The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1912-10-25
Chickens enjoy free range,

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make Il business man of him.
Sheep prefer short fresh grass tc
that which is tall and coarse.
Indiscriminate crossing leads &c
failure; make a line and hew to 1t,
Salt the weeds In the sheep pasture
and watch the sheep clean them up,
It Is bad policy to wean young pigs
suddenly and put them on cows skim
milk.
Sheep ought to be kept because OF
the influence which they exert upon
fertility.
Try to arrange to give each horse
on the farm a three weeks vacation
on grass.
The time spent IN company OF the
sheep will pay and success will
crown your labors.
II winter dairyIng is to be the most
profitable It must be planned for def
nitely In advance.
The young pig wants to be got out
Into the sunshine and on to the dirt
as early In life as possible.
Sheep at six years Of age lose their
teeth; hence they should be fattened
and sold before this period.
Feed your rams generously but not
too well. An oVerfed pampered ram
is Of no earthly use anywhere.
Have you considered how impossi.
bic 1t Is for the half starved W TO
properly nourish her offspring?
This Is a good time to put n square
Of tar paper In the bottom OF each
nest box for the benefit of lice.
Do not neglect to provide clean
water for the poultry. Dirty water is
dirty at any season Of the year.
If the strawberries have been picked
two seasons, spade up the beds and
SOW the land for some late.planted
crop.
Know whether a plant requires a
situation dry or moist, hot or cool,
sunny or shady to know where to put
that plant.
The lady-bugs or lady-birds are
small turtle-shaped beetles which feed
upon plant life in both the Iarval and
adult stages.
Some plants cannot be thoroughly
welded with the hoe, In these cases
every weed should be carefully
plucked by hand.
Plant a cover crop In the orchard.
Rye, barley, wheat and oats are good
non-leguminous plants, but the L.
gumes are better,
The farmers and fruit growers Of
this country are losing over one bill.
hon dollars annually by reason Of the
ravages Of insects.
A dense fleece Ia valuable not alone
for the increase In quantity of wool.
but for the protection that 1t affords
animal from the elements.
II lice and mites fail to pay enough
attention to other treatments, try
burning them out with a torch. But
ion't burn down the house in order
get the vermin.
AS q rule, 1t will not pay to hold
the pig crop for prices TO rise, un-
less they are being held. While a
feeders win out In playing the
game. many more lose.
Corn and alfalfa usually can be at
ended to when the wheat needs no
ARE, thus distributing the labor more
,quitably throughout the a
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Mushrooms, on account OF the
amount Of nitrogen they contain, ap-
roach nearer to animal food than any
,ther vegetable product. An analysts
made by Prof. Att@ood shows that
mushrooms contain 5.5 per cent pro-
eds
Anything that will destroy weeds is
Of the farmers attention; any.
hing that will maintain the fertility
I the land demands his attention.
iheep will do both, and are therefore
to the attention Of every
armer.
II has been demonstrated to be an
lmost universal fact that topping
does not do the work It Is in.
snded-to check the growth OF the
,afy upper portion Of the plant. In.
lead, In most cases, 1t has a tendency
, cause the renewal Of this growth
nd In the very place where 1t will do
most harm by shading the bolls
the middle Of the stalk /,