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

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Ali animals need salt
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 n fine |
forcing feed for friers.
A good time to Gull out inferior |
birds Is when the market is up.
TIE finer the soil, the better the
vegetables, both In quantity and quail
fly.
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 colt, remember that
I II is an easy matter to overload and
! ruin him by causing him to balk.
Bran is a very good feed for COWS.
IT is light. palatabe 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 a 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 It 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
under feeding.
The earlier in the season after the
June crop" that thinning can be done,
the better it will be for the tree and
remaining apples.
The most humane method OF de
hornlng a COW Is to do the work with
a little caustic potash when the horns
are just starting on the calf.
When the strawberries are off the
vines remove the mulch and cultivate
thoroughly to kill OFF the weeds ans
put the soil in fine condition.
Some folks have their houses sc
that they can open them up all arounC
, the foundation walls when It is hot
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From early spring until August SOW
a 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-meshet
cloth of some kind over them to keel
out things that have 20 business il
the house.
: Alsike clover Is a perennial and cal
be grown on ground that Is too low
and moist for the medium red o
mammoth, but 1t is grown equal,
we'll on high ground.
Men who are inexperienced in a
falfa growing should have forced o.
, tEeir attention the important lesso
= that it pays we'll to put a little labo
on the surface after removing eacl
: crop.
:, II selecting eggs for Matching muc
: care should be used. Select only mic
brown, well.formed and good-size
eggs from healthy stock Keep ther
Just cool and inCubate them as 500
. as possible.
! When buying pedigreed stock tn
: wise buyer will study the pedigree c
: the man who bred the animal as care
:, fully as the animal itself A good rel
a utation Is a valuable asset when sci
:, ing registered animals