Sharp County record., 1917-06-22
ALL FOOD PRODUCTS
EXCEPTIONALLY HIGH
Important For Every Farmer
To Produce Everything
Possible At Home.

to produce everything possible that
his family and his animals eat, on
his own farm.
Nearly all farmers put out a small
garden in the spring. AS soon as
the cotton comes, corn and other
crops need attention; the garden
is forgotten, so that by the middle
Of the summer it has grown up in
weeds and has dried out Instead
Of having green things from the gar
den all summer, fall and into the
winter, many farmers depend npoD
getting their supply from the local
store. No spot on the farm will
yield as great return as the garden
and it should be worked during this
season of the year so that the moist
ure will be maintained. If the rows
have been made long enoU, n, a small
plow or cultiyator pulled by a mule
can be used to loosen up the soil
The reason that so many farmers
feel that working in the garden is
fooling away time is because the
rows have been made SO short that
all the work must be done with a
hoe. Late paintings of onions rad
ishes, turnips, potatoes and many
other vegetables should be made.
One farmer at Danville last year
had twenty varieties of green vese,
tables growing in his garden as late
as October 1st. This garden saved
the farmer many dollars during the
season, and he and his family of
five had the satisfaction of having
fresh vegetables whenever they were
wanted. A surplus should be pro-
duced and canned for winter use
Write to the Department of Aericul-
ture, Washington, D. c., or to us for
Farmers Bulletin No. 359 on Can
ming vegetables in the home. In
many counties there is a Canning
Club Agent, part of whose work is
to assist the girls and women of the
country in the canning of vegetables
She will always be glad to furnish
information and help. A big supply
Of green vegetables during the sum.
mer and fall, and canned vegetables
during fall and winter, all produced
at home, will 60 a long way toward
solving the hard times of the farmer
and will enable him and his family
to have much better health.
Every summer the price of egls
goes down, largely due to the fact
that so many of them are poor
quality and cannot be kept in cold
storage. Farmers frequently have
the discomfort Of having the grocer
throw many of their eggs out when
they are candled because they are
spoiled, Getting rid Of the rooster
during the summer months will en-.
able the farmer to produce eggs
that will not start to hatch, which
means that they can be kept for a
longer time without spelling The
only time the rooster is necessary
Is the period when eggs are being
produced for Matching purposes.
A flock Of rs to $50 young laying
hens will pay a good profit on every
farm This number of chickens
will Get a large share Of their feed
from waste products around the
farm, so that much Of the receipts
from the poultry product will be
profit Young hens should always
be kept As a hen gets older her
laying capacity becomes smaller.
She will lay more the first year
than the second and more the sec.
ond than the third Where a very
large flock Is kept 1t takes more at.
lention than the average farmer or
farmers wife can give, and the feed
bill becomes a big item, Usually
an average size flock will give bet.
ter returns One cannot expect
even a small flock to pay If one ex.