The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1909-08-31
FARM NOTES.

iced them in the open, then on warm
evenings turn back a corner of the
packing that is over the frames. and
feed from shallow dish. Line a
saucer with a square of muslin, al
ways remembering that bees will slip
down on w-t. slippery surface aud
drown If precautions are not taken.
That is what the square of muslin is
for. Let 1t reach well over the dish
on TO the frames so the bees will have
no trouble to get at it. Then fill the
saucer with warm syrup and the bees
will do the rest.
AS soon as the young cockere.s be-
gin to show signs of growing a comb
they must be disposed of if they are
intended for market. If they grow a
comb of any great size they will bring
but TO 10 cents pound instead of
Is or 20. 1t is a loss of food and a
waste of time to feed them after they
are four or five months of age A
great many people prefer a cockerel
about five months Of age to a brOiler,
for if prepared in the proper way they
make an excellent dish.
Moist foamy soil. well drained and
not very susceptible to drouth, affords
the best seed bed for rhubarb 1t
should be exceedingly rich and the
seed put in drills one inch deep. Cow
er with a hoe and press down well
with the foot A pound of rhubarb
seed will usually produce about 1900
plants. 1t is a mistake to allow the
plants to go to seed If very large
stalks are desired for a fancy trade
all bur the vigorous center buds should
be thinned out
Any community that will allow
useful birds to be destroyed ought TO
be eaten alive with insects And until
the people will arouse and protect the
birds, there is no use for them to
complain about the loss from insect
rayages.
The average farmer Is not 50 much
in need of advice as to how to grow
more bushels an acre as he is to get
more dollars, net, for the crop grown.
The man who will not take the
pains to breed good mare to a good
horse must expect to put up with a
poor colt as a result of his careless
ness
Prevent horses from being rained
upon If possible when they are very
hot.
The department of agriculture has
received a report of experiments
made in Germany with mich cows.
During period Of 10 days in Novem-
Der in which they were turned out
of doors for three hours each day, a
herd of so cows produced on the ay.
erage per day 1461 pounds of milk
and 5SS pounds of butter whereas,
during the preceding 10 days, in
which they were kept the entire day
In the stall. the same cows produced
on the average but l349 pounds OF
milk per day and 500 pounds of but.
ter. The general health and appe-
lite Of the cows were improved by
the period out of doors each day.
Swiss chard is growing in popu.
larity. 1t is cultivated like the beet
and is ready for use as a sort of sub
stitute for asparagus within a few
weeks after seeding. 1t lacks the
richness Of flavor of asparagus but
Is a good substitute while the aspar.
agus plantation is getting ready to
bear. The long stalks are served as
asparaus or as creamed celery, and
the leaves may be cooked like spin.
ach. Luculus is the choicest variety.
Sea kale should be m every garden
and would be a good money-maker
for our commercial growers. Seed
s0wn in the spring makes plants that
will yield the next year and a Patch
handled like asparagus is good for
many years to come. 1t actually
pushes up the ground in slabs after
the last freeze in spring. The bleach.
ed stalks are prepared and eaten like
asparagus.
The first one or two litters Of eggs
laid by pullets are not so seryiceable
SO sure or profitable for Matching as
is their later product for the reason
that they were first formed at a time
when the pullet was growing and the
organs not fully developed,
Bad cases of feather eating have
been cured by painting around the
bare places on hens that have had
their feathers plucked with a prepar.
alton made of powdered aloes dis.
solved in alcohol. Hens do not like
the bitter taste.
Practical sheep men say three to
four sheep an acre are enough. Yet
as already stated, this would depend
on the season, character of the pas,
ture, etc. Much in all these practi-
cal things must be left to the flock
maste;
Poultry farming, of all other
branches of agriculture, has suffered
by the fact of so many people think
ing it quite an easy thing to tend
fowls. So it Is, and there is good
money being made ut it, too, IL one
only knows the way.
AS the young pigs come in, do not
allow them to lose their baby fat, but
kpon than in pnnd condition r;ohs