Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1906-07-04

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Geese and pigeons pair. but ducks,
turkeys and chickens do not.
A little ollmeal in the stable will
assist the curry comb. but 1t will not
take Its place.
Now, honor bright, is there any good
reason why farmer should not grow
plenty Of Strawberries for home use?
Keep fresh lime scattered around hog
pens, feeding pens and troughs. 1t is
one Of the best and cheapest disinfect-
ants
The man who is most benefited by
what he has heard and earned at farm
ers' institutes is the one who puts them
In practice.
Pork Is what we make 1t. There Is
as much in the feed MS in the breed,
doubtless. when 1t comes to producing
wholesome and good-favored meat.
Maryland sheep ralsers are urging
the Legislature to pass law to check
sheep scab. Thousands Of dollars are
lost yearly to the farmers through dts
ravages.
Borrowing money ard borrowing
trouble are two different things in the
beginning, but they are very similar
when it comes to paying. Then it usu-
ally amounts to the same thing.
"Any old place" never was a good
place for garden. More gardens are
located there than anywhere else.
Should this be the selection the yield
ought to be ''any old kind of yield.n
The present outlook seems to prom
ise practical milking machine. Two
different machines are being given a
thorough test and the reports are very
promising. None of these machines are
at present on the market.
The mortgage is going--to stay or be
removed, according to the efforts put
forth. 1t is going to stay when robber
cows, loafer hens, unthr.fty hogs, dis
eased sheep and poor seed are kept. The
question Is what will be done with the
mortgage?
Hogs can be kept In better trim If
they have a little charcoal to aid their
digestion. A thoroughly charred log
thrown in their pen Or yard will an
swer the purpose. 1t is better than
wood ashes, and the danger of choking
| Is reduced.
A train boy sold an cd farmer some
bananas. They did not suit his taste
and he threw them away. When the
boy returned the old farmer asked him
If he had any Ben Dafis APPLES. He
wanted to eat few TO take the taste
out of his mouth.
For starting early tomato and other
plants In house or hotbed, use sod cut
in three-inch cubes or old tin cans, with
solder melted off, or little paper boxes,
which have only to be wet when placed
in the ground. Transplanting can then
be done easily. without checking the
growth.
In the dry, warm sized provided for
the hens in cold or rainy weather, keep
both straw and gravel. There will be
no better dust bath for them than fresh
coal ashes. If a box OF this is kept
convenient, the fowls will rid them
selves of yermin and will find necessary
adjuncts to their ratiors In the cinder
which they pick out.
Nothing Is more amusing than to see
a man backing out of an individual hos
house with an infuriated SOW as the
assailant. There Is sort of dexterity
that Is unusual to say the least. The
doors of such pens should b. made SC
one can enter easily and get out sud
denly in case of an attack. With some
sows 1t is a good plan to larry with one
| hand hurdle.
1t is the general oplnion among her
men that the hen that hides her nest
Is more successful than the hen thai
does not. Should a hen hide her nest
and come off with q large brood Of
chicks she is held up as being all right
but nothing is said of the thousands Of
hens that hide away and are never
found again. This probably gives rise
1 to the saying that the hen that hides
her nest is always successful.
The inside of the barn door may be =
| good place to keep accounts and rec
ords, but it Is not the best place
Notches in sticks have their significance
for the time being, but they lack per
manency and 1t requires more or less
memory to keep accounts in this man
ner The best way to keep accounts Is
4 to obtain. book and keep account OF
all thing that are liable to slip the
memory.
The price of clover seed has beer
known to influence the area sown. Some
times failure to get stand is attrib
utable to the price when ranging from
So to $40 per bushel. No failure to gel
a stand ought to attach to climatic con
ditions so long rs there is a tendency
to economic in the amount of seed uset
because of dear seed. One ought to BIZ
honest enough with himself to poin1
out why he made failure.
Fellows must be reckoned with b,
the peach grower as one Of the troubles
he will have to fight. Its cause is no
yet known, and no cure for true cas-
4 of yellows has vet been found. Grow
ers who have not studied the symptom
of this trouble often class all trees witt
a yellow foliage as "yellows" trees, ant
then say that with proper treatment
large number Of yellows trees will re
cover. Yellow foliage is only one symp
time of the disease, and the one leas
| denendable