Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1906-01-31
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Successful gardening can lie done
6nly On a fixed system.
You cannot fatten sheep profitably
while they are fattening parasites.
Often the COW which gives but a
small quantity of milk enriches 1t so
that 1t is very profitable.
1t Is more economical to keep the
calves growing rapidly even though it
does require more feed.
Carbolic salve or vaseline are good
remedies for sore teats. They can be
applied before starting to milk.
When You wean the colt give him
plenty of oats and he will go through
all right, but no other grain will take
the place of oats.
Green string beans, onions, wax
beans, parsley, beets, cucumbcrs, rad
ishes and tomatoes are desirable for
the home garden.
There is an onion hoe OH the market,
long and narrow but triangular in
shape, that Is most handy for getting
in narrow places in order to keep
down the weeds.
Several dairymen have put in large
crops of beets, the tops of which make
excellent feed, increasing the flow and
adding richness. They can be used
as silage and are cheap and valuable
milk producers.
The butter o.eomargarine fight
seems to have been a fight after all
between the COW and the steer. Where
would the steer be IL it were not for
the COW? The COW has won and it is
fitting that she should.
A very careful accountant has cal
culated that it costs about sixteen
cents per bushel to raise corn in the
corn belt. When it Is known that the
selling price is considerably more than
double that amount it is easy to see
why good corn land sells at the one
hundred mark.
In some parts of Wisconsin farmers
have been growing peas for canning
purposes and now they claim that 1t
depletes the land and they further re-
fuse to grow them. Besides the dete-
rioration in fertility there has come a
phenomenal growth Of all kinds of
weeds and they have concluded to call
halt. There are some things the crop
grower will not even dare to do.
Contrary to general impression, the
fewer eggs hen lays, the more are
they likely to be infertile, If we can
Judge from experiments carried on Mt
the Maine Station. There an attempt
was made to breed downward In egg
yield rs well as upward. The expert
mentors We're surprised at finding an
unlooked-for obstacle, namely, the In
fertility Of the eggs from hens produc-
Ing the fewest.
1t has been discovered that two hens
fed with grain laid in given period
127 plus 81 eggs, while two others Of
similar races, fed with raw flesh, laid
176 plus 121. The total for the first
two is 1911, for the other two POI. There
was superiority as to weight In flu
vor Of the eggs laid by the meatfed
fowls their average being SO grams
against As grams for the vegetarians
The stock yards is very good place
| to sell all kinds of finished live stock
products, but 1t is very poor place tc
buy sires for breeding purposes. Stock
yard sires grade all the way from very
poor to no grade and their breeding is
like the X in algebra. There is also q
| splendid chance for the introduction OF
disease by such practice. 1t is bet
ter to buy from reputable breeder
than to run any chances by buying
| from stock yard.
Something of a novelty In the line OF
dairy schools is the recently establish,
ed Norwegian course for dairy maids
The instruction Is Of practical kind
the young women being taught to tend
cattle, sheep, swine and poultry, in
Guiding feeding, tending, also dairying
scrubbing and cleaning the milk yes
sells. The feed and milk must be weigh
ed and record kept. There is in
struction from text books on the care
of live stock in addition to the prac
teal work. The course requires abou
six months attendance.
A new hardy English walnut is be
ing introduced which 1t Is claimed car
be grown in the latitude of Contra
New York State. One tree in Niagara
County is reported to have yielded
twenty-five bushels of walnuts, fol
which the owner was offered % cent.
per pound. The shell is very thin ant
the meat of excellent quality. A mum
Der of groves have been set out in nj
agara County, and one Orleans Coun
/ ty farmer Is planting five-acre or
chard. This grower writes that hi.
trees have gone through the winter
without injury.
| Much Is said about the use of til,
/ cnltiyntnr for corn hut tho II n rro,y will