The Nevada County picayune., 1910-08-26
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Plenty of shade is essential.
 Keep the peppers picked clean at least every other day.
 A few trees In the sheep pasture will turn 1t into a paradise.
 Cement or concrete silos, when well built, are practically everlasting.
 Allowing weeds to 80 to seed now means increased labor next season.
 The best method to determine if your hens are good layers is the trap nest.
 strong swarm of bees will furnish a hundred pounds of honey aside from what they themselves consume.
 If you grow late-maturing crops in the orchard they will keep the wood growing too late to make them safe for winter
 Cowpea vine hay has feeding value practically equal to that of wheat bran, which Is worth now more than $30 per ton.
 It is folly to raise hogs, feed them high-priced feeds. get them in good l lch and thnn at fhnrn din thnir way to market.
 Early potato blight Is liable to at tack the potato crop at any time from June until the crop is ripe, but is most seriously destructive in July and August
 A heifer becomes a COW after she drops her first calf and begins giv- ing milk-no matter at what age, and she remains heifer until these ma | ternal obligations are assumed.
 In dairying, there are special breeds enough and reliable information enough, so there is no excuse for a man who goes it blind and planes luck and the weather for his failure. With dairying, as with other lines | of farming, the dairyman should fa- miliarize himself as much as possible with every fact which can be brought to bear upon the quality of his pro | duct.
 Bacon is only the intermingling of fat and lean meat, and if the meat Is grown along rapidly it will be more tender and palatable than if 1t is pinched until the lean is dry and taste less.
 In all those portions of the coun- try where dairying is a leading and | distinctive feature, and other grains than corn are used as a growing and fattening ration the bacon hogs can be raised to advantage and profit
 As the days wax warmer and warn- CT ones efforts are apt to relax, but the young fowls destined to take their places in the show room must not be neglected. They must have their feed regularly, and water in abundance.
 Upon the horse-collar depends much more than appears at first glance. The day-in-and-out efficiency Af hn fC la }to thriftiness depend very largely upon the proper kind and fitting of the collars used
 The man with a silo will be in position to congratulate himself this winter and we urge every farmer to consider the erection of silo this fall No other means will provide so much palatable and nutritious feed from an acre of land.
 Cultivation as the plants develop re- quires not only care and skill. but forethought also. If heavy rains have beaten the soil into a hard mass and 1t is water soaked it may be neces- sary to go as deeply as possible with out injuring the roots in order to aerate the ground properly.
 Once the calf is well started toward an early and profitable marketable maturity by liberal feeding and good care at this season of the year, there is little need of advising with regard to his future feeding care as the owners good sense will tell him that 1t will pay to continue to feed and care for him we'll
 Fowls will lay occasionally in win ter If they are not cared for other than having a few scoopfuls of corn tossed to them in filthy house, but they will make profit over and above the feed and housing If they are we'll sheltered md fed variety of clean and whole ome grains and have a bit of green l