Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1908-06-03

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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.
A black soil is not necessarily rich
soil. 1t may be almost devoid Of nitro
gen, and go stand In need of some fer
tilizer.
For humble foot in poultry, paint the
corn literally with tincture Of iodine
daily for 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,
q man can turn more acres with fewer
'hog trougts' on 1t than on any other
meat.
Most men. make the mistake of
spreading the manure too thickly. In
most cases 1t will be better to cover
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 fancter OF Missouri, for a
portrait Of the famous hen Peg, which
ne recently refused to sell to Pader
ewsh for $1,000.
The proprietor Of the Green Hill
dairy, near Burlington, N. j., sold his
immense herd Of Jerseys and Alder
neys and restocked the farm entirely
with Holstelns. 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 l
than 1t 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, and may turn
their entire attention to the cultivation
Of the crop for canning purposes In
the East from 500 to $4OO per acre
Is realized from asparagus.
BY the Investment of $15 or $40 in a
good writing desk that can be put un-
der lock and key, some men can save
hundred dollars worth OF fuss,
worry, mental discontinue and house
hold rumpuss that arise from having
no place for business headquarters in
the house.
+ Science Is getting obstreperous. It
has butted into the making Of butter.
The golden product is now as conven-
honal as the blue blb-overall There
ls 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 time
ls 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 make
dairying almost new industry. A
more reasonable conclusion Is that the
standard of excellence In butter is high
sr 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 It
down and let 1t warm up considerably
before putting In the earth. and don't
pack the earth down 50 tight as to pre-
vent the heating process. Three or
four inches Of soil, depending some
what upon Its texture, ought to be SUI
dcient. Let the earth warm thorough
" before planting the seeds. Water
frequently and raise the sash on warm
days, and be sure to have horse blan-
kets ready when the thermometer goes
down to zero.
The person who sets out an orchard
for the first time usually makes the
mistake Of selecting too many varie-
ties. 1t is fur better and more salts
factory to select two or three hardy
standard varieties, fall or winter, as
the case may be, and pass up the job
Of using several acres as an expert
mental plot for thirty or forty varle-
ties that the nurseryman may urge
upon you. Perhaps the wisdom of
having but two or three varieties Is
not fully realized until the trees come
Into bearing and one has the market
ing Of the fruit to attend to. with
many varieties and as many seasons
Of ripening there is much delay and
putter work in picking and dlsposing
of thp frvlIt while the nrtnoa ono oo,