The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-05-23

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That is pretty unpromising soil in
which weeds will not grow and earth
worms will not work.
The night Of May this year we had
to put horse blankets on our hotbed to
keep the tender stuff from freezing,
the thermometer registering 13 degrees
below freezing.
If there are any spots in the orchard
where piles of apples were allowed to
rot last fall it will be a good idea to
sprinkle little lime on them to sweet.
en- them up and restore the equilibri-
u1n of the soil.
He cannot be called an agricultural
success who persists in virtually using
his whole field as a testing box for his
seed corn. Yet there are many, in all
probability the majority, who are do
ing this very thing this year.
The old sow often eats her little pigs
because she has had insufficient animal
food. She should be supplied with this
shortly before narrowing time If her
food ration contains tankage, she will
need no other meat ration than this.
Continuous grain raising and weedy
land usually go hand in hand. Those
who have convinced themselves Of this
fact and have adopted some sensible
system of crop rotation are quite like
ly to forget most of their weedy trou-
bles.
There are a good many dairy sections
where the best COW to be found will be
fetching her owner a net return equal
to that Of fifteen or twenty of the poor
est individuals. The Babcock test is
the only way of getting rid of the poor
er kind.
Nutritious food, dry quarters, fresh
air and pure water are fundamental
requisites for success with either live
stock or poultry, and a great many
troubles are the result directly or indi-
rectly Of a failure to see that all four
conditions are carried out
The Kansas experiment station is
helping the farmers of the state in the
fighting of the green bug pest by send
Ing out into different sections speci-
mems of parasitic insect, sort of
bee, which attacks the green aphis Wig
orously and makes short work Of 1t.
The purely good citizen is never
found in the list of those who have to
be brought to mark by the tax ferret.
This matter Of paying taxes is sort of
fundamental, and if fellow doesn't
fall down here he is very likely to be
pretty honest as well as decent sort
of man.
Where the garden has southern ex-
posture and a shelter on the north to
break the wind early planting of veg
etables is worth while. In other cases
early planting simply means a putting
of seeds in cold storage until the
ground warns up sufficiently to ger.
inmate them.
A north Iowa farmer recently lost
eighteen head of cattle and hogs as a
result of a straw stack which had
been eaten into from the side, topping
over on to them and smothering them.
He will know better next time and viii
take measures to prevent the recur-
renee of such an accident.
Before plants are removed from the
hotbed to the open ground they shodld
be hardened off-that is, the beds should
be allowed to dry out and cool off some
condition Of the plants to be removed
VIII be more nearly that OF the garden
. In which they are to be set out.
1t quite often costs a good deal in
more ways than one to smash records.
Ora Haskins, the young man Of Sid
ney, Ia, who year ago last November
husked 217 bushels of corn in ten
hours, ruined his own health as a re-
suit of the feat and contracted lung
trouble, from which he recently died.
The 100 bushel fellows are alive and
kicking today.
Other things being equal, the hired
man who milks a COW most rapidly is
the one who will cause her to make
the best milk and butter showing.
Not only does the rapid mixer get
more milk, but such milk contains
larger, per cent Of butter fat than that
which is got by the slower process.
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