The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1913-06-11

worth remem DerlnS that q pinch or
soda added to milk that is close to the
souring point will keep it from cur
ding on being heated.
1t would seem as if the balmy fall
and winter had been about offset by
the chilly days of April and May and
that there should be some warm. grow
ing weather coming to US,
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In waging a dandelion determination
campaign there is little use in digging
up the plants at the poisoning period
unless the blossoms are removed and
destroyed, for if they are left many OF
them will mature seed and scatter it,
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Encourage the boy by letting him
have some of the money he gets for the
sale of stuff from the garden which he
has helped care for. The Scripture
saying that 1.-The laborer is worthy of
his hire" applies to boys as we'll as
men.
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There is no kind of garden flower
that is harder or easier to raise than
the violet. 1t has few pests and
thrives under the same general condi-
tions as does the wild violet. A root
or two will give very large return in
satisfaction for the trouble taken to
a'4
In the case of both horses and cattle
(and folks might be added to the list
there is no scrub that is more of q
scrub or more conspicuous than a thor
oughbred scrub. This means that II
takes something more than a pedigree
on paper to make either a man or an
animal worth his salt.
A very convincing reason for swat
ting the fly now is that under average
conditions it will become the grand
father or grandmother of 1,6OO,O0O,OOO
by the time the middle of September
rolls around. The writer hasn't veri-
fed these figures by actual count, but
gives them on what seems to be good
authority.
1t may be homely notion. but the
writer somehow has the thought that
with all of the many varied floral crea-
tons resulting from the ingenuity of
plant breeders there has been nothing
perfected that surpasses in exquisite
coloring and beauty or in rich yet deli
cate fragrance a spray of wild crab
apple blossoms.
1t is we'll for both gardener and
farmer to remember that cultivation is
primarily for the purpose of stirring
the soil to insure proper circulation of
air and moisture and secondarily for
the destruction of weeds The one
process serves both purposes it is true.
but it is sheer folly to stop cultivation
just because there are no weeds.
All animals appreciate and are the
healthier for having a dry place in
particularly true of the milk cow and
of the brood SOW and her litter of lit
tie pigs. Many Of the ills from which
the animals named suffer as we'll as
q good deal of loss might be prevented
were greater care exercised in this one
particular.
Tie writer planted some string beans
this spring when he planted Taaish, let
tuce and peas. The plants are now in
their fourth leaf, but he has had to
cover them half dozen times to pre-
vent their getting nipped with the
frost, and he has concluded that plant
ing beans in early April is a good deal
like Matching chicks in February in
that both are a bit out of season.
Everything that is transplanted in
the garden these days should be safe
guarded from attacks Of cutworms by
wrapping the stem a couple of inches
above the ground with paper. If the
worms are especially bad one should
prepare poisoned bran or clover. ac-
cording to directions recently given in
these notes. and scatter it along the
plant rows in the evening. so that the
worms will get hold of it during the
night.
At Rothamsted. England, is located
an experiment station on which expert
ments in crop production have been
conducted consecutively for a<period
of sixty years. Among other interest
ing facts brought out is that wheat
that has been grown every year of this
period on the same tract now yields
but one-fourth as many bushels per
acre as an adjoining tract on which
there has been followed four course
crop rotation.