The Virginia enterprise., 1910-10-14

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; A clean cornf1eld honors and rrotits
Turning under cowpeas adds humus
to the soil
An acre of good land viii grow
many tons CT stock beets.
Warm weather is coming and you
will need good. cool place for milk
and cream.
Many farmers make the mistake OF
planting their apple trees too close to-
gether.
An easy way to secure new grape
vines is to propagate them by layer
ing.
The use of fine stock on the average
farm is only the exercise of good
judgment.
Keep busting the setting hen with
insect powder, before and after she
matches her chicks.
The careful man win turn and ex-
anime the udders of all his ewes in
tended for breeding.
Never allow the fowls to drink
from a stream into which the poultry
yards and barn yards drain.
The number of hogs per acre d.
pends on the stand of clover, the sea-
son and the earliness of turning In.
The man who desires large profits
from his flock should provide it with
the best that good management will
produce.
If you have no silo and cannot build
one this year then plant an acre dS
more of beets or other roots for win
ter green feed for the dairy COWS.
| Select dairy breed of cattle whose
product and offspring will bring the
| highest possible price in any market
and you will surely be successful in
dairying.
But sometimes the large gray louse
gets into the head and under tho
wings of the chicks, then it is best to
rub these parts with grease OF some
kind. Lard and carbolic acid Is good.
! Developing of new sections in sew
eral of the states of the middle west
for dairy purposes in itself will call
for more extra dairy COWS that all the
| country can possibly furnish
| A mixed grain ration of corn and
oats, when fed with clover hay. is
more efficient than a single grain ra-
tion of corn for producing large gains
in an S4-day feeding period.
Do not put more than so chicks
in one brooder, or one compartment,
and better results will be secured with
a smaller number. Overcrowding is
the cause of many deaths in the
brooder
Look we'll to a supply of autumn
bloomers by planting bed or asters.:
The aster has an almost endless va
rietyt2of colorings and blooms when
4most other flowers are past their sea-
tson of beauty.
Clover hay, when fed with mixed
grain ration Of corn and oats. is more
efficient for producing gains than tim
othy hay In this test clover hay
produced So per cent. more gains than
timothy.
While box stalls are safer than sim
gle stalls for stabling horses, they
are also more expensive and do not
offer merits not possessed by single
stalls so far as they may influence
the horse in taking on flesh.
1t is not reasonable to expect strong
and healthy chicks from immature.
weak and unhealthy parents. Stand
ard, healthy and vigorous breeding
stock Is the foundation of successful
hatches
With favorable soil and climatic
conditions good crops of rape may be
obtained from broadcast seeding. but
whenever there is any danger of the
surface soil becoming very dry dur
ing the time the seed is terminating
or when land Is at all foul. drilling
will give much better results.
Grapes propagated from layering
come true to name. Hence when you
start new grape plants in this way
choose canes from your best varieties.
Well-rooted young grape plants will
begin to bear the third year after set
ting in a permanent row and with
good cultivation and general good
care, including proper annual pruning.
they will bear good fruit every year.
increasing in productiveness with age.
In resetting plants 1t is of perma-
nent Importance to place the roots in
the soil in as natural a position as
possible, little deeper than they
grew In the original bed, making the
soil hold them fast, fan shaped and