The Nevada County picayune., 1910-08-26
Fowls dislike a filthy house.

It is quite possible to get fair crop 1 of cane after early oats.
 Remove the suckers from fruit trees as fast as they appear.
 Light shining on potatoes colors ! them and injures the flavor.
 To retain soil moisture loose mulch of between two or three inches is necessary.
 Underfeeding and oyerfeeding are both wasteful as is also feeding one l article of diet.
 A pig can be raised by the hand method as easily as calf, If the same pains are taken with it.
 Pounds of meat or amount and quai ity of other products that an animal will provide are what count.
 If a SOW proves a good breeder, there | is no reason why she should not De kept as long as she produces strong pigs
 To the intelligent corn grower weedy field spells a shiftless farmer who is fooling yith his chances of sue cess
 Do not allow any fruit to ripen on berry plants set this season. Prema- ture fruit-bearing ~tunts the growth or the plants
 The man who raises pigs ought to have a field of peas into which they can be turned just before the peas | become hard.
 The richest color of the cream is when it first rises to the surface, and If churned in that condition the butter will be yellow.
 You will have to spray with kero- sene emulsion to reach the cabbage lice Be sure to get 1t on the under side of the leaves. Corn has become good crop, whether hogs are high or low, but 1t Is not a good plan to plant more corn than can be well tended. Cocks should not be allowed to run with the hens during moul1ng, so that as the number of hens not moulting decreases they should be confined with l the cocks
 Anyone who will knowingly sell milk | from diseased COW we'll deserves the epithet of criminal, for his act is nothing short of crime. To sell filthy milk or butter is scarcely less repre- hensible.
 The trouble with a great many poul- 1 try keepers Is that they think they can fly before they are really able to walk. Take time to learn the busl- ness. By and by the flying will come easy elOuSu.
 There is some difference in the cost of corn whether it Is "hogged down" by sheep and lambs in the field, or high priced help husks it and hauls it to the station, and high priced railroads ship 1t to feeding yards
 It Is law of nature that all plants must have a season Of rest from ac- tive growth. In the tropics this Is done in the dry season. No plant can be forced into continual growth without weakening it and finally kill ing 1t.
 The cockerels which are to be marketed should, of course, be fed more fattening ration than the pull lets, and those which are to be used as breeders should be kept from the bullets until about six weeks before the eggs are wanted for matching.
 As soon as the coekerels get old enough to pay attention to tue pull lets they begin fighting and the weaker birds are crowded out and don't get their share of feed For this reason the sexes should be sepa- rated so as to allow full and rapid development
 There Is no better way to warm hen up in the morning than to scat ter some warm wheat around In a good clean layer of straw and let them work hard for 1t. They will get right down to business as soon as it is fair ly light and stick to 1t till they have earned their breakfast. By that time they are as warm as a toast
 If you do not cultivate soon after a rain has hardened tn. surface your task uill ha aVap 60 ,,,,ob ,.n,