Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1912-04-25

| Let the chicks have sweet milk TO
drink and watch them grow.
Oyer.fccd.ug and lack Of exercise
often cause pigs to have fits.
Have two or three pillow points on
hand ready for the time OF need.
Poorly fed sheep will not produce
very good wool, nor good mutton.
Soybeans can be grown successful
ly in a climate where cowpeas do we'll.
Tho young lamb will grow rapidly,
so give him a chance. There is profit
In IT.
II Il is cold weather when the
young trees arrive. hill in until 1t mod.
crates.
Strong chemical fertilizers should
not be given too lavlshly to growing
plants.
| Don't make the mistake OF thinking
that lice do not trouble poultry in cold
weather.
Wise farmers are paying consider
able attention to the quality Of their
seed corn.
Milk is the hogs natural food.
Give him all of 1t you can scare up
every day.
Better plan TO have some rape next
summer. AS a feed for sheep It is
hard to beat.
There Is more risk than gain in
breeding a heifer before she is eight.
cen months old.
Overchurning makes the butter
"salvy" Stop when the grains are the
size of wheat kernels.
Cultivation does not add any water
TO the soil, but prevents that already
there from getting away.
The bail from a candy bucket at
tached to the other end OF the bucket
gives you handy milk stool.
Horses cannot be grown as cheap
as they were when land was half the
price and grain half the price.
| A stumbling habit may be caused
by poor shoeing; or 1t may be caused
| by ignorant or careless hitching.
Get the parsnips out Of the ground
at once. A few warm days will start
growth and give them a strong flavor.
A chunk OF salt where the cows can
lick it any time is one way OF making
sure they are getting the right amount.
No use waiting for the potatoes TO
come up before working them. Har-
row right along and after they are up.
\ too,
II is a good plan to plant all the po-
tatoes wen need and then a few more.
We don't often raise too many pota-
toes.
In order to grow good crop OF su.
perior vegetables, We must have a suit
able soil good seed and thorough cul-
.ivation.
Follow the first bed Of radishes and
lettuce with successive paintings ev-
cry two weeks TO provide a continu-
Gus supply.
Concrete structures are desirable
because they can be kept In a SAM.
tary condition more easily than
wooden ones.
After growing a crop of corn, the
soil is always in excellent form to alb.
sorb and retain the autumn rains and
winter SHOWS.
1t is important TO have the garden
tools sharp. Some people never think
Of sharpening the blade OF a hoe. but
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Corn treated with q dressing Of
| plaster and ashes will soon show by
the strong growth and the dark color
of the leaf the effect OF the dressing.
AS a rule it does not pay to save
garden seed because varieties are apt
10 become mixed and professional
seedsmen can give us better seed than
we can grow ourselves.
1t is all very well to experiment with
seds from choice specimens Of fruit
or vegetables from ones own garden,
but in the long run seeds from a re.
liable firm will give better satisfac.
ton. A possible exception is tomato
seeds. Very often We can get better
seed from choice specimens in our
own garden than anywhere else.