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Rhubarb is a very healthy fruit. Git up the twrork Rhames. ~! You can’t overwork the harrow A lousy pigs a sure sign of a poor farmer. The neglected colt or calf will prove profitless. Phosphorus is an element that is essential to plant life. How are the farm implements? Any of them need repairs? Look suspiciously at eggs that have been laid in a stolen nest. The canna, like corn needs moisture and heat to develop properly. Don’t let the weeds get a start— kill ‘em while they are a-borning. Horseradish is mostly grown for the packers. The horse is known by its years, but the mule {s better known by its ears. Too much care cannot be given the dairy utensils. The calf should be trained to lead and be halter-broke. Don't have a lot of manure lying in the yards all summer. When you hoe-corn, thin it out to not more than three good stalks to the hill The ewes must have plenty of pal atable food both before and after the lambs come. Obtaining the seed is the important thing in growing potatoes. A flock of 60 hens, or not more than 100, properly fed and cared for will pay handsomely. Parsley seed should be sown in a protected spot, or in the cold frame. A very desirable and useful tool which is not found on all farms is a level. If the butter is packed in jars or oth er receptacles, they, too, must be ster ilized as above stated. Sweet potatoes require a warm sandy soil well filled with rich rotted manure. Turkey eggs set this month will give good salable carcasses for Christ mas feasts. Two sprinklings a week with ker osene oil should keep the house free from insect pests. The ashes of the elm, oak and beach are the most valuable for applying to farm and garden crops. Cattle should not be pastured in the orchard, as they pack the ground hard and bruise the young weed. After trees are planted, mulch with one foot of leaves or rotted straw, water if season should be hot and dry. New potatoes can be got earlier by allowing the seed to sprout in strong light before planting... The calf should be kept in the pen and not tied out on grass until the weather is warm and the ground is dry. Practical farmers know the value of plowing and harrowing land when in the right order for working. Just one setting of thoroughbred eggs may be the means of working a revolution in your poultry business. Enormous yields of potatoes can be secured under irrigation, provided the moisture in the soil is uniform and continuous. Don’t keep little ducks and chickens together if it can be avoided. Keep each separate, and they will both do better Tobacco stems contain large quan tities of potash and are worth eight to ten dollars per ton for topdressing grass and grain. The best marked heifer calves from the largest and most persistent milk ers should be raised and not sold to the butcher for a few dollars You will get more fruit by spraying thoroughly and the quality will be such that you can sell more of it as first-class fruit. When geese become quite old—say, five or six years—they acquire an abdominal pouch of large size, and this is an unfailing sign of old age Good orchardists say that an or chard neglected for one year without spraying or pruning and cultivation, puts it back fully three years. To have large juicy stalks of rhu barb and long, straight roots of horse radish the ground must be fully 12 to 16 inches in depth and finely pul verized Five dollars invested in package material will pay many times the in vestment in the better prices the fruit will bring when properly packed. Give the setting hen a thorough dusting with insect powder two or three times during the incubation. This may save your little chicks from Hee and mites. Plan to raise a fine flock of general purpose standard-bred birds this sea son They will yield much more sat isfaction and profit than a mixed flock Farmers now having a silo can very well afford to grow what roots they need to give at least one peck of sliced roots daily to each head of stock wintered. Western alfalfa is ground into very fine meat form and after being mixed with molasses is sold to western dairy men and poultry raisers for from $20 ton up. Sore necks in horses are due usu ally to one of two causes, a short collar or too great weight coupled with the side motion as noted in a two wheeled vehicle. If there is no other chance to get sunlight into the cow barn it might not be much of a chore to cut a few openings in the south or west side and put in some windows. Divide the dahlia roots and start some, but not all of them. The early planted-out dahlias come into flower during the hot weather, and they will not give so large flowers as later-plant ed roots. To feed 650 laying hens one month will require 200 pounds of oats and cracked corn or 300 pounds of wheat screenings, in addition to the rye and grass pasture and ground meat and bone. Plow your ground deep and prepare the soil as carefully as you would for the corn field. Nature often performs wonders with trees, but as a general rule she ought to have a little intelli gent help. Two perennials which are compara tively new and most beautiful and satisfactory are the Burbank daisy and the lovely cherry-red, hardy car nation pink. You make no mistake in ordering them. If you are quite sure that alfalfa will not grow on your land try Essex rape. It makes fine hog pasture— some farmers even going so far as to say that it beats clover, which of course it does not. The leguminous crops grown on the farm are the clovers—red, mammoth, white and alsike—alfalfa, peas, beans and vetches. Much of the farmer's prosperity depends on the use he makes of these plants. A few years ago when concentrates were cheap, sheep and wool were also cheap. Now wool is worth twice as much as it was ten years ago and the sheep must have some rich food in order to grow a rich pleece. Ten million dollars is a neat sum to pay each year for the ravages of one animal, yet this is the figure given by the United States Depart ment of Agriculture as the damage done by the rocket gophers. Ground oil meal may be either the old or the new process. The old pro cess oil meal is ae into cake by pressing the oil out of the,flaxseed by high hydraulic pressure, but these cakes are frequently ground before selling. A practical method of keeping ani mals, as dogs, pigs, chickens, and cats, from injuring the hotbed and its contents, is a section of wire fence cut to the size of the bed, with a de tachable clasp on the four sides. If your favorite cherry trees badly decayed, clean out everything in the cavity as carefully as your dentist would prepare a tooth for filling, then spray thoroughly with a two per cent solution of formalin, fill the cavity solid with cement and paint over all. The practical farmer by harvesting the clover in season and securing the hay in the best possible condition can secure an additional profit by feed ing out the clover to stock and in saving their excrements without logs of fertility. It is a matter of common observa tion that seed sown on clay land that has been plowed in the spring will take a longer time to germinate. This is true in all cases, except where a shower falls shortly after the seed has been sown at BROOK ERM by Willem Ci Mulch the trees.
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Paris, Idaho, US
Fri, Jun 02, 1911
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