The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-09-10

A little fertilizer well placed will |
bring better returns than an unlimited
quantity carelessly applied.
Buying cows and selling them ss
fast as they stop giving milk never |
built up herd Of high-producing |
daily cows
When farmer sells all the grain and |
hay from his farm instead of feeding IL, !,
he is cutting the underpinning from |
under himself
Well-grown fruit or vegetables, well |
marketed, bring a profit which the |
careless producer never realizes. 1t |
pays to do things right.
Once a week. from January to Janu- |,
airy. saturate the roosts and nest boxes, I
and once month spray the entire in !
terror of the building with kerosene.
The draft horse is the one for the |
farmer TO raise. because it can be done |
In harmony with the other interests |
Of the farm and with the greatest |
profit.
tuberculosis in cattle and scab in |
sheep is spread from the stock yards |
Of the large cities by the feeders who |
purchase animals from the pens with |
out proper investigation.
Rye sowed in a cornfield will afford |
good winter pasture for the lambs dur
ing the fall and early winter months |
and again when other grasses are back |
ward about starting in the spring.
Every sheep grower should have n |
hospital flock upon which he will be- |
stow more time and to which he will |
add from time to time all of those that |
are dropping or are pushed aside from
their feed by the more hardy ones
The calf from the moment OF It's |
birth should he kept in thrifty. grow
Ing condition. Letting an animal down |
is great and permanent loss. 1t is |
something lost forever. that no amount |
Of after care or feeding can regain.
Some idea of the scarcity of timber |
may be had from the fact that when |
an Illinois farmer cut Undetermined |
boards out of cottonwood trees on bis |
farm the fact was heralded throughout |
the state as something quite remark |
able
If YOU intend TO hog off, the corn |
this fall you will have an ideal feed If /
sou have planted cow peas with the |
cccn. 1t is pretty late to SOW them In |
Tie corn after it is laid by, but In |
the south they Will make growth |
enough TO help out TO a great extent. |
Too much hay will make a horses |
coat rough and staring and spoil his |
Appetite writes very good friend |
and a good farmer as well, but we diff |
fer with him. The trouble is evidently
in something else. as we do not believe
a horse will eat more clean hay than is
good for him.
There is no middle course or stand
still period to calf raising Each day
the calf is not ganin,, Ii is losing. AT
the end of two years proper care and
feeding we will be rewarded with an
animal with healthy appearance, with
well-developed frame and an abund-
ance of flesh and fat
Prevent the soil washing on your
farm. Many fine fields in some of the
western. states have been ruined by |
soil Washing Some are washed 90
BADLY that they can no longer be
worked with modern farm machinery.
Soils that have good supply of ku-
nus are not subject TO washing, as
they have a greater water holding ca
| pacity.
1t pays to use good sire. If man
is in the dairy business, sire from
milking strain should increase the pro-
| duct of his progeny by 1000 pounds
year, yet good many dairymen give
| little thought to the sire. If he raises
cattle for beef, good beef sire will In
crease the price for his progeny. And
ii costs less in the long run to feed
| thoroughbred than scrub
An enterprising merchant in west
ern town has fitted up rest room for
| the wives of farmers who drive TO
| town and who sometimes have tedious
waits for the husband to finish hts
business and his street-corner gossip.
Furnished as it is with rockers and
ion books, etc, it is growing In popu-
larity, and is good advertising for the
merchant. Here is n hint for mer-
chants in other towns.
In 1000 pounds of cottOn-seed cake
there are 80 pounds of dry matter,
which contains GO pounds of nitrogen.
10 pounds of potash and 81 pounds of
phosphorlc acid Corn G.O0O pounds)
contains $50 pounds of dry matter, in
Guiding IS pounds of nitrogen, 3H
pounds of potash and pounds of pbos-
phOric acid A ton of manure from
COWS fed on linsced or cotton-seed meal
is not only more valuable than a ton
produced from corn, but there is also n
saving of labor in hauling and spread
ing.
Hints About Fruits.
The cultivation ia the orchard should
be discontinued about the first OF the
month. At the last cultivation SON.
cover crop of yetch or something s.n- !
liar This will take water from thn
soil, thus helping the trees to ripper ~
the wood and will also serve to c..fci |
SNOW for protecting the ground du.iue |
the winter.
Plant. potgrown Strawberries FOR |
fruit next summer. Prune the r.sD- |
berries take out all the old wood, l..lv-
ing all the new growth, which vas
made this year The old canes sh3cId |