The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1908-07-24
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Fix up your fences and take off the
yokes from your cattle.
If you have not started those farm
accounts yet begin now
Remember the COW must have food
to keep up her bodily vigor as well as
to provide for the milk yield.
Cut the burdock off at the crown and
pour few drops of kerosene on each
stalk. Time will do the rest.
Calves should have access to good
clean hay at all times II the best re-
suits are to be obtained from the
grain ration which Is fed
A can with hole punched in the
bottom of it the size Of the seed to be
sown makes an excellent aid to SOW
ing of seed In the garden.
Get the sunshine habit. You know
how sunshine makes the crop grow.
Sunshine in the home and about the
daily tasks Is just as essential.
1t is folly to sell off the stock just
because the prices seem to be low and
it looks as though it was Improbable
to raise them. Be patient and wait
for prices to recover, as they will.
The small flock does better than the
large flock because the ration of the
former is made up largely of the table
scraps, which provide a more bal
anced ration than that provided by the
more exclusively grain diet
An old farmer who has tried it says
strong tea and added to the drinking
water in proportion of one cupful to
pailful of water will cure chicken
cholera, and hog cholera, too.
A farmer who fed his hogs the skim
milk warm from the separator. mixing
with corn meal at the ratio OF one to
three, that Is. one pound Of corn meal
to three of milk, found that he secured
what amounted to 40 cents 400
pounds for his skim milk
Owing to the wet weather this
spring the weeds have given the farm
ers hard fight in most sections. But
If by extra effort the fields are kept
clean, the crops will show proportion
ately greater improvement as a result
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The farmers wife should be his help
meet in all things, but not his drudge.
She should help in planning the work
OF the farm but she should not be
asked or expected to take the place
Of hired man and do rough chores.
We think that she should not even be
asked to help do the milking.
Ever stop to figure out how many
eggs your hens averaged for the year?
Perhpas you would be surprised to
know how low an average your flock
would show. 1t costs no more to feed
a 200-egg-a-year hen than the one that
only lays 100 eggs Why not study the
individual merits Of your flock and
breed for better layers?
Farmers in some sections are eX-
periencing trouble this year from clod.
dy ground due to the plowing having
been done when wet. There is not
much which can be done to relieve
such condition. The only thing to
do is to watch and put the harrow on
the ground at the moment when the
clods appear to have their greatest
possible friability. due to their CON
taining a certain amount of moisture
Whitewash may be put on with the
spray pump provided the wash is thor
oughly strained before pumping. 9th
erwise particles are apt to clog in the
pump. 1t is fast way of getting on
the wash and good way, as the wash
may be forced into hooks and corners
where the brush cannot reach Every
farmer should have spray pump, as
it is not only handy about the poultry
house, but is frequently necessary in
the orchard.
Self-pruning trees are the subject
of an interesting article in the Journal
Of the New York Botanical Garden by
Mr. c. S. eager, who studied the
phenomenon in his garden. In Oc-
tober the sapling poplars litter the
ground about them with branches
most OF which are two years old and
bear winter buds. The catalina, the
ailantus, the horse-chestnut the elm,
the lilac. the mulberry, the maple
and II or IS other varieties of trees
have this habit Of self-pruning. With
some. as the naples, 1t occurs in
spring or early summer: with others,
in the autuL,n. The purpose appears
to be to get rid of superfuous branch
es The branches thus eliminated
are not dead to begin WITH but die as
result of the pruning process, which
begins by the formation of an "ab-
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