The Columbus journal., 1909-06-09
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Alfalfa is growing in favor as a
rotation crop.
Poor food and bad teeth are fruit
nj sources Of cholic In horses.
The sponge for washing buggy or
wagon can be made to last q long
lime by sewing 1t up in q piece Of bag.
ying.
II the cows find q little feed in the
foxes in their stalls when they come
n at night they will not delay in com
'ng in. Try it.
Clean feeding pals, clean quarters.
plenty of sunlight, fresh air and pas.
:urage as soon as the calves are old
enough will insure gratifying sue.
cess.
We all like fruit, but too little of it
found on the farm, many times.
Put in more fruit trees and bushes.
The health of the family will be bet.
.er II there is 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. 1t is well to fol.
ow the spray calendars which are
furnished by experiment stations.
Plant more trees. In q few more
years they become a big-paying in
,estment. Utilize every available
space on the farm for this purpose.
Plan to never let a year 60 by but
hat you have put In a few trees. II
is 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.
ng q single germ beet seed. Last
years investigations were successful
n increasing the percentage of the
single germ seed to so per cent, as
compared to rs per cent. for the year
previous. BY methods of selection
rom single-seed plants this percent
age may be still further increased
The ultimate establishment of sin
gle germ beet will revolutioEize sugar
3eet 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 SHARP
blade should be carried when going
through the orchard. With it one
can cut out small branches and DE-
vast amount of good pruning thai
will save much work later. With the
big blade of a larae. sharp pocket
knife a branch nearly an inch IL
diameter may be easily and quickly
cut of. To perform this operation
pull the branch to the tree with ONT
hand and cut with the other. Thu
bending of the branch makes the cut
ting easy. Let the cut be clean, leav
ing no stub, or only a very short one
Branches of pear trees that have
been killed with blight should be GU
out and burned. When they ART
promptly removed the remainder o.
the tree not infected will assume Wig
orous growth and produce heavy
crop of good fruit. A pear tree will
more than half of the large branche.
killed by the blight may be saved IL
this manner and become q perfect
healthy tree.
It will be well for the fruit grower
who does not believe in the efficacy o.
spraying to study the following tables
which set forth the results of expert
ments in two fruit-growing counties Of
New York state-Orleans 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 al
orchards. whether well cared for OF
not; the second group includes only
the orchards which have received
good treatment. Both the yields AND
income per acre of the orchards In thu
two groups Is shown:
All Orchards, Good, Indifferent, Poor
Niagara Orlean.