The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1908-02-19
Rape pasture is splendid for .
change both for sheep and pigs.

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the morning when they are fresh and
crisp.
Clean. dry quarters are necessary
for the calf Disease soon finds its
way where filth is.
shotgun loaded with number two
shot is the only effective remedy for
the sheep-killing dog.
Hogs are specially subject to rheu-
matism and for this reason they
should be given dry quarters.
Goats will prove profitable to the
farmer whose pasture is bushy and Is
surrounded by high and strong
fence.
The farm practically without weeds
is possible where the weeds are not
permitted to grow and propagate
seeds.
Three conditions are needed for the
production of sweet cream. Cleann-
ness, low temperature and richness In
the cream.
Barbwire should not be used for
fencing for the sheep pasture, as the
barbs catch on the wool and make the
sheep look ragged, besides running
much wool.
Many farmer is running his farm
after the manner that woman drives
nail. He shuts his eyes and then
strikes out hit or miss and 1t Is prin-
cipally miss.
Prof. Fraser declares that the bull
is more than one-half the herd. How
is it with you? Is the quality OF the
bull a secondary matter? Better look
into the matter
Grapes strung on wire trellises are
said to be injured sometimes during
thunderstorms. A way to prevent
this, it is said, is to ground the wires,
making the current harmless.
A stunted period is bad for any ami
NAL and is hard to recover from as
during that period the digestive or
gans get into a habit of doing only
limited amount of work, which is
an impeachment to the later progress.
Prof w. NJ. Hays, assistant secre.
tary of agriculture, is urging the es-
tablshment of agricultural high
schools in farming districts, and there
is no doubt but that such schools will
become powerful educational factor
in the near future.
The farmer with COWS should learn
how to test them Not only Will he
be able to finG out which COWS are
bringing him profit, but he will be
able to keep closer tab on the cream
cry and know whether he is getting
the full credit for his cream.
Some of the largest growers OF po-
tatocs follow the hand picking of
potato bugs. They begin at once as
soon as the bugs appear and thus get
ting the beetles before the eggs for
future colonies of bugs are laid they
keep ahead of the beetles and find it
an easy matter to keep them down.
Land owners interested in estab-
fishing commercial forest plantations,
shelter-belts, windbreaks and snow
breaks and in planting trees to re-
claim shifting sands and other waste
lands, will be given practical assist
ance by the forestry service of the
department of agriculture on applica-
ton to the Offices at Washington.
Redtop and a1sike clover are best
adapted to moist soils and will prove
profitable crops on the low places in
the farm where timothy or clover Will
not do we'll If the ground is uneven
or DOGGY, run spading harrow or disk
over it until it is brought down to fit
condition for seeding. Then SOW eight
pounds of redtop and four pounds OF
alsike clover per acre.
To can corn cut the kernels off the
cob with sharp knife, scraping out
the pulp. Fill into the can little at
time, pressing it down firmly until
the milk oYerGlows the can. Add a
teaspoonfuI of salt. When all are
filled place the cans in a boiler and
cook half an hour with the covers laid
loosely on. Remove from the fire and
seal. then cook two hours longer.
A new wrinkle put out by some of
the big seed houses this year has
been what is called seeded string"
This is nothing more or less than
tissue paper string filled with seeds
of different 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 less time than it takes to
tell. The rows can be kept straight
in this manner and cultivation made
easier, it is said.
Strawberry leaf blight is indicated
by whitening of the leaves, little brown
spots forming on the leaves, becoming
white with rims of red about them.
The disease makes its appearance in
the summer after the crop has been
gathered 1t is supposed to most af-
feet those plants that have made a
heavy growth during the season. The
leaves may be moved off and burned
and the new leaves that start may be
sprayed with Bordeaux mixture. If
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