The Delta independent. [volume] (Delta, Colo.) 1886-19??, 1907-10-25

| Careless picking and packing loses
many dollar to the fruit grower.
| In mating a team not only color
| and size but strength, endurance and
| gait must be considered.
| Accustom the heifer calves early to
being handled. 1t will make their
handling when calving much easier.
| Even the common cow will often as
| tonish one by the results she will
give with proper care and generous
feed.
| Is the well close enough to the
barn to catch the surface water when
it rains hard? This is important. II
it is stop using that WELL
Make things snug for winter. Get
| everything under cover. Store the root
| crops properly. Do everything you
| can to cut off winter losses.
Again this winter you will probably
| wish that you had built a silo. Make
| definite plans for building one next
year, and then don't forget the corn to
| fill it.
Three things are needed to handle
horse in the breaking. A good whip.
but use it little. A rear rope, use 1t
| kindly. A surcingle and trip rope,
| best of all.
Be sure in distributing the manure
| that the thin bare places are well COW
| cred Sometimes the fields that need
| it least get it because they are handy
to the barn. This is a mistake.
When unhusked corn is fed to the
COWS care must be taken to supply
| only the requisite amount of grain,
which can be determined by selecting
an average shock, husking out the
ears and ascertaining how much she'll
ed corn 1t carries.
The only preservatives which
should be used in milk are cleanliness
and cold. Milk through sterilized
cheese cloth cover on the pail, remove
the milk at once from the barn and
cool to 60 degrees or below, and the
milk will not sour sooner than it
should.
The horse stepped on my foot the
other day My, how. it hurt and how
the hot blood rushed to the head and
made me want to use the whip on the
animal. But it was not his fault. 1t
was my carlessness. l am glad I
didn't lose my temper, for to punish
horse for something for which he is
not to blame is to do the animal real
and lasting injury.
A farmer who has had much expert
ence with quack grass and the meth
DDS OF eradicating it says he finds that
the only way is to dig it up root and
branch, and he accomplishes it in this
way: He goes over the field with a
spring tooth harrow, followed by the
ordinary harrow several times. AS
fast as the roots accumulate under the
harrow they are gathered and carted
TO the road or put into a heap with
dry straw and set on fire.
Green tomatoes left on the vines
after the first heavy frosts can be
ripened by pulling up the whole plants
and placing them on freshly spaded
corner which is sheltered. Spread
them on the ground and cover with
straw, leaves or burlap and thus the
fruits will ripen beautifully. Another
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ripening-h house. Put in sliding
shelves that can easily be showed in
and out so as to examine the toma.
toes and have a close-fitting door.
Keep a warm, moist atmosphere in
the box and the fruits will ripen well
without the sun.
The quality of the butter depends
much on the nicely with which the
various processes are carried out AS
soon as granules are well-formed
water with handful of salt should be
added and the churn agitated slightly.
This thins out the buttermilk, makes
it more fluid. The salt adds gravity
to the caseine and settles it. If this
butter Is left in the wash for few
minutes undisturbed, the butter will
all rise to the surface in distinct
mass, and then the buttermilk can be
drained out from beneath it. Do not
draw out all of the fluid. Stop when
you think it is nearly all out and re-
peat the process two or three times,
or at least until the water runs clear,
but the last time let the butter drain
all it will. Then let the butter stand
in salt brine 20 or 80 minutes and it is
ready to mold for market.
Soil nitrogen is lost in three WAYS.