The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-08-27


the increased demand for pure milk In
the layge cities.
Stop worrying over the troubles of
yesterday and get ready to overcome
these of tomorrow.
Rotation Of garden crops is the bes'
method of keeping vegetables in health
and freedom from parasites.
If pigs are given all the salt and
charcoal they want there will seldom
be any occasion for ringing.
1t II possible for the breeding sow
TO be too fat, but more farmers make
the mistake OF keeping them too poor.
The Babcock test is all right, but
some dairymen need something to test
their ability to properly feed their
calves.
1t takes courage to adopt new meth
DDS OF farming in an old fogy neighbor-
hood, but success will soon change pub
lie sentiment.
Because sheep will make a better use
of a poor pasture than any other stock
do not try to raise them on one thS8 ID
absolutely bare.
Because the heLs are not allowed
free range in the summer months is
no reason why they will not become
infested with life.
Small chicks are great bug eaters.
They will do great deal of good IN
the garden until large enough to
scratch vigorously.
The glowing Of first-class, high-grade
dairy heifers to sell to the best dairy
men affords m opportunity for the
grower to make a good profit.
1t is so easy to neglect the fowls
during the summer months that one
must have a special interest in order
to keep them up TO the mark.
If we all stopped for a moments
sound thinking before starting out on a
new enterprise it would save some of
US the trouble of retracing our steps
II you are going to sell off the old
fowls, pen them up In small coops and
stuff them for a week or two before
yoa take them to market. 1t will pay.
Summer-laid eggs can be kept for sew
eral weeks by dipping them In water
glass solution This is a preparation
which is supposed 10 make the she'll air
tight.
Good wool, MS well as good mutton
depends largely upon the quality Of tn,
feed. Succulent food makes the bes
wool. cleancst, brightest, softest an(
strongest.
IL alfalfa Is sOwn with a nurse crop
IL is best not to SOW too much grain
and IL ii is the intention to remove tn,
crop before 1t natures, it is better t
seed with oats
Some Of the finest apples and peaches
In tae world come from Idaho and Ore
goil. They are entirely free from worms
The growers are extremely vigiIant Ia
fighting insects.
a flock of lively chickens I'm an or
chas'd will pick up thousands OF in
sects, worms and the eggs that hatch
theIa. Scatter grain occasionally to en-
courage scratching.
Don't let the workday drag out to
fourteen and sixteen hours. Ten hours
OF field work is enough and will ac-
coInplish as much in the long run as
longer day. Try 1t and see.
Up in Minnesota, where they raise a
great deal of barley. it is fed to the
cattle with fairly good results, but
there is nothing on earth that will put
fat oil a steers ribs like shelled corn
and alfalfa.
Use sifted coal ashes instead of plas
ter for striped squash bug. They are
chap, easily handled and are not in
furious to tender foliage. though ap
piled in large quantity when the dew
is upon 1t.
The boys may not say much when
they are forced to work sixteen hours
q day without a share in the profits,
but they suddenly run off to the city.
1t shows they have been doing some
strong thinking.
The grape Is the only fruit that pro
teets against late pruning by bleeding
Raspberries, blackberries, gooseberries
and currants can be pruned after they
are In full leaf, or even I'm bloom, with.
CIT apparent hurt.
Maryland farmers are demanding a
law requiring that all cases containing
cold storage eggs be labeled such, and
that restaurants, hotels, dining rooms,
etc. be required to hang signs on the
walls, in order that the customer may
know what he is getting-whether cold
storage eggs, fresh eggs or just eggs.
There is always the opportunity to
sell first-class dairy butter for fancy
prices. Success In this line OF the
dairy business must be brought about