Mexico Missouri message., 1912-05-16
Pigs relish potatoes.

Keeping tho hngernails crt may
save both milk and modification.
Kerosene emulsion will kill plant
lice more effectively than hellebore.
There is a big difference between
butterfly and a fly in the butter
BE sure the little pigs have a nice
dry place to stretch out in the warm
sun.
Milk fever might often be prevented
by little attention to the COW before
calving.
Remember that your orchard, espe-
cially the young trees, needs good
cultivation.
The three important elements OF
plant food are nitrogen, phosphorus
and potassium.
Alfalfa is the most wonderful Of all
cultivated plants, and the oldest one
known to history.
There is no germ slayer better than
an ounce of carbolic acid added to a
pail of whitewash.
One of the chief advantages of feed
ing live stock on the farm is the
maintenance OF soil fertility.
1t will take good farming to keep
up and increase soil fertility without
purchasing feed grown outside.
Teach the children to respect the
dragon fly. This friend OF ours kills
flies and many other obnoxious In
sects.
II dusty hay is fed, sprinkle with
water, and II will save the horse
much annoyance; but better not feed
it at all.
A box of ashes under a clump OF
shrubbery will be greatly appreciated
| by the hens in warm weather.
II is as impossible to estimate the
| productiveness and value of a cow as
1t is to guess the exact number Of
bushels of corn q certain field will
yield.
The right kind OF a farm garden
will keep the family during garden
season with the help OF the hens. 1t
won't take many hens for this help.
| either.
A good crop for the orchard would
| be cowpeas-wide strips sown between
the rows OF trees. This would make
good early hay and is also good for
the soil.
While sheep will eat grain and any
kind of grass and some kinds Of
weeds, they are, after all, dainty
feeders, and the feed must be abso-
lutely clean.
| If you intend to raise sheep for wool
buy rams and ewes that are bred
for wool, and do not make the mis-
take of mixing mutton types with
wool types.
The young pigs often become crook
ed in the legs. IL kept on the hard
floor too long. and this means that
the pig, if a good breed, loses much
OF its value.
Weighing milk at stated intervals
not only tells the owner which are
his profitable cows, and which are
robbers. but it stimulates rivalry be-
tween the mixers.
| Alfalfa grows best on a deep. sandy
loan underlaid by a loose and per-
meable subsoll. 1t will not grow If
there is an excess of water in the
soil. The land must be well drained.
English farmers do not hesitate to
pay as high as 500 for pure bred
sire ram, Do you imagine they would
do this II they could get just as good
results from a scrub at one-tenth the
price?
The high producing dairy COW Is an
animal that follows In the wake Of
civilization. She never goes ahead.
Conditions must be suitable be-
fore she can be Of any value to the
farmer.
II strawberry plants are dried out
when received by express do not water
them. for water on the foliage will
quickly cause the crown to rot. Dip
the roots in tepld water and lay them
in a cool cellar for a few hours.
Four ounces OF sulphate Of potas.
stun to a gallon OF water makes a
good solution for killing lice on horses.
Benzine is also beneficial Both APP.
plications should be rubbed in twice,
a week apart, in order to do the work
thoroughly.
Roy staIlS are safer for Tattening