The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-06-04
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Concentrated foods should always be
FED with those more bulky.
The better food you feed the more
careful you should be Of the manure.
There is more profit in growing an
animal than in fattening one already
grown
! black soil is not necessarily rich
soil; 1t may be almost devoid of nitro
gen. and so stand in need of some fer
tilizer.
For humble foot in poultry, paint the
corn literally with tincture of iodine
daily for n week. If this is done in
the early stages the corn can be spread.
Good bacon is great food. 1t always
tastes like more. Quantity compared,
a man can turn more acres with fewer
hog troughs" on, it than on any other
meat.
Most men make the mistake Of
spreading the manure too thickly. In
most cases il will be better to cover
a larger area with the same amount.
The spreader solves the whole diff
Guilty.
The Missouri State Board of Agri-
culture has asked Ernest Kellerstrass,
the poultry fancier of Missouri, for a
portrait of the famous hen Peg, which
he recently refused TO sell to Pader-
ewski for 5000.
The proprietor of the Green Hill
dairy, near Burlington, y. j., sold his
immense herd of Jerseys and Alder
neys and restocked the farm entirely
with Holsteins. He believes that the
latter are less liable to have tuber-
culosis.
Lovers of buckwheat cakes and ma
pie syrup will be delighted to learn that
New York man has recently been con-
victed and sentenced to pay $500 fine
and spend thirty months in jail for
selling bogus Vermont maple syrup
through the mails.
The bureau of statistics Of the Uni
ted States Department of Agriculture
announces that the healthfulness Of
farm animals was better on April 1
than it was last year and losses from
disease, with the exception Of swine,
were smaller.
Farmers are truck raisers around
Glenwood. Ia. and are interested in the
raising of asparagus. md may turn
their entire attention to the cultivation
of the crop for canning purposes. In
the East from 500 to $500 per acre
Is realized from asparagus.
By the investment of S15 or $50 in a
good writing desk that can be put I'M
der lock and key, some men can save
q hundred dollars worth of fuss,
worry, mental discontinue and house
hold rumpuss that arise from having
no place for busine SIS headquarters In
the house.
Science Is getting obstreperous. 1t
has butted into the making of butter.
The golden product is now as conven-
tional as the blue bib-overall. There
is no chance for originality. The rich
~ favored, delicately aromatic product
of the old shallow cream pans and
dash churn is no more. That's what
we pay for being scientific.
1t is quite common TO hear persons
say that our butter at the present tine
is not as good quality as butter was
ten or twelve years ago. This does not
look reasonable, as dairy and creamery
methods have improved so as to maze
dalrying almost a new industry. A
more reasonable conclusion is that the
standard OF excellence in butter Is high.
or now than then.
There are two or three things that
ought to be remembered in making the
hotbed. or cold frame, as 1T is perhaps
more properly called. First, use fresh
horse manure that will heat. Soak II
down and let it warm up considerably
before putting IN the earth. and don't
pack the earth down so tight as to pre-