Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1907-07-31

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49,
Push the lambs from the first If you
would have big, fat sheep.
II there were more square deals in
the world there would be more square
meals.
Three conditions are needed for the
production of sweet cream. Cleanli-
ness, low temperature and richness In
the cream.
The meadows and pastures as well as
the growing wheat are often benefited
by rolling well in the spring after the
frost is through the ground.
Shelter and comfortable quarters
should be provided for stock, If for
nothing else than simply a question Of
economy in the consumption Of food.
Lime is most active agent in rem
dering the soil mellow and setting the
plant food free to be assimilated by
vegetation, while 1t Is Itself direct
plant food.
Any soil Is too valuable to lose by
erosion. If the field be low and level,
under drain 1t rather than cut 1t up
with surface ditches which lessen the
cultivated area and carry away the
cream Of the soil.
Every farm should have its grove or
wood lot. The timber alone is paying
crop, besides the lot may be utilized for
poultry and other small animals while
the trees are young and for any anil
mails when the trees are more mature.
Far too many men conduct them
selves on the rs it against the law"
| plan rather than the law of right.
When men ask themselves us it
right?" then we will have made great
Improvement. Most men know what Is
right.
1t Is to be hoped that the man who
produced seedless grapes will try his
hand on producing watermelon with
handles so picknickers can carry them
easily. OF course there are others
who would be helped by this improve
ment
Good shelter with little feed is bet
ter for domestic animals than no shell
| ter and much feed. Indictment weather
may tougher animals, but 1t stunts,
starves and kills many more than 1t
toughens. A good barn is good In
yesment of farm money.
Sometimes there Is petulancy en-
gendered among children in the home.
A good way to cure this Is to let some
members get away from home for
season. Little undesirable habits are
often broken. up in this way and bet
ter ones formed in their places.
There Is such thing as fruitgrow-
er falling to see worm holes In his own
| fruit when he is packing. There is
also possibility that he will not have
a good eye for grading the fruit. The
man to do his grading and packing.
There comes q time in the life Of
almost every boy and girl when they
| they know a good deal more than dad,
and It's puzzle to the average parent
to know just how much rope to give
them. The spell only lasts year or
! two, but where one has about dozen
children 1t helps to bring gray hairs.
| A new wrinkle put out by some Of
the big seed houses this year has been
what Is called seeding string" This
| Is nothing more or less than a tissue
paper string filed with seeds of differ
ent garden plants. In place now of
planting seeds by guess out of the hand
one can just lay string of lettuce or
radish In the furrow and cover In loss
time than 1t takes to fell The rows
can be kent straight in this manner
and cultivation made easier. It ia said.
| Spray potatoes with bordeaux. In
which is used some poison, sucn as
paris green, at the rate of four to six
| ounces in fifty gallons. For early pota.
toes in New York the first applica.
ton should be made in June and for
medium varieties from July to july
Is, while late potatoes may not re-
uuire treatment before the third week
In July. Repeat the application at
periods of from two to four weeks.
Usually three treatments are sufficient
for both the beetles and the f,1nrous