The Nevada County picayune., 1910-09-02
Study sanitary care of feed boxes.

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 Keep the spray pump going in the potato patch
 Hard coal ashes make nice cool mulch for currant bushes.
 Toe many farmers sacrifice quality for mere size in the selection of ram.
 In order to realize the most for wool. there must be a uniformity or condition.
 An animal that is only fed enough to be kept alive is Of no practicai value to the owner
 When the lambs have just been weaned they require the best possible care and need good pasture.
 Phosphoric acid tends to Increase fruitfulness. but a liberal supply ol potash Is of almost equal importance.
 The grain for calves should be led first while the calf is quite small with a little bran to aid in learning to eat.
 few hens carefully watched and literally fed are more profitable than a large number forced to forage Tor their living.
 When you see many bees hunting around hooks and corners, you may be sure there is robbing going on somewhere.
 A good horse used in a common sense manner should live to an old age and be in condition to perform good work at all times.
 During the hot weather the garden should receive very frequent cultiya- ton to keep down the weeds and conserve the moisture.
 There is no reason why man with an acre patch of potatoes should not spray for blight, the same as man who has ten acres or more.
 Cultivation should not be continued too late in the season, or the wood will not harden by the time winter sets in, and the trees will be injured
 As a rule, no cutiyating should be done in the orchard during the next two months. If the soil is in good tilth and clean of weeds it is best not to disturb in hot dry weather.
 The cowpea will thrive under unfa- vorable conditions of soil preparation. It is, however, a plant that responds most readily and profitably to thor. oughly deep breaking and pulYeriza. tion of the land
 Asters suffer from root lice, which invariably kill them in short time, if undisturbed These lice also at tack chrysanthemums, clematis, and like plants. Where those pests are at work, there will be ants also
 All wounds on trees are the better for being painted, tarred or covered with some substance 10 keep out the water. Then the bark covers over the wound little by little, and no rot ting of the inner wood takes place.
 Young animals make a much more rapid growth in proportion to size than older ones. and the ratio is de. creased as they approach maturity; but they eat much more in proportion to live weight and the flesh contains much more water.
 \ good many farmers who have COWS are now aware of what splen. did investment of time and money it would have been had they sown a plot of ground to peas and oats last spring
 
 getting parched by the extended drought
 A few one-year-old hens and flock of young early matched bullets we'll cared for and carefully eulled will yield more winter eggs than a flock twice the size consisting of a mixture Of old and young hens, late and early matched bullets. some half moulted. etc.
 As the sire Is half the flock in the sense of his influence upon the lamb crop the few extra dollars required to purchase a pure-bred animal of the breed which may be favored by any sheep owner is small consideration as compared to even a slight improve. ment in the lamb crop.
 Some one has said that the measure of the corn crop depends not so much