Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1912-05-23

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Keep a spray calendar.
Cut out the dead branches.
chickens relish fresh lettuce.
celect YOUR breed and stick to II.
# you plant pear trees in rich soil
you invite blight
II is work worth while to scald the
calf's feed pail every day.
peach tree will stand a heavier
heading back than an apple tree.
Do not allow the stock to run in the
orchard during the winter months.
Scatter the manure as you haul It.
don't put into little piles all over the
land.
Keen the feed troughs clean. It is
w,steful practice to mix manure with
grain.
Letting the calf suck the COW the
first day or two lessons the danger of
milk fever.
II sows are expected to produce a
fall litter. the spring litter should be
veaned when about 10 weeks old.
Five or six OF the twelve or thirteen
sDecies of beetles attacking stored
grains are found usually in farmers
bins
II you are still so far behind the
age as to be dairying with no separa-
tor, get one now. IL you sell COW
to do It.
An occasional colt or young horse
to sell. even when one is not making
business of raising horses, is a help
to any farmer.
The litter carrier will do much to
keep the barn clean. because it en-
courages the boys and men to do
their work better.
The training of a colt cannot be
too thorough. A half-broken horse is
not broken at all, and is always a
dangerous animal.
Calves should have plenty OF water
as early as they want to drink 1t, but
1t Is best not to let them have 1t right
after their milk feed.
Where from four to eight cows are
MIXED the churn should hold from
six to ten gallons. Better a little
large than too small.
Currant bushes must also be watch
ed carefully, and be thoroughly spray
ed at least twice or you will find more
green worms on your bushes than
fruit.
A vessel which would hold 1000
pounds Of water would hold 1892
pounds of whole milk. ,03S pounds of
sklmmilk, or 1000 pounds of good
cream.
When you see the little ghost-like
winged creatures rising like tiny
clouds from your rose bushes, be sure
1t is the aphis. Get after them with
the spray.
Young climbing roses ought to be
CIT back TO a strong eye, and the
side shoots pruned as grapevines are
pruned-that is, a couple of eyes from
the stem
When cream foams In the churn and
butter will not come, put in handful
or two of salt and little water, slight.
" warmed This usually remedies
the trouble.
Get some variety in the poultry ra.
tIon If the chickens are not eating
heartily they may need little change
III their food to put their appetites
back in tone.
Not few of our dairy folks are go
ing TO raise a crop of cowpeas as hay
iced Tor cows this year. Cowpeas hay
Is next to alfalfa and clover in milk
making qualities.
Eggs to be preserved should be per.
teolly fresh and be placed in the so.
luuon the same day as laid to obtain
.ae best results, although eggs several
Jays old viii keep very we'll. Washed
eggs should not be used
Win gravel and sand to be had on
mos. farms, the purchase of some
'''uand cement will provide the en-.
,'Ie material for a root cellar, a drink.
Is trough, milk house and many
T,Der convenient buildings which will
last Tor many years.
"Aere there is hardly enough milk
mom a single milking to make sepa.