The Ocala banner., 1922-03-31

QOU6.
Clip your farm animals of their
heavy winter coats lest they catch
cold. If you prefer not to clip them,
feed a bran mash once a week or a
little linseed meal twice a week for
three or four weeks.
Tomatoes often are injured serious
ly by rust, or fruit spot, especially in
wet weather. Spray with 4-4-5O bor-
deaux mixture or if the fruit is about
ripe, with ammonical solution of cop
per carbonate. Ask your county
agent.
True, velvet beans make it a little
harder to gather corn, but the farmer
who fails to plant velvet beans-or
some other good legume-with his
corn belongs to that class which pre-
fers not to kill two birds with one
stone.
Three sprayings with bordeaux mix
ture will control pecan leaf blight
Put the first application on when the
young leaves are we'll opened and fol-
low with the second and third at in
tervals of two or three weeks. Fallen
leaves should be gathered and burned
"Ear-worms," or bud worms" of
corn may be prevented largely by dust
ing lead arsenate thru a perforated
tin can into the corn buds. Do this
in time to kill the first generation and
there will not be much of a second
generation. Mix the lead arsenate
with equal parts Of air-slacked lime.
Farming is business. Business
men keep accounts. Are you busi-
ness farmer?
A farm sewage system does cost.
something, but so do the visits of the
doctor and of the undertaken.
There is abcat as much danger of
getting tee much milk in the diet as
there is of breathing too much pure
air.
Some folks sell their corn by the
bushel and some by the pint; but the
wise Florida farmer prefers to sell
his by the pound in the form of pork.
!. 1t has been said that the man who
burns weeds and grass in his field
rather than plow them under as hui
mus is guilty in the first degree of
arson. One real dirt farmer said,
Suspect there's a bit O. laziness in
that man, too"
Eggs preserved in water glass are
as good six months afterwards as at
the time of preserving. When you
have surplus try this method; these
eggs will come in conveniently when
hens are not laying. Ask your county
or home demonstration agent how it
is done.
Representatives from Is states of
the Union bought Florida citrus pre-
serves, jellies, marmalades and crys-
tallized fruits at the food conserva-
ton booth at the South Florida Fair
in February. AS yet all criticisms
have been in the nature of Where
can | get.m more of it?"
Miss Estelle Bozeman, food conser-
vation specialist of the Home Demon
stration Department, Tallahassee, has
been asked by hotels to secure 70 doz-
en- containers of the citrus preserves.
jellies, marmalades and crystallized
fruits which are put up by club wo-
men and girls of this state. The or
der has been filled.
1t has been said that for every 147
cattle in Florida, only one is a pure
bred; while ten other southern states
better this, ranging from Tennessee
which has one purebred to every AZ up
to Louisiana which has one purebred
TO every 124. Obviously, we of Flor
ida know this shouldn't be. But what
are we doing about it?-Agricultural
News Service.
Madison, Fla, March 20, 1922.
To the Editor Ocala Banner:
Last years crop of peanuts is now
out of the hands of the farmers and
the visible supply is so short that
prices have risen. Virginia Bunch
Peanuts have sold high all through
the season. averaging over $1,000 per
ton, with $4,000 per ton given for
first class stock. White Spanish have