The Columbus journal., 1909-09-08

during the hot days.
One good cultivation during a dry
spell is as effective as shower. Try
it.
Liberal rations and cOmmOdIous
quarters make for splendid sheep
gains.
Filthy troughs are sure to breed dis
ease among the hogs. Keep things
clean.
Very little r.ore trouble or expense
to raise a blooded animal than it is to
raise scrub.
The mouse in the granary Is Wis
itOr which the thrifty farmer will not
suffer to remain.
The nearer poultry can be kept in
the natural state the harder they will
be. and the greater profit they will re-
turn.
Been swimming or fishing this sum-
mer? Take a half day of and so with
the boys. 1t will bring dad and the
boys closer together.
High prices encourage sheep raising.
but don't jump into the business too
brashly Begin in small way and
work up. Buy few ewes and good
ram.
1t is the thriftless farmer who IS
certain that farming does not pay
Neither would any other business pay
handled i'm the same way as he does
| the farming.
The dust bath must be provided for
the fowls. They will cooperate with
you in keeping them free from lice.
They enjoy rolling in the dry dust
and it drives away the vermin.
Plant roots find feeding ground at
| much lower level in drained than
| undrained soils, as they find condi
tons favorable for such growth.
Worms. ants and other insects burrow
deeper These worm holes and root
channels permit a more perfect aera-
, ton and oxidation, until the whole
| body OF the soil down as deep as ii
has been drained becomes fit home
| and feeding ground for the roots OF
our plants.
Don't use binders. for these relics
of barbaiism there is no possible ey-
cuSe. They are entirely unnecessary
and decidedly hurtful to the best serv-
! ice from the wearers. They detract
from the natural beauty OF the horse
and prevent the full use of the eye
sight that Nature endowed him with
Instead OF acting as preventive from
fright at the sight OF strange objects.
| they render him suspicious of many
| ordinary things coming within range
of his INSTRUCTED view. thereby max
! ing him unnecessarily nervous and
| over eXcitable if he is creature of
mettle. Man has no right to deprive
| the horse OF one of his keenest senses
| through the use Of the Furnishing
binder
While there is still difference of
opinion as TO the best method Of Or
chard management. yet it would seem
as though the cultural method gave
more profitable returns than the sod
mulch method. The New York expert
ment station after a FIVE year expert
ment mad demonstrated that at least
on clay loan, tillage is more profitable
than sod mulch. 1t remains to be
said that in certain conditions sod
mulch is the only feasible method.
and, therefore, where 1t is a case OF
this system or no apples. then OF
course the inevitable must be &C
cepted. In doing this, it does not fol-
low that the grower will not receive
profit from his labors; but it does
mean that where tillase methods are
possible, they usually bring larger
returns than any system OF sod cul.
ture which has been tested thus far.
The wheat straw infested with He's,
sian fly breaks over just above the
joint, which. while it varies consider
ably in location. is usually relative.
ly short distance above the ground. II
the grower will carefully pull the leaf
away from the stalk where it is
broken over he will find lying in a
little dent lengthwise in the straw an
oval. dark-brown seedlike body one
fourth Of an inch or less long. This
is the "flaxseed" stage OF Hessian fly
and is sometimes improperly spoken
of as the eggs" of the fly. Some
times, through careless handling OF
other causes, the "fiaxseed" will be
gone over and only the little dent in
the straw left as evidence of its for
mer presence. If the grower does
not find the ''fiaxseed" in the first ex
amined he should continue to examine
broken straws until he does find it, OF
until he is convinced that the fly die
not DO the work.
!. Cow testing associations are dom:
good work in Wisconsin. and the sys
tenn might prOfitably be tried il
other dairying sections. These as
sociations are of two kinds, the Isl /;
COW plan" and the 80 cents Gov
p;ap." In the former the Dairymen'
association furnishes a man to do thu
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