Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1908-12-16


Old apple trees that are not doing
any good, but which have sound trunks,
may be brought to usefulness by graft
ing.
Narrow-chested horses have not the
endurance that those have with good
broad chests. Don't buy thin-breast-
ed horse.
On all dairy farms the great question
In securing equipment is where to draw
the line between essentials and nom
essentials.
The apple crop this year in Western
New York has paid ample dividends on
all time and money that growers have
spent in spraying the orchards
A "book farmer" makes many mis-
takes at first, but when he has learned
them he is always able to lay it over
his neighbor who never reads books or
farm papers.
milk fed poultry are poultry fat
tened for market on milk and ground
oats diet. This food produces white
tlesh-just the kind that brings the
fancy prices.
The mule would hardly win in a
beauty show and lacks speed, but he
can beat a trotting thoroughbred horse
out of sight when 1t comes to blowing
corn and cotton.
A good deep hole in an out-of-the
way place is the right place to plant
all the old tin cans, broken bottles
md other unburnable rubbish which
makes the premises 80 unsightly.
In the last analysis one will reap tho
iaigest and most lasting results for
himself in that undertaking in which
he contributes most generously to the
happiness and well being of those to
whom he ministers.
One OF the quickest ways of improv-
ing the soil of a farm is to put 1t down
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to clover, field by field, and pasturing
the hogs on It Cow peas may also be
sown, and when full growth ID attained
the hogs may be turned In.
An ala er,,+ ,,o,,,o,, - 4,,.4 A.,
pick is the best tool he ever used
around apple trees when the ground
has become too hard. He sinks the
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1t is estimated nv comnetent anthori-
ties that over as per cent of the food
products of the better classes in the
United States consist of animal nrod.
amount snent for food Of tho overao e
family goes for meat aros and dairy
products. This fact suggests whv Il
paws the farmer to raise stocl
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Many of the dairy farmers have kept
themselves poor by trying 10 conduct
business on the same scale as some
rich city farmer who is not at all ue-
pendent upon his income from his farm
TO pay his expenses of the labor and
farming operations on mn elaborate
scale.
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Farmers should study to know the
weeds that grow on their farms. One
man says he knows the name Of every
weed In his section of the state. When
he sees new weed he Immediately
finds out what it is called and by tax
ing such an interest in weeds he has
his farm practically free Of them. The
best methods of eradication is part of
the study of weeds.
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cept In general way the fertilizer
requirement Of soils becomes a prob
lem for each farm, or for each class
Of farms under like conditions Of soil,
climate and system Of cropping and
fertilization. The indications are that
fertilizers containing relatively more
potash and nitrogen than do those now
in general use would prove more eff
fective. site
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IN the Northern states Alfalfa can be
more easily started IN the early part
OF August than IN April, as when
given tne late planting opportunity Is
anoroed curing the preceding months
may be lodged in the soil. The soil
should be put in the best of filth and
the seed either drilled In or dragged
enough SO that there will be sufficient
moisture for purposes of termination.
1t is well to remember that alfalfa.
like red clover, does not do well on
low or undrained soils.
With view to freeing themselves
from the dictation Of beef prices by