Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-29

the trick to step over them. says the
up to Date Farmer
Much of the trouble laid to brood
ers Is due to the care and reed tnez
chicks receive the first week after
Matching.
able, for the incubator or the hen TO
hatch every fertile egg
BY the use of common sense, ana
following the instructions as laid down
by the makers, even a beginner can
expect good matches from fertile eggs.
Incubators hatch no lice.
| The brooder must be kept perfectly,
clean.
Hen-hatched chicks placed in =
brooder are apt to introduce lice.
II an egg at the beginning of incu-
bation weighs about two ounces, this
newly Matched chick will weigh about
one and quarter ounces; at one week
old two ounces, three weeks old SIX
and a quarter ounces, four weeks ola
ten ounces, five weeks old fourtean
ounces, six weeks old eighteen and
bnlf ounces. seven weeks old twenty
! three and q half ounces, eight weekSt
liold twenty-eight ounces, ten weeks
old thirty-six ounces, eleven weeks old
| forty-one ounces These figures, OF
course may be modified by the feed
and the care the birds get but they
| favorable conditions.
Keep the chimney flues of the incu-
| bator clean of SCOT.
Remember that for an even hatch tho
| incubator must be set perfectly level.
| See that everything is in &c :
order before placing the eggs in the
machine.
Remove all infertile eggs and dead
| germs on the sixth or eighth day. and
| test again about the fifteenth day.
1T is a good plan to start the lamp
with a new wick that has been soaked
| in vinegar and dried--this will have q
tendency to stop the lamp smoking.
Here is wit and wisdom combined
| 1--WE lost track of the author): An
Incubator will hatch 100 eggs for
| 25 cents worth of oil. Hens enough 10
hatch 100 eggs will eat 40 cents worth
of grain break forty-two eggs, chill
forty more, and put in whole season
trailing around caring for one chick
apiece; besides, these same hens have
not laid an egg to help pay the freight.
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What local experts call the largest and
most profitable grape vine in the state,
II not in the world. has been discovered
ON the ranch of Asa VAN Valkenberg,
who lives northwest of Acampo in the
sand loan country.
1t is a mammoth mission vine and this
ton of grapes, the actual weight being
s61 pounds, which sold to the local win
ery at SD per ton, netting the grower
$672 from the vine This Is an excep-
tional record. The vine is trellised upon
fence one barnch extending 700 feet
from the main stalk.
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| Watch your horse closely and prevent
| incipient stages of Inflammation from
becoming chronic cases of lameness. to
preserve the foot of the horse in size.
| shape and quality of structure, promote
powers of digestion and remove danger
| of premature breaking down; have an
eye to harness adjustment and md. in
combining horse, harness and carriage
a symmetrical whole which will insure
satisfaction whenever seen and pleasure
whenever used
| In the matter of fertilizing olive trees
| the Pacific Rural Press says:
| "Nitrogen is the element which is
generally credited with making rree
| growth of tree and fruit. Potash is be-
! iieved to be somewhat restrictive OF
! the action of nitrogen and to check
| tendency to overgrowth. 1t would cer-
| tainly be wise in the experimentai
| operations to include potash in eonnec-
| tion with nitrogen and phosphoric acids
| in other words, to use a complete fer-
tiIizer in such amount as is usually IN
cluded in complete fertilizers offered
by our most reputable dealers. your
! practice of accompanying phosphate
with the growth of leguminous plants
for plowing under is correct. You viii
! get from the vetch nitrogen In a diner
| ent form from that in which 1t is sup
piled in the commercial fertilizer, ana
desirable because it acts very bene-
fcially upon the mechanical condition
of the soil"