The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1908-07-24

Inere is no reason to suppose that
the Plymouth Rock egg is harder to
break than that of any other variety.
Don't be discouraged Corn often
more than makes up in July and Au.
gust what 1t has lost in May and June
from unfayorable conditions.
In climates where low temperatures
are constant during the winter a
hillside site for the orchard Is to be
preferred to the low-lying places.
The grain from two-rowed barley IL
usually of better quality than that
from the six-rowed variety, although
the production is not quite 80 heavy.
| The right start with work in the
morning makes things run smoothly
all day. Try planning out the work
\ the night before, so that each one Of
the hands has definite work assigned.
| 1t Is coming to be more generally ad-
mitted that the dairy farm needs the
dairy type of COW and the beef pro-
ducer must hold himself to the beef
animals. In other words, the dual
purpose idea is on the wane.
Tile drainage is subject which Is
receiving more intelligent considera-
tion Of the farmers than ever before.
1t Is costly improvement, but repays
the outlay many fold in increased pro-
ductivity of the land thus treated.
The trap nest is the only sure way
of finding ont the best layers, but the
observant farmers wife can pick out
the best layers and by keeping them
for the breeders next season she will
be on the road to improving her flock
and increasing her egg money.
Too many poultry yards are un,
slightly mud puddles after a rain. One
farmer eliminated such condition by
enlarging his yard space so as to take
in big patch of green and by the
poultry house door laying a wide strip
of cement and around this cinders up
to the point where the green sward
began.
New ideas are all right il they are
carefully digested and wisely used
The man who plunges blindly ahead
into something which sounds good but
which may have weak and impracti
cable points connected Herewith, Ii
the man who is constantly making
serious mistakes and is making fail
ure Of farming and stockraising.
Have you put in that patch of corr
for summer use for the cows? Re
member that the pasturage gets pret
ty dry and thin during the hot weeks
of July and August and you neeC
something to piece out and prevent
serious shrinkage in the milk yield
1t is a great mistake to let the COWS
run down in their milk.
Secretary Wilson defines the pro
gressive farm as one who rotates his
crops, tile-drains his land. keeps dairy
t'"o vi LluttoH oHetp vi Dolil, Dltfis
draft horses. does farm work with
brood mares and growing colts, and
improves the power Of the soil by
growing legumes. How is it? Do you
come into the class thus defined?
\ mason who is onto his job and
who builds in the interests of his EN-
L.; Il
up inside as they are built with q
mortar to which One-fourth common
salt is added it will have a glazed
finish to which the SCOT will not stick
and hence there will be no chimneys
catching fire from the SCOT accumula.
tiOns.
a good oil or vinegar barrel cut in
half and placed over the pasture
spring will make good drinking place
for the stock Without the barrel the
water softens all the soil about which
is tramped by the stock until it be-
comes a mud hole. If the land slopes
away from the spring the other half
of barrel can be sunk into the ground
and pipe run from the half barrel at
the spring.
To spray or not to spray is no long
er the mooted question among fruit
raisers. Rather is the question being
asked whether the orchardst can
afford not to spray. Tests always
prove that the sprayed orchard pro-
duces choicer fruit and returns a
larger net profit than the orchard not
so treated. In test in Nebraska last
year in two apple orchards the cost
of spraying in one was about 20 cents
per tree for four sprayings, and in
the other about 40 cents per tree for
five sprayings. Spraying produced a
net gain per tree above the cost OF
spraying of $170 in one orchard, and
s2.56 in the other. 1t increased tho
yield of fruit by II bushel per tree