The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1910-09-15
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After all the market is more import
ant than the soil. If an ideal soil
(sandy loam) for gardening purposes
is far remote from a good market, ii
is difficult to be financially successful.
If, on the other hand, the soil is quite
unfavorable, but near a good market
and available supply of manure, 1t is
comparatively easy to make imam
cial success of market gardening. 1t
is important, however, to select soils
which are naturally loose and friable
II a mixed line of gardening is to be
followed
In preparing beds for flowers it
should be remembered that most flow
ers which produce a yellow bloom
should not have much organic mat
ter in the soil. Red or purple flowers
will do best on soil with reason
able amount of organic matter, and
plants which are grown for their foli-
age should be attempted only on rich
soils. We speak of that now because
this is the ideal time to prepare next
years flower beds.
If you have only common cows,
breed them TO male of standard
dairy breed and the result will give
grade animals. These half-blood
grade animals bred in the same line
will give animals more nearly pure
with judgment will result in a herd of
high producing animals that will make
money for the breeder or the man who
buys them.
Trimming the orchard Is imperative
and trimming the hedge rows is just
as important. An unuImmed orchard
not only falls to produce fruit but is
also Improbable in the shabby APP
pearance it gives the farm. The IN
trimmed hedge is even more objec-
tionable as one gets his first impress
sion from the outside.
Humus making crops are such
grasses as timothy, clover, blue grass,
bronze grass and alfalfa. 1t has been
found that grass land plowed and put
into crops is under better conditions
of moisture and freer from weeds than
land that has grown grain continu-
ously.
When the fowls begin molting they
will practically cease laying. AS the
growing of new feathers is a heavy
drain on the fowl extra feed should
be given. A small amount of linseed
meal can be given to an advantage.
Feed wheat and cats rather than much
corn.
Don't let the young orchard trees go
into winter without protection.
Anything that shades the bark will
protect from sunsoald but a covering
that gives the tree immunity from
both sunscald and gnawing from ro-
dents is better
well drained soil with good eleva-
ton, slightly higher If possible than
the surrounding area. fairly heavy in
character, with a deep, stron p, but
not hard-Nan subsoil furnishes the
best conditions for successful apple
growing.
While there is never any very large
profit in selling either turnips or
green's" the crop is one that requires
so little care and is so sure that It
will pay anyone handy to a market
to SOW some for sale.
There are three kinds of bees In
every thrifty hive-one queen. during
the summer season several hundred
drones, and the rest workers. These
workers are all femaldE, undeveloped
queens.
This being the cement age, cement
floors are good for the new poultry
house, for they are dry and easily
kept clean. They can be covered with
dry earth in summer and cut straw In
winter. :
Examine the morse teeth fire.
quenty." 1t might be added that
most important time to do this Is
when you are being importuned to buy
horse that is las sound as a roach"
We frequently see young colts fol
lowing along the fields after their
dams, walking many miles during the
hot weather. Useless and poor bust
ness.
Generally when the comb OF a fowl
is bright colored, showing It TO be full
of blood, the fowl is in healthy con
dition and the fowls are usually ac.
tive.
Grass. clover, corn fodder and COW
peas, when fed in green state, are rel.
ished by farm animals much more than
after they are cured
To groom the horse we'll after hard
work, does not only clean the skin, but
It prevents various parasitic diseases
of the skin.
Separate the growing cockerels
from the pullets, and feed the former
more literally, as they will need it.
American sheep produce an average
of six pounds of wool per head and
are shorn once year.