The Virginia enterprise., 1910-05-27

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Cash is good buy word.
New wrinkles in farming show new
life.
The milk must not be adulterated In
any way.
Work done ON the highway proves
go>d by-pay.
Cabbages should be pulled and hung
up by tho roots.
BE sure the whole bodies of dis
eased fowls are burned.
1t - imperative that sheep quarters
be dry at all seasons OF the year.
The guinea hen 10 much relished on
account Of the gamey favor of tho
flesh.
The ram intended for use this fall
should be pushed along al fast as he
will stand it.
A regularity of good feed and kind
treatment will make it unnecessary to
Ar{Vss tho noryo II a.
The gasoline engine is doing more
70 keep the boy on the farm than q
course of lectures. oral or printed.
spasmodic sailing 10 Injurious to
any animal. Keep plenty Of salt
where they can get it when they want
It.
Apple pickers should remember that
the least puncture in the skin of an
apple results sooner or later In a rot
ten spot.
Keep the water in tho trou6hs pure
and fresh and see that the loft is well
ventilated and your pigeons will not
be troubled by canker.
Ducks and geese may be raised Just
as easily away from a pond or run
ming water as with It. Plenty of
drinking water is sufficient for their
needA
When q team OF horses stand up to
the bit in the same way it will be
found they do more work with less
friction than horses that do not work
In harmony.
With milk above three cents per
quart to the producer in most of the
larger cities, and good fall pastures,
it would seem that the dairyman's
lot is not SO hard after all, especially
at this time.
Give the chickens plenty of range,
plenty Of water, and plenty of nitro
genous feeds during the moulting sea-
son and get them into the laying habit
before cold weather. Starving them
will not promote growth of featherA
Many veterinarians believe that II
cows are kept, during cold weather,
in buildings where the temperature Is
high, the milk yield will be greater
than If they were kept in buildings of
comparatively low temperature.
Labcr-saving devices are appreeiat-
ed more on the farm than ever be-
fore. It seems almost impossible to
get help to do the necessary work,
and we are obliged to farm different
ly and to use mechanical means In
stead of hand labor.
AS pasture grass becomes short xnd
killed ty frosts, begin to give the cows
extra feed, so they will hold up in
milk. Taking the COWS into winter
in good condition, other things being
equal, will mean steady, high milk
flow all through the winter.
Alfalfa meal is very good feed pro-
vided 1t is made from good quality
CT hay. In composition it is nearly
equal to bran. In 100 pounds there are
II pounds of digestible protein, 39.6
pounds digestible carbohydrates and
LIZ pounds digestible fat.
When scraping out the decayed cav
ity of a large tree to be afterward
filled with cement, as much care
should be taken to remove every par.
ticle of decayed matter as a good
dentist does to remove the dacayed
matter in a tooth before filling. Other.
wise your labor is lost.
Nothing is better for poultry build
ings from a sanitary point of view
than a good coat of whitewash. Espe.
cially is this true when getting the
poultry houses ready for winter. All
may not be aware there is quite a sci.
ence in whitewashing. There are dif.
ferent kinds, and each is adapted for
q different use.
The lack of h1gh-class dairy COWS,
the high price Of grain and mill prod
ucts and the difficulty of securing com.
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