?
5152Some say only one eye to a piece; others say several eyes- which is better?
5152The land is leveled for alfalfa also; will the alfalfa disturb the growth of trees?
5152The mower being 5-foot cut, would you count on cutting a 4 1/2 or 5-foot swath?
5152Timothy we should like, but this is not its habitat, is it?
5152To insure the best crop of corn possible, does it pay to sucker it or not?
5152To sow in bare spots in the alfalfa, would the rye grass prevent bloat?
5152Under what conditions is irrigation necessary?
5152Was It the Potash or the Water?
5152We, of course, know that butter is sold by the pound and cream by the pint, quart or gallon, but what is butter- fat sold by?
5152What I wish to know is this: Will this crop be beneficial or injurious to the trees?
5152What I wish to know is whether it is probably something in the soil that makes them grow too large, or is it probably the method of treatment?
5152What Is Certified Milk?
5152What Is a"Grade"?
5152What Is"Butter- fat?"
5152What Kind of Beet for Stock?
5152What Slopes for Fruit?
5152What Will the Sucker Be?
5152What about planting the seed from St. Michael''s oranges or of grapefruit for a seed- bed to be budded to Valencias?
5152What about"Teosinte,"its food value, method of culture, and adaptability to our climate, character of soil required?
5152What amount of freezing and drouth can English walnuts stand?
5152What are the approximate contents of common stable manure; also, how much of the above is contained in bean straw?
5152What are the conditions most favorable to orange trees budded upon sour stock; also upon sweet stock and trifoliata?
5152What are the dates for planting crops to be used for soiling in your State?
5152What are they?
5152What can I do for a"blind teat"?
5152What can I do to cure my chicks of eating each other?
5152What can I do to prevent it?
5152What can I do to relieve a horse that balls up on alfalfa at the time of the first symptoms?
5152What can I do to soil that dries out and crusts over so hard that it wo n''t permit vegetable growth?
5152What can I do?
5152What can I give him that may be put in the mash?
5152What can I plant on this land and get a crop?
5152What can I put on the land after the oat crop is taken off to furnish hay for horses during the coming winter?
5152What can I use to disinfect poultry belongings?
5152What can be done for bloating?
5152What can be done to stop bloody milk?
5152What can you say of red clover on shallow soils in the Sacramento valley under irrigation?
5152What can you tell me about the plant here?
5152What caused it, or is there any danger of other cows taking it, and if so, what can we do?
5152What caused these squashes, of which I send you samples, to be so hard and woody?
5152What causes the death of the top shoots in apple trees?
5152What chemicals should I put into the soil to insure a good crop of vegetables, such as tomatoes, string beans, or other over- ground producers?
5152What crop can I plant between rows of young orange trees to utilize the ground as well as pay a little something?
5152What crop would be best?
5152What detriment is hardpan if 14 inches below the surface and in some places 12 inches?
5152What do you advise for killing and removing the whitish mold that forms on trays used for drying prunes?
5152What do you advise for planting in the fall for winter pasture in the Sacramento valley?
5152What do you know about it?
5152What do you think of putting manure on young alfalfa?
5152What do you think of the Early Richmond cherry in such a place?
5152What do you think?
5152What do you think?
5152What effect does putting lime on land have in holding moisture?
5152What effect will a crop of wheat have on new cleared land, to be planted in fruit trees later on?
5152What explanation is there for these variations?
5152What forage plant can I grow in a newly planted orchard?
5152What influence, if any, has the moon on plant growth?
5152What is a balanced ration for milk cows and brood sows?
5152What is a good method of breaking in young brooder chicks to use the roosts?
5152What is a good poultry tonic?
5152What is a good way to preserve eggs for home use?
5152What is a legal milk house in California?
5152What is adobe?
5152What is best to do with an apricot or prune tree when it has been hit with an implement and the bark knocked off?
5152What is best to do?
5152What is difference in life of peach and almond in California?
5152What is gypsum composed of?
5152What is kale worth for cow feed as compared with alfalfa, also can it be cut and cured the same as alfalfa and what variety is the best?
