The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1911-06-23
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III FARM
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spray potato plants for bugs.
Use barnyard manure for fertilizing.
Study the comforts of the cows and
young things.
No kind Of young stock grows so
tast as a 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 I'm
the silo will feed 30 cows for 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 fitting the field for planting either
corn or potatoes.
Watch sweet clover II begins to
look as IL 1t 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 heavy wet
coat.
A teaspoonful of coal tar to peck
of corn, moistened with little wa
ter, is said to be a. 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
cleanly manner.
Farmers make more clear money
from a flock of hens than from any
other livestock. but they are more
careless with them.
Much may be done to increase the
value of a woodlot by cutting out the
unsound or unlikely trees which are
crowding more valuable ones.
When buying sprayer, get one
that throws a mist spray, as no other
wifi get the solution uniformly distrib-
uted over all parts of the plant.
ily 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 it is all fed up.
and thus saves the waste impossible
10 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 mad
by regular grain feeding throughout
the year.
The fertilization of the crop Is only
one of the several important consider
ations In growing crop seed. prep
aration of the soil and cultivation are
equally important.
The BEST way to start In the poultry
husiress Is to get few hens and set
them on good eggs These should al
wavs ne bought from reliable breed
er aid should be from pnre-bred stock
Barnyard manure is the best gen
eral fertilizer to use about young
fruit trees: care should be taken,
bowever 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
n manufacture eggs she must De
given material that viii not only build
nm The wasting tissues. but will also
furnish n the right ingredients to make
the eggs.
catalpa grove will yield Its first
cro., IN about ten years. when each
trsa should produce one first-class
,osttone seconeLclass post and two or
,hrea stays. From the small and
sroosed - limbs considerable firewood Is
secursds
rna farmer who complains that his
.ss ,av All over the barn Is apt 20
- man tnal does 20. think clean !
,rx the hen-house necessary. s,ray
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