Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1908-06-10

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The radish maggot can be eradicat-
ed with tobacco dust
Bury the shriveled tree in moist
soil and it will soon become plump.
Keep the machinery oiled. Oil is
cheaper than repairs or new machin-
cry.
When the lambs are weaned turn
them on fresh pasture, if 1t is pos
sible thing.
The farm dairy can by proper man
agement be made the largest profit
Garner on the farm.
Put a curb ON your appetite. Farm
ers are more subject to digestive
troubles than any other class of peo-
pie.
Outdoor exposure of farm machin-
cry is one large item of loss to many
farmers. 1t pays to take care of
farm tools.
ure of his business is generally the
last one to discover it, when he should
be the first.
Formalin is a cheap and effective
remedy fbr grain smut and potato
scab and is working a revolution in
these branches of farming.
Much of the heritage of the earth
that is inedible to man, is made edible
for him through the medium Of the
animals which man uses for food.
Soil exhaustion is as great a men
ace to this country as forest exhaus-
ton. What are you doing to prevent
either or boN calamities from fall
ing?
To break colts of kicking or biting,
begin before they have acquired the
habit. In other words tfsAt them
right in the days of their youth and
they will behave right.
When you sit down to your table
groaning under the good things which
your farm has produced remember
It's good thing to eat what the body
needs, but hurtful to eat just because
1t tastes good.
Dust is bad for hogs The season is
now approaching when the hog yards
are apt to be dusty. Provide green
sward for them when possible. Change
their quarters occasionally SO that the
ground does not get all powdered up.
Do not let the weeds, briars and
brush grow along the fences and wa |
ter courses, If you have such on your
farm. Year after year they extend
their borders and render much OF
your land unproductive. Utilize all
your space and keep the fence corners
cleaned out.
Planting inferior seed is the ranlest
kind of folly Some farmers do it
under mistaken idea OF economy.
some do it because they are too care
less to do anything right, and some
farmers do it because they are fool /
ish enough to believe that they can
raise good crops from inferior seed.
A splendid fertilizer for young
peach trees is said to be three-uuar-
tiers Of pound Of nitrate Of soda, one
pound Of Stag phosphate, and ~
pounds sulphate Of potash. This
applied last May to young
trees by George T. Powell Of New
York made the trees grow four times
as much as similar trees In adjoining
rows not fertilized
Why keep hundred average cows
when so picked ones will return AS
much profit as the hundred? h. n.
successful Minnesota dairy
man, BY testing and keeping IA exact
record Of every COW In his herd, now
Keeps only 80, one-half as many Az
and makes more money.
axes less risk, has less invested, uses
ess stable room and hires less labor
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"A successful raiser Of blackberries
explains how he gets crop when
others fall IA a dry season. HE begins
before the bushes are set out, having the
ground deeply plowed and then heavily
'ertIlized After the bushes are fully
crown and A dry season comes. he
Seeps the cultiNator going till he ii
lure that no moisture IL getting away
rom the ground except through the
caves Of the plant. The fact 81 the
leavy fertilizing makes the bushes
END down their roots To the layers 81
moist soil, and a. this moisture Is hot
tcescape through the pores
4 the soil II must escape through the
loreg OK the leaves.
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