The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1909-10-22

Mares bred In November will drop
tLetr colts the following October.
What . great debt the world owes
the farmer for the many good things
he produces.
Never keep more hens than you can
accommodate comfortably, because
they never do we'll when crowded.
~ The sale of saddle horses In New
York city has been 20 per cent. more
during the present year than it was
last
Give fruit trees plenty of light and
root feeding room. There Is always
more danger Of setting trees too close
together than too far apart.
1t may be necessary to have several
pens and follow system of line
breeding 30 that there may not be
too much inbreeding or loose breed
ing.
Coaxing . little loveliness into what
have been waste places IL a modern
mission, which is expected to have an
influence in extending the reaction
toward country life.
Hay farming is sometimes called
mining the land because 1t is sup
posed to gradually remove and ex-
haust the fertility of the farm in the
same way that mining removes the
ore supplies.
One of the most common methods
of blanching Is by means Of boards
placed on edge along each side Of the
row Of celery. This method is also
In general use for blanching large
fields of early celery.
A horse that has been worked IL
to is hours during the day is entitled
to a good feed. Twelve quarts Of
oats. divided into three meals, and
from eight to ten pounds Of hay, given
,kt night, make . good ration.
The apple maggot is one Of the
greatest menaces, to the apple culture
and is one Of the most dinicult pests
to eradicate. It inhabits the interior
of the fruit and to destroy 1t means
the destruction of the apple itself.
To exhaust the land as little As Dos
sible It is necessary not to scrimp in
top dressing, but to put back the
greater part of the fertility that is Ia
ken out by the crop, returning 1t in
the form Of manure or chemicals, or
both combined.
-Four feet ID high enough to permit
blackberries to grow. Slender, late,
immature canes should be cut out en-
tirely n there are longer ones. It is
an immense bearer, and . severe cut
ting back often makes the difference
between profit and loss in the yield.
II hens are made comfortable IN
every way and have only thee grow
ing OF . normal crop of feathers. and
are fed literally with nutritious pro-
tein feeds. they will come through the
mounting period ih good condition and
will be ready In a short time to lay
eggs for the high market.
An experiment with milking ma
chimes by the Nebraska experiment
station shows that, the majority OF
lows yield their milk rs freely and
fully when milked with a machine as
when milked by hand, but with some
individual animals the use Of the ma
chine is not entirely successful.
FaI is q good time to give the
farm q general overhauling. Espe-
ctal attention should be given to haul
ing and repairing. The roads are
good and the fields solid where the
hauling must be done. 1t is better
time than spring to fix up the fences.
~ the ground il not wet. Building
of sheds and general repairing Is best
done when the material and ground
are dry.
Clover in wheat or oat stubble in
tended for hay next year should not
O8 uCAVlly P2olAAV sAAO A0AA' Sus-
ting over the field once or twice with
the moving machine will give the
young plants a better chance to light
and air, and the weeds and stubble
moved of will help form a mulch for
holding moisture during the dry
weather and keep the plants from
freezing in cold weather.
Following the feeding Of rye before
other soiling crops mature, an unused
pasture should be kept in reserve and
the COWS turned on when the grass
in the arly pasture is eaten short. II
q field of the farm is in winter wheat
and another field in oats, and these
fields are sown In clover in early
spring and the wheat and oats re-
= moved a. soon ~ possible after har-
vest these fields may be used as dairy
tN a.