The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1909-10-15

Do not ruin your horse b. COM
peliing him to pull too hard when
! young
| Crocus grown In grass Dies down SO
easily that il does not interfere with
the lawn.
Shippers OF cattle that show any
| fines. Tor = tat stock market have no
| cause to complain
A value in hogging down corn at
| maturity in the fall IL the enriching nf
the soil with the droppings of the
| animals.
Select med!umsized. full ripe toma
toes for seed. No crooked or small
sized fruit should be taken II the best
| seed Is wanted.
SunfOwer seed is good poultry food.
| and a few rows Of the plants near the
poultry yards are also good for sum
mer shade and protection.
To keep the boy on the farm. enlist
he can call his own. and let him have
the profits realized from its sale.
DO not keep either the young or old
horses stabbed for several days in sue
cession. because they need daily ex-
ercise for bone and muscle develop.
ment.
A Kansas farmer makes a practice
Of hogging down corn by the use OF q
portable fence. and last year made his
corn thus fed net him Al L. cents a
busheI
One man claims that for the cost of
harvesting 4Oacre field of corn
hog-t!ght fence can be built around the
field where cattle fence. barbed
wire, is already there.
Raw farm land should have a dress
ing of long manure plowed under in
the fall. and thick dres sing of fine
the spring and we'll narrowed in.
The custom OF hogging down corn in
the fall of the year has been practiced
for great many years on American
farms but 1t is only of recent years
that farmers have come to know its
definite value
The value of humus is emphasized
where an old barn, or house has been
left standing In the middle of a field,
as the crops are usually much superb
or to those on the surrounding pOr.
tions Of the field
Feeding animals need exercise, but
not SO much as should be given breed
Ing animals. II is best to promote the
tendency toward laziness, allowin,
Just enough exercise to maintain ths
health OF the body.
II the pasture Is short in the fal
the lambs may be turned in the corr
field to pasture. They will eat gras.
along the fence rows and the lower
blades of the corn, but they will moi
injure the corn in the least
Land intended for fruit or vegetabi.
garden should have a heavy dressing
of long stable manure spread evenly
over the ground and deeply ploweo
under. This should be done in Octc
ber. or before the fall rains set In.
Where there are bare spots in tn.
| lawn sod, SOW n little new crop grass
| seed and rake 1t In. Before winter sets
In thick dressing OF fine, sifted, rich
manure should be spread over the
| grass; rotted manure is the best fer.
| tiliZer
In selecting stock to he bred for
layers the male birds are quite as
important. One must be careful that
| the males are descendants from pro.
life layers. The best layers are also
obtained where the sires and grand
sires are also from stock noted for
their exceptional laying.
The apple maggot is a larvae which
matches out into a moth during a ne
riod after the apple has fallen to the
ground with a maggot contained with,
in 1t. The presence of hogs in the or.
chard in sufficient numbers to con.
sumo the fruit as 1t falls means the
determination Of the pest
In the eastern half of the United
States black rot has proven a serious
drawback to gra~e culture. Humidity
is favorable to this disease. More
than 20 years ago spraying was intro
duced as means of combating this
and other fungus diseases of vines and
fruit trees. and bordeaux mixture has
been the standard fungicide from the
first
The earlier ground is plowed 70,
fall wheat the better. as 1t allows mors