The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-12-17
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Shoe your horses for the business
they have to do.
If you can buy the COW that the
,ther man doesn't want to sell you are
generally pretty safe.
| The ginseng craze seems to have
passed out of sight in company With
the Belgian hare delusion.
a. flock of hens in the orchard will
take care of several hundred thousand
| bugs in the course of season.
| Have a fancy brand for the best
grade of your fruit. Stencil it on every
box and you will get a better price.
| Old apple trees that are not doiag
any good, but which have sound trunitu,
may be brought to usefulness by grafe-
ing.
| Narrow-chested horses have not the
endurance that those have with good
broad chests. Don't buy a THU breast
ed horse.
On all dairy farms the great question
in securing equipment is where TO draw
the line between essentials and non
essentials
The apple crop this year in Western
New York has paid ample dividends on
all time and money that growers have
spent I'm 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
| nesh-just the kind that brings the
fancy prices.
Che mule would hardly win in a
| beauty show and lacks speed, but lie
can beat a trotting thoroughbred horse
out of sight when 1t comes to plowlng
corn and cotton.
| A good deep hole In an out-of-tbe
way place is the right place to plant
all the old tin cans, broken bottles
GDd other unburnable rubbish which
makes the premises so unsightly.
IN the last analysis one will reap the
| iagest and most lasting results foT
himself in that undertaking in which
he contributes most generously to the
happiness and well being of those to
| vnom he ministers
/
ing the soil of a farm is to put it down
to clover, field by field, and pasturing
the hogs on it, Cow peas may also be
sown, and when full growth is attained
the hogs may be turned In.
An old fruit grower says that the
pick Is the best tool he ever used
around apple trees when the ground
:, has become too hard He sinks the
pick 8 or 10 inches into the soil and
merely prizes the dirt loose, without dis
turbing the roots at all.
1t Is estimated by competent authcri-
ties that over Az per cent of the food
products Of the better classes In the
United States consist of animal prod
ucts. In other words, half of the
amount spent for food of the average
family goes for meat, eggs and dairy
products. This fact suggests why u
pays the farmer TO raise stock.
Many Of the dairy farmers have kept
themselves poor by trying to conduct
business on the same scale as some
rich city farmer who is not at all We
pendent upon his income from his farm
to pay his expenses Of the labor and
equipment necessary to conduct his
farming operations on an elaborate
scale.
Farmers should study TO know the
| A. 10 hoi- 20 n,a
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 snch an interest I'm weeds he has
his farm practically free of them. The
best methods Of eradication is part of
the study Of weeds.
A government bulletin says that ex-
cept in general way the fertilizer
requirement of soils becomes 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
fectire.
In the Northern States alfalfa can be
more easily started In the early part
Of August than In April, as when
given the late planting opportunity is
afforded during the preceding months
to kill most Of the weed seeds that
may be lodged In the soil. The soil
should lie 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.