Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1907-12-25

In selecting apple trees choose young
vigorous trees, not over two years old
from the graft.
As long as the brood SOW Is prolific,
good sucker and careful mother,
she Is too young to be sacrificed for
an uncertainty.
Because hog will seemingly thrive
on stale food and that bordering on
decomposition, 1t does not follow that
this Is the best kind Of feed for them.
Exposed manure, according to the
Canadian experimental farm test, loses
about one-sixth of Its phosphoric acid
and more than one-third Of Its phos-
plate.
| Skimmilk Is more valuable as hog
food when mixed with ground grain,
shorts or something of the kind. The
grain also does the hog more good than
II fed without the milk.
About the most profitable animal on
the farm now is the sheep. At present
prices, and even little lower, they
are the easiest and best money, yet dc
not put all the eggs in the one basket.
The cows stomach Is not complete
strainer that separates all good from
all bad; and all kinds Of food cannot
be given to COW with full expectancy
that she can from 1t give an absolute
ly pure milk.
The soil is the stomach Of plants. In
the soil the food Is received and d.
gested. On the quantity and quality
Of food put in the plants stomach de-
ponds Its welfare, just us much us you
i depend upon the food in your stomach.
The advantage of using the separa-
tor over the old plan of settling the
milk consists In the uniformity and
certainty of the results, the saving of
labor, time and storage room, ease of
management and as II result of these
economy.
Men who handle pure-bred stock and
who use printed stationery ought to
have printed directions, telling where
the farm Is located and its direction
from the nearest railroad station. This
might bring many buyer who would
not otherwise visit the farm.
On the tract Of 300 acres purchased
by the State, near Madison, Ind, for
the Southern Hospital for insane peop-
pie, is a fine fifty-acre orchard of Wine
sap, Grimes, Transparent and other
good apples, and the crop was bought
by Lafayette dealer for $1,000
Ordinarily there is no advantage In
high roosts and the fowls will do bet
ter and keep healthier IL the perches
are not more than three feet above the
floor. OF course all the Stats should
be on level, as this avoids crowding
and fighting for the highest positions
If you are not using low-down
wagon you are doing whole lot of
unnecessary lifting. For hauling fod-
der or corn for the sllo, the low-down
wagon fits exactly. 1t Is good, too,
for hauling out manure, If you do not
have spreader.
According to an exchange, a towns
woman who recently visited in the
country tainted dead away twice in her
hostess kitchen. Once when she saw
her put at least pound Of butter on
mashed potatoes and once when she
saw her using real cream in making
a chicken gravy.
A farmers club In northern Illinois
has been formed for the sole purpose
of looking after the roadways in the
district. 1t has been proposed that
clover or alfalfa be sown, each farmer
seeding the strip adjacent to his own
land, and then each one is bound to
keep his strip clear of weeds.
When oats and other grain having
liberal percentage of protein are
scarce and high, horses doing hard
work will do well on corn If fed In
connection with liberal proportion of
clover or alfalfa hay. In fact, some
horses doing regular work have been
and are fed on clover or alfalfa hay
with no grain and do well.
If one wants to have green corn on
the table long after frost, let him plant
some sugar corn very late in the sea-
son so 1t will be in the milk just about |
frost. Before frost falls pull up the
stalks by the roots, with dirt on them
and store them in a cellar, where 1t is
pretty damp. 1t will keep this way
for weeks. AS far south as st. Louis
1t is possible to have green corn in this
| way well into November.
Immature Corn for Cows.
Trials at the Vermont station show
that there Is no material difference in |
mllk-producing value between imma-
ture and mature corn fodder when
compared on the basis of dry matter.
The same results We're secured with |
silage made from mature and i'm
mature corn. A pound Of dry matter
of the immature corn produced the
same results as pound Of dry matter |
of the mature corn. This suggests that
If corn Is cut too early the farmer |