The Jasper news. [volume] (Jasper, Missouri) 1898-1924, 1909-07-22
vi FARM
IF Mls,x III

Never pick or handle fruit when it
is wet.
Are the lice and mites getting the
best of you?
Keep the nests clean. Hens do not
like lice-infested nests.
Better to have two silos of medium
size than one of unusually large size.
Don't be content with the average
crop. Be among those who raise the
extra large crop and thus help to bring
up the average.
Frequent and continued use of oil
sprays are supposed by many orchard
lists to posses an injurious cumulat-
i've effect upon trees which should be
guarded against.
Never let the ground bake and
crack. Keep the surface broken into
fine mulch, az then you will have a
blanket of pulverized soil which will
prevent evaporation from underneath.
Stomach worms in sheep can be
prevented by keeping tobacco stalks,
leaves and stems where the flock can
have access to them. They will eat
what they need of them. Tobacco
waste can be bought cheaply.
The English sparrow may eat bugs
and injurious insects and noxious
weeds but not to any extent when
the corn shock. or the granary is
handy to be pilfered 1t Is amazing
how much grain the little pests will
get away with in the course of a year.
Scheduled among the rainy.day jobs
is that of oiliug the harness. Do you
know how best to 60 about it? Clean
1t first thoroughly, washing in good
soapy water. Then after it is dry
work through the hands and apply the
oil, rubbing it in well. Harness treat
ed frequently in this way will out.
last two or three pairs which are
neglected.
The Wisconsin Agricultural college
is pursuing course of investigation
which promises to throw much needed
light upon the ash constituents of
feed and their part in animal nutri-
ton. Actual tests have shown that
heavily milking COW excreted two
ounces of lime daily when on a COM
mon dairy ration. She ate only half
that much lime. In four months she
lost one-fourth the entire lime con-
tent of her body. Lime cannot be
very successfully administered apart
from the feed, but phosphates fed to
pigs on a corn diet materially i'm
proved their rate of growth and in
creased their strength of bone.
Humus in the soil is essential to
fertility, for If it is of good quality
1t is rich in both nitrogen and min.
eral plant food. The maintenance of
fertility may almost be said to con-
sist in keeping the soil we'll supplied
with humus. The first step in reno
waiting WORKOUT soils is to give them
an abundant supply of humus of coed
quality. Perhaps the best source of
humus is stable manure containing
both liquid and solid excrement, espe.
cially when the stock are fed rich nj.
trogenous foods. Even a poor quality
of barnyard manure, which has had
much of the plant food leached out of
1t, has considerable value because of
the humus it makes.
If horse could talk, this is what
an old experienced horseman, who
has feelin's for the animal, declares
he would say: Don't ask me to
back" with blinds on; Pm afraid to,
Don't let some blockhead drive me
that has got less sense. than / have
Don't run me down steep hill, for II
anything should give way / might
break my sneek. Don't whip me
when get frightened, or will expect
1t next time and may make you trou
BILE. Don't trot me up hill, for have
you, the buggy and myself to carry
Try running up hill with load your
self, Don't drive me with an "oyel
check" on; the sun hurts my eyes
and can't BEE where to step. It's in
human and cruel Teach me to stoI
when you say whoa" and this YOU
can dod without Jerking my head OF
or tearing my mouth. 1t may check
Inc II the lines should drop or break
aad save a runaway and smash.up.