The state herald. (Holyoke, Logan County, Colo.) 1887-1921, 1909-06-11
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Alfalfa is growing in favor as u
rotation crop.
Poor food and bad teeth are fruit.
full sources of cholic in horses.
The sponge for washing buggy or
wagon can be made to last a long
time by sewing it up in n piece of bag
ging.
If the cows find little feed in the
boxes in their stalls when they come
in at night they will not delay in com.
ing in. Try 1t.
Clean feeding pals, clean quarters,
plenty of sunlight, fresh air and pas.
turage as soon as the calves are old
enough will insure gratifying sue.
cess.
is found on the farm, many times,
Put in more fruit trees and bushes.
The health of the family will be bet.
ter If there is a generous fruit diet
Better to spray once than not at all
But the only right method is to be
systematic and spray at the pre-
scribed intervals. II is well to fol
low the spray calendars which are
furnished by experiment stations.
Plant more trees. In few more
years they become a big-paying in
vestment. Utilize every available
space on the farm for this purpose
Plan to never let a year go by but
that you have put in few trees. 1t
lis too late to set any out now but
make up your mind that you will put
some in in the fall and next spring.
The department of agriculture is
experimenting with view to secur.
ing single germ beet seed. Last
years Investigations were successful
in increasing the percentage of the
single germ seed to so per cent. as
compared to 26 per cent for the year
previous. BY methods of selection
from single-seed plants this percent.
age may be still further increased
The ultimate establishment of sin.
gle germ beet will revolutionize sugar
beet growing. since the several
sprouts sent up by the ordinary seed,
all but one OF which must be carefully
removed by hand. constitutes the most
difficult problem in beet raising.
A large pocket knife with a sharp
blade should be carried when going
through the orchard. With II one
can cut out small branches and do
vast amount of good pruning that
will save much work later. With the
big blade of larse. sharp pocket
knife Il branch nearly an inch in
diameter may be easily and quickly
cut on. To perform this operation.
pull the branch to the tree with one
hand and cut with the other. The
b'huiHh VI Aut uihil'H HlhhtN lut cut
ting easy Let the cut be clean. leay.
Ing no stub. or only a very shoe one.
Branches of pear trees that have
been killed with blight should be cut
out and burned. When they are
promptly removed the remainder of
the tree not infected viii assume Wig.
orous growth and produce n heavy
crop OF good fruit. A pear tree with
more than half OF the large branches
killed by the blight may be saved In
this manner and become a perfect,
healthy tree.
II will be well for the fruit grower
who does not believe in the efficacy of
spraying to study the following tables
which set forth the results OF expert.
ments In two fruit.growing counties of
New York state-orlcans and Mag.
ara. made by the state experiment
station. The orchards In these two
counties have been placed In two
groups. The first group includes all
orchards, whether well cared for or
not. the second group includes only
the orchards which have received
good treatment. Both the yields and
Income per acre Of the orchards In tho
two groups IL shown:
All Orchards, Good. Indifferent. Poor