The searchlight. [volume] (Culbertson, Mont.) 1902-current, 1912-08-23

The hog is a debt payer.
Every farm should have a silo.
A silo built OF concrete will pre-
serve silage well.
Milk and corn meal makes q fine
forcing feed for friers.
A good time to Gull out inferior
birds is when the market is up.
The finer the soil. the better the
vegetables. both In quantity and quail
ity.
Feed the soil II you would have the
soil feed you. applies forcibly to worn
out lands.
Grape vines require frequent shall
low cultivation throughout the en-
tire season.
In setting an orchard stick to the
proven varieties. Let some one else
do the experimenting.
The thermometer must be used as
regularly In the dairy during the
summer as during the winter.
At this time of the year care should
be exercised IN housing the pullets
that are to be the winter layers.
In breaking a colt, remember that
1t is an easy matter to overload and
ruin him by causing him to balk.
Bran Is very good feed for cows.
II Is light, palatable and rich in min.
eral matter, especially phosphorus.
With fruiting orchards, mineral fer
tilizers are often great assistance, but
an excess OF nitrogen should be avoid
ed.
Annual flowers can be hurried along
by watering them with q tablespoon.
full OF nitrate Of soda to a pailful of
water.
Heroic pruning measures are needed.
ed to bring many old trees into bear.
ing: but 1t need not all be done the
first year.
The theory that one can overfeed
The growing pullets has been exploded
and many a flock has been retarded by
nnder feeding.
The earlier In the season after the
June crop" that thinning can be done,
the better 1t will be for the tree and
remaining apples.
The most humane method OF de-
/ horning COW is TO do the work with
a little caustic potash when the horns
are just starting on the calf.
When the strawberries are of the
vines remove the mulch and cultivate
thoroughly to kill on the weeds and
put the soil In fine condition.
Some folks have their houses &c
that they can open them up all around
the foundation walls when II Is hot
and let the air circulate everywhere.
From early spring until August SOW
few rows OF summer lettuce ever,
two weeks or so, and thus try to pro
vide a continuous supply OF goo,
heads.
Throw open the windows ever,
night. but tack some wide-meshe,
cloth Of some kind over them to keel
out things that have no business II
the house.
Alsike clover Is a perennial and ca
be grown on ground that is too 10,
and moist for the medium red o
7 mammoth, but 1t is grown equal
well on high ground.
Men who are inexperienced In a
falfa growing should have forced o
their attention the important lesso
that 1t pays well to put little labo
on the surface after removing eac
crop.
! In selecting eggs for Matching niue
care should be used. Select only mic
brown, well-formed and good-size
. eggs from healthy stock. Keep thel
! Just cool and incubate them as SOC
as possible.
When buying pedigreed stock Ii
} wise buyer will study the pedigree I
the man who bred the animal as car
, fully as the animal itself. A good re
utation is a valuable asset when Sci
. ing registered animals.
. From Is to Is pounds Of hay shoul
> be given horse during the day. Tn
7 Is equivalent to I'VE or six pounds
. meal. But 1t 10 not we'll to Give I
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