The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-09-09
Shade and water are important

Shade and water are important
Give the work horse proper rest.
Egg eating by fowls Is serious
vice. = + g
The chickens have many pecks of
fun at feed time. -.
The gasoline engine is solving the
labor problem on the farm.
The nest of the setting hen should
be kept clean and free from vermin.
Gum exuding from the roots of the
peach tree? Bores at work; get after
them.
1t is the net result from a COW that
tells whether she is making q profit
| or not.
It may be little too late to plant
strawberry beds, but next year get at
it little earlier
When the colt is dropped it should
! receive nourishment from the dam
within the first half hour.
Sow some turnips in succession
every two weeks. A row 20 feet long
will produce large quantity.
Agriculture Is an art which adOrnS
the land so that it adds to mans
physical health and mental pleasure
We can kill weeds by spraying, but
they will not stay dead without rota-
ton, moving and pasturage of the
land
After the sweet corn has been used
cut the plants and feed them to the
COWS. The land may then be used
for late beans.
Some of the worlds most noted
mixers gave small quantity of milk
with their first calves. Don't pass
judgment on the heifer
At no time is the skimnnilk in a
better condition to make the most of
it than when it is fresh and sweet
just from the separator
Chicken money Is easy money
| there is no milking, no churning, no
tanning away fiies-nothing to do but
gather the eggs and sell them
With good supply of straw for
| bedding much good manure can be
made every year, and manure is the
| very life and success of farm.
Root crops, such as carrots, beets
not be afraid to thin them to a dis
lance of five or six inches apart
The orchard should now be sown
to some good cover crop, as cowpeas
or soybeans, to protect the soil during
summer. Do not neglect this longer.
If your fruit needs thinning and
| you have not already thinned it, do
it at once. 1t is better to thin late
than to run the risk of injuring the
trees.
| Prune blackberries and raspberries.
Cut back the canes and remove all
dead plants. This will greatly re-
juvenate the plants and cause fruitful
ness next year.
Select your seed from the best
plants of your garden peas. The seed
may be saved and the yielding quail
ties of the plants improved If care is
used In selection.
Keep the weeds down. A garden full
| Of weeds is no Endorsement for you as
| a husbandman Late cultivation Is
necessary, for weeds are not retarded
by the summer sun.
| If the flower garden crops are not
making due progress stimulate them
with nitrate of soda. A teaspoonful
worked into the soil about dahlia
is about the correct proportion.
| If the grass on the entire lawn
seems sickly and does not make
good growth, it may be that the soil
is sour. In such case give the entire
lawn a dressing of lime to sweeten
| the SOIL
AS there is no proportion between
equal things, your farm, to be pro-
portionally beautiful. should be made
up of unequals. Unequal fields, lD1.
equal garden beds, unequal buildings,
unequal rooms, and so on.
Theoretically one would think that
the work horse ought to rest at night
instead of being obliged to Craze for
several hours during the natural rest
ing period, but practically the effect
of the grazing and the night exercise
is conducive to the very best kind of
health and thrift.
Every farmer knows that sheep will
make better gains in flesh on a dry
clover hay ration, with the same
amount of grain, than any other kind
of farm live stock. The reason for this
is that sheep consume larger portion
of the leaves Of the clover hay and not
so much of the coarse, woody stalk.