The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1909-06-04
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Slack coal is good for the hogs.
Spray or whitewash the henhouse
this spring.
Good pasturage is essential to sue
cessful hog raising.
Cold winds and sudden rains cause
many loss to the chicken raiser.
1t takes 81 days to hatch goose
eggs. ten days longer than with those
Of the hen.
Heavy roads make hard pulling for
the horses. Remember that. and 30
easy on them.
Don't touch the land when It is wet.
Il will practically ruin 1t II 1t II .
clayey loan II you do.
Spoiled grain and dirty water are
poor encouragement to the COW to
give either quantity or quality milk.
Mark the SOW which proves Z good
mother and treat her with special re-
gard. She will prove a spendid part
ner In the farming business.
Calling the unreasonable weather
names and going around with thun-
der cloud ON your brow and anger In
your heart never changed the weather
or made crops grow.
Don't think you know more than the
maker of the separator you use. Fol
low the directions which came with 1t.
and follow them explicitly II you want
to get good results.
The farmer who Is considerate of
his teams during the early work Of the
spring is the farmer who is going to
get better and better work out OF them
As the season progresses.
All the tools and machinery in good
repair? Use the bad days to look
after these things, II you have not
already done 30. Such work should
have been done months ago.
on at night; to wash OF the shoulders
under the collars with cold water, and
to let stand for half an hour or 80 be.
fore giving the grain feed.
Turkeys like secluded nests A
nook in the brush heap or thickets
is much to their liking. But they will
also take kindly to an overturned lar
rel or to an inverted V-shaped coop.
1t must be Of ample size, Of course.
to give the turkey easy entrance.
Preparation Of the soil II the first
step towards the raising of = good
crop. but 1t is Of no avail unless you
plant good plump, healthy seeds that
possess strong vitality and are free
from all hereditary diseases. All
small grain seed, such as oats, bar
ley. rye and wheat, should be run
through tanning mill and all weak
and light seeds and all dirt and weed
seed separated.
1t Is the opinion Of some corn grow
ers that corn planted In drills will
make larger growth and yield than
that which Is planted in hills, but more
work will be required In cultivating
and hoeing. the same. Best results
are obtained where the drill attach
ment is used on a two-horse planter
Use a bushel OF seed for six acres
which will make a plant every eight
to IL inches in the rows. A weeder
will aid very much in controlling the
weeds where corn Is drilled. Some
growers OF drilled corn plant two ker-
nels every IS to "a inches and hoo the
crop.
The rolling Of winter wheat in the
spring has never failed to increase
the yield In experiments by the Ne
braska experiment station during
four years, 1t showing an average of
81 bushels per acre increase. The
rolling was given early in the
spring. soon after frost was out and
about the time growth started. Har-
rowing after rolling was not as good
as rolling alone. probably due to loos-
ening up the plants again after the
roller had pressed them firmly into
the soil. Early spring rolling Of win
ter grain. pressing the earth as 1t does
firmly about the plant roots, produces
good results. When frost comes out
In the spring 1t is very apt to leave
the soil filled with small cracks or
checks. especially around the plants
II these checks are examined closely
1t will be seen that a large number of
roots are thus exposed. and II the
weather continues dry they are killed
or at least injured. We have taken
up plants in the spring where half Of
the roots were injured in this m-nner.
lIf the soil is not wet at the time of
rolling-and it should never be rolled
when wet-rolling aids in no small