5152What is meant by breeding a sow in the purple?
5152What is now the best course to transform them into peach trees?
5152What is stover?
5152What is the advantage of a high- grafted walnut?
5152What is the advantage, if any, of the long stock from grafting high, over the grafted root?
5152What is the average commercial yield of asparagus to the acre in California?
5152What is the best fertilizer for the soil which is heavy, and when is the best time to apply it?
5152What is the best formula for feeding work horses with oat hay, alfalfa, barley( crushed) and corn as rations?
5152What is the best manner of planting?
5152What is the best material with which to coat the shingles on my barn roof?
5152What is the best means of fertilizing an olive orchard?
5152What is the best method of storing stock beets and stock carrots in this climate?
5152What is the best period to cut alfalfa hay for cow feed and the best method for curing?
5152What is the best plan of treatment for frosted orange trees?
5152What is the best remedy for a horse that has worms?
5152What is the best stuff to use on wounds and large cuts on my fruit trees?
5152What is the best time for planting Jerusalem artichokes?
5152What is the best time to bud apples?
5152What is the best time to cut corn for the silo?
5152What is the best time to graft them?
5152What is the best time to prune the French prune and most other trees?
5152What is the best time to set out blackberries and Loganberries?
5152What is the best time to sow Egyptian corn; also how much per acre to sow?
5152What is the best time to transplant seedlings of the black walnut?
5152What is the best treatment for spots that have been scraped in leveling for irrigation?
5152What is the best variety of cow peas for a forage crap?
5152What is the best way and what the best month to do the work, or are trees too large to do well if moved?
5152What is the best way of storing pumpkins, under ordinary farm conditions, in a climate such as we have here in northern California?
5152What is the best way to get rid of cow manure so as to keep a barn sanitary and the place free from stench?
5152What is the best way to prepare land for Black- eye beans?
5152What is the best way?
5152What is the cause and cure of mottle leaf of citrus trees?
5152What is the cause and remedy?
5152What is the cause of bowel trouble in young chicks, and what to do for it?
5152What is the commercial value of the Sugar prune?
5152What is the cure for feather- eating?
5152What is the difference in the feeding value of wheat and barley for hogs and horses?
5152What is the disease which may be said to confine itself, with few exceptions, to young pigs weighing 100 pounds or less?
5152What is the effect of coal ashes on the red clay soil of Redlands or wood and coal ashes combined?
5152What is the effect of coal tar or asphaltum applied to the bark of trees?
5152What is the fertilizing value of hog manure, and also what is the best fertilizer to use for potatoes?
5152What is the food value of spelt?
5152What is the food value of sunflower seed as a ration for fowls, mostly laying hens?
5152What is the general and what do you consider the ideal, manuring, and when applied for orange trees from 15 to 12 years old under irrigation?
5152What is the government recipe for whitewash?
5152What is the life of the peach root and of the almond?
5152What is the limit as to thinness before trees will not grow, or thrive?
5152What is the loss of weight in drying Bartlett pears?
5152What is the lowest temperature at which grapefruit and lemons will succeed?
5152What is the matter with young pigs when their eyes swell shut?
5152What is the method used by growers in picking for commercial shipping?
5152What is the method used in saving or threshing the seed from the Giant Russian sunflower?
5152What is the minimum depth of soil required for orange trees?
5152What is the most approved manner of grafting mulberry trees?
5152What is the most profitable amount of grain to feed to spring pigs while on alfalfa pasture, from the time of weaning to the time of marketing?
5152What is the outlook in California?
5152What is the process of dipping and bleaching Thompson seedless grapes?
5152What is the proper time for planting grape vines?
5152What is the proper time for pruning pear and apricot trees?
5152What is the proper time for pruning the walnut?
5152What is the proper time to sow alfalfa?
5152What is the proper treatment for a fresh wire cut on a horse?
5152What is the proper way to feed pumpkins to cows?
5152What is the recipe for preserving olives by heat, and how long do they have to remain in the heated state?
5152What is the relative worth of such hay as compared with more matured hay?
5152What is the remedy for a horse that stops often to urinate while working?
