Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1912-09-12
Weeds harbor flies.

cleaner milk.
The horse should be given food
free from dust
The Importance OF the sorghums is
often overlooked.
Line fences well kept up help to
make good neighbors.
Alfalfa should ordinarily be cut
when it is coming into blossom.
There is no grass that will stand
flooding for any considerable time.
crop of potatoes should be spray
ed at least twice with Bordeaux mix.
ture.
Hogs should be fed as near as pos
sible at the same hours, morning and
evening.
One of the cheapest root crops to
grow for stock Is turnips. Plant early
this month.
No animal that gets only feed
enough to support life can make a
gain or profit.
Sometimes weeks chill rains or
cold weather will set the pigs back a
month in their growth.
In selecting the brood SOW remem-
Der that the size of the litter is an
important factor in her. profit.
Father and the boys appreciate the
garden at meal time during the vege-
table season, II at no other time.
When building that dairy barn be
sure to make II large enough to &C
commodate the growth of your busi-
ness.
1t is the amount of food over and
above the quantity required to sus-
tain the life OF the animal that counts
for profit
II is Just as important that every
horse should have his own collar all
the time as that the man should wear
his own shoes.
Where young orchards are kept per-
fectly clean by cultivation. there Is
seldom much injury sustained from
mice during the winter.
Young hens should not be set after
their first laying of eggs. BY the time
they want to set the second time they
will make good mothers.
The greatest crop the farmers of
the world have raised has been Lib
erty and Freedom. The oppressed far.
mer is never good farmer.
With d good corn crop almost ready
to crib and plenty of other feed ev-
cry farmer should prepare to raise
and fatten a few hogs this year.
II you have had a crop fail for you
two or three times 1t will pay to look
deeper than mere climatic conditions
Probably there are other causes which
you can remove.
IN the shade OF the old apple tree
Is a mighty good place to spend a few
minutes at noon these hot days.
little rest at noon gives speed to the
work of the afternoon
1t costs Just as much In soil fertility
to raise a weed as to raise wheat oil
oat stalk. Land is not resting II 1t is
raising weeds. Even they ought to be
piowed down for fertility.
Now is the time to swat the mites
and be sure that II is a mighty swat
because the pesky mite is a mighty
, mean mite OF an insect that Is the
, bugaboo OF egg production.
A whole lot Of farmers would bet
ter sell their cows and buy their mill
: and butter. II would be cheaper thar
= the price they are now paying, al
, though they do not realize 1t.
Constant care is one of the secrets
OF success in the breeding or feeding
! of stock of all kinds. 1t Is only the
( man who likes such work that will
! measure up to the greatest success.
Some crops have root systems which
go much deeper than the soil II
plowed or broken up 1t takes strength
to send down the roots which NIGH
: be used in sending up stalk. Deer
blowing pays.
Beet growing Is beginning TO be
come very profitable as we'll as {
popular crop in many sections. The
general price is $500 per ton and tn,
general Yield In many sections runs III