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Care for the brood SOW.
Hay is scarce this year.
In fairly cool spot SOW some peas
for September use.
The only way to be sure of good
dairy stock is to raise 1t.
The food of the duck is both vege-
table and animal in nature.
A thrifty growth of the plants now
means better fruit next year.
Gilt-edged butter will line your
pocketbook with gilt-edged coins.
Muttpns sheep give the best returns
when fed for that purpose when
young.
Extra feed increases growth, II Of
a suitable kind, and makes larger ami
mails at maturity.
hard collar is not as hard upon
the shoulders of horse as one that
is unevenly padded.
Never offer pound of poor butter
for sale. Better take 1t right out and
bury it in the back lot.
If your sheep get scab, better clean
them all out and begin over. 1t is the
best way to cure that disease.
Money makes the mare go, but you
have got to hustle around and get the
money, or the mare will stand still.
Glover bloat can usually be pre-
vented by keeping the cattle of the
clover when it is wet from dew or
rain.
In pruning do not forget that sum-
mer pruning induces fruit, bearing,
and wood growth is promoted by win
ter pruning
Too much onions, fish scrap and
stale meat often cause eggs to have
bad odor. 1t is unsafe to feed stale
food to hens.
Half bushel picking baskets, each
provided with light iron hook, will
bruise the apples much less than when
picked into bag.
When cow once falls of in milk
production 1t is more difficult to
bring her back to her full flow than
to SO feed her as to keep her as near
her capacity as possible.
The man who thinks 1t woman's
work to keep a garden going was not
built on the right lines. The garden
should be considered as important as
any other part of the farm and treat
ed accordingly.
The condition of the ewes at breed
Ing time has a marked influence upon
the succeeding crop of lambs. If the
ewes are improving in flesh and in
vigorous condition. the chances are
bright for choice lot of strong
lambs.
The farmer or fruit grower cannot
possibly reach the highest success in
his business without the aid Of the
birds Except, perhaps, the Rnglish
sparrow and yet they are often very
annoying during the ripening season
of the early fruits.
There appears to be some complaint
about getting the ewes with lamb
when they are allowed the run Of a
clover pasture, and therefore many
think 1t best to cut and cure the
clover for the lambs and provide 9TH
er pasturage or soiling crops for the
breeding ewes.
Winter radish seed are mixed with
the turnip at the time Of sowing the
latter in the fall. The radishes will
grow with the same treatment that is
given the turnips. They are harvest
ed and stored together for winter
use. The radishes keep well and
are excellent for use In winter.
For the first weeks of a pigs life
the mothers milk is it's drink as well
as food, and therefore in caring for
sucking sows 1t should be the aim to
SO feed them that milk Of only medi-
um richness will be furnished instead
of limited supply of that which is
extremely rich, the latter being less
healthful and more liable to cause
thumps. scours and unsatisfactory
growth.
Sanitary care of the feeding boxes
for the show animals should be care
fully studied, for the neglect will oft
en- cause fastidious appetite instead
, of q healthy robust one, and many a
time an animal is blamed for being