The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-06-24
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fowls.
Dried red blood, meat meal and hoof
meal contain from 10 to IA per cent.
| of nitrogen.
Horses very often lose their eyesight
| through dust and hay seed falling into
their eyes from the loft above.
A new style in baby beef has been
set. The kind that is going to market
at present is the 300 to 500-pound
type.
It is easily possible almost every
| where to make a hen produce three
dollars worth Of eggs a year on $3.50
worth of feed.
Soy beans require conditions and
cultivation similar to those required
by corn. Good preparation of the soil
is necessary.
| For dry and cloddy corn fields.
either before or after the corn Is
planted, a heavy roller is better than
either the harrow or drag.
| Barnyard manure adds quite little
plant food to the soil besides contain.
ing considerable organic matter which
will go toward the formation of hu.
mus.
To secure the greatest benefit from
green manuring crop care must be
taken in turning 1t under to have the
soil narrowed and packed IS fast as
it is plowed.
A proper handling of the milk is
most essential. Too often it Is drawn
from the cow in stables in which the
air Is filled with dust and put in un-
clean vessels.
Live stock needs water at all sea-
sons, but water during warm weather
is more essential. P-epGre now for
good water supply for the animals
| during the summer months.
The color of milk does not indicate
the richness of it. Oftentimes milk
| which Is rich is blue In color and
oftentimes milk which is yellow and
rich looking is of a rather poor quail
| ity.
Cream, on the average, will weigh
about eight pounds to the gallon, but
1t varies, according to the per cent. of
butter fat which it contains. It is well
known that butter-fat is lighter than
milk.
Success in poultry culture is simply
the result of looking after all the little
details connected with the business.
Anyone can be successful If he will
use a little diligence and common
sense.
| Most Of the brood mares in the
central west are dual purpose In char
acter. They not only raise colts but
most of them put in eight or ten hours
of strenuous labor every day after
the colt is ten days or two weeks old.
| Fertilizers too rich in nitrogen
| should hot be applied to the field in
tended for oats, because the gruH'th
will be too rank and the production of
grain will be retarded. The same is
! true in very limited measure Of
corn.
If young hogs are kept in close con-
| f1nement and fed heavily on corn
alone. they will most likely develop
| leg weakness, Us they require nitro
! genous foods In which skimmilk
should take large part in order to
grow good, solid bones.
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good motto for folks who are in the
chicken business. Better to hatch and
raise small number OF fine, thrifty
early chickens than to hatch a hun
dred or two and lose OF stunt them
for lack of care or suitable accommo-
dations.
| Plant lice are sucking inserts which
damage trees and other plants BY in
| jecting a poisonous saliva, and then
sucking out the sap. The leaves upon
which they live curl until they form
protecting homes within which the
pests are safe, and cannot be reached
by any spray liquids.
Just because your neighbor is get
| ting more eggs than yourself don't
think that you must change your
breed of fowls. There is something
nowadays in the kind of care you give
your stock. Some breeds lay better
than others, but any one will lay a
fair average of eggs ten months in
the year.
| Wheat containing kinghead seed 10
cut in price, because 1t Is almost i'm
possible to remove them, and IL they
are ground with the wheat the flour
is discolored and lowered in grade.
It 10 an annual, living only one year
from the seed. It infests the border
Of streams In any region where rains
cause surface flooding. This IL be-
cause the seeds. have afr chambers.
formed by the surrounding seed coat
and the king points or crown
Beet ground ought to be thoroughly
rolled and packed with just an inch or
two ON top Of fine mellow dirt No
deep tillage tools ought to be used in