The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-05-09


As. u rule the most fertile as well as
tie best managed farms. are those that
are worked by the men who own them
Wood ashes, salt and soapsuds may
be put on the asparagus bed to adj
vantage, and larger and more vigorous
shoots will be the result
1t is more often scrub care than
scrub stock that is responsible for the
rough financial Shedding that a good
many farmers encounter.
Soil fertility is a good deal like the
milking capacity Of a good dairy COW,
in that it is a good deal easier to main
tain it than it is to restore it after it is
lost.
We have known folks who seldom in
dulged their early rising inclinations
beyond the point of setting the alarm
at an early hour Oh the evening be-
fore.
The pile of horse manure is the chief
breeding place of the common house
fly. Keeping the pile sprinkled with
lime will tend to reduce the fly pest
materially.
1t is the crop OF weeds that grows
and natures its seed after the cult
waited crops are laid by that befouls
the ground and makes untold work for
another season.
There are two things the landowner
is justified in going into debt for a
manure spreader and a thing of his
wet acres. Both are sure to fetch gen
erous returns on the money invested.
The barren cornstalk is one of the
worst weeds with which a cornfield
can be infested. These come from
weak and sickly seed whose vitality is
very largely used up in the process of
termination.
A very rich piece of land may be
able to grow an average Of four stalks
Of corn to the hill advantageously.
Many another which has been mis-
treated will produce maximum yield
with only two in the hill.
Unless the hand separator is thor
oughly cleaned out and scalded each
time it is used the economy effected in
the matter Of time through using it is
more than offset by the deterioration
of the butter product resulting.
If the spare hours during March were
properly employed, some of the farm
vehicles and machinery were given a
coat of paint It is more often lack OF
paint than wear that causes the wood
en- portions of vehicles and machinery
to go to pieces.
In many localities in the north cen
trail states it is entirely useless to try
to get a start in alfalfa unless chick
ems or turkeys have the run Of the
farm and thus keep in check the grass
hopper pest, which relishes nothing
more than the young alfalfa plant.
If care is taken to plant row OF
sweet corn every ten days, beginning
with the earliest varieties and ending
with the evergreen corn, q continuous
supply of one Of the most relished gar.
den vegetables may be secured. AL
too often the sweet corn season is OF
but two or three weeks duration when
it ought to cover six or eight
Under the operation of the lately en-
acted federal pure food law pure maple
sirup will not only be mighty scarce
article, but will also fetch a fancy
price The common folks will have tc
be content with brown sugar corncot
concoction, which will taste just as
good as that which we have often
bought under a fancier name.
A paris green solution suitable for
killing the worms on the currant and
gooseberry bushes as well as fixing
the potato beetles may be made by
adding one-quarter pound Of the chem
ical to fifty gallons of water. In order
to prevent a burning of the foliage
one-half pound Of freshly slaked lime
should be added and stirred in.
There are a good many swindles thai
can be worked to considerable ex
tent and the victims be none the wiser
but when one defrauds the soil by
wrong systems OF tillage and robs il
of its fertilizing elements the theft is
automatically registered and cannot
be covered up. Crop returns are an
unerring detective of this kind of a
sWindle
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