The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-12-05

of It when You should be taxing the
family to church. The stock need the
salt more regular. and you need to pay
the duty to your family.
fowls diet should include varie-
~ of all the grains, corn, oats, wheat
and barley especially: also green food,
animal food In the form OF meat or
milk. and charcoal and grit. Their
food must be clean, sweet and sound
Many farmers do not know the val
ue of Kaffir corn as feed for poultry
1t has the same nutritive value as In
dian corn. but it not SO fattening and
therefore. IS better reproducing
grain. The fowls like it
It does not pay in any sense to per-
petuate the qualities Of poor sheep,
and the cuttings should be made close
enough to eradicate all poor animals
and thus eliminate their blood forever
from the focks.
One of the best and most extensive
swine breeders In the corn belt uses
pail of lime water in every barrel OF
slop that he feeds to his hogs. He has
a metal tank that will hold eight or
ten barrels of water and In this he
dumps a barrel OF lime.
Nearly all kinds of plants may be
easily rooted into sauccrs In which
is kept sand that Is KEEP; very moist, so
that water will stand upon the surface.
They must be kept In warm place and
occasionally in full sunshine. When
fully rooted. put In good soil In small
pots.
In European countries are grown
fowls, hares and sheep to furnish fresh
family meat. Herr Won Schelle, pro-
moter OF agriculture in Belgium, re-
Gently said 'In my country, where
land is limited, fowls and hares help
to solve the fresh meat problem for
company. and sheep for regular use on
small farms"
The urine of sheep contains a con-
siderable amount Of nitrogen, and their
manure, In addition to being very val
liable, is more beneficial to the soil
than that of other live stock owing TO
the manner in which it is distributed.
being scattered equally over the
ground in small quantities. and thus
rampled into the soil by the flock.
Cane which has been sown broad
cast can be handled best II IL Is cut
with the mower and put up In small
shocks. Some prefer 10 cut It with a
harvester and bind 1t. If that is done
the cutting must he done early, for the
stalks soon get too large for n binder
to handle: and then the stuff Is diff
rult to dry out when II is bound up In
bundles.
The horse that Is OF special inter
est to the farmer is the draft horse,
because he is the most easily raised
and the most profitable animal the
farmer can produce. He is particular
y horse that the farmer In the corn
IS his fullest development in this sec
ton; first. because Of the nutritious
grasses and grains produced. and sec
ond, because Of the suitable conditions
that prevail.
The English Walnut.
Trees of the English walnut are
now a fairly common sight in Western
New York. 1t IS estimated that sew
eral hundred trees are alive and thrifty
in that section, and 1t Is claimed that
this variety of walnut is really about
as hardy as the peach.
A. c. Pomeroy, of Lockport, y. Y,
writes that while last year he lost over
100 peach trees from winter-killing
only one English walnut was killed, al
though the peach trees We're In the
walnut orchard. Mr. PomerOy sends a
walnut trees on his farm. The tree. as
shown in the illustration, was twenty
two years old, but the photograph was
taken eight years ago.
The tree is still as vigorous and pro
ductivc as ever in the thirteenth year
and has been producing every year for
many years. This spring the tree was
well filed with nuts, but the weather
being so unusually cold and wet. most
Of the nuts dropped. Professor Van
deman has named this variety the Nor
nan Pomeroy in honor of Mr.. Pome-
-oy's father. who first propagated this
variety in New York state.
Windsor Chief Apple.
The Windsor Chief apple, while II
mas been grown number of years
has not been extensively disseminated
Fruit of this variety was shown at the