The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1909-11-24
Very few bees die inside Of = hive.

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Save this years wheat field for som,
other crop next year.
The asparagus beetle Is . trouble
some pest and hard to fight.
! Land gets its value from the inter
est it will pay on the investment.
An acid condition may be deter
mined by testing the soil with blue
litmus paper.
Drainage will ultimately be seen Il
be Of vital importance In every irri
gated district.
Worms are most frequently seen n
young horses and In those that are
weak and debilitated.
Timothy and clover mixed makes
good hay because the timothy holds
the clover up and the curing is eaaier
Clover alone cannot indefinitely
maintain the land A rotation will not
enable us to maintain the fertility Of
the soil.
Chickens are very fond of the aspar
agus beetles and a few fowls will soon
capture the matured insects If allowed
in garden hQ6
Those who have studied the canta-
loupe market all over the United
States declare that there is no danger
Of Over-production.
Luther Burbank says that the spine.
less cactus will make millions of acres
of land now unirrigable, produce more
fodder than the rich meadow lands.
The addition of roots to an already
complete ration of silage, clover hay
and grain for a dairy COW stimulates
both milk and butter fat production.
Few of the honey bees live to exceed
the age of IS days. except during their
time of Information in winter, yet in
this short period much is accom-
plished
Just because wheat is high this
year do not SOW an extra large crop
for next year. Everybody will do that.
which will have the tendency to lower
the price
Perhaps COW is at her best at six
or seven years of age. though such
tests as have been made do not always
prove that. The data seems to be linn
tied for some reason.
It may not be generally known that
soy beans make the finest egg-pro-
ducing food for poultry. The beans
would better be cracked until the
chickens are educated to eat them.
Some of the clover plants will re-
main alive and some clover seed will
be in the soil SO that the meadow
next year will be mixed clover and
timothy, which makes excellent hay
for the horses.
The first two weeks of a bees life
are spent almost entirely inside of the
hive nursing larvae, taking only q
short fight on sunny afternoons to
strengthen its wings and mark the 10
cation of it's home.
When pinworms are noticed to be
present in horses. frequent injections
of infusions Of tobacco. infusions Of
quassia chips. one-half pound to one
gallon of water, followed up by q ca
thartic, are most efficient.
Land plaster Il q soil stimulant. and
while it increases growth at first, It
will injure the soil. Land plaster 10
put into some fertilizers. but 1t hurts
the land. Farmers don't want to be-
gin to use a stimulant for the land.
Keep your gasoline engine clean
and free from surplus oil, but keep
the valves and working parts well
oiled, so they work freely. Use gas
engine cylinder oil for oiling the cyl.
Under; never use steam engine cyl.
inder OIL
The farmer. to win the highest sue
cess, must be in thorough sympathy
with his work and proud of his call
ing, and he must mix a great amount
of brains with his labor. The keynote
for achieving high success is careful
to details.
Rock phosphate does not leach out
of the soil; it might wash of from
As to the quantity, it is best
to keep applying rock phosphate until
the soil content of phosphorus has
been brought up to 1900 or 1900
pounds per acre in the surface seven
inches.
An ideal of farm is one which
maintains a system of agriculture
which builds up the soil to q high
state of fertility, produces everything
needed on the farm that can be salts.
factorily produced and maintains not
less than two principal industries as
sources of revenue.
Look after the young stock as pas
ture feed gives out. for upon present
young stock depends the future pro
ducers. The young heifer will not
grow and build frame and digestive
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