The Caldwell watchman. (Columbia, La.) 1885-1946, 1911-06-02
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Consult with your help.
Nearly every one can grow phlox.
Good. clean runs are delight TO
the hens.
A good COW is seldom sold, except |
al high price.
Are you troubled with crows about
your chicken yards?
Feed very little soft feed and you
will raise more chicks.
Glover can be gf.wn more cheaply
than timothy or fodder corn.
Bran and meat meal help to supply
the young sows with muscle and bone.
BY putting a little fine hay in the
calls mouth daily she will soon learn
to eat
Parsley is next to lettuce in winter
marketing-both profitable-when vel!
grown.
One OF the most important problems
OF the farmer is to feed his animals
economically.
Borrowing tools, and sending them
home dull or rusty, doesn't make the
other fellow grin.
Young as we'll as old orchards should
be plowed in the fall, and thoroughly
narrowed in the spring.
Celery seed should be sown in a
shallow drill and covered with just a
light sprinkling Of fire earth.
Don't cultivate the potatoes when
out in bloom, or coming out, unless
you want a lot OF stunted little tubers. |
If there are signs of worms in your |
hogs, feed concentrated lye, onehalf |
teaspoonful to each animal we'll mixed
in slop or soft feed.
If sweet butter is to be made which |
will command the highest market |
price, cleanliness must begin in the
stable where the milking is done.
Go yer the young apple trees and
cut of every water sprout with
sharp knife close to the trunk. %
1t early and they will heal this season.
The brobsr Vine to set out out fruit I
and deciduous trees is the latter part
of October and the latter part of |
March or first part of April, in the
spring.
1t is estimated that Colorado farm.
ers last year received $7,500,0O0 for
their sugar beet crop. an increase Of |
| 100000 over the product of the
previous year.
In the opinion of many eastern
feeders, best development of livestock
cannot be had without the use Of
roots or silage to supply succulent
feed during winter.
String 4 stout wire overhead in the
cow barn and hang the lantern to this
while milking and feeding. 1t can be
slid along from place to place and 10
safe handled this way.
In setting one fruit tree, or many.
the ground should be deeply plowed.
thoroughly narrowed and the rows
for the trees run out with the two.
horse pillow. Run the pillow twice In
each row.
A eve without milk makes a poor
mother. Feed II necessary to get the
milk flow, and you'll find the invest
ment good one Roots of any kind,
alfalfa hay, or a small grain feed will }
work wonders.
A stout wire netting fence fastened
to stout posts set two and one.halt |
feet deep In the ground and eight feet |
apart makes the best hog fence; have
board at bottom and one at top to |
keep the wire tight.
Might as we'll give the trees plenty |!
of room at the start because If you !
don't they will have to be cut out |
later. Thirty feet apart is the right |
distance for apple trees. although 40 |
feet would not do any harm.
Every farmer knows that the grain, !
S'OVSI anu 6Ao so, SOp'uIcSoSu Will d
thick coat of hardwood ashes, will !
have stout straw, long heads of plump,
clear skinned wheat, the clover will be |
more luxuriant, and the corn stalks |
-touter and the ears larger, and the
grain sound and ripe early.
When gilt farrows in spring her
young should be pushed on, and she
should visit the boar as quickly as pos.
sible after her litter have been weaned.
in order that her second lot of young
ones may have grown well forward be-
fore the arrival Of cold weather, which
Is the cause Of many failures with the
second litter Of the year.
The big commission handlers can.
de all their eggs before letting them
out. It Is the only way to keep good