Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1906-08-15
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feels that 1t has been
killed. When wheat or rye is found In
corn fields 1t becomes a weed and taxed
IN the hardihood and proves to be very
much of a slayer.
lunches on Cherry Trees.
The best remedy for the large lunches
which grow upon the limbs and trunks
Of cherry trees Is to saw the wart OF,
very smoothly, close to the wood. The
wound will usually heal over as readily
as when limb has been cut away. As
a preventive the tree should be kept
in rapid growing condition.
Put Brains Into Farming.
Make farming business. Put brains
and money into Its management with
the expectation that 1t will return q
profit. To run farm in half-heart
ed way, being afraid to make improve
ments or apply fertilizing material In
sufficient quantities, for fear 1t will not
pay, Is a sure way of having ones fears
while if the effort is made to-
build up the farm by making 1t better
year by year 1t is pretty sure to be q
success.
Milk Is Good for Fowls.
Sour buttermilk, or even wheys
makes excellent feed for fowls, but IL
is much better to mix the ground grain
with 1t than to place 1t where they can
drink 1t, in order to avoid waste, as
much of 1t is rendered filthy II placed
where the fowls have free access to it
An egg beaten in milk and thickened
with ground oats and meal of any!
will be eagerly eaten BY
young chicks, but If cooked as bread
and crumbled 1t will be better. !
Paste This in Your Hat.
Buy a farm, young man. No mat
ter how small it may be, buy farm
and prepare it SO that your land will
provide you living. Twenty years
from now, the man that owns his farm
will be Independent and will have at
his command the means Of n livelihood.
The expansion of manufacturing can
not go on forever, and there will come
n day In this country, as there has in
others, when the supply will exceed the
demand, and the only absolutely sure
occupation will be farming Buy farm
while one may be had.-Exchange.
Killing Dandelions. :.
Many inquiries have been addressed
to this department asking for advice
on how to kill dandelions in lawns.
The best means, of course, and surest,
is to dig them up, root and all. This
Is tedious, however, and expensive.
Try, in case the digging process is not
employed, the sulphate of iron solution.
Use good-sized handful to three gall
Ions of water and sprinkle this over an
area twenty feet square. 1t will not In
jure the grass and will kill the dande-
lion-at least some Of them. +
Persimmon without Fucker.
A note from Washington, D. G., saysi
Persimmons without pucker are now
being grown by the Department Of Ag-
rlculture. Owing to the chemical COM
position of the old-fashloned persim-
mon, which caused the lips to quicker
after eating this fruit, the sales have
been anything but gratifying to farm
ers. In order to remedy this defect the
Department of Agriculture imported
some Japanese persimmons and crossed
them with the American product. A
finer specimen has been produced, and
In the near future the department will
begin the distribution of persimmon
trees which will produce fruit guaran-
teed not to quicker the lips.
Cowpeas for Brood Soyvs.
A Missouri farmer echoes the opin-
ion of all who have tried cowpeas for
hogs when he says:
I will give my experience with cow
peas as a feed for brood sows during
the breeding season. Having field
of cowpeas convenlel.s to pasture with
hogs, l turned them in, both large and
small. There being clover, timothy
and blue grass In the same field, gave
nothing else but water. The sows
were in good condition when turned in
and when the peas were gone they
would have weighed probably fifty
pounds each more than when turned
on the peas. The pigs are now arriv-
ing and the result is from three to eight
pigs to litter where should have had
from eight to twelve per litter from
aged ,sows. have neighbor who Ia
having like results from same treat
ment
A Good Time to Begin.
The market calls for sheep with q
dark face and legs, and close feece
Is an advantage also. There never has
been time when fair profit could not
be obtained from the keeping Of sheep
There are in the world to-day ninety
million fewer sheep than twelve years
ago, and the consumption of mutton
and wool is rapidly increasing, hencs
1t is safe to conclude that sheep to the
farmer is safe proposition. Do moi
start on a large scale; begin low and
work up. The Western farmer doe,
not like to do this, and you are no ex
ceptlon. You have never planted the
apple because you did not expect tc
stay to eat the fruit. You must rust
on and do big things. Do you not know
that in the animal world, as well as II
the vegetable world, rapid growth
means rapid decay? Plant this live
stock business and give 1t time to strik.
Its roots deep down, and after 1t Ii
fairly rooted allow the top to grow
Andrew Elliott.
Remedy for the Apple scab.
The Ohio Experiment Station ha,
demonstrated that the apple scab Ii
the chief factor in the destruction o.