The Caldwell watchman. (Columbia, La.) 1885-1946, 1911-06-23
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Spray potato plants for bugs.

Study the comforts of the COWS and
young things.
No kind Of young stock grows SO
fast as draft foal.
Raspberries are propagated by seeds,
sucker plants and tip plants
The currant must not be cultivated
deeply. for it is shallow-rooted plant.
twenty acres of good corn put in
the silo will feed 80 cows for a whole
year.
The raspberry and blackberry, like
the strawberry, will succeed on any
good corn soil.
Water the horses before feeding.
When fed first there is often more
danger OF collie.
Care should be taken that the cow
does not have to wade through filth
In the barnyard.
Very few farmers take enough time
IN lifting the field for planting either
corn or potatoes.
Watch sweet clover. It begins to
look as If it had very valuable place
among our farm crops.
Horses that are clipped dry off fast
at night This Is better than having
them stand around in a heavy wet
coat.
A teaspoonful of coal tar to a peck
OF corn. moistened with little wa
ter, Is said to be protection against
gophers.
To be on the safe side cabbage
plants should be started in soil which
has not been previously used for cab.
bage culture.
The production of pure milk means
obtaining the milk under scrupulously
clean conditions and handling it in a |
Clearly manner.
Farmers make more clear money
from a flock of hens than from any
other livestock. but they are mere
careless with them.
Much may be done to increase thu
value OF a woodlot by cutting out tue
nnsound or unlikely trees which are
crowding more valuable ones.
When buying a sprayer, get one
that throws mist spray, as no other
will get the solution uniformly distrib.
Mted over all parts Of the plant.
Where orchard trees have been hesy.
fly pruned early in the season, many
water sprouts or suckers" will be apt
to grow in the center Of the trees.
The chief value Of alfalfa meal
over alfalfa Is that 1t Is all fed ND.
and thus saves the waste impossible
to prevent in woody or coarse alfalfa
The horses and oxen should be kept
IN good. thrifty condition, not too fat
nor too thin, and this can only be had
by regular grain feeding throughout
the year.
The fertilization of the crop is only
one Of the several important consider.
lations In growing a crop: seed, prep
'aration of the soil and cultivation are
equally important.
The best way to start In the poultry
business is to get few hens and set
them on good eggs These should al.
ways be bought from q reliable breed
er and should be from pure.bred stock,
Barnyard manure is the best gen.
eral fertilizer to use about young
fruit trees: care should be taken.
however, not to pile 1t up about the
tree trunk as It Is liable to burn the
bark.
In order that the hen may be able
to manufacture eggs she must be
given material that will not only build
up the wasting tissues, but will also
furnish the right ingredients to make
the eggs.
The biggest acreage Of fodder crops
that ever was put into the ground is
going in this spring in the northwest,
because the farmers who had POOR
crops last year are tired, they say, Of (
paying high prices for hay and corn I
and other commodities, and they are
going to raise plenty Of stock food
this year.
/ Potatoes should not be manured in
the drill. Plant on clover sod ground,
and apply 800 pounds of high.grade
animal bone and potash compound to
the acre. This will be at the rate Of
one large handful to every three feet
LOT row. For tomatoes and cabbage
use both manure and phosphate. Mix
with the earth; make low, fiat hill.
J It is important that the eggs for
Matching receive consideration from
the first. Every male that Is mot
active and full Of life should be
sacrificed for one that is better. Be
careful in feeding the hens. as eggs !
from very fat hens seldom hatch and
If they produce chicks at all the
chicks will be weak and puny. Much &
on hn covod IN Solnctinp fn1v