The state herald., 1909-04-16
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Ammonia VIII clean the ruDDer roi-
lers on your wringer.
Trim little every year rather than
too much in any one year.
Cottonseed meal is considered
great lean meat, bone and muscle
builder.
Re sure that warmth for the lambs
is not provided at the expense OF
plenty of fresh air.
Arsenate of lead is said to be
better material for spraying for in
sects that eat the foliage than is paris
green.
Encourage the presence of the birds
in the orchard Even the robins will
eat enough insects in season to
more than pay for the cherries they
mGy eat.
Plan the rows for small fruit to run
north and SOUTH II possible. This
gives the best chance for the sun to
shine on all sides of the plants and
TO warm the ground between them.
As soon as the leaves appear on the
currant and gooseberry bushes dust
them with hellebore while wet with
dew and you will keep the upper hand
on the worms. A second application
should be made later.
There is everything in getting
started right. Look ahead so as to
have the work well thought out be-
fore beginning. 1t is n good rule
which will help you in making n good
start that will end in good finish.
Any impossible mud holes in the
road near you? Make 1t point to
see that they are fixed, even II you
have to do little extra work gratis.
One bad place fixed proves an incen-
tive for the fixing of another hole by
some neighbor.
Test the seed before planting
Farmers who have made practice OF
doing so declare that 1t makes as
high as ten TO fifteen bushels per acre
difference. because they are able to
select the seed with the greatest
terminating power.
II is n good plan TO have ladder
handy. so that In case of fire one can
quickly get TO the roof and reach the
place where n large majority OF fires
In farm houses start. A few moments
time In such an emergency makes all
the difference in the world Many n
house might be saved II one could
only quickly reach the place where II
started.
When ready TO turn the cattle out
10 pasture do so gradually. That Is
have them well fed before turning
them on the grass and then for only
half day at first, This will prevent
their oyereating OF the fresh. green
grass, thing which sometimes re.
suits In very severe cases OF scours.
Remember any sudden and radical
change In the character OF the feed is
bad fGz live stock.
Do not make cheapness the basis OF
selection of fruit trees and bushes
you are going TO set out on your place.
II takes Just as much time and trou.
Bile to do the work and Just as many
years 10 bring them into bearing as
though you had bought and planted
good varieties. With the latter you
have something to show for your trou.
BILE: with the former you have only
numbered the ground. and win get no
satisfactory returns In the way OF
fruit. How foolishl
Weak lambs can almost always be
revived by putting them into water as
warm aS II is possible TO bear the
hands In, Keep them there n full min.
ute and then take out and rub fast
until quite dry. Warm u spoon In the
water, milk some OF the mothers milk
IN spoon. add n few drops Of whisky,
put this down the lamb. and repeat
three or four times Rub his throat
and make him swallow. Wrap him up
In dry cloths, and lay him In corner
with an old blanket o. straw thrown
over him.
The making OF scrylccablo horse
block Is not such dif1cult task. Dig
hole below the frost line for the
base OF the block ms the side OF the
road whore you wish II located Fiji
with cobbloHtoncs and between the
cracks MI In with cement Then set up
around the edge boards ten inches
wide and MI level 10 the surface with
stone. sand and cement mixture. Tn
on this place another mold Of boards
ten inches high, but only half aa wide
nH the first step was made. FIJI ms
before. The next day or when SUN.
cicntly dry. remove the boards and
uniHh on the surface with fino cement
wash. II desired while laying In the
cement for III. second step one can