Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1888-06-15
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.
HELPFUL HINTS ON KILLING WEEDS

Drlved OF tnelr iedVes. nehoe P'0
venting their appearance above the
surface will kill them sooner or later
. Plants have greater need for
their leaves and can be more easily
killed i'm the growing season than
when partially dormant
8 Cultivation ina dry time Is most
injurious to weeds and beneficial to
crops.
4 Avoid the introduction of weeds
in manure or litter or from weedy sur
roundings. Some gardeners use no
stable manure on grounds they desire
TO keep especially clean, relying on
commercial fertilizers and the blowing
under of green crops.
5. After summer crop has ripened'
instead of allowing the land TO grow
no TO weeds it is often well to sow rye
or some other crop to cover the
ground and keep them down.
6. Give every part of the farm clean
cultivation every few years either with
a hoed crop or, if necessary, with a
fallow.
:. 1t is often stated that cutting
weeds while i'm flower will kill them.
This is only reliable with biennials'
and with them only when done so late
that much of the seed will grow.
8. II the ground is kept well occu-
pied with other crops weeds will give
mucb less trouble. Keep meadows
and roadSides we'll seeded and pillow
land cultivated, except when shaded
by crops.
\ 65-ACRE FARM.-A New YORK
farmer gives the following statement
to the Cultivator of the results OF ms
farming on SiXty-five acres:
IL herewith submit a summary OF
farm produce over and above what
has been used for the support of
family of four persons, aside from the
hired help. 1t would form very inter
esting reading if many of your circle
of readers should submit list of the
products of their farm. We all Ike
10 know what our neighbors near ana
distant are doing. The cost OF my
hired help did not exceed 500. Inc
following is my account OF receipts
from the farm: Butter and cheese
from twelve COWS, 1928. 43; 2lO bush
els of potatoes, S119.36; $50 bushels OF
onions, S235; one ton of hay, $40;
twenty-five bushels green peas, $50;
three vearlings, S22; four calves, $50;
one COW. sol: three calf skins, SLIGO;
one hog, S12S7; one cow-hide, S3.4S;
fen bushels wheat, 50; one pig, So;
produce one acre sweet corn, So. 60;
four bushels field corn, $500; five
bushels beans. so; 367 dozen eggs,
$50: one bushel seed corn, 50; one
bushel timothy seed, $3.50; making
total from my sixty-five acre farm OF
1925"
Two SIDES TO DEHORNING CATTLE.
Readers are advised to consider
both sides of the question of dehorn-
ing. and not be carried away with the
enthusiasm of its advocates. Hoard's
Dairyman warns against dehorning
on the ground that dehorning Is likely
TO impair the potency of the trans
mission of the butter function and TO
create tendency toward the beef
temperament and type. In this same
journal it is told that c. f. Gordon,
of Milwaukee, president of the HUI
name Society of Wisconsin, on being
interviewed on the subject Of dehorn-
ing. said that while the society is
not opposing the practice, it is with
holding its decision until ii sees more
of the immediate results of it. 1t Will
not oppose it on the ground OF cruelty,
as it is conservative enough to see
that temporary pain for permanent
benefit is not cruelty n year or
two will decide this matter, and in the
meantime those who cannot afford to
experiment will do we'll to wait for
the public verdict.
CHEMICAL VALUE OF ANIMAL Ma
NURES.-The real chemical value OF
animal manures, other things being
equal, is in proportion to the nitrogen,
phosphoric acid and potash they con
tain, and the quantity Of these chem
icals existing in the manure is deter
mined, other things being equal, by
the quantity contained in the food of
the animals making the manure. 1t
will thus be seen that there is wide
difference in the value of barn yard
manures, which will satisfactorily
account for the fact that far better
results are experienced from the ma
nure of animals which have been
given a generous portion of nitrogen
Gus food in rations than from an
equal quantity from such as have
merely kept up an existence through
the winter on straw, roots, etc, and
the superior value of guano and hen
manure is due to the character of the
food out of which it has been made.
SMALL SPONGE CAKE.-Put six
whole eggs into an earthen pan with
half pound of sugar, upon which
you have previously rubbed the fluid
of lemon, stand the pan in very hot
water, keeping its contents well
mixed until becoming rather warm,
when taking it from the water, con-
tinuing to whisk until quite cold and
thickish; stir in gently half a pound
of sifted flour; have buttered and dust
ed with sugar, about dozen sponge
cake tins, put a tablespoonful of the
mixture in each tin, shake sugar over,
and bake them in moderate oven.
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