The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1913-06-19
GENERAL FARM ITEMS
OF SPECIAL INTEREST

The smell Of onions may be removed
from the hands by rubbing them with
stalks Of celery or parsley and in a
large measure from ones breath by
eating portions Of the same vegetables.
Kansas has In sight winter wheat
crop estimated at 125,OOO,0OO bushels,
the largest in the history Of the state,
and already an urgent call has been
issued for emergency harvest hands to
help garner 1t in.
Giving an animal a drench Of raw
eggs broken into a broad mOuthed
bottle is said to give immediate relief
In case an obstacle sticks In the ami
mails throat. The head should be
raised In giving the lubricant
Vigorous. pure bred cock birds OF
any Of the standard breeds will have
much the same effect in improving a
flock Of scrub hens on the average
farm that the purchase Of registered
sire will have on the scrub cattle.
No matter how gentle a horse may
be, 1t is always a good plan to speak to
it before stepping up behind 1t In the
stall. In many cases gentle horses
have been known to kick when taken
by surprise, simply through the natural
instinct Of self preservation.
The other day there was felled In
Bushey park, Hampton court, London.
an elm over 200 years old. When cut
up there was found imbedded in its
trunk an old fashioned street lamp,
which had evidently been nailed to 1t
and gradually covered as the tree In
creased in size.
serum discovered by the Rockefel-
Ter institute in New York city has been
tried with very gratifying success in
the treatment Of pneumonia in both
cattle and horses by an Indiana veteri-
marian. Although the animals were
in the last stages Of the disease, the
treatment seems to have given imme-
date relief.
An excellent bait for killing cut
worms is made by mixing one-half
pound Of paris green with twenty-five
pounds of bran. A spoonful OF this
put at the. base of each plant will fur
nish it protection during the period
when the worms are on the warpath.
1t is said that this preparation may be
made the more attractive to the worms
If it Is moistened with sweetened wa
ter
Both gOoseberries and currants bear
fruit on wood that is two, three, four
and five years old. Neither one nor
fve-year-old wood bears to amount to
anything This indicates the method
of pruning that should be followed
namely. cutting out wood that is more
than four years old and thinning out
the one-year-old shoots to three or
four of the strongest each season.
Those left should be cut back to
height Of about two feet
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has lately been completed at cost OF
more than S2O,OOOOOO. The system ex-
tends from the snow fed streams In the
Sierra Nevada mountains across the
Mohave desert, a distance Of some 23O
miles The system Will furnish the wa
ter needed for city the size Of Lon
don. Until Los Angeles needs this
amount Of water the surplus will be
utilized in irrigating 125.OOO acres OF
orange land
The hog raiser who lost more than
40 per cent of his little pigs because or
their being born dead or dying shortly
after birth had not learned the funda-
mental truth that corn does not consti-
tute balanced ration for brood sows
and does not contain those food ele
ments which she must have If her on
spring are to be vigorous and healthy
To avoid this trouble in the future he
should feed clover or alfalfa hay. bran
or shorts and barley instead Of 80 much
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