The Nevada County picayune., 1910-05-13

blooms.
 Weeds are not necessity. but a costly luxury.
 Make a good seed bed before plant ing corn, potatoes and garden.
 The old brood SOW should be kept as long as she remains vigorous,
 If you doubt whether a pig enjoys grass give him a chance to show you.
 The time is fast approaching when the dairyman will find he cant afford pasture.
 The brood SOW needs a mixed diet fin which there is plenty of food rich in protein.
 Feeding COW milk to young lambs is very dangerous practice, and is very apt to kill them.
 Clover sown without nurse crop should be sown very early in the spring in a mellow seed bed.
 You can't toughen horse to the spring work in day. Start in easy. Think how it is with your own shoul- ders.
 Shearing sheep too closely, even when the weather is warm, is bad practise. as either chill or sun seald is liable to result.
 A mixture of little salt, charcoal, ashes and air-slacked lime has good effect upon parasites of the digestive system of either young or old pigs.
 Enough extra time is wasted every year with matted and sodded over weeds to keep our fields clean several years If the work had been done in time.
 Many fields of alfalfa are ruined by too close pasturing. the stock eat ms tbC tioou oi NliS piuulS oO lllett they aye injured and they cannot send out young shoots.
 Onions are one of the crops that need regular and heavy fertilization of the whole ground, and one cannot make money with onions If planted wide enough for horse cultivation.
 Keep full record of your farm operations this year. Unless you do this you will profit little in experience If you keep correct record. you may profit in both experience and finance
 Weeds will always be in the land to certain extent unless every farm CT will clean his grain and work to destroy them In place of sowing the seed and trying to cultivate the weeds out
 Teach your boy how to shoe horses. sharpen blows and use tools intelli- gently. He will take pride in making the needed repairs around the home If allowed the use of sharp tools and encouraged to make the home at dractive.
 Standing in the barn will spoil morse sooner than good steady work. When you see his legs begin to stock up, hurry and get him to work at something. if 1t is nothing more than exercising in the yard every day. Keep that up till you have some real business to do
 To make hogs of 225 pounds at seven months or 250 pounds at eight from early March farrows Is more profitable than to have pigs come in April or May or later, since the early pigs are ready to make use of the pasture while 1t is at it's best and es- cape stormy cold weather before fin fshed
 As a rule 1t Is not a good practice to plant potatoes after potatoes on the same land The crop is more likely ito be diseased, and the yield not as good as if planted on a one or two gear clover sod, or after corn. The spores tor seeds) of fungus diseases such as blight, scab. etc. will remain fin the soil for year, at least. after the potatoes are harvested.
 There is no other food stun to be found more constantly upon our cables than dairy products, and none that are more worthy to be there and it only rests with those who have the handling of such products under their direction to realize and keep in mind the fact that these prod ucts are to be used for food and that they must use good judgment and proper care in handling them or the value of having 6 sanitary dairy barn will be lost