The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-06-17
Grating Wax.

Question: We had trouble with our
grating wax this spring. Can you tell
us how to properly make it?
N. 3. L.. Hamilton.
Answer: Melt together until
thoroughly mixed four pounds
Of resin. two pounds Of beeswax and
a pound Of tallow. Pour this mixture
into a vessel of cold water. Grease the
hands with tallow, and when the wax is
cool pull it like taffy until it becomes
light and smooth. It may then be
shaped into balls or sticks. and will
keep indefinitely in cool place. Para
fine substituted for beeswax makes
n harder as well as a cheaper graft
ing wax.
Cutting Alfalfa Hay.
Question:: What is the proper time
to cut alfalfa for hay? Some tell us
that we should cut when the blossoms
appear and others say wait until it is
in full bloom. II. G. H.. Scobey.
Answer: The proper time for cut
ting the first. or. In fact. any crop of
alfalfa from which another later crop
Is expected does not depend on the
blossoms at all. Look at the crowns
OF the alfalfa plants and cut the first
crop when the shoots for the second
crop begin to start out from the crowns.
II the hay Is cut searlier than this you
do not get a full crop, while if YOU al
low 1t to grow later some of these lit
tie shoots which make the second crop
are cut with the first and hence the
second crCr c IN ,rcH Ayo1o @h,,o
crown shoots your indicator. not the
blossoms.
Late Crops.
Question: What crops are there
that will make for n safe harvest II
planted now?
L. I. X. Fort Benton
Answer: BY the time this will be
published it will be the 18th of June
That is later for the planting of any
crop in Montana. We cannot count
on safe harvest of any field crop
planted that late in the season. If your
ground is all ready and YOU have the
seed. You might take chance on flax,
but it is even late for that quick CROP.
lf you are anxious to use your land
this season and have some livestock
YOU might paint either oats or ba riley
for hay. but you must remember that
there Is no market for grain HAYS and
You Will probably have to feed II up on
your own place. Lacking livestock for
this purpose. YOU had best let the land
lie fallow this summer. keeping n dust
much on tho surface, and plant II to
winter wheat along in late August or
September
tuberculosis in Poultry.
Question: My hens once in while
die of some strange disease First they
get lame, then try to hobhle along, or
fall over on their breast. Their appc-
tite seems good. yet they get light
in weight. Sometimes their combs turn
white. but more often they are sti,i
red and the hens seem all right cx-
cept they lost strength and finally die.
What Is the matter?
+. II. B., Philipshurg.
Answer: From your description we
should judge that YOU have clear
case Of tuberculosis among your
fowls. This rs sometimes called going
light" When the birds get light In
weight. with very thin brea stbdhe.
no flesh on 1t, the signs are right for
tuberculosis. There is no cure for the
disease. a post norton examination
will show the tubercles. very often on
the liver. II there Is doubt in your
mind send dead bird to the expert
ment station at Bozeman for examina-
tion. The only thing to do Is to kill
and bury all the birds In your present