Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1911-06-08
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Consult with your help.
Nearly every one can grow phIox
Good, clean runs are delight to
the hens.
a good COW Is seldom sold. except
At high price
Are you troubled with crows about
your chicken yards2
Feed very little soft feed and you
will raise more chicks.
Glover can be grown 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 prof1table-when well
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 grim.
Young as well as old orchards should
be ploweda in the fail, and thoroughly
narrowed in the spring,
Celery seed should be sown in a
shallow drill and covered with just
light sprinkling of fine earth
Don't cultivate the potatoes when
out in bloom, or coming out, unless
you want lot of stunted little tubers.
If there are signs of worms in your
hogs, feed concentrated I've, one-half
teaspoonful to each animal we'll mixed
In slop or soft feed.
II 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 over the young apple trees and
cut OF every water sprout with
sharp knife close to the trunk. Do
ltiearly and they will heal this season.
The proper time to set out fruit
and deciduous trees is the latter part
March or first part of April, in the
spring.
It is estimated that Colorado farm
ers last year received $500. 900 for
their sugar beet crop, an increase of
$1.000,000 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 stout wire overhead in the
cow barn and hang the lantern to this
while milking and feeding. It can be
slid along from place to place and is
Rafe handled this way.
In setting one fruit tree, or many,
the ground should be deeply plowed,
thoroughly narrowed and the rows
Tor the trees run out with the two
horse plow Run the plow twice In
each row.
A eve without milk makes a-boor
mother. Feed If necessary to get the
milk flow, and youn find the invest
ment a 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-half
teet 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
seet would not do any harm
The future of the dairy business de-
ponds upon the quality Of our prod
ucts. It is sad commentary on the
dairy business. when we hear dealers
and consumers argue that cleo il bet
ter than one-half of the butter, that
nnds its way To the market.
When the mothers milk cannot be
ased Ter her calf. try to get the milk
from COW with q calf as old as the
one you are feeding on the bottle, az
the milk Of q cow In, the seventh or
eighth month of her period of 1acta~
don is had for = very young calf
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