Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1907-05-01

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
fy. 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 fora
manure spreader and 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 cornfeld
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 a maximum yield
with only two In the hill.
Unless the hand separator is thor
oughly cleaned out and scalded each
time il Is used the economy effected in
the matter of time through using II 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
coat of paint. 1t 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 relshes nothing
more than the young alfalfa plant
If care is taken 10 plant a row OF
sweet corn every ten days, beginning
with the earliest varieties and ending
with the evergreen corn, a continuous
supply of one of the most relished gar
den vegetables may be secured. All
too often the sweet corn season is OF
but two or three weeks duration when
II ought TO cover six or eight.
Under the operation Of the lately en-
acted federal pure food law pure maple
strip will not only be mighty scarce
article, but will also fetch a fancy
price. The common folks will have to
be content with brown sugar corncob
concoction which will taste just as
good as that which we have often
bought under fancier name.
A paris green solution suitable for
killing the worms on the currant and
gooseberry bushes as we'll 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 I'm.
There are a good many swndles that
can be worked TO a considerable ex-
but when one defrauds the soil by
wrong systems of tilage 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
swindle.
There are two classes Of charity
boarders which should not be tolerated
the hulk Of boy that is lazy ana
won't do a lick of work If he can help
IL and the dairy COW that does not give
milk enough to pay for the feed she
consumes. The former should be put
on diet Of bread and water until he
reforms; the latter should be sold to
the butcher.
A system Of thing properly laid not
only tends 20 draw the moisture from
a piece of land in n wet season. but in
n dry season tends TO keep il from
baking by lnsuring a good circulation
Of air through the soil and a proper
conservation Of all the moisture that
r. available. This Is the universal tes-
timony Of those who have given such
n system a fair trial.
The report OF an official grain in
spector on the Chicago market Is 20
the effect that there is loss OF I
cents per busheI ON the oats shipped
from many localities I'm Iowa and 9TH
er states simply because OF the weed
seeds and other rubbish which the
grain may contain. II was also his
statement that the oats from a certain
locality had been improved 90 per cent
In quality since the practice had be-
cone general Of testing the seed and
blowing out the weed seeds and light
grain before sowing.
It will pay you to read Chas. Rhodes
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