The Nevada County picayune. (Prescott, Ark.) 190?-current, 1910-06-24

1t is useless to try to pet hungry
animal.
Steel cut oatmeal stands foremost
as tiny chick food.
Strawberry plants may be set out as
late as the middle of summer.
The foliage of the nasturtium is
equally as beautiful as the blossoms.
Turkeys are perhaps the most prof
table of poultry kind if properly han
died
Burnt wheat may be fed if fowls eat
1t readily-that Is, good conditioned
fowls.
Dried red blood meat meal and hoof
meal contain from 10 to ii per cent.
of nitrogen
Horses very often lose their eyesight
through dust and hay seed falling into
their eyes from the loft above.
A new style in baby beef has been
set. The kind that Is going to market
at present is the 300 to 500-pound
type.
1t is easily possible almost every
where to make a hen produce three
dollars worth of eggs year on $3.50
worth of feed.
Soy beans require conditions and
cultivation similar to those required
b. corn Good preparation of the soil
IS necessary.
For dry and cloddy corn fields,
either before or after the corn is
planted. heavy roller is better than
either the harrow or drag.
Barnyard manure adds quite little
plant food TO the soil besides contain
ing considerable organic matter which
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mus
To secure the greatest benefit from
green manuring crop care must be
taken in turning 1t under to have the
soil narrowed and packed as fast as
it is plowed
A proper handling of the milk is
most essential. Too often it is drawn
from the COW In stables in which the
air is filled with dust and put in I'M
clean vessels.
Live stock needs water TT all sea
sons, but water during warm weather
is more essential P-epGre now for
a good water supply for the animals
during the summer months.
The color of milk does not Indicate
the richness of ii. Oftentmes milk
which is rich is blue in color and
oftentimes milk which is yellow and
rich looking is of rather poor quail
ity.
Cream. on the average, VIII weigh
about eight pounds 10 the gallon, but
il varies, according to the per cent. of
butter fat which it contains. It is well
known that butterfat is lighter than
milk
Success in poultry culture Is simply
the result Of looking after all the little
details connected with the business.
Anyone can be successful If he will
use a little diligence and common
sense
Most of the brood mares in the
central west are dual purpose in char
acter They not only raise colts but
most of them put in eight or ten hours
of strenuous labor every day after
the colt is ten days or two weeks old.
Fertilizers too rich in nitrogen
should not be applied 10 the field in
tended for oats, because the growth
will be too rank and the production of
grain viii be retarded. The same is
true in very limited measure of
corn.
II young hogs are kept in close con
mement and fed heavily on corn
alone, they will most likely develop
leg weakness, as they require nitro
genous foods in which sklmmilk
should take a large part in order to
grow good, solid bones.
Not how much, but how well, is
good motto for folks who are In the
chicken business. Better to hatch and
raise a small number OF fine. thrifty
early chickens than to hatch a hun.
dred or two and lose or stunt them
for lack OF care or suitable aceommo-
dations.
Wheat containing knghead seed is
cut in price, because it is almost i'm.
rosSihIe IN remove them, and if they