The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1913-06-13

Wulle you are uaklnS the uelQ crops
pay.
Most farms could be made much
neater in appearance and considera BILE
value added to their buildings and
fences by the use Of the paint brush
about this time of the year.
A record potato vine is reported by
a resident of Lewis county, Wash 1t
was eight feet long and weighed for
ty-four pounds, while the potatoes
from it weighed Twenty-Five pounds.
Next to the apple. the strawberry is
the most generally grown Of American
fruits and, from the standpoint of rev.
enue derived from it's cultivation, also
ranks next to the apple in Importance.
Sweet peas are vigorous feeders on
plant food and will be the more lux
uriant if they are watered after they
are we'll up with dilute manure wa
ter or are given a mulch Of we'll rotted
manure.
The late session of the Iowa legisla-
ture increased the bounty on wolves
from S. to $40. This may serve to
lessen the tendency to allow the old
ones to live in order that the bounty
on the whelps might be secured.
Cows should never be fed exclusively
on silage. but should have some dry
forage fed with it. Silage is carbo-
naceous food and should have some
more heterogeneous food to go with it in
order to make a better balanced ra-
ton.
If you like to have the birds about
your place undisturbed it will be well
to put a Quietus on those small red
squirrels with target rifle. If you do
not they will not only destroy the
birds eggs, but will kill their half
grown young ones.
Have an eye for the small fruit. 1t
is easily tended to and harvested, and
by careful handling at canning time it
will greatly assist in cutting down the
living expenses. 1t is more conducive
to good health, too, than so much
greasy meat. gravy, etc.
1t is an interesting commentary on
the method of farming that is being
followed in many western states that
the average yield of corn is steadily
decreasing in the central western por-
ton of the corn belt. but that it is on
the increase in the eastern states.
The health Of many families as well
as their pocketbooks would be good
deal better off if during the summer
months they would substitute other
forms of protein food in place of meat
Among these are garden vegetables,
milk and its byproducts. nuts. cereals.
fish and eggs.
1t is questionable whether or not in
the long run there is any gain in put.
ting the seed of given vegetable in
the ground before the season for It
The stuff comes on slowly before II
warns up and is likely to be stunted
and not to do SO well as that from
seeds planted quite awhile later.
The common milk weed, which und
a few years ago was considered only
as q pest, is now being cultivated II
many gardens as a valuable food sta
pie. Its thick leaves when cut o.
broken exude milk which Is full O
nutrition. The leaves are cooked II
much the same way as spinach ant
taste very much like asparagus.
OF all the wanton and apparent,
useless losses on the average farm
that growing out Of a loss of tn
young things at or shortly after thei
birth-the direct result of failure t
give the dams proper care in housin
and rations-seems to have the least I
excuse it. Sometimes such losses ar
the result of carelessness. sometime
the result Of a lack Of good sense; OF
ten of both.
If small patches Of quack grass al
pear in the garden care should be tai
en- to dig the roots out as nearly whol
as possible and to remove them frol
the soil. II the patch Is in the borde
of the garden under the fruit trees
may be exterminated by covering wit
strips of tar paper. allowing them
overlap and covering the joints wit
earth. This is the smother process
and is effective for small areas.