5152What is the trouble with cream that you churn on from Monday until Saturday, then have to give up in despair and turn it out to the hogs?
5152What is the truth?
5152What is the usefulness or harmfulness of the outflow from septic tanks for use an fruits and vegetables?
5152What is the value of Bermuda grass as a forage crop for cattle, more particularly dairy cows?
5152What is the value of grape pomace as a hog feed?
5152What is their behavior as to bearing?
5152What is time for sowing?
5152What is your idea about English walnuts on black walnut root?
5152What is your idea regarding the practicability of such an idea in a large commercial orchard?
5152What is your opinion on the subject?
5152What is your opinion on triangular planting as compared with square planting?
5152What is your opinion?
5152What is"sour"soil?
5152What kind of alfalfa will do best on sub- irrigated land which is very wet?
5152What kind of apple do you think would do best in a dry, hot climate?
5152What kind of grass is enclosed?
5152What kind of plants will grow best in adobe?
5152What kind of plants will grow best in this soil?
5152What kind of salt is used for salting hay, how much to use and how to apply it?
5152What kind of soil is best for alfalfa on a dairy ranch?
5152What kind of spray shall I use?
5152What kind should I try?
5152What length is it cut?
5152What method should be used to protect young fruit trees from cutworms?
5152What part of the plant is used in making insect powder and how is it prepared?
5152What process has milk to go through to be called"certified,"and what demand is there for it?
5152What quality is it in the soil in the vicinity of Watsonville that makes that country peculiarly adapted to the culture of apples?
5152What root is considered best for prune trees?
5152What root should I order?
5152What roots?
5152What saving may be made by chopping all oat hay when fed to horses?
5152What seasons are given for each sowing?
5152What shall I do for a young cow that milks herself?
5152What shall I do with some old trees that were budded about two months ago and are still green but not sprouted yet?
5152What shall I feed family Jersey cow in addition to alfalfa hay to insure a good supply of milk?
5152What should I do with these shoots?
5152What should be done with peach trees 35 years old which are becoming unthrifty, bearing only at the ends of the limbs, etc.?
5152What soil suits it best?
5152What spray can I use that will destroy them?
5152What time do you sow rape and vetch and are they good for chickens?
5152What time of the year can cow peas be planted, and can the entire crop be plowed under in time for planting field corn?
5152What treatment do you recommend?
5152What treatment should be adopted to guard against this excessive growth?
5152What varieties would cause the trees to bear?
5152What variety of blackberries or raspberries are the best for drying purposes?
5152What variety of grain adopted for poultry food will be the best to grow, with and also without irrigation?
5152What vegetables will thrive in localities where the sun shines only part of the day?
5152What will destroy patches of moss which are spreading over our lawns and apparently destroying the grass?
5152What would be the best to plant in an orchard on ground of a light sandy sediment which, after plowing, will move with the strong winds?
5152What would be the best to plant this fall, to be plowed under next spring, and to plant again next spring to plow under in the fall?
5152What would be the best to sow for sheep pasture- barley, oats, rye, vetch or rape?
5152What would be the most profitable potato to plant in the Salinas valley, and how small can a potato be cut up for planting?
5152What would be the result of pruning off these low branches, after the fruit is off?
5152What would happen on the crops of cucumbers, tomatoes and eggplants, etc., planted on the same place continuously?
5152What would you advise to sow as a crop to plow under?
5152What would you advise under the circumstances and what can be done to counteract this?
5152What would you do for citrus trees five years old that have been badly blown out of shape?
5152What would you do with land subject to overflow by the Sacramento when that river rises 20 feet, and which you wanted to plant to barley this season?
5152What would you think about rye for straw for horse collars?
5152When is the best time to apply Thomas phosphate slag on orchard land?
5152When is the best time to cultivate alfalfa, and how often during the season is it advantageous to do so?
5152When is the best time to cut rye for hay, and how should it best be handled?
5152When is the best time to plant?
5152When is the best time to remove large limbs from walnut trees?
5152When is the best time to sow vetch for hay, and what is the best variety?
5152When is the proper time to whitewash walnut trees to prevent sun scald?
