Putnam patriot., 1913-08-29
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 Spray for insect pests.
 Many gardens need lime.
 All chickens delight n the sun.
 Never mix chicks of different ages
 The perches for fowls should bs low.
 The sire is the handspring in ths dairy works.
 You cannot afford to overlook thA health of your fowls.
 Early hatehes are nine times ont n. ten more proftably than late ones.
 It's no longer possible to farm sue. cessfully if you depend upon guess work
 The sheep is just as efficient ma. nure spreader as he Is manure maker. Hens suffer from a damp hen house so it is well to keep the floor covered with litter. Grow your peach trees so that a six-foot ladder will be long enough l for harvesting. If applying nitrate of soda sprinkle around the plant and then stir or rake into the soil. If you intend to use hens for hatch ing set them in dry place where the ventilation is good.
 If you do not intend to use hens for matching break them up at once and get them to laying again.
 Remember all kinds Of stimulating fertilizers should by no means be d. lowed to touch the leaves of a plant
 Red raspberry rows should be about six feet apart. plants spaced two feet apart in the row (3.630 to the acre).
 Start the brooder day or two be- fore putting in the chicks to see that the heating apparatus is working prop erly.
 Heroic pruning measures are need ed to bring many old trees into bear ing; but it need not all be done the first year.
 In cool weather 10 to 13 chicks are sufficient for one hen. while in warm successfully.
 A pound of clover seed to the bushel of small grain helps to give ones land the clover habit. and prepares the way for good stand.
 A 200-bushel yield of potatoes per acre removes from the soil 46 pounds of nitrogen, 21 pounds of phosphoric acid and 74 pounds of potash.
 An apple tree that has been prop erly pruned from the time it is set needs comparatively little attention when it reaches bearing age
 The scratching hen will have bet ter vitality, and a better laying rec ord than the lazy hen that waits by the gate for the next feed to be doled out.
 There is this to say for incubator matching: Mites and other pests are not waiting outside the shell ready 70 bounce on the helpless chick as soon as it emerges.
 High fertility is exceedingly impor' tant for cabbage. This crop must have an abundance of quickly avail able plant food. Application of ni- trate of soda usually pays.
 pig must not be allowed to stop growing. If it does, the loss is not confined only to the days of unthrift, but all the food consumed afterWaFa is likely to give less profit
 For a straight hog fence 1t has been found that twenty-six inches IS not high enough. If there are to be no barb wires on top of the hog fence should not be less than thirty inches high.
 Plants send their rootlets a suTpr1S ing distance in search of food and va ter, and these rootlets show almost human intelligence in trayeliRg around stones and other Instructions 10 gam their end
 When blowing the land for parsnlps and other deepgrowing root piah's' blow deep and keep the manure doNn deep; otherwise you will have iot oi surface roots instead of the long straight roots desired
 The silo will help you meet the feeo- ing problem, enable you to save a0os. 40 per cent. of the feeding value oi the corn plant and make it possiOi0 for the farm crop to maintain mofo animals. The silo is 8 good lnFsss ment.
 Fall blowing is to be preferred " snring blowing. This applies also lo