The Idaho Republican., 1919-05-13
EARLY ENEMIES OF THE CROPS
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EARLY Spring Poultry Hints

EARLY Spring Poultry Hints
| The following nine essential
features for profitable poultry keep
ing are the summary Of farmers
bulletin No. 1040:
1. Keep better poultry. Standary-
bred poultry increases production
and improves the quality.
2. Select vigorous J breeders.
Healthy, vigorous breeders produce
strong chicks.
3. Hatch the chicks early. Early
Matched pullets produce fall and win
ter eggs.
1. Preserve eggs for home use.
Preserve when cheap for use when
hieh in price.
5. Produce infertile eggs. They
keep better. Fertile eggs are nee.
essary for Matching only.
6. Gull the fiocks. Eliminate un-
profitable producers and reduce the
feed bill.
z. Keep backyard flock. A
small flock in the back yard will sup
ply the family table.
s. Grow your poultry feed. Home
grown feed insures an available and
economical supply.
8. Eat more poultry and eggs.
are highly nutritious foods.
A New Science ''Phenology"
Apparently we are to have new
science, phenology, the science of
phenomena. This seems to be the
making of science out of old Sup
erstitutions," or sayings of the
farmers. Many farmers plant crops
or do other work by signs, that is,
when some plant or tree is in bloom
or some leaf Is the size of "squir-
rel's foot, or mouse's ear"
Now comes DR.. A. d. Hopkins,
forest entomologist Of the depart
ment Of agriculture and says that
success in gardening depends on the
care in noting these changes in ma
ture, and in acting upon their sug-
| gestiOns.
Plants are a better index than
birds, because birds can be fooled;
robins will come to a given locality
the same date every year, even tho a
late snow may starve many after
they arrive. OF course, frost may
brown the Magnolia blossoms, but
this is exceptional and of little con-
sequence in long period of years.
The very names of some of the
common plants indicate that they
have long been recognized as guides.
In the Atlantic tide-water region,
the Shadbush blossoms told the
Indians when 1t was time to fish for
shad. On the Pacific coast the Sal
manberry blooms when the salmon
are running. When White Oak
leaves are the size of squirrel feet,
says the folklore of some regions,
it is safe to plant corn and other
tender crops. When the blackberry
Is in full bloom, the home-gardner
in any region where they grow, may
know that the frost danger is safely
past ,and tender plants may be set
out. DR.. Hopkins has found that
winter wheat sown between the time
of full bloom of the tall late Golden
rod and the time when the flowers
are nearly all gone from the clematis
Is not only the best time for the
wheat, but it will be free from dam
age by the fall attack of the Hessian
fly.
The old-style spray calender that
gave dates of application is now
obsolete. The time of application of
sprays for insects is now determined
by the development of the bud, bios
som, and fruit of the apple itself.
1t is simpler, more reliable and more
easily remembered. Any one can
keep in mind the simple fact that
'the calyx spray gets the codling
moth"
Close observation of the Towering
or other striking event in the life
of the nearly wild or cultivated
plants may give desirable informa-
tion in connection with the planting
Of cartain nrons