The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1895-04-11

being well laden. 1t is better to pick off
the fruit not desired while it is very small,
so as to tax the vitality OF the tree as lit
tie as possible. 1t will enable the tree to
grow larger and better fruit by thinning
out should there be appearance of heavy
bearing, and thus avoid propping the
limbs later on.
1t is not at all necessary to keep lot
Of useless roosters to feed. II you wish
to hatch chicks, select dozen of your
best hens and put then in yard with
vigorous male. They will give you per-
haps, 500 eggs before the Matching season
10 over, thus enabling you to hatch out
all the chicks you may wish. II there
are no males with the hens in the other
fiocks, they will lay fully as well as if
the malos were present, with the advant.
age that the eggs will keep three times
as long. 1t is the fertile egg that spoils
the soonest. and by leaving out the males
the eggs will not only keep better, but
valuable food will be saved that supports
useless males.
Clover furnishes one Of the best, il not
the best, fertilizer for land on which po-
tatoes are to be grown. Nearly all farm
crops are what may be called surface
feeders. They do not send their roots
deep into the soil. Glover is an excep-
ton, and for this reason it is so valuable
as a fertilizer. Glover supplies, or re-
turns, nitrogen to the soil; the claim be-
ing made that 1t supplies more than it
takes away drawing from the free nitro
gen OF the air. Glover is especially valu-
able on soils that have a tendency to dry
out quickly; its decaying vegetable mat
ter having a tendency to remedy this
fault. 1t is an excellent honey plant,
the red clover yielding a white, finely
favored honey, but of the domesticated
bees only the Italian and better grades Of
hybrids can gather it, as it is beyond the
reach OF the short tongued black bee.
The best pigs are the offspring of ma
ture mothers and vigorous young sres.
The world can show no finer breed than
the Poland China, but for pork a cross
with an Essex or Berkshire boar gives a
pig that natures early; but do not loose
your breed by raising stock from this off
spring. As the cheapest meat is always
from young animals the man who feeds
pig nihe months to attain weight posi-
BILE at six looses his labor for the extra
three months, and the excess of feed.
Now that the early spring pigs will soon
put in an appearance warm, dry quar-
| tiers should be provided, for losses can be
avoided by looking after these points as
we'll as the matter OF feed at narrowing
time. When the pigs are three weeks old
method which has been found very
successful is to feed them away from the
dam, where she cannot be with them.
This can be done by fencing off place
about ten feet square near the feeding
place leaving small opening large
enough for the pigs to enter, where they
should be fed regularly OF ground feed
and milk, if it can be had. After the
pigs are about six weeks old the rations
should be increased gradually, and that
OF the dam slightly decreased for the
next two weeks, when the pigs will be
old enough to wean, and will have made
very rapid growth, aud be we'll advance
ed on the road to market. From this
time on they should be fed all that they
| will eat with apparent relish, without
wasting any food. In this manner the
pigs will improve very fast, and be in
condition for market whenever you are
| ready to sell. As pigs raised this way at
the age OF six months ought to weigh from
200 to $50 pounds, the average farmer
can readily see the profit in we'll tended
pig over that kept in half starved con-
dition that will reach the age of twelve
months before it can spring $50 pounds
which has been quite common on any
farm in the chief hog raising states.