The Columbus journal., 1907-01-30

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Tho one.crop system means ulti-
mate failure wherever practced.
! Keep the young stock growing II
you would Increase your profits.
| II Il n . question Of the sheep or
the dog. let the sheep stay and the
dog 90.
A company Of Russian Christians
II to locate On . farm in Anne Arun-
del county. Maryland.
Yea, admitted Farmer Wise, the
dual purpose COW IL all right, except
for the man who wants to produce
milk beef At . profit.
Collect the scions from fruit trees
now for spring grating They may
b kept IN moist sand or stuck into
potatoes; and put In the cellar.
A successful onion grower uses
about 1850 pounds Of fertiliser per
acre. It II made up q follows: Four
parts of ammonia. eight parts phos-
phoric acid and eight parts potash.
And now the frog II coming in for
protection. The New York State
League for the Protection Of Fish and
Game recommends q law making II
Illegal to kill frogs between December
I and May 81.
Experiments have shown that va
ter glass solution properly made the
1rst year may be used the second
with good success. Il should be heat
ed to the boiling point. however. to
stetrilize It before the second use.
The ideal farm, after all, II not
the one that shows the greatest net
returns in dollars and cents. but the
one where father. mother and chill
dren have found the greatest amount
Of happiness and growth I'm charac-
ter.
To destroy the little white Forms |
which do injury at the roots Of |
plants take . piece Of perfectly fresh
lime as large as an ordinary sized tea
cup. put In . pail Of water and allow ]
to dissolve. Pour OF the clean water
and apply enough to the soil to thor
oughly saturate II.
II IL the man behind the manger,
and not the cattle. who II responsible
for the spread or the prevention OF
A good airy old-fash-
ioned stable is better than science
which is not REINFORCED by the full
est supervision Of all the conditions
under which the cattle are kept.
While It may not be advisable ON
the large farm to compost manure.
The same being drawn directly to
The land as fast as made, the small
farmer and the truck gardener can
greatly increase the quantity of avail
able plant food by having a well ar
ranged compost heap.
Success with early lambs depends
npon the milk capacity of the ewes.
md this depends In turn on the prop q.
er variety Of food to be fed at such
lime. The grain should be supple
mented by q generous portion Of
Iliced beets, turnips, carrots, etc. Ii
A clay soil which has been pro s
lucing good crops for any number of I
'ears may be seriously injured by 7
me injudicious plowing in a vet =
ime as to ruin it for the growing of q
:rops for two or three years. This Il
3 due to the pudding Of the soil
which 80 modiiies its physical texture a
. to lock up the plant food which 1t I
8
A one-year test of Jersey cows by q
tate experiment stations has shown 8
hat the average time the COWS were q
D milk was 347 days. the average
mix yield Of us COWS was 1881 o
ounds, the average per cent of fat n
4 the milk was $3.50 per cent, the p
verage yield of fat 402 pounds, and n
he average of COWS was three years e
nd nine months. a
Here is q sure cure for cholera in Fl
hickens recommended by one who q,
as tried it: Mix half-pound of a,
moking tobacco in dry ground feed; =
loisten q little and then feed. This
i'll be sufficient for so fowls. We
ave had cases so bad that It was 10
to put the feed down their th
lroats; but It cured them. Feed te
nice a week or oftener IL necessary. 81
to
A Wisconsin farmers method Of -
citing q good stand of clover is to =.
w a nurse crop in the spring with -
s clover seed on finely pulverized -
nd worked down solid. He plarts ..
ON two to three quarts Of Alsike - -
over seed to the acre and from four ~
five quarts of red clover seed to -
70 acre. After the crop is seeded -;
lring the first year he leaves it en- ~.
rely alone, keeping stock OF and in -