The Virginia enterprise., 1910-09-30


Any climate suits alfalfa.
Clover is more efficient sub-soiler
than the best sub-soil plow. , ',
Some say that COWS need salt when
the butter Is hard to churn.
A good wick to the incubator lamp
Is one of the important things.
Dampness in the poultry house,
yards or runs is often a source of
trouble.
The thing that counts in the poul-
try business is doing the right thing
at the right time.
Don't let the weeds get a foot high
and then pull them, disturbing the
surrounding flowers, even if none are
pulled out.
Fight green lice with tobacco-tea
and the rose-slug with lime-water. Or
try busting air-slaked lime on the in
tested rose-bushes.
Few horsemen pay enough attention
10 the teeth Of the old horses, and
then wonder why they look out OF
condition.
On land at all subject to foot-rot
many sheep will fall lame-more es
pec1ally the close-wooled breeds on
| grass.
1t is very seldom that a group OF
sheep may be fattened on dry food
without some of them dying or suffer.
ing with constipation.
There may be such a thing as bad
luck in the dairy business, but it is q
peculiar coincidence that It always
follows bad management.
On receiving new rose bushes from
the dealer or from other sources.
transfer them Immediately to the soil
without exposing the roots to the sun
or drying wind.
when colt or other animal on the
tarm is cut with barbed wire or by
otner means, the wound usually can
be successfully treated without the
services of a veterinarian.
Probably the best vegetable grown
IN the garden is asparagus. It is a
perennial plant and lasts for many
years without renewing. It is the ear.
Hest and most delicious vegetable.
Select a good, strong colony to
oulld the queen cells, remove all
combs containing unsealed larva, also
remove the queen, and let them re-
main queenless few hours.
The common foxtail millet il the
best for dairy cows. This threshed
and mixed with an equal part of clo
yer hay makes one of the best rough
nesses. Unthreshed millet should
never be fed alone to any kind OF
stock.
Vine crops should not be disturbed
after the vines commence to rim az
the leaves act as mulch of the plants
spread almost as far as the vines and
grow quite near the surface of the
soil. Any weeds not DESTROYED h,
former civilizations should be pulled
by hand.
Salad plants, tomatoes, muskmelons
green corn, beans and the like have
OF late years been added, one afte,
another, to the greenhouse crops. and
the enlarged menu resulting there
from has gratifled the epicure and has
been a source of revenue to the pro
ducers.
Leave all the good eve lambs TO,
breeding, but give extra feed tc
lambs intended for summer market
They may be growing now, but they
Will put on better flesh for higher
prices with a daily feed of ground
grain. 1t is a good way to cash IN
surplus grain.
If you have a separator you will no,
be bothered with lot of sour mill
standing around during the warn
months Pigs will drink sour milk
but the sweet milk will do them more
good. Get a cream separator and
save more of the cream, besides de-
irving more benefit from the skin
milk.
If the mare is fed on timothy hay
and corn alone she cannot furnish the
proper elements for the developmen,
of the foal. Wheat bran, shorts, oil
meal and clover hay should be a great
part of the daily ration. Give the mare
daily exercise and it will not hurt
to work her up to foaling time, pro
viding she is not strained or over
worked.
Rape resists drought fairly we'll, but
in regions subject to summer drought
the sowing should take place early
enough to get the plants we'll started
before this pe.::o5dd, Or It should be de
layed until after the drought. During
the prolonged dry period the plants
are often attacked by kind of plant
louse, which causes them to wilt anl
become valueless as forage. Where
rape is depended upon as a chief croI
it is advisable to make several sue
cessive sowings. If a particular crog