The Ely miner., 1911-06-02
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Consult with your help.
Nearly every one can grow phlox.
Good, clean runs are a delight to
the hens.
A good COW is seldom sold, except
at 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 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
calf's mouth daily she will soon learn
to eat.
Parsley is next to lettuce in winter
marketing-both profitable-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 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 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 lye, one-hali
teaspoonful to each animal well 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 over the young apple trees and
cut off every water sprout with a
sharp knife close to the trunk. Dc
it early and they will heal this season
The proper time to set out fruit
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 $7,500,000 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. 1t can be
slid along from place to place and IL
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 plow. Run the plow twice in
each row.
A eve without milk makes a poo1
mother. Feed If necessary to get the
milk flow, and you'll find the invest
ment a good one. Roots of any kind
alfalfa hay, or 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 tc
keep the wire tight
Might as well 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 AZ
feet would not do any harm.
Every farmer knows that the grain
clover and grass, top-dressed with {
| thick coat of hardwood ashes, will
have stout straw, long heads of plump
clear-skinned wheat, the clover will bt
more luxuriant, and the corn stalks
stouter and the ears larger. and the
grain sound and ripe early.
When gilt farrows in spring hel
young should be pushed on, and sh(
should visit the boar as quickly as pos
sible after her litter have been weaned
in order that her second lot of youns
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
die all their eggs before letting them
out. It is the only way to keep good
with their customers. One bad egg