The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1909-11-03
FARM NOTES.


A long, leggy fowl is usually OK
coarse bone and contains greater
amount of offal than one compactly
built. There are some breeds that
are naturally tall but there are also
individuals among them more COM
pact and solid than others, and they
are the ones that should be selected
as breeders, provided they are COCA
in other respects. A vigorous, COM
pact male should always be given the
preference, but he must not be short
legged in proportion to his body.
Club root cabbage is one OF the
most annoying yet easily controlled
of diseases. To be on the safe side
cabbage plants should be started III
soil which has not been previously
used for cabbage culture. A field IN
which the disease is found should Tor
several years be kept free OF cabbage,
turnip kale, wild mustard, etc, since
the fungus winters over in the soil
and thrives on any plants OF the
brassica family.
The popular American rose, thu
crimson rambler, has suddenly come
into fashion in Europe, where it Is
used on social occasions as decora-
tive bloom. The pink rambler IS al
most equally popular, and is favor
ite ornament for porches III the su'
burban sections Of English cities
where it seems to be taking the place
of the honeysuckle, Virginia creeper
and other climbing plants.
Don't forget, burn the weeds, the
potato vines, cauIifiower or cabbage
stalks and loose leaves, and all GU
cumber and melon vines; you lose
humus or decaying vegetable matter
by so doing, but you head off heart
burn and plant loss for years, and
YOU can raise humus for you must
have it to keep up fertility as covei
crops. or buy it as manure or alll-
vial muck.
Pigs in the orchard are a gool
thing to get rid of the wormy apples
providing they do not incline to root
too deep. There Is all the difference
in the world in porkers about this.
A ring may stop the trouble, but D.
| they persist in going in to the SOL
so deep as to interfere seriously villa
| the roots of the trees, take them out,
One advantage of having plenty ot
| water range for ducks is that they
| will pick up good part OF their llF-
| ing in the pond or stream, but the,
must be confined within reasonable
| limits or many of them will wander
away and be lost,
From single seed Marshall w.
Follanshee, Of Saco, Mo, raised a vine
which bore II lsquashes, having a
total weight Of 252 pounds,
Ewes to breed well should be In a
thriving condition. Those bred early
may be given good tone by feeding
on rape or grass pasture. Dry feed
| roots or cabbage furnish an excellent
adjunct. Over-fat ewes are always
slow to conceive. That Is why those
i fated for shows and those that failed
to raise lambs aud laid on fat are
hard to breed. Frequently, to the
layman, these are most attractive
i hut in dollars and cents, they are moi
i profitable.
Il TWO New Jersey girls own a II.
acre farm in New Jersey and trave
4 back and forth to New York city tt
business every day, They care for
500 pigeons, 50 chickens, q COW and
horse and also raise collie dogs. The,
arise at 4.30 every morning and leave
for business at a, m, driving IN
miles to the station IN addition L
all this they set one acre of straw
berries last spring, which they witt
the help of a boy have cared Tor thi
4 summer. | recently saw a picture N
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