The Lamar register., 1909-04-21
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Red and .alsike clover make a good
mixture-half and half.
Feed the trees in the orchard.
Ground bone and muriate of potash
are good
Better results are obtained in feed
ing cattle where alfalfa is mixed with
corn slower.
The average market hog should
weigh about 300 pounds at eight
months of age.
Aphids or plant lice can be easily
destroyed by kerosene emulsion spray.
Get after them as soon as they make
their appearance.
The uncomfortable. underfed calf is
the calf that bleats. Every bleat is a
protest against such unthrifty methods
for such a calf will not grow and won't
pay.
Take a good farm paper and then
read 1t. Meadowbrook Farm Notes
are not intended to displace. but to
supplement the farm paper. You need
both.
In pruning trees make your cuts
loose to the trunks or branches. and
paint the cut surfaces. This will pre-
vent unsightly stubs and places for
decay to begin.
II you have not a manure spreader.
harrow the field after you have put
the manure on by hand. This will
prove almost as good as the use of
the spreader. although not as quick.
Never use an ak to prune with. Use
saw or pruning shears and take the
limbs and branches off close to the
tree so that the tree in time will cover
the wound with bark and thus pre-
vent rotting.
Look after the bare places in the
dooryard and around the house. A
little preparation of the soil and SOW
ing of grass seed now will give you
nice green covering for the sum-
mer. 1t will make the place look
better.
That mountain-high manure pile
near the barn is not only a reminder
of wasteful methods of keeping the
manure but it also tells of long days
of hard work in getting 1t out on the
land. Too bad it was not hauled out
a load at time as 1t was made dur
ing the winter.
Lice will cause big losses to the hog
raiser. One stockman who was new
at the business bought several sows
that later had $50 pigs and all but IL
of these died before weaving time.
After 1873 had died veterinarian was
called in to find what disease was
killing the pigs and he found that they
had all been killed by lice. They were
covered with vermin.
II blowing is done early you can
go deeper than when breaking the
ground late, as the soil will have time
to settle firmly back against the bot
tom of the furrow and to establish
capillary connection with the lower
part of the soil before the time of
planting The farmer usually need
not fear that he will turn. up unproduc-
tive soil by deep blowing, for as a
rule 1t will soon become aerated and
fertile.
Don't put over the pruning of the
fruit trees It is the leading branches
that need attention. When heading in
the leaders on a tree 1t is best, ac-
cording to the opinion of Prof. G. F.
Warren, New Jersey. to cut them of.
to a side branch, rather than to a dor
mant bud. Frequently when an in
experienced man practices heading-in.
he is tempted to shear the tree all
over and leave it a smooth, oval form
1t will be seen that this is very differ
ent from the method described above,
where only the leaders are cut back
and the side shoots thinned so as to
leave an open top. The amount of
heading-in to be done should vary
from year to year, according as the
crop promises to be large or small.
AS the tree gets older less heading-in
is usually necessary.
Test your seed corn before planting.
This is not such a difficult PROPOSE
ton as you may imagine. Expert
ments have shown that it is possible
to test enough corn for planting so
acres in a total of two days time. This
is done by preparing box two feet
by three feet square and two or three
inches deep, filling this level full OF
sand. Nails are driven around the
edges of the box az inches apart and
allowed to project one-fourth of an
inch. Strings are then stretched back
and forth across the box, dividing 1t
into squares 21a inches each way.
The ears are laid out on a board. num-
bered and ten kernels taken from each
ear. The kernels are then inserted,
point downward, into the sand so as
to place them about one-fourth to one
half inch below the surface. The
kernels from car No. will be placed
in square No. /, the kernels from ear
No. will be placed in square NO. z,
and so on. The box is then wetted
down, covered with a cloth and put In
warm place, probably under the