The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-08-19
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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 poor crops.
It Is a sad mistake for q man to
make good crop OF grass into poor
hay.
Pure fresh air, day and night, is
one Of the prime essentials for keep
ing fowls in good health.
Most separators do their best work
with the milk at a temperature of
from IS degrees to IS 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 large box, turning
1t over with fork about once
week and keeping it moist.
The government is sending out ex-
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
fculty of lifting and extending the
limb, which is particularly noticeable
when the patient is urged to trot.
The hea beetle is a small, metallic
blue insect which is destructive to the
fruit both as the larva and the adult.
Spraying with arsenate of lead or
paris green is generally effective.
Some of the amber honeys are
made from the aster, goldenrod, bone
set, queen of the meadow, heartsease,
wild sunflower, Spanish needle. SUI
mac, magnolia and marigold.
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 winter
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.
It is a we'll known fact among
farmers and fruit growers that black
berries improve the physical nature
of the soil through their root action.
Wher they are removed from the ap-
pie orchard the soil is left In ideal
for the outer feeding roots
of the apple trees.
While it is conceded that permanent
of soil fertility without
live stock is possible, 1t is not prac-
ticable as a statewide policy, because
it is not the highest type Of agricul-
ture and because few farmers can be
induced to comply with all the condi.
tons necessary to make 1t effective.
Plant cannas one to two feet apart.
depending altogether If they be dwarf
or the tall-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 of all the seed pods as they
form.
Root plants may be transplanted.
but it is not advisable unless it were
In the case Of extra early beets start.
ed in the hotbeG or turnip.rooted rad.
ishes lifted out at thinning time. The
roots are usually Ill shaped, yet their
table quality is not injured. Long
varieties always become distorted and
are not marketable.
Although rape can be used az a SOIL
ing crop, and Is so used in many
places. it is doubtful If it will supplant
other plants for this purpose. Its
chief use Is for pasture, especially for
hogs and sheep. Geese and other fowl
Will do we'll upon such pastures, and
those who are raising poultry q q
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useful adjunct. It cannot be recon-
nended for curing a. a dry fodder or
Tor silage. It IL 20 succulent that it |
cures with difficulty, and it cannot be
to corn for silaev.
Fowls to lay eggs that will hatch
out the best chicks must have ~ |
nearly natural conditions as possible