The Nevada County picayune. (Prescott, Ark.) 190?-current, 1910-05-27
M e &!
W. FARM
BY lillian U1

The hoe killed the weeds but made
little mulch
If you are ready to plant do not wait
upon the moon.
Boiled milk is good for chicks and
Will help bowel trouble.
Colony houses are of two kinds
stationary and movable.
Where there is will there is a way
to clean the farm of weeds.
Where there is will there is a
way to clean the farm of weeds.
\ good farm level costs little COM
pared with It's worth and usefulness.
There is something wrong on the
dairy farm that does not have a few
hogs
If there is one clean farm in the
neighborhood. they can all be clean,
or nearly so.
Do not plant trees when the soil is
wet and sticky, or it is liable to be
packed too firmly.
Feeding the dairy COW IS one of the
first things that the successful dairy
man must thoroughly understand.
Contrasting associations, started
some years ago. have been a wonder
full help in wedding out Improbable
COWS
Roots of young trees should never
be allowed to become dry. Cover
with earth or wet sacks while waiting
to be planted.
Whitewash the trunks of the fruit
and orchard trees with lime. This
will repel borers, bark beetles and
other insects for a time.
Plant plenty of hay crops Work
stock and dairy cows must have
roughage if they are to do their part
in making the farm profitable
Perhaps the most effective and sat.
isfactory method of making a eve
own her lamb is to place her in a
hurdle where she can eat and com
fortably lie down.
Ten years ago the quality Of the
range horses on many of the large
western ranches was so Indifferent
that carload lots sold as low as $40 a
head Now they will bring $50.
II will not cost the farmer more
than ten cents an acre to select out
of his wheat bin the plumpest and
heaviest kernels for seed. He will
then improve his crop and yield.
Much kindness and respect for ami
mails can be taught children by giving
them pets y pet pony has often
taught children valuable lessons about
the horse and given them incentives
for outing in the fresh air.
We should select our hens from
some good flock that is well bred and
where the hens have a uniform ap
pearance and then buy a first class
rooster from some breeder who has
a different strain of the same breed
so as to avoid inbreedng
The questio. of the proper amount
of seed 10 SOW is never settled Two
and one-h half bushels of average oats.
sown broadcast. are not too many on
average land. average seasons; and
about one.half bushel less when
drilled in. is looked upon as about
right by most oatsgrowers,
Common wood ashes. with few
poultry droppings. are cheap and
most approved fertilizer for the grape
vines. Too rich fertilizer. such as
stable manure alone. produces a
growth so rank that roc is apt TO be
encouraged while the flavor OF the
fruit is impaired by the nature and
rapdity of growth.
Thorough tarring of corn will. to a
great extent. prevent pulling by crows
and blackbirds, but perhaps gophers
and ground squirrels would only laugh
At It. Moisten the seed with warm
water. then stir in coal tar at the
rate of teaspoonful to the peck, be
ing sure to stir until every kernel is
black. Dry with ashes. land plaster
or slaked lime.
Don't imagine, unless you have an
extraordinary large bank account.
that you can go ont and buy good
dairy cows any time you take a no
ton. The only way TO get an efficient
herd is to raise your own COWS. You
may start in by buying some good
foundation stock. but when this has