Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1912-08-22
Keep the pigs growing.

Timely harvesting is necessary.
Gather oil the brush from the or.
chard and burn It.
When cream appears moldy on the
surface II is overrlpe.
You are safe to buy an old'sire, but
don't get him very fat.
An orchard neglected for one year |
virtually puts II back three years.
Early turkeys are what pay. and |
these can only be had from early laid
eggs.
Plenty OF exercise Is one very i'm
portant item for keeping a flock
healthy.
The use OF sllage for sheep feeding
purposes has been tried out to linn
tied extent.
There is no reason why potatoes
should not be cultivated with rid
ing corn cultivator.
II you want fine, early yellow
peach. put two or three Triumph trees
in your next nursery order.
Some tell the sex of the guinea fowl
by it's wattles. Those of the male are
double the size of the female.
A liberal application of ashes to the
soil where cabbage plants are grown
is a preventive of clump root.
Condiments that stimulate egg pro-
| duction are very much like anything
that stimulates human being.
| An orchard will live longer, bear
better and be more profitable by be-
ing well cultivated and enriched.
Good fruit can be raised only with
care and attention given to spraying,
pruning and generally good care.
| GOOseUeTEleS require COOl Sllud-
ton, with plenty of air and moist
ure, and should be partially shaded.
1t requires two-thirds of full ra-
tion to keep a COW in fair condition
before there is any milk production.
blockish built mare with a large
| tg lya1x TO
duce a better foal than the tall, leggy
kind.
Capons are the most profitable parts
of the chicken business, just as steers
are the most profitable part of the cat
tie industry.
Frequently disinfecting the hem
houses, coops and drink and feed
dishes is likely to save lots of trouble
from disease.
1t does not require any great ability
at figures to show that there is a
> great waste in selling hogs when they
are but half fed out.
Truck crops suffer least from fungi
In seasons that open with a cool spring
i, and end with very hot summer, with
rainfall below the average.
Raspberries and blackberries should
be mulched with straw or litter after
! they have been shallow cultivated two
or three times in the spring.
II the onions are not growing well
little nitrate of soda or hen manure
sown broadcast, before or during a
rain, often helps them to fill out.
You don't have to take the frost out
of the bits these days. but you might
take the fire out OF your temper anC
= save much suffering in the horses
mouths.
Sugar.beet growing means more
y than the mere profits from growing
, the beets. It introduces a higher typt
Of agriculture and the crops raised II
rotation are better.
| Al luIs season COWS SHOULD DC uTy
d so as to avoid milking during fly
p time and excessive heat. Pastures ar,
n short, too, and a dry COW can stanC
it better than a good mixer.
n 1t pays to whitewash, ventilate an,
" properly light stables; to brush ant
n curry cows; to use clean and well
y covered utensils, to cool milk quickl.
and to have cool place for the milk
l. Cowpeas or soy beans are frequent.
n sown in standing corn at the time o
n the last cultivation or they can b,
'r sown after such early-harvested crop
h as wheat have been removed in cas-
it is not too late in the season.
n Those Tho contemplate starting al
,e alfalfa patch should bear in mind thi
ID one fact, that under ordinary circum
m stances no one factor will contribute
IN so much TO the success of the CrOD a