Article: To make sure you don't transfer any bacteria or toxins to your avocado tree, you'll want to clean your pruning tools before you begin cutting. Dunk your shears or clippers in a one part bleach, nine parts water solution and let them sit for 30 minutes. Once your avocado tree is established, you'll only need to prune it annually. The best time to prune is in autumn or winter before the spring growth period, when the tree isn't developing new leaves. If you try to prune when the tree is developing new growth, the cuts will stress the plant and could discourage growth or result in disease. Focus your pruning efforts on the limbs that are higher up on your tree's central stem. Make clean cuts on the limbs with a sharp pruning tool to keep the limbs around 68 inches (1520cm). Cutting these upper limbs will help you maintain the height and shape of your tree. Once your tree grows to be about 2 feet (0.61m) tall, it's a good idea to stake it up to help it support its weight. Simply push the stake into the soil near the base of your plant and tie a piece of twine loosely around the central stem and the stake. A skinny piece of wood or bamboo makes a great garden stake. In addition to annual pruning, staking your tree is a great way to keep its branches healthy and intact. When pruning, you want to make sure that your tree isn't super tall and skinny, or very short and wide. Visualize the perfect, proportional tree shape before you begin cutting. Pruning your avocado tree when it's young is all about creating shape, and knowing what shape you'd like will help you achieve your goal. Making strategic moves like cutting longer stems and branches will help contain height and width.
Question: What is a summary of what this article is about?
Clean your pruning tools. Prune your tree in autumn or winter. Prune the higher limbs of your tree. Stake your tree when it gets to be 2 feet (0.61m) tall. Prune to keep your tree proportional.
Article: Goats need different amounts of food depending on their weight. As overfeeding can cause serious health problems, determine how much to feed your goat before gathering your supplies. Weigh your goat. If you don't have a scale yourself, you can take your goat to a livestock vet. Convert their weight into ounces and find 10 to 12% of their total body weight. Divide this number by four. Feed your goat that amount four times a day. For example, say your goat weighs 96 