The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-12-20


len the case with those that are tame.
In making the best quality of butter
for market there are five essentials: :
Uniformity in color, in texture, In salt
Ing, in packing and in leaving no water
In the butter.
Do the boys turn the horses out OF
the barn by soaring them out and max
Ing them run? 1t is not the best plan.
Slapping them with the halter anu
saying Get out of here" makes fools
Of them.
Have you observed that some farm
srs almost always have good crops? OF
course in bad year they do not have
as good crops as they do in good years,
but it is safe to say they have the best
crops In the neighborhood.
Fall is as good time as spring to set
out fruit trees Get good trees and
plan to give them good care in the
future. This is the only way TO have
natures medicine-fruit to keep set
ting out trees: it does not take long
to get your reward.
If a horse has the heayes. feed less
hay and more grain and water him be-
fore feeding. A horse with the heaves
should not be worked hard for an hour
after eating and too much should not
be expected of him. Feed wet feed
when it is convenient
The wife and daughter should not ne
required to ask for every quarter they
get for spending money. They should
be recognized as part of the firm, and
should have a good share of the funds
without having to beg it. Come, now !;
De generous and see how much better
you'll feel.
To those who are familiar with trans
planting operations, the best time TO
transplant rose bushes is in the spring.
Autumn planting may sometimes be
lone to advantage by those who live
mild climate and are familiar with
such work, but beginners had better do
mch work in the spring.
Nut trees, as rule, have long tap
roots, and 1t has been handed down for
years that to cut thin tap roots when
ransplanting them meant death to the
rec. but experience shows differently.
IL the long tap root is cut many lat
erals are sent out, and thus a fine,
strong root system is established, which
will make a good tree.
Relative to the time of harvesting
apples, the author OF bulletin, issued
by the Idaho station, calls special at
tention to the necessity of harvesting
Jonathan apples when the seeds have
turned q light brown If the fruit is
not picked until well colored and the
seeds are dark around the edges. it is
likely to rot at the core while still
sound on the outside.
increasing the wheat yield is early
blowing. If you don't believe it. pillow
A portion Of the field early in August
and the balance at the end of Septem-
Der, and in the part plowed first, you
may have an increase of ten bushels an
acre over the other. Early blowing Is
especially necessary in clay lands. Gen
orally speaking, the field should be
rolled as soon as it is plowed.
A man in looking over a paper saw
the prices of hogs and he said to him.
self, "Why haven't l Il few hogs 20
SELF" In another part of the same pa
per he read of the cholera being yer,
bad in one locality and he mased, II
am glad I have no hogs to die with
the cholera" So, after all, it may be
well enough that this man did not
have any hogs This is good time
to be In the hog and sheep business.
The dewberry is propagated by tips,
The same as blackcap raspberry; and,
with the creeping propensities Of its
canes, the grower will have no difficulty
In increasing his stock of plants very
rapidly II the natural rate of increase,
however, is not sufficiently rapid, the
method of propagation from cuttings
Of the canes when In a proper state of
ripeness will satisfy the most exacting
propagation. 1t is said that some vari-
cites may be propagated very readily
from root cuttings.
Excellent Fattenfng Ration.
Alfalfa hay and corn and cob meal
form most excellent ration for fat
tening, and unless future experiments
change these results we shall have to
admit that this combination gives bet
ter results than the use of a greater
variety of roughage. This Is the YER
dict to which a steer feeding expert
ment leads Professor Err and others at
the Kansas experiment station.
What Testing Cream Means.
Our grandmothers never had to con-
slider the question OF thickness of
cream. To them it was all one
whether the cream was thick or thin
Since the test has been brought into
use, it is discovered that a cream that
contains about 30 per cent of pure but
ter Get is best for buttermaking. The