The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1907-08-14

White heilebore % the best remedy
commended Tor cllrIallt lSQtrlgl
biz out the borere from the roots
OF the peach trees.
Qneenlesa eoloniea are apt TO be de.
gtroyed by the bee,moth or robber bee
es he 2iB called
Clip the hair from the fetlocks OF
the horse and It viii be easier to clean
him
Tho CROW sometimes develops an
appetite for young spring chickens.
Look out for him.
Try aSbit Of heavy wrapping paper
around the stem OF early cabbages to
project from cutworms.
Don't let any sWarms of the beea
get away from you. Be ready to
hlye them, and be on the watch for
the event.
Dir,ls TO the nuts ana bolts on tho
farm machinery before using. Many
an accident might be avoided by a lit
tie forethought and care.
1t doesn't take very big hole In. q
barrel to let all the water out, neither
does it take much of a leak on the
farm to swallow up the profits.
The heiter that Is harshiy treated
when she begins giving milk for the
first time is the heller that will carry
the Dlemishes in her character as long
as she lives.
The dairy COW should be given food
that is AZ easily masticated as possi-
BILE, that is grain ground and roots
sliced. In this way you will be max
Ing the large milk dow easy for her.
The food value of the potato lies
chiefly in the startch 1t contains. The
percentage OF composition of the
white potato Is as follows: Water. 49,;
protein. .; starch, 1876; mineral mat
ter 10.
Keep your eye on the shoulders OF
your horses during the heavy work of
the spring and early summer, for a
small abrasion or sore will cut the
pulling power of the horses down al.
most OnO.half.
After you have narrowed the ground
as much as you think necessary give
1t another turn to catch any Of the
Jumps missed and then harrow It
again Just for good luck. 1t takes a
littlo morp time, but then, 1t pays.
The theory that warm egg fresh
from tho hen will not hatch unless
first cooled before starting the process
OF incubation Is like good many
other theories based on hit and miss
II dairymcn would remember that
the little germs which do so much
mischief in dairy products cannot
thrive IN a low temperature they
would see that the milk and cream
was cooled more quickly and thor
oughly.
mo lice on my hens" we hear the
takeit.for.granted man say. We hope
not, but Just take look and make
sure. Many a time we have been SUR
prised. and shall we say ashamed, by
what our Investigations have uncov-
cred in our henhouse.
The teeth of a sheep are a good in
n A III hno n
It's first pair of wide incisors; a two.
year-old. two pairs; a three-year-old,
three pairB; and four-year-oId, four
pairs. or full mouth" but the teeth
are all white and fresh.
The man who doesn't take pure de-
light in seeing his stock grow and
thrive. and who does not find real
pleasure In feeding and caring for
them, cannot expect to have much sue
cess. A close sympathy should always
exist between stock and stockman.
The Illinois Dairy Cattle Improve
ment association is the latest dairy or
ganizahon in. the field. with Hon. John
Stewart, OF Elburn, as PRESIDENT Dr.
T. wv. 3Brophy3 of Tngleside, ylce.presi-
dent; "A. o. Auten, OF Jerseyviile, sec
retary,l and F. G. Austin, of Dillingham;
treasurer. May,it have long and use.
ful career.
In. sample Of chicken feed exam
lned by the Connecticut experiment
station 1t was found to contain about
90 per cent. of wheat and also oats,
barley and seeds of ragweed, mustard,
fax, bindweed, cookie. rape, etc. In
every 100 pounds there were nearly
two pounds of Tagweed seed. Think
OF giving that nasty weed foothold
on the farm!
At the Urbana, ILL.,, experiment farm
one field which has grown corn exclu.
sively for 80 years without manure or
fertilizer of any kind yielded last year
less than 19 bushels per acre. while
not ten rods away another field with
everything else the same except that
fertilizers had been used, 10 bushels
to the acre were harvested. Think on
this and go thou and fertilize for all
you are worth.
We want to warn our readers to be
on the lookout for gymnosporangium