The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-02-10
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A.
Notwithstanding the large number
OF students being graduated each year
from the agricultural colleges all over
this continent, there seems to 5e a
continuous shortage of qualified men
for the work of agricultural teaching.
One high school in the search for
teacher of agriculture, has gone the
length of sending out mimeographed
letters to the various agricultural col
leges in the hopes OF securing such
man.
One of the most encouraging devel-
opments in the growing of garden
vegetables is the increasing recogni
ton of the practical Importance of
using pure and uniform stocks of
seed whose varietal characteristics
adapt them to distinct local condi-
tons and market requirements.
The abnormally high prices de-
manded for oil meal during the past
winter, owing to the extremely high
price of flaxseed, has led many farm
ers to inquire into the feasibility of
raising small amount of flax to be
fed, instead Of depending upon the
market for their oil meal.
Care must be exercised with plant
ings of asparagus to see that the
summers growth is moved and
burned before the seeds ripen and fall,
otherwise the parent plants will soon
be very much dwarfed with a mass
Of seedlings growing amongst them
growing chicks will be too warm dur
ing the night and will sweat out more
strength during the hours in which
they ought to rest than they will gain
under the most favorable conditions
during the day.
When we understand that it re-
quires twenty tons of moisture to pro-
duce bushel Of corn we will study
to make it's evaporation as slow as
possible, as crops suffer more from
lack of moisture than from any other
single thing.
If COWS come fresh in the fall, they
produce good flow of milk during the
winter months and in the spring when
they are turned on grass this acts as
second freshening and thus length
ems the period of milk production.
1t takes some extra care to have
nest boxes all clean this time of the
year, but it pays. If you can't afford
to give your hens clean boxes, they
can't afford TO lay good eggs worth
two or three cents apiece
Those who have young beef steers
on hand or can get them at a. reason
able price can do no better than give
the matter of cattle feeding during the
| winter very full and complete consid
Grafton
A green bone cutter will pay for
itself in one season. Besides being a
very healthy food and a great egg
producer, cut bone Is a cheap food
compared to present high prices for
grain.
You can start in the poultry bust.
| ness with a dozen fowls at a cost OF
| about five dollars for house and yards
| A piano box will cost dollar and
the wire fencing about four dollars
| more.
An important feature of profitable
mutton feeding lies in the breeding OF
| feeders, and all experienced feeders
OF sheep recognize the value of the
sire in building up the mutton flock.
| One breeder says that he can wear
his pigs in six or seven weeks if they
have good care and keep them grow
ing as fine as any litter and still have
the next litter six weeks sooner.
Don't keep your horse in an over
heated stable, and then stand him fo1
hours in a freezing atmosphere and
wonder how he became paralyzed.
Some men start for the doctor when
they have sick horse. Others feed
we'll, care well and drive we'll, so they
never have to go to the doctor.
To groom the horse well after hard
work does not only clean the skin
but 1t prevents various parasitic dis
eases of the skin.
| It is Of supreme importance that
the dairy stock should be handled
gently. Wild and intractable animals
are usually the result of hard han.
ding.
Fresh green bone is Of itself almost
a complete feed. and may be used az
a special material for egg produc.
ton.
| Success in pork production is large.
ly affected by the attention given ia
the health and comfort of the brood
SOW.
| 1t is shame to put fowls into win.
ter quarters before the latter have