The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-07-29
Keep records Of ali kinds.
Cabbage has several insect enemies.
Variety in the ration is necessary
for laying hens.

The sucking lambs always do bet>
ter after the mother is shorn.
The lambs should nibble at grain
and hay before they are two weeks
old.
1t is sometimes said that a good
breeder always has his ideal animal
in his mind.
A mule Is no more prone to kick
than horse unless he is taught to do
SO by bad treatment.
Cabbage and all other plants of the
cabbage family require a very fertile
and cool. moist soil for good growth.
Too often the poultry house is a
filthy, unsanitary place, full of stag
nant air and crowded far beyond its
capacity.
1t is significant fact that corn
this year at this season is going down,
instead of up, as is the usual custom
in spring.
What we want to do in working a
horse for the first time is to teach
it to do things which it has never
done before.
When the butter is well drained it
is ready to salt, and this is done in
the churn when the butter is in
granular form,
Begin to cultivate musk melons as
soon as the plants can be seen and
continue cultivation till after the
fruit begins to set.
Never use milking tube If it can
be possibly avoided as there is much
danger Of injecting the entire quarter
by the use of the tube.
Cowpeas is a crop that has been
growing In popularity in recent years,
and from present appearances, will
soon rank as a general farm crop.
1t pays to pasture pigs, but If the
pigs root up the pasture it will pay to
ring them. Pasture sod is too valuable
to be destroyed when it can easily
be avoided.
1t Is true that a farmer can, by
careful selection and examination,
materially change the constituents of
his corn, thus growing corn that is
of higher feeding value for his farm
animals.
Don't forget that the temperature
of the cream at churning should be Sc
to So degrees Fair. in summer and 60
to 62 degrees in winter. The best
chu1ning results will be had at these
respective temperatures.
A good hen is expected to lay in a
year about five times her weight in
eggs. This means reproductive
process on an average, at least every
third day during the year, or perhaps.
in rare instances, every other day,
When doing the tree planting, do
not forget to put few trees in cor
ner of the pasture fields, If there is
such a thing as a fenced pasture on
the farm. Protect these for few
years, and they will protect the stock
for many more.
The Minnesota experiment station
says barley has the advantage over
flax for cleaning the land of weeds, be-
sides being often fed on the farm at q
profit over the market price. At pres
ent prices, however, fax is in the lead.
and good fax land will undoubtedly
return a good profit.
After the young turkeys are sixteen
to twenty days old begin to feed light.
ly on cracked corn, wheat, etc., and
occasionally baked cornmeal or john
nycake, which is simply cornmeal
mixed with either sweet skimmilk or
water and very little salt, and thor
oughly baked. This is moistened
slightly before feeding.
Drainage prevents loss of crops and
labor from stagnant water; permits
air to circulate more freely through
the SOIL carrying with it fertilizing
properties, making a warmer soil that
can be cultivated early, for dry soil
works easier than wet, roots 60 down
deeper in it and get greater supply
of plant food, and more moisture in a
dry season prevents baking and crack
ing.
Seeding plants of all kinds should
be ready to transplant as soon as the
character leaf begins to form, which
ia about three weeks from time of
planting seed. One hundred plants to
each fat is the usual quantity for box
plants for commercial use. but II
choice plants are wanted they should
again be planted to so In q box, thus
giving them more room to spread and
develop in proportion to their size,
What are commonly called water
sprouts are rank growing shoots that
come out from the main branches Of
the trees. and usually, where severe
pruning has been done and nature
tries to replace the missing branches.
uovovar sometimes such sprouts will
come where there 10 no easily noticed
reason for them. TO keep them cut
m "a M damage whatever to the tree,