Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1907-02-27

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earn.
Damp floors are almost sure to give
poultry roup or some other disease.
Coal oil sprayed or injected into the
nostrlls and throat will usually cure
them.
A pound of good butter would swap
even to-day with bushel of corn. The
former contains no fertility, while the
fertility in the latter is worth about
fifteen cents. Each man can draw his
own conclusions.
The lousy hog, the NANCY hog, the
abused hog, the hog that has had to
subsist on rotten swill and other de-
cayed matter, the hog that has been
compelled to revel In filth, is the one
that makes Ideal breeding ground for
disease germs.
To shout angrily at horse is to
frlghten HIM, and to frighten him is
to make him less sure Of himself and
his master. To lose his confidence Is
to make him less useful, and since use.
fulness is almost all horses are kept
for, one can see how big mistake II
is to shout at horse.
Green corn of itself can't cause hog
cholera any more than 1t can bring on
smallpox. But enough of 1t can leave
the hog 80 that it has no disease re
sisting power. The first germ such a
hog picks up finds well prepared
ground and goes on multiplying, and
the hog becomes regular incubator OF
trouble.
Ten acres of small fruits will often
make man more truly prosperous
than ten times as much land In wheat
or corn. He may not be worth as much
In actual capital invested, but he will
be getting larger net income, and do
ing it with less severe toll. The small
farm well titled, whether 1t be in fruit,
dairy or vegetables, is almost always
the most satisfactory. The principal
capital needed to start such farm
Is level head and knowledge of the
business.
To keep celery well take 1t up roots
and all Just before the ground freezes
hard, and pack it in shallow boxes
with the roots in dirt and the tops
standing up as they would in the gar
den. Pack dirt solid around the roots
and keep 1t moist. Don't let dirt OF
water get on the tops. 1t will keep OF
growing right there in the cellar, ant
will bleach up nicely. OF course
where 1t is grown In large lots 1t l.
trenched in outdoors, protected from
hard freezing.
A good way to get the corn stalks of
the field for spring seeding is to lie
the stock Craze them down. Our stool
has the range Of the cornfield all win
ter and when spring comes there Il
nothing but stubs Of stalks left. w,
have often watched the COWS and youn,
stock walk out to the field from ricl
.
OF clover or good oat straw. The foot
value of bleached stalks of course I
mol o1 thush eoiseq,.ehe howeser, ~
old cow likes the change and, besides
1t is good exercise for her to spend Al
hour or SO In this way every day.
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Purchasing Nursery Stock.
| 1t is best to purchase trees that hav
been grown in the State or In nearb
States, the nearer your home the be-
ter. In this way we may avoid tn
danger OF importing diseases that
not already occur In the state 1t
very Important TO make the purchas
of nurseryman VINO 10 familiar wit
the yellows, root-lice, scale and othe
enemies, TOT such a man VIII De guart
Ing against propasating diseased tree
II possible II is d good pan 10 see u
trees before purchasing. some grow
4 ers think that trees grown iurthe
South or furtner Nortn are Detter, pt
l know OF no evidence 10 support elthe
OF these views, says Tue autaor OF
New jersey puiletih. IN general, IL
better 70 get trees IRON your own =
CAVITY II soou nurseries aie iocate
there.
In.rchinr Fruit Trees.
Il Oftentimes the orchardist in goir
through the orchard after the snow h,
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