The Falls City tribune., 1910-07-29
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Sheep are excellent farm cleaners.
The bruise on an apple is injurious.
Lice and mites come with warm
weather.
Tie the grape vines to the trellis
wires before the vines begin to run.
No we'll bred farmer ever contents
himself with scrub stock or Door crops.
1t is a sad mistake for a man to
make a good crop of grass into poor
hay.
Pure fresh air, day and night, is
n of the prime essentials for keep
ing fowls in good health.
Most separators do their best work
with the milk at a temperature of
rom IS degrees to 95 degrees Fahren,
heit.
When the cream has been held at
churning temperature for a period of
two or three hours, it is ready TO be
churned.
A good way TO keep manure for the
garden is to fill a large box, turning
it over with a fork about once a
week and keeping it moist.
The government is sending out *
perts to various parts of the country
to teach fruit growers the best meth
DDS of spraying their trees.
When shrubs are first planted they
should be headed back one-half or
more, but after they become estab-
lished they should be allowed to
branch at will.
One of the prominent symptoms of
shoulder lameness in horses is a diff
ficulty of lifting and extending the
limb, which is particularly noticeable
when the patient is urged to trot.
The flea beetle is a small, metallic
blue insect which is destructive to the
fruit both as the larva n the adult.
Spraying with arsenate of lead or
paris green is generally effective.
Some of the amber honeys are
made from the aster, g%oldenrod, bone
set, queen of the meadow, heartsease,
wild %sunfiower, Spanish needle, SUI
mac, magnolia INT m~arigold.
The earliest sown lettuce should be
of some of the loose growing varieties.
For summer use plant cabbage lettuce,
or heading varieties, as the leaves
during the warm season will be whittier
and more crisp.
Soy beans shed their leaves before
the grain begins to ripen; therefore
when hay is desired the plants must
be cut when half or more of the pods
are fully grown, but before the beans
begin to harden.
In cutting rape for soiling it Is best
to cut about four inches from the
ground. 1t is advisable to arrange
the cutting so that each days product
will be consumed within that time, as
the foliage soon willis and is her not
relished SO much.
The sitting hen must not be dis
turbed. II eggs are laid In the same
nest with those that are Matching 1t
is often difficult to tell the fresh one
from the others, hence partly Matched
eggs are taken out instead OF the
fresh ones.
1t is a we'll known fact among
farmers and fruit growers that black
berries improve the physical nature
of the soil through their Dot action.
When they are removed from the ap-
pie orchard the soil is left In ideal
condition for the outer feeding roots
of the apple trees.
While It is conceded that permanent
maintenance of soil fertility without
live stock is possible, 1t is not prac-
ticable as a statewide policy, because
1t is not the highest type of agricul-
ture and because few farmers can be
induced to comply with all the condi-
lions necessary to make it effective.
Plant cannas one to two feet apart,
depending altogether II they be dwarf
or the t~all-growing sort. They like
very rich soil and plenty of water
during the growing season. A mulch
of straw manure will help to con-
serve the water that is given them.
Cut off all the seed pods as they
form. n
Root plants may be transplanted,
hut II Ia not advisable unless n ware