The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1908-03-11


The busy bee loaded With hon,y
viii not attack an intruder.
White hellebore is the best remedy
recommended for currant worms.
Dig out the borers from the roots
of the peach trees.
Queenless colonies are apt to be de-
stroyed by the bee-moth or robber bee
as he is called.
Clip the hair from the fetlocks of
the horse and it will be easier to clean
him.
The crow sometimes develops an
appetite for young spring chickens.
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 nuts and bolts on the
farm machinery before using. Many
an accident might be avoided by lit.
tie forethought and care.
1t doesn't take very big hole in a
barrel to let all the water out, neither
does 1t 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 posi-
BILE, that is grain ground and roots
sliced. In this way you will be max
Ing the large milk flow easy for her.
The food value of the potato lies
chiefly In the startch 1T contains. The
percentage of composition of the
white potato is as follows: Water, IS;
protein, 2; starch, 1876; mineral mat
ter 10.
Keep your eye on the shoulders of
your horses during the heavy work OF
the spring and early summer, for a
pulling power of the horses down al
most one-half.
After you have narrowed the ground
as much as you think necessary give
1t another turn to catch any of the
Jumps missed and then harrow 1t
again Just for good luck. 1t takes
little more time, but then, it pays.
The theory that a 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.
II dairymen would remember that
the little germs which do SO much
mischief in dairy products cannot
thrive in a 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
.takeitfor-granted man say. We hope
not, but just take look and make
sure. Many n time we have been sur
prisod. and shall we say ashamed, by
what our Investigations have uncoy-
cred in our henhouse.
The teeth of sheep are a good In.
lex to its age. A yearling sheep has
its first pair of wide incisors; two.
Year-old, two pairs; n three-year-old,
three pairs; and four-year-old, four
pairs, or full 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; DIR.
II. w. Brophy, of Ingleside, Vice-presi-
dent; A. o. Auten, of Jerseyville, sec
rotary, and f. G. Austin. of bingham,
treasurer May 1t 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
80 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 80 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
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