Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1905-05-24

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Phenomenal is new red raspberry
originated In California.
Be ready to jump right in and make
the best use OF every fine day.
In Missouri the tendency seems to
be toward more thorough cultivation
In orchards.
Give the hens chance to pick up
shell-producing material Let them
have access to charcoal, crushed bones
etc.
Currying the COW with the milking
stool has become questionable on the
farms OF our most intelligent dairy
men.
Give the poultry the run of the or
chard occasionally. They will pick up
much fruit that would otherwise be
wasted.
Peaches have grown good crops
with me twenty-one years out of TWEEN
ty-three," says fancy County (IoD
farmer.
II the chick Is backward in break
ing through the egg shell, help 1t along.
Sometimes the shell Is too hard for the
tender little beaks.
For the York Imperial as cold
storage apple the point is made that
well-colored apples stand storage bet
ter than those picked sooner.
If the mother and her chicks can be
permitted to run Mt large, do not wor-
~ them with too much grain food.
Make them scratch. They need the
exercise.
1t is doubtful If any person can state
the actual average cost OF an egg, but
1t is an easy matter to learn II the
production of eggs is equivalent to the
value of food given.
G. F. Hale of the Michigan Horti-
cultural Society prefers plums ON
peach roots. thinking he can fight the
borers better than cut plum sprouts
that come up from the roots.
10 balance corn something that con-
tains more mineral and heterogeneous
matter must be fed. Hens. especially
In summer, need but little carbona-
ceous matter compared with what they
need In winter.
The dairy COW was the standby of
the pioneer. She went with him into
the wilderness and there harvested
the green grass and turned 1t into de-
licious food for her owner and his
family.
II poultry raisers will study the gen
eral question of the classes of food
elements they can frequently substi-
tute one for the other, according as
they have this or that article at hand
and according to the price of the vari-
OAo NitANiSS III nearest uOTkeJS,
Dairy cows should be provided with
an open shed to which they may go at
any time during the year. The cold
rains of March and April are more
trying than the more severe weather
Of winter. The constitution of the
dairy COW is not always particularly
strong. and she should be looked after
carefully.-Amerlcan Agriculturist.
III Maine the most active warfare
against the Brown-tail moth is carried
on In York County, where about one
hundred thousand nests have been de-
stroyed. Some work has been done
also in Rockland, Camden and Cum
berland Counties. Commissioner GIL.
man reports that the people In general
are much interested in the matter and
well aware of the need Of prompt and
active measures.
About two weeks before the time
for clearing Off the old fowls more
fattening ration should be fed. The
meat or beef scraps should be doubled,
and the grain food should be almost
wholly cracked or whole corn. OF
course, they should not he allowed to
range much. \ fowl that Ia running
at large cannot get into really good
eating condltion-Inland Poultry
Journal.
Ihe natural variation In the test of
cows milk and of herd milk is some.
thing that is difficult for any one to
understand. Careful observations made
by testing the milk daily from single
cows and from herds have shown that
there may be difference from day
to day of MS much as per cent fat
In the milk even when the milk has
not been tempered with by skimming
1t or by adding water thereto.-Profes-
Scr Harrington.
An Eastern cooperative creamery
reports n successful year with receipts
of cream twenty-four thousand pounds
In excess of the previous year, while
In June and July butter was two cents
below the price Of 1903. The price is
now thirty-two cents, the highest for
many years. From 355.76S pounds of
cream the factory made POI. 800 pounds
of butter. and paid an average price
for butter fat Of 26 l.-12 cents per
pound. The average cost of making
was 3.47 cents. Other income included
STOP for cream and Sl,l24 for butter
milk. Besides the excellent price paid
by patrons, there is dividend on
stock Of SIX per cent and the balance
carried over in the treasury is S4,vJO.
In Matching chickens, Mr.. Hare of
the Ontario Experiment Station ad-
Yisns thu lucinr of nnstS on tho on eth