The searchlight. [volume] (Culbertson, Mont.) 1902-current, 1911-06-30
Alfalfa roots are fine and tender.

Iron sulphate solution kills dande
lions.
The horses should have free access
to salt at all times.
Goslings must be driven In when a
hard shower comes up.
A rich sandy loan with clay subsoil.
is the best ground for berries.
Do not allow a dying or worthless
tree to stand In or near an orchard.
Beef. meal and meat scrap are fed
by many poultrymen with excellent
results.
Club root OF cabbage is one OF the
most annoying yet easily controlled
OF diseases.
The matter Of growing the corn and
filling the silo is OF great and growing
importance.
Cattle on pasture can be fed grain
and made ready for market early in
the summer.
| Wheat and oats in equal parts
ground together are excellent for
chicks Of any age.
As soon as the corn is up, or even
before. go over the field with a weed
er or smoothing harrow.
| FlaNseed may be brOadcasted. but
is generally drilled at the rate OF from
two to three pecks to the acre.
small amount OF animal food Is
required by all poultry. especially dur.
ing the time OF egg production.
Try TO see that the chicks are not
fed until at least As hours old: then
give water first. feed afterwards.
Failures in the sheep business, In
nine cases out of ten. may be traced
TO overconfdence and "plunging."
duction his business is a dairyman.
and he needs the best Of dairy cows.
u one has pigs that have TO be kept
In n yard all summer. sweet corn Is
the best green feed he can grow for
them.
Barley and kaffir corn are both good
poultry feed. but not essential when
one has plenty OF the above mentioned
grains.
Dairymen doing small business
connected with farming cannot live up
to the standard without increasing the
cost OF milk.
The temperature in a brooder the
first week should be % degrees. sec
ond week 30 degrees and the third
week IS degrees is enough.
Corn silagc and alfalfa make an ex.
l cellent ration for dairy cows and good
yields Of milk have been reported
where nothing else was fed.
I Go over the young apple trees and
d cut on every water sprout with a sharp
knife close TO the trunk. Do II early
and they will heal this season.
2 Il is the early vegetable that brings
+ the big price and the man who sticks
l. to his hot bed and makes good use
OF ii always gets to market first
. There are several crops which may
; be planted for late summer pasture
; which will furnish fresh. succulent
green feed for all seasons of the year
q Two or three days after potatoes
c are planted 20 over the field with a
b harrow. and continue this until the
e plants are several inches above the
ground.
}. AS soon as the potatoes are planted
S and up sufficiently to cultivate. 1t Is
] becoming customary. and necessary,
: TO spray with some poison solution to
kill the bugs.
;. The fruiting strawberries shonlc
p have all weeds and grass cut out be-
I tween plants; take sharp. narrow
: bladed hoe and cut the soil fine with
e out disturbing the roots.
The poultry yard should be all
5 cleared away and tidied up In June.
1 and all coops and racks no longer in
e use securely stored away in some shed
!. where they will be kept dry until mex.
e season.
One can spread ashes. lime. land
. plaster, pulverized lime rock. etc,
D etc. with the manure spreader by
5 first putting a layer of litter in the
+ bottom of the spreader and the fine
material on ton.