The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1906-05-24

alone until the bugs are noticed. Wben
Is figured that the cost Of spraying doas
not exceed seven dollars an acre. and Il
Is often less, while experiments havs
proved that the value Of the crop wa.
increased three or four times the cost for
spraying, it certainly pays well.
DON'T OVERDO THE SEPARATING
1t is unfortunate hat no great good can
come without its bringing at least tina
temptation to do more or less harm.
case in point is with the separator. or
rather with the man who runs the ma
chine The value of the separator cannot
be denied and it is a machine which should
be on every dairy farm whether the milk
Is sold or butter is made. A word of warn.
ing. however, to the man who sells milk
to the consumer. Don't separate too close.
ly or you may run against the law of tina
state which requires that the milk be up
to a certain standard under test. Near
the writer are located two farms whose
owners have had splendid trade in a near
by town in milk and cream. They each
bought Separators and, as cream sold at
40 cents a quart and the demand vas
great. they proceeded to use the separator
to the point that they were selling what
was little better than skinned milk to-
their customers and at 8 cents a quart,
with the result that one Of them has lost
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other more than half. and all within nine
months. Other milkmen who do not own
separators are getting the trade. Buy a
separator by all means, but do not use 1t
consciously o unconsciously to cheat the
public.
FARM FOR YOUR CROP.
A writer familiar with the cotton STU
alton in the south says that the cotton
growers insist In planting cotton instead
OF farming for cotton. meaning that they
grow cotton after cotton using commercial
fertilizers to force the crops rather than
do diversified farming which includes the
raising Of stock food and the feeding Of
stock in order to turn the manure back
to the farm. Other sections Of the coun-
try make the same mistake in different
ways. In the corn belt the grower plants
seed from his crib and his yield gets small
Ter year after year and he frantically re-
sorts to the commercial fertilizers which
force growth. If ne would plan diversified
farming and. more than all, start in on a
plan of improving his seed corn by first
getting the best seed the money would
buy and selecting certain plants as they
grew from which to take the corn for seed
the next year, keeping up this selection
OF the best from the best for several years,
he would have larger crops Of better corn
and make a corresponding profit. Look
into this plan, friend.
BETTER PRICES FOR TOMATOES.
The demand for canned tomatoes. the
scarcity Of labor and. moro than all in
some sections the demand for the fresh
vegetable has forced Gamers to raise the
price for tomatoes grown for them on con-
tract and also to emove some OF the Ie-
strictlons which have made it impossible
to grow the crop profitably with any GER
ta1nty. Certain forms and shades OF color
are no longer condemned nor are growers
compelled to buy the plants from the
owner OF the amer as was the case in
many sections. There promises to be an
extended area devoted to tomatoes this
year, but it is hoped that where a grower
is located near a good market he will not
tie himself up by agreeing not to market
the fresh vegetable. Remember that one
OF the chief reasons for the increase in the
price from the canneries Is the Increased
demand for the fresh fruit. The producer
Is entitled to share the profits of this de-
mand with the Gamer and he can do 1t IL
he does not %obligate himself to grow solely
for the canneries.
SUMMER GRAIN FOR POULTRY.
1t Is not to be expected that the fowls
can be taken care of wholly on the range
during the summer no matter how eX-
tensive 1t may be, grain must be
fed in a greater or less amount. During the
summer we do without the mashes and the
corn, feeolng wheat and buckwheat, and.
beginning in June, more or less cotton
SEED meal. adding it in vary small quanti-
ties and increasing 1t gradually until
about one-tcnth Of the daily ration con-
sists Of the oil meal. We do this mainly
because 1t has been proven tina the moult-
ing Is made much easier If the hen gets
a lot OF this oily meal in her system: OF
course there is more or lose N-jrtIo in the
meal anyway as a food, but we have the
moulting period mainly in mind. once a
week we mix up a lot Of buckwheat,
wheat, a little oil meal and just a very lit
tie cracked corn with some wheat bran
and let the birds have it dry: this we usl-
ally feed on a strip Of meadow which has
been run ove- with a lawn mower set very
low. The grass Is thin and when cut very
short the birds spend several hours
scratching and eating. This feed they
seem to enjoy immensely and we know
they get much good from it for enough Is
given to pretty well satisfy their appe-
tites.
EcONoMiZING GREEN FOOD.
When green food is scare or difficult to
obtain it pays to plan some way so it will
not be wasted. The following description
Is of a feeding box that works well. Cut
two pieces for the ends each "a inches
long, getting proper curve by using a com.
pass. Make the back of the holder OF thin
boards fou feet long and twenty-fouf
inches wide and nail one end Figure s. ID
place, Ringing the other end, using small
straps of leather to hold it shut. Cover
the holder. with coarse mesh wire netting
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