The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1907-07-04


IL is not wise or safe plan to grow
potatoes on the same soil each year.
Try rotation.
The better the condition in which
he farm tool is kept the better work
will IL perform.
The ideal seed bed should have
three or four inches of fine tilth with
A good depth of furrow beneath.
The low wagon is the handy wagon
around the farm Have you one? Get
an extra set of low wheels, and there
you are.
Don't forget as you start the crops
and the garden truck that the young
plants are babies and should be treat
ed as such
1t rests largely with you whether
your seed will fall in good ground and
bring forth some 30. some so and
some a dredfold-perhaps,
The first year OF the dairy COW
should be crowded full of growth, gen.
tleness and good management Hab-
its formed during the first year will
stick through life.
narrowing performs a two-fold work
that of breaking up the crust, thus
forming a mulch that prevents cvapor-
alton of soil moisture, and aerating
the soil and cultivating the crop.
IL Is not quite so much question
as to whether the corn will sprout
as to whether it will produce a strong
healthy plant. Remember this in
your terminating tests and note the
vigorous plants.
One of the best feeds for hogs IL
peas. They can be grown with oats
and the crop harvested by the hogs
when fattening The time to turn
them into such patch is when the
peas are getting hard.
1t does not pay to breed to the
cheap stallion or bull. How much
more trouble or expense is there In
raising good animal than a scrub?
Not much, If any. and see what you
have when 1t comes to selling.
Corn is sometimes treated with coal
tar, until it Is well covered, and then
given a coating of land plaster 10
make the seed dry enough to handle.
The taste OF tar Is not pleasing to
the birds. and after a few experiences
they usually leave the seed alone.
Water glass Is silicate of soda, and
for preserving eggs Is made by dilut-
ing one part in ten parts of pure rain
water. The eggs to be preserved must
, be strictly fresh and are placed in a
| stone crock and the solution poured
on them, the jar being kept in cool
cellar.
The department of agriculture has
scored again. II Is said that experts
have perfected a machine for the re-
, moval of fuzz from cotton seed, and
the separation of light from heavy
seed This would permit planting
with an ordinary gravity drill, and
! would be a great boon to the cotton
5 planter.
3 Out in the wheat belt of Oklahoma
I wheat plant-lice. or so-calied green
bugs" are doing much damage, even
to the total destruction of some Aelds
:. of grain. Oats are also attacked
9 Kerosene emulsion is being used as a
4 spray with good results where the
A spray is able to reach the pests. but /,
n Is too expensive treatment to be used
n over large s4eas.
Corn is the most valuable CROP
raised in the United States, cotton
r comes second. hay third, wheat
v fourth. oats fifth; potatoes sixth
/, barley seventh: tobacco eight; sugar
; ninth; faxseed tenth; rice eleventh
: rye twelfth; and hops thirteenth
.. Probably the most neglected croI
q and the one that is capable of the
n largest increase of value is the hay
crop.
IT An experienced horse trainer sayE
a 1t is a mistake TO begin to step anc
:, speed a colt until he has learned his
.. lessons In manners and docility per
IN fectly AS soon as he is thorough.
n dependable and will do as you ash
n him with rein and voice. ysu can pu
pr him to lighter training rig, hav'
I'd him shod with perfectly plain shoes
put on light scalpers and quarter
boots, and. picking out nice quie
ID place where there is nothing to both
n. er, ask and teach him to step alonl
n some. This Is good advice. The train
TO ing must begin at the beginning. To-
,h often the lessons of obedience an
III good manners are neglected In tn
I'd belief that the essential qualities ar
h. step and speed.