The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1908-02-05
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i white heilebore is the best remedy
recommended for currant worms.
Dig out the borers from the roots
of the peach trees.
caueenless colonies are apt to be de-
stroyed by the bee-moth or robber bee
as he is called.
Clip the hair from the fetlooka of
the horse and 1t will be easier to clean
him.
The crow sometimes develops an
Look out for him.
Try bit of heavy wrapping paper
around the stem of early cabbages to
! protect from cutworms.
Don't let any swarms of the bees
get away from you. Be ready to
hive them, and be on the watch for
the event.
Look to The mis- and bolts on the
farm machiNery before using. Many
an accident might he avoided by lit
1 TIC IOfelnOuBIlC anu care. t1ar
1t doesn't take very big hole in a
barrel to let all the water out, neither
docs. IT take much of leak on the.
| farm to swallow up the profits.
The heifer that is harshly treated
when she begins giving milk for the
/ first time is the heifer that will carry
| tho blemishes in her character as long
as she lives.
The dairy COW should be given food
that is as easily masticated as possi-
BILE. that is grain ground and roots
sliced. In this way you will be max
ing the large milk how easy for her.
The food value of the potato lies
| chiefly in the startchit contains. The
white potato Is as follows: Water, IS;
protein, 2; starch, 1856; mineral mat
ter 10.
Keep your eye on the shoulders of
| your horses during the heavy work of
the spring and early summer, for
small abrasion or sore will cut the
pulling power of the horses down al
most one-half.
After you have narrowed the ground
as much as you think necessary give
II another turn to catch any of the
again Just for good luck. 1t takes a
little more time, but then, it pays.
The theory that warm egg fresh
from the hen will not hatch unless
first cooled before starting the process
of incubation is like good many
other theories based on hit and miss
observation, and is not to be relied on.
IL dairymen would remember that
the little germs which do SO much
mischief in dairy products cannot
thrive in low temperature they
would see that the milk and cream
was cooled more quickly and thor
oughly.
mo lice on my hens" we hear the
take.it.for-granted man say. We hope
| not. but Just take a look and make
| sure. Many time we have been sur
| prised. and shall we say ashamed, by
| what our Investigations have uncoY-
cred in our henhouse.
The teeth of sheep are good in.
dex 10 its age. A yearling sheep has
its first pair of wide incisors; two
ycar.old, two pairs; a three-year-old,
three pairs; and four-year-old. four
pairs, or a fun mouth" but the teeth
are all white and fresh.
The man who doesn't take pure de-
light In seeing his stock grow and
| thrive, and who does not find real
| pleasure In feeding and caring for
| them, cannot expect to have much sue
| cess A close sympathy should always
exist between stock and stockman.
| The Illinois Dairy Cattle Improve
| ment association is the latest dairy or
ganization in the field. with Hon. John
| Stewart, of Elburn, as president; DR..
T. w. Brophy. of Ingleside. Yice.presi-
dent; A. o. Auten, of JerseyYille. sec
| rotary, and f. G. Austin. of Dillingham;,
treasurer. May it have long and use
| full career.
In a sample of chicken feed exam
| ined by the Connecticut experiment
station it was found to contain about
90 per cent of wheat and also oats,
barley and seeds of ragweed, mustard,
fax, bindweed, cookie. rape, etc. In
| every 100 pounds there were nearly
two pounds of ragweed seed. Think
of giving that nasty weed foothold
on the farm!
AT the Urbana, ILL.,, experiment farm
one field which has grown corn exclu.
sively for 30 years without manure or
fertilizer OF any kind yielded last year
less than 10 bushels per acre, while
! not ten rods away another field with
everything else the same except that
fertilizers had been used. rs bushels
to the acre were harvested. Think on
this and go thou and fertilize for all
| you are worth.
We want to warn our readers to be
on the lookout for gymnosporangium