The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-07-29
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Plant lettuce any time.
Look well after heifer calves.
The best land for strawberries is q
sandy loan.
A cattle feeder should be encour-
aged by every corn seller.
The farmer can produce clean milk,
but it means added expense.
The harrow Is an excellent tool for
cultivating potatoes the first time.
1t is deemed an injury to let the
sheep carry its fleece into the hot sea-
son.
Scaly legs on hens are caused by
small parasite insect working under
meath the skin.
The colt should early be taught the
use of the halter, and made to know
that his master is his friend.
All hog raisers know that corn will
90 twice as far in feeding hogs in
summer if the hogs are kept on good
pasture.
Unless one is gardening on a large
scale it is cheaper to buy cabbage
plants for the early crop than to
grow them.
The weight of the total number of
eggs laid in this country annually
amounts to 970,358 TONS so someone
has figured it out.
Do not let the manure accumulate in
the cow stall so that the animal must
ne with her hind quarters higher than
her front quarters.
Never buy a brood sow with short
legs and short, chunky body. She
must have big feeding capacity in
order to produce plenty of milk
In manuring land, spread it on thin
ly. 1t is much better to put eight
loads OF manure on each of two acres
than to put the whole 16 upon one
acre.
AS rule, the average farmer al
lows his hogs to-; get along on slim
rations in summer, at time when
they could make most profitable
growth.
Nothing is more injurious to the
poults than tainted or infected meat
of any kind, as 1t will disturb their
bowels in very few hours and cause
great trouble.
Wedding out the poorest cows is the
best way to improve the record of
any dairy in the amount of milk and
butter produced in proportion to the
number of cows kept
So many fruit trees were ordered
this spring for planting in British COL
umbia that the nursery supply Of stock
suited for that region was not nearly
great enough to meet the demands.
Sunshine is great purifier and nat
ural disinfectant and the poultry
houses should be so arranged that
there will be an abundance of sun
shine in the buildings on fair days.
Natures greatest purifying agents
are sunshine and air. Soils need thor
ough aeration that are frequently fer
tilted with animal manures; then
they will not so soon become non-pro-
ductive.
In buying a bull for use in milking
herd, look far beyond the animal him.
self and see what kind of mixers his
dam and granddams were and what
kind of mixers his male ancestors
were able to get.
Sow fodder corn thickly, either with
a grain drill or corn planter, at the
rate of 80 to SO pounds per acre, cult
vate one way, cut with corn binder,
shock in the field, allow to stand until
fed or hauled to the barn.
Every hen that does not pay for her
keep by laying eggs should be sold at
once. There are thousands of hens in
the poultry yards that are losing
money for their owners. Find out
whether you have such hens, and. II
so. get rid Of them.
In setting out cuttings, II willows,
currants. Virginia creepers or any 9th
er stock of this sort, put the cuttings
well down into the soil. One or two
buds above ground is quite all that il
needed. A cutting a foot long may be
put down ten inches into the soil and
two above.
Sod land should not be used for
strawberries until it has had at least
one years cultivation under some crop
such as corn or potatoes, and then
manure heavily and treat it right.
Some of the experiment stations rec
ommend that such land be furrowed
late. in the fall to destroy most of the
insects over winter.
The ideal sheep pasture is blue grass
and white clover. It makes the driest,
closest sod, and dry land is best for
sheep. There is no sod that will pro-