5152When shall I do grafting?
5152When should I plant and what care should they have?
5152When should it be sowed, and when plowed under?
5152When the root of an orange or other fruit tree is exposed or brakes by the cultivator, what is the best way to treat that root?
5152When would be the best time to apply lime and how much?
5152Where do the Mahaleb and Mazzard cherries grow naturally?
5152Where soil and climatic conditions are favorable to the raising of apples, what effect has irrigation an them?
5152Which Alfalfa is Best?
5152Which Crop of Alfalfa for Seed?
5152Which are the best fruit trees to plant on black adobe soil with water table between 3 and 4 feet from surface?
5152Which are the best garden seeds to use, those raised in Ohio and the East or those raised in Washington and Oregon or those raised in this State?
5152Which cutting of alfalfa should be left for seed bearing?
5152Which is easier with the peach, grafting or budding?
5152Which is right?
5152Which is the best for dairy cows, plain red mangels or a cross between these and sugar beets?
5152Which is the best implement to use?
5152Which is the best method to irrigate a tract of 25 acres of sandy sediment sail, nearly level, preparatory to planting walnuts?
5152Which is the best root to have the almond grafted on, peach or bitter almond?
5152Which is the best way to dehorn cows and calves?
5152Which is the best way to do it, by budding or grafting, and what is the proper time?
5152Which is the best way to renew an old peach orchard?
5152Which is the best way to send scions by mail?
5152Which is the correct and best way to castrate a yearling colt, with an emasculator or a blade, and when is the proper time?
5152Which is the proper way to plow an orchard?
5152Which kind of fruit trees will grow and pay best?
5152Which kind of rye is the hardiest, the best yielding, and the best hay varieties in your State?
5152Which kind would be best for cows?
5152Which of the two would do the better in summer time?
5152Which one is the best for pasture and milk?
5152Which root is most durable?
5152Which sorghum is the most profitable to plant for the seed only White Egyptian, Brawn Egyptian or Yellow Mila?
5152Which would be best, to leave the land as it is until the rains come and then harrow, or harrow now?
5152Which would be better to use here, stable manure or commercial fertilizer?
5152Which would be most valuable to plant on river- bottom land for cattle and hog feed, sugar beets or mangels?
5152Which would be the better grain for me to buy for hog feed; wheat at$ 1.30 per hundred, or barley at$ 1?
5152Which would you advise us to set out in this part of the State?
5152While doing heavy plowing, how many pounds of rolled barley per day should I feed to keep 1300-pound horses in good condition?
5152Why Would Not Butter Come?
5152Why are eggs watery and light- colored?
5152Why did our butter not act like the creamery butter?
5152Why do my apricot trees not bring fruit?
5152Why do young apple plants in the seed bed became mildewed?
5152Why is it that gooseberries are not grown more in California?
5152Will Egyptian corn make good ensilage and at what time should it be cut to make the best feed for dairy cows?
5152Will He Have Peaches?
5152Will I do injury to my peach trees if I delay pruning until the last of February, or until the sap begins to run and the buds to swell?
5152Will Italian rye grass and red top clover be a success under irrigation as cow pasture in this county, either separately or mixed with alfalfa?
5152Will Milo maize grow profitable in Sonoma county?
5152Will Silver prune trees take other grafts, such as apricots or apples?
5152Will alfilaria( Erodium cicutarium) grow well on the hills of Sonoma county partially covered with shrubs?
5152Will apricots and peaches grafted or budded on myrobalan produce fruit as large as they will if grafted on their own stock?
5152Will barnyard manure help the hard land if cultivated in?
5152Will beach sand do adobe or clay soil any good?
5152Will boring into green stumps and inserting a handful of saltpeter kill the roots and cause the stump to readily burn up a few months later?
5152Will dry- plowing now cause a worse growth of filth after the rains than the customary fallowing in the spring?
5152Will ensilage( corn, oats) keep well in a silo of those dimensions?
5152Will fall seeding the same as wheat produce a seed crop?
5152Will foxtail choke out and exterminate alfalfa?
