The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1909-03-05

Give the breeding mare exercise
every day.
Prune the vineyard at once II you
save not already done 20.
Muslin fronts for the chicken houses
are winners. Try one.
Alfalfa or clover hay 10 good for the
brOod SOW. Give her all she will eat
up clean.
Sheep will feed together better and
fatten more evenly II they are uni
form in character.
that your poultry have all the grits
they need.
. Guess-work methods are the great
est curse to the farm. and explain
more failures than any one thing
Better prices do not make better
tend to boost prices. Try it.
Spring II upon us. Get all the odd
Jobs out Of the way before the regular
spring rush begins.
Hens do not like to scratch In wet
litter. Bee that everything Is dry
Is bone and snug as you can
make 1t.
Put wheat bran and middlings In .
box where the calf can get at It. She
will soon learn to eat 1t and 1t will
be better for her to get 1t In this way
than to give It to her In the milk.
corn per acre last year amounted to
only three-tenths Of 4 bushel per acre,
but in the aggregate it meant an in
crease of hundreds of thousands Of
dollars to the farmers.
= Handle the cream and do your but.
Ter making away from the odors Of the
kitchen. Nothing absorbs the odors
- quickly as cream and butter. and
the poorly favored butter does not
sell well or bring good price.
Make q chicken rOOst out of the dis
carded wagon wheel, after removing
the iron tire which would prove too
cold thing for the hens feet. Such
4 roost is economical of space. 1t
can be suspended from the roof.
The squealing pig is entering pro-
test about something. Find out what
1t is. II cold, provide better shelter
If hungry, increase the feed. The
squealing pig brings small profit to
its grower
Caustic potash rubbed we'll upon the
little knobs where the horns of the
calf will grow will prevent develop
ment and will save dehorning later.
The treatment must be given during
the first two weeks, however.
For some reason thick sour skim
milk seems to have a greater value for
hens than sweet milk. This may be
due to the milk sugar not being digest
ed and assimilated by fowls, or. pos
sibly, the Tactic acid which is present
in sour milk may have an especially
beneficial effect More experimental
work is needed to clear up this
waiter.
Alfalfa Is crop worth striving for.
Plan for a start this year. Alfalfa
wants a dry, sweet, rich soil and un-
derdraining seems to help any land
for this crop, as does also the applica-
tion of lime. Four tons to the acre
has been found none too much. and 1t
will not grow on land destitute Of
lime. The land must be clean, SO mid
narrowed over and over to kill weeds
brings best results. Some have made
the mistake of cutting 1t too soon and
too often. The crop has been killed
by cutting too soon, and cutting
should not be done until after the
young suckers are well started from
the crown.
1t is a well-known fact that fruit
tree will set more fruit than it is ca
pable of supporting and bringing to per-
fection. Prof. Sandsten of the Wis
consin experiment station suggests
that to aid nature In its work grow
ers should take away the extra fruit.
The vitality of the tree is used up
by the number of seeds it is permit
ted to ripen, not by the size of the
fruit. 1t is readily seen that by re-
moving some of the fruit we con-
serve the fertility of the land, as we'll
rs aid the tree to properly mature the
remaining fruit. A tree that has thus
been thinned will bring forth more
fruit in bushels than other trees: and,
besides this, the fruit from thinned