St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-08-13
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Inc DFulSe ON an apple is injurious
Lice and mites come with warn
| weather.
Tie the grape vines to the tre1lis
wires before the vines begin to run
No we'll bred farmer ever contents
himself with scrub stock or poor crops
1t is sad mistake for a man tc
make a good crop of grass into pool
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 temperature OF
from 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 large box, turning
1t over with a fork about once a
week and keeping 1t 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
ficulty of lifting and extending the
limb, which is particularly noticeable
when the patient is urged to trot.
The flea beetle is 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 sunf1ower, 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 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.
1t 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.
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
of soil fertility without
live stock is possible, it is not prac-
ticable as a statewide policy, because
It is not the highest type of agricul-
,ure and because few farmers can be
Induced to comply with all the condi- |
ions necessary to make it effective.
Plant cannas one to two feet apart, |
depending altogether If they be dwarf |
n the tall-growing sort. They like |
,ery rich soil and plenty of water
turing the growing season. A mulch |
Il straw manure will help to con-
erve the water that is given them.
tut off all the seed pods as they
Orm.
Root plants may be transplanted.
ut it Is not advisable unless 1t were
q the case of extra early beets start
d in the hotbed or turnip-rooted rad
she's lifted out at thinning time. The
cots are usually i'll shaped, yet their
able quality is not injured. Long
arieties always become distorted and
re not marketable
Although rape can be used as soil
lg crop, and is so used in many
Iaces, it is doubtful if It will supplant
Their plants for this purpose. Its
lief use is for pasture, especially for
ogs and sheep. Geese and other fowl
ill do well upon such pastures, and
lose who are raising poultry as a
lief industry will find a field of rape
useful adjunct. 1t cannot be recon-
ended for curing as a dry fodder or
II silage. 1t is so succulent that it
Tres with difficulty, and it cannot be
to corn for siiage
Fowls to lay eggs that will hatch {
1t the best chicks must have as I
Early natural conditions as possible
plenty of outdoor exercise, except
wet and bad weather, plenty Of }
esh air day and night in the hen I
,use, cleanliness, sunshine and a va r
ETY. of vegetables, animal and min I
al food, such as wild birds secure in t
e open fields and forest. Free range t
best unless the housing and yarding I
nditions meet all the natural re- n
irements. The house for breeders b
ou1d be tight and dry in the floor, d
of and three side walls, but fully Fl