The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-02-01


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, cucumbers. rad |
ishes and tomatoes are desirable for |
the home garden.
There is an onion hoe on 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 AID are cheap and valuable |
milk producers.
The butter oleomargarine fight |
seems to have been a fight after all |
between the cow and the steer. Where |
| would the steer be if 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 it
depletes the land and they further re-
| fuse TO grow them. Besides the dete-
rioration in fertility there has come
phenomenal growth of all kinds Of
weeds and they have concluded to cali
a 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 at
the Maine Station. There an attempt
was made to breed downward in egg
yield as we'll as upward. The expert
mentors were surprised at finding an
unlooked-for obstacle, namely, the In
fertility Of the eggs from Lens produc
ing the fewest.
1t has been discovered that two hens
fed with grain laid n a given period
127 plus 81 eggs, while two others 0f
similar races, fed with raw flesh, laid
| 176 plus 121. The total for the first
| two Is 1914, for the other two 291. Thace
was superiority as to weight in ia
vor of the eggs laid by the meatfad
fowls. their average being % grams
against 40 grams for the vegetarians
The stock yards is very good place
| to sell all kinds of finished live stock
| products, but it is a very poor placs to
| buy sires for breeding purposes. Seoek
| yard sires grade all the way from yery
poor to no grade and their breeding is
| like the X in algebra. There is alco a
| splendid chance for the Introductory of
| disease by such a practice. 1t is bet
ter to buy from a reputable bretGer
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 q practical kind,
the young women being taught to tand
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 OIL the care
of live stock in addition to the Lrac
teal work. The course requires ABOUT
six months attendance.
A new hardy English walnut Is be-
ing introduced which it is claimed can
be grown in the latitude of Central
New York State. One tree in Niagara
County Is reported to have yielded
| twenty-five bushels Of walnuts, for
which the owner was offered % cents
per pound. The shell is very thin and
the meat of excellent quality. A Hum-
Der Of groves have been set out ia Nj
/ agara County, and one Orleans Coun-
ty farmer is planting a fye-acre or
chard This grower writes that MS
trees have gone through the winter
without injury.
Much is said about the use OK the
| cultivator for corn, but the harrow will
do good service in destroying snail
weeds, and if the small weeds are
killed as fast as they appear the work
later In the season will be lessened.
The object in cultivating should be not
to injure the roots of the corn more
than is possible, for which reason the
1 cufI1EaIlOn SHOulQ De SudilOW- IL t0e
land is baked and hard, it should then
be deeply cultivated, going between the
rows until the work is well done, Civ
ing shallow and level culture at the
| next workings.
Has Success with Geese.
| 1 have always taken a great inter
est in the raising of geese here IN our
climate. 1 prefer the Toulouse.
keep one gander for every four geese
and keep my flock in little house by
/ themselves. They go out and In as
they wish. l have never given them
any water and have raised as high
rs seventy-five in one season. About
september do not let them run any
more, but pen them up and feed them
ground corn and water. In six weeks