The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1907-02-28
NI' FARM
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Destroy all cocoons and egg clus-
tiers found on fruit and shade trees.
Modern agriculture is fertilized by
science.
The city man is known by the com
pany he keeps, the farmer by the stock
he keeps.
Trim the fingernails and smooth
down the voice. The COW will appre-
ciate both at milking time.
Take time to strip the COW these
. days, or you will miss the richest of
the milk.
The United States exported 36,492
horses, valued at $3,976,O1O during the
IL months ended May, 1906.
1t is not safe to break up glazed
scrockry for fowls, as the glazing has
been known to act as a poison.
Put the dust box where the sun can
get at it part of the day. My, how
the hens will revel in it.
Bushes trimmed in the fall and the
cane burned will be apt to suffer less
from insect pests next year.
Weevils in chestnuts or grain may
easily be killed by treatment with the
fumes of carbon bisulphide.
Rake up the old vines and rubbish
I'm the garden and burn. Many an in
furious insect will thus be gotten
rid of.
When you cash in on the crops,
don't forget that the wife and daugh-
Sers want little spending money and
arc entitled to it.
Have a thermometer in the bee eel
lar and don't let the temperature get
below 45 degrees.
Have you washing facilities in the
dairy barn for the use of the mixers
ter, soap and towel handy.
Make the most out of your presen
location before you are lured off t.
what seems like more promising
EARNING section.
The pecuniary prospects for youns
man well-trained in agriculture are
more certain and better than the pros
poets of the average business younl
man.
Whiting down the cows ration
may save on the feed bill, but look
out that the loss on the milk yield
does not more than balance the ac
count
Whitewash in which enough kero
sene has been put to give it goot
keroseny smell is excellent for the
poultry house. Lice don't like it, but
the hens do.
1t is always best to have perches or
level or nearly so, for where placed
One above another in racks there is g
scramble for the top perch, disturb
ing struggle and overcrowding.
In improving your fiocks remember
that it is better to stick to one va
riety. Secure new blood when needed
but not new breed. Your dressed
poultry will then all have the same
xrour auuc tho capna form
character and color.
The farmer who is dreaming of easy
farming life in some distant paradise
he has seen advertised or heard tel
about at the state fair, is missing the
golden opportunities which lie right a
his door on the old farm.
What did you get of good out of the
state or county fair you attended? Il
YOU didn't learn something, If yoI
were not stimulated to better effort, il
you did not get a new idea in YOU
Uranium your time was wasted.
Better begin planning now for some
course of reading or study this winter
which will make of you better farm
er. And in your reading, don't forget
to include some one or more of the
excellent farm journals of the country
IF / were planting an orchard In
the west" remarked prominent hor
ticulturist, Il would plant windbreak
of evergreen trees first. and when the
fruit trees were set out, stand a wide
board little longer than the height
of the young trees to the windward
side of them. Another plan which
would save the cost of lumber, would
be to envelop the trees before winter
with mantle of long straw.
At first thought parcels post