The searchlight. [volume] (Culbertson, Mont.) 1902-current, 1911-07-28
Sheep relish rape greatly.

The harvest season Is the most
trying of the year.
The fields that raise the best crops
are the fields that are well drained.
During the torrid days the comfort
of the fowls must be closely attended
TO.
IL takes a protracted drought to de-
velop any poisonous material In sor-
ghum.
Through live stock we market our
products at home In the finished
product.
II would be better to give some OF
your cows away than to feed them
at a loss.
Keep the eggs as short q time 40
pcscsible and at cool temperature.
40 to IS degrees
All the pront OF sheep husbandry
is bound up In one thing: the keeping
OF the flock in health.
A good aphis is one OF the worst
enemies the orchardist has to combat
In the young orchard.
Selling less hay and straw. feeding
more cows on the farm. will help re.
duce the fertilizer problem.
Great care should be exercised in
all cases In transplanting svergrsens
to avoid drying of the roots.
Tomato seeds are easily preserved.
and II you have extra good ones pick
out the best and save tho seeds.
II should be remembered that sows
that arc to feed large littsrs of pigs
should be we'll fed and cared for.
The pig that 10 intended for q brood
SOW should be fed well enough to keep
II in good condition. but not extra fat.
A. good insect powder 10 90 cheap
there 10 no use or excuse for allowing |
old fowls to remain covered with yer.
min.
n you want late celery for winter, |
II should be planted any time from |
the first Of July to the middle of |
August
String beans should be drilled IN
double rows six inches apart with Just
enough space between to allow for
cultivation.
Buttermilk 10 one Of the best known
feeds for pigs. used In moderation
and properly MIXED with grain or 9th.
or feedstuffs.
The foremost method OF cultiyating
alfalfa IL with the disk harrow. one OF
the most excellent farm implements
ever invented.
II the skin Of the horse 10 kept
clean he will sweat more freely,
which 10 necessary to keep him in
good condition.
Too much water 10 a. bad a. too
little. because the surplus nils up the
interstices In the soil. excludes the
air and smothers the plant.
For the large tomato worm which
was more numerous than usual last
year. the best method 10 to pick them
on by hand and destroy them
Never feed meat scraps that were
made Of rotten meat. Good. pure
feed Is the only thing that ever ought
to be fed to a fowl Of any kind.
II costs money to have things 20
wrong on the farm or anywhere else.
but II 10 almost inevitable that some
thing will 20 wrong once In q while.
Before and after the SOW farrows.
she should be fed very light or the
pigs win not be able to take all the
milk. or II they do. they win become
sick.
Don't forget to thoroughly overhaul
the binder before harvest: this 10
cheaper than to be overhauied by q
hailstorm because you let the harvest.
ing drag.
Smallfruit growing and truck farm.
ing does not mix well with general
but an apple orchard 10 q
profitable appendage to any diversi.
fed farm.
A gilt that 10 expected to be kept
for q brood SOW should never be bred
before she 10 eight months old. and II
Is better to wait until she 10 ten or
eleven months old.
II In lust as cheap to make n pound