5152Will goat manure be of great value in fertilizing an orchard?
5152Will guano help, or is sodium nitrate or potash the thing?
5152Will hogs do well an that kind of diet, especially if given a little barley with it?
5152Will it be a good plan to pour on water from time to time over the top of this to keep the apples and all wet, or should the apples be kept dry?
5152Will it be advisable to plow up a poor stand of alfalfa about July 1 and plant to cow peas?
5152Will it be successful?
5152Will it increase the milk, or will it dry up the cows?
5152Will it make a bearing tree in time and be of like quality with the parent?
5152Will it not do about as much good as the same amount of bran?
5152Will lemons thrive in this soil?
5152Will olive trees grown from the olive seed be the right thing to plant?
5152Will onion sets planted in July grow and mature in the fall months?
5152Will onions from seed mature the same season if they are irrigated?
5152Will pears do to graft on the peach, or will plums do well on the peach?
5152Will potatoes grow well in adobe land, or partly adobe, that has not been used for seven years except for pasturing?
5152Will pruning grape vines when they bleed injure them?
5152Will rolled barley hurt milk cows, say two light feeds a day?
5152Will sand vetch grow on soil having one- half of one per cent alkali?
5152Will sugar beets grow on black alkali land?
5152Will sugar beets keep in a silo and how sugar beets rank as a hog feed?
5152Will summer pruning cause apple trees to bear fruit instead of growing so much new wood?
5152Will the Apples Be the Same Kind?
5152Will the carob tree( St. John''s Bread) do well in the Sacramento valley, and is it a desirable tree for lining a driveway?
5152Will the distillate emulsion- nicotine spray control brown scale as well as thrips?
5152Will the dry barnyard manure, when heaped up and dampened with water, make a valuable fertilizer?
5152Will the nitrate act alone, or must I apply also the phosphate and potash to get results?
5152Will the ordinary Bartlett pear do for pollination?
5152Will the same amount of fruit be produced by the fruit growing on the limbs higher up?
5152Will the seed from the variety carrying but one natural head produce seed that will reproduce true to the parent?
5152Will the seed germinate readily and when is the right time to plant?
5152Will the trees commence to grow?
5152Will they be true to the parent tree or will they have to be grafted?
5152Will they bear just as good, or is it necessary to take the scions from old bearing trees?
5152Will they lay any eggs while growing new feathers?
5152Will they make good stock for them, and, if so, is it necessary to cut below the original bud?
5152Will vetch produce a heavier crop than grain?
5152Will walnuts grow well in the foothill country; elevation about 600 feet, soil rich, does not crack in summer and seems to have small stones in it?
5152Will water drain off the low checks if the hardpan is dynamited, and will this land grow alfalfa with profit?
5152Will you give a formula for a dry mash?
5152Will you give information about its adaptability to cucumbers?
5152Will you give localities of the leading production of onion seed or dry sets in your State?
5152Will you give the method for giving the gloss to dried French prunes?
5152Will you kindly give the experience of pear growers in California who have grown the dwarfs?
5152Will you kindly inform me what you consider the best treatment for apple trees affected by woolly aphis?
5152Will you kindly tell me the cause and cure for bowel trouble among hens?
5152Will you kindly tell me when is the proper time to irrigate potatoes, before they bloom or after they bloom, and do they require much water?
5152Will you please tell me if my next crop would be apt to have scab, provided I got good clean seed and planted in the same ground?
5152With fair cultivation, will an acre produce about 10 tons of ensilage without fertilization- it being bottom land?
5152With this heavy rainfall, is there any advantage to be gained by early plowing and clean cultivation right through the winter?
5152With water- table at 18 feet, which root is best for almond trees?
5152Would Canadian field peas and cow peas be valuable as a forage crop for cows and hogs; also as fertilizer?
5152Would Clapp''s Favorite be a good pollinizer for the Bartlett as well as the White Doyenne?
5152Would Egyptian corn that has been musty and then dried in the sun be fit for pigs?
5152Would a dark room be suitable?
5152Would air- slackened lime be suitable to sprinkle over the dropping boards in hen houses?
