The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-06-28
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Geese and pigeons pair. but ducks,
turkeys and chickens do not.
4 little oilmeal in the stable will
assist the curry comb, but it will not
take its place.
Now. honor bright, is there any good
reason why a 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 it. There is
as much in the feed as in the breed.
doubtless. when ii comes. to producing
wholesome and good-favored meat.
Maryland sheep ralsers are urging
the Legislature to pass law 70 check
sheep scab. Thousands of dollars are
lost yearly to the farmers through its
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 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
The present outlook seems to prom
Use a practical milking machine. Two
different machines are being given
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, unrlr: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 little charcoal to aid their
digestion. A thoroughly charred log
throws 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 h had any Ben Da.is apples. He
wanted to eat a few 20 take the taste
out of his mouth.
For starting early tomato and other
plants in house or h0toed, 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 sned 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 vermin and will md necessary
adjuncts to their rati0ps in the cinder
which they pick out.
Nothing is more amusing than to see
a man backing out of en- individual hog
house with an Infatuated SOW as the
assailaRt There is a sort of dexterity
that is unusual to say the least The
doors of such pens should b. made SO
one can enter easily and &c. out sud
denly in case of an attack. With some
sows it is a good plan to carry with one
q hand hurdle.
II is the general opinion among hen
men that the hen that hides her nest
Is more successful than the hen that
does not. Should a hen hide her nest
and come off with large brood Of
chicks she is held up rs being all right,
but nothing is said Of the thousa0 Is of
hens that hide away and are never
found again. This probably gives rise
to the saying that the hen that hides
her nest is always successful
The inside of the barn door may be a
good place to keep accounts and rec
ords, but i is not the best place
Notches in sticks have. their significance
for the tire being, but they lack per-
masiency and it requires more or less
memory TO keep accounts in this man.
ner The best way to keep accounts IS
to obtain book and keep account of
all thing that are liable to slip the
memory.
The price of clover seed has been
Known to influence the area sown. Some
times failure to get stand is attrib-
utable to the price when ranging from
So to SO per bushel No failure to get
stand ought to attach to climatic con-
ditions so long as there is a tendency
to economic in the amount of seed used
because of dear seed. One ought TO be
honest enough with himself to point
out why he made a failure.
Yellows must be reckoned with by
the peach grower as one of the troubles
he will have to fight. its cause is not
yet.known, and no cure for q true case
of yellows has yet been found. Grow