Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1907-09-25


Lettuce makes fine feed for the ducks
When milk is quickly cooled the
growth Of all germ life is checked.
The producer cannot control the
price, but he should aim to produce
cheaper.
Ninety per cent OF the milk used in
England is from shorthorn COWS. 50
1t Is said.
Gather the eggs daily in hot weather
and keep separate all those found In
new nests.
Bear in mind that an application Of
manure is one of the essentials in
good system Of crop rotation.
Don't mortgage the farm in good
times. You will have to pay the mort
gage in hard times, to your lasting re-
gret.
One little strawberry growers asso-
citation in California last year received
SOS. 900 from their crops covering $50
acres.
II encouragement ever oyercomes
you, sit down near some ant hill In
the path and learn lesson in per-
sistence.
With almost any crop OF stock, be
cause there is a season Of Improbable
ness, is no reason why all the future
will be the same.
1t Is considerable work TO SET poles
for lima beans. strip Of 6-foot fenc-
ing with well braced end posts 1t just
as good and saves much labor.
The family cat is frequently great
chicken thief unbeknown to everyone.
We make 1t a practice to shoot every
cat that looks crosseyed at chicken.
Always feed fattening cattle to the
minute as near as possible. To keep
them waiting an hour after the regu-
lar feeding time causes a loss Of
weight.
A mans time may be ever so valu-
able in the hay or harvest field, yet few
farmers have ever added much to their
worlds accumulation by neglectlng the
OK that happened to fall In the well.
One thing sure Is that farmers who
live in irrigated countries save an I'M
mense amount Of energy by not having
to discuss the weather conditions which
Is so commonly done by the corn belt
farmer at every hour of the day.
Better knowledge of market condE
lions is deserving of far greater at
tention than 1t has yet received by
producers Of beef, and more thorough
understanding of the demands Of, The
trade is essential to the greatest sue
cess in supplying these demands.
Celery likes strong, deep, loamy
soil we'll manured and well drained.
Well-rotted stable manure is an excel
lent fertilizer. though 1t may be ben
Gifted on most soils by the addition
of 500 to 500 pounds per acre of COM
mercial fertilizer containing about 10
per cent of potash.
NJ. Kale Of North Yakima, Wash,
has freak fruit which came as the
result of pollenlzing peach with the
flower of an apricot. The fruit rlpens
and is gone by June 1. 1t is said to
be sweet and Of excellent flavor. It IL
reported that Mr.. Kale has refused an
offer Of $1,000 for one tree.
Keep the blossoms picked of the pan
BY plants or they will cease to bloom,
as the production of seed is an end to
towering. Work a small quantity of
fertilizer into the soil around each
plant occasionally, and at the end of
the year trim them much with straw,
and the old plants can. then be used
another season.
Everything else being equal, 1t is a
good policy to have the soil covered
over with plants whenever conditions
are favorable to their growth. We
have yet much to learn regarding the
value of cover crops. Anything which
we can do to prevent the teaching Of
fertility and Increase the humus should
be faithfully practlced.
A daily newspaper in Washington
prints as remedy for nodular disease
In sheep the following: "Shut them
ina tight room and fumlgate them
with sulphur smoke, allowing them to
AuuulS lu0 oAuOhc AOL ulbCCA q
This would undoubtedly kill all the
parasites in the sheep, but would as
certainly kill the sheep themselves.
Hemp can beseaslly grown in all sec
tions of this country, but the obstacle
to Its successful cultivation is the labor
of preparing it for market. There is a
wide field for inventive genius in de-
vlsing appropriate machinery for spe-
cialiy treating hemp and other fiibrous
plants whlcn demand more labor in
some sections than can be probably be-
slowed on them.
Gluten meal is that portion Of the
corn left over after the starch has been
removed, and 1t is, therefore, a highly
heterogeneous food. 1t should be fed In
connection with other articles. When
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