5152Would an irrigation every forty days be often enough?
5152Would asphaltum do to use an sunburned bark?
5152Would citrons do well there without irrigation, and would they be better than stock- beets for hog feed?
5152Would cleanings from sweet peas or all kinds of seeds grown on a seed farm be of any value as a fertilizer on sandy loam soil for an orchard?
5152Would cloth do to cover a hotbox to raise lettuce, radishes, etc., for winter use where we get a very heavy rainfall?
5152Would composting break down the shell of the seed?
5152Would four feet of good loose soil be enough for lemons?
5152Would it be a good plan, after we have marked out our rows, to scatter some fertilizer in these marks and put the corn right on top of it?
5152Would it be advisable to herd milch cows for a few hours each day on a field of black oats which is to be grown for hay?
5152Would it be all right to thin out a dense growth of wood in the prune trees in September?
5152Would it be any advantage to bud the Washington Navel on grapefruit and lemon roots?
5152Would it be best to strip all leaves or branches off, or leave one on?
5152Would it be better to cut the tree down to the green part, or let them alone?
5152Would it be good policy to use the manure, or would it be more satisfactory to top- dress with gypsum?
5152Would it be harmful to add 2 or 3 pounds of steamed bone meal to the hole of a young tree just before planting?
5152Would it be possible to plant the Yorkshire Hero pea in on orange grove as late as December 25 and get a crop from the peas?
5152Would it be practical to take the tops of these trees and graft on one- year seedlings and get the same results as from the trees I bought?
5152Would it be proper to graft one- year California black walnut seedlings that must also be transplanted?
5152Would it be right to trim them up while dormant this winter, or should I let them grow another year before doing so?
5152Would it be safe to set them on such land?
5152Would it be well to cut it up and blow it into the barn, and would it do all right for silage?
5152Would it be worth paying 10 cents a hundred for rolling, and then haul the grain 8 miles by wagon?
5152Would it best for her to go entirely dry before coming fresh, or will it be all right if she does not entirely dry up?
5152Would it injure alfalfa to pasture lightly after the last cutting?
5152Would it not be best to"top"them yet?
5152Would it not progress as rapidly?
5152Would it pay in returns to use large potatoes for seed in preference to culls?
5152Would it pay me to raise horse beans for fattening hogs?
5152Would rape be a good pasture crop sown broadcast?
5152Would springtime be a better time to sow it on soil that is very soft in winter?
5152Would such plowing and cultivation result in any serious loss of plant food?
5152Would sunning the trays be effective, or washing in hot water, or is there some suitable fungicide?
5152Would that hurt them for seed, and also how long could they be safely left there now before planting?
5152Would the Canadian field pea make a satisfactory growth here if sown as soon as the rains begin?
5152Would the charcoal be of any service on that lot as a fertilizer?
5152Would the fact that it is frozen make it injurious to feed?
5152Would the fact that they are covered with smut cause any trouble?
5152Would there be anything gained by transplanting old olive trees 6 to 8 inches in diameter over nursery stock?
5152Would they be at all suitable to get as a field bean which the hogs eat?
5152Would they come into bearing any sooner and be as good trees?
5152Would they do better in the Imperial valley?
5152Would this be all right?
5152Would this be best for garden truck and berries?
5152Would this pea add much to the fertility of the soil?
5152Would white and pink beans do well on the red orange land at Palermo with plenty of water?
5152Would you advise an early or late application of nitrogen, such as nitrate or guano?
5152Would you advise breeding at two or three years old?
5152Would you advise budding peaches on almond roots; if not, why?
5152Would you advise fall or spring planting?
5152Would you advise me to plant the"sour stock"as it comes from the nursery and have it budded or crown- budded later?
5152Would you advise planting of pecans in commercial orchards here?
5152Would you kindly inform me what I could do to exterminate them on my young orchard?
5152Would you plant Comice pears instead of Bartletts, and why?
5152Would you recommend cow peas or some kind of sugar corn?
5152Would you recommend deep plowing followed by a packer and harrow so as to preserve the moisture?
5152Would you recommend different systems for grain lands and irrigated lands?