The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-09-16
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Never use poor seed.
Plant only potatoes that are sound.
No horse can thrive on musty bran,
| oats or corn.
Cooked meat is much better to give
the very young turkeys.
Sweet clover Is a good indicator of
soil that will grow alfalfa.
Weeds reduce the physical condition
of the soil to a poorer state.
With prices at the SO mark, the
hog has become a respected farm ami
NAL.
Now that the chicks are Matched,
comes the difficult part of raising
them
Make 1t rule to caress the colt
after performing we'll what was re-
quired of him.
Among the things by which time
can be saved by using larger ma
chinery the grain drill stands first.
Few annual flowers will grow so
easily and give the wealth of bloom
for so long season as the nastur-
tiums.
Buy only the best and never sell
good stock, except when you have a
surplus or when the birds are too
old for profit.
Free range for hogs does not mean
that they should be allowed to run
IN the highways and through the
neighbors fields.
Have you ever tried hen manure
about your flowers? Fine. And for
garden purposes nothing can beat it.
1t is free from weed seeds.
Every Enclosure for the hog should
be perfectly tight, and with the ex-
ca11opt wiro foncoc tbot oro co1,, xoo,
| ufactured it is an easy matter.
The essentials Of a good summer
hog pasture are, first good hog
tight fence; next comes a good stand
of grass, clover or other good forage
plants.
While the interest in good roads
seems to be general throughout the
country it is not active because con-
centration of effort is necessary to
secure them.
1t is as impossible to tell by looking
give in a year as it is to tell the
amount Of butter fat present in milk
by looking at it.
You can have pure bred flock of
chickens just as we'll as not If you
have not the hens to lay the eggs Sc
cure eggs from pure breed and
hatch and raise the kind you like best.
Mangels are the most economical
beet to grow for milk production; but
many breeders, in forcing COWS for ex-
IRENE records, prefer table beets, be-
cause the COWS will eat larger guam
tity.
With some varieties of apples like
Ben Davis, Bordeaux cannot safely be
used just after the blossoms fall be-
cause of the russeting and disfigure-
ment of the fruit which almost surely
results.
When properly used millet is one of
the most palatable forage crops of the !
whole list, and furthermore when one
or two simple precautions are taken |
it is as safe as any other kind of hay
or forage.
The period of incubation for pleas
ant eggs does not differ greatly from
that of common fowls, though 1t is |
slightly longer. Is as compared with
81 days. The eggs are usually set
under a Cochin bantam hen.
The reason why hogs so eagerly
devour coal ashes, rotten wood and
such material, is because they do not |
have, while in close confinement,
the material their systems require.
At large they root it out of the
ground.
After all, it is hen fruit that is the
most reliable crop. and it gets too
little attention on the majority Of
farms. The time is coming soon when
eggs and poultry will be one Of the
principal sources of income to those
who own small or medium sized farms.
Plant trees. The little seeding will
soon become a sturdy giant. We have
tust been reading Of . house recently
quilt in Nebraska out Of the lumber
sawn from cottonwood trees planted
by the owner on the bare prairie In
1866. Nothing impossible or remark
able about the feat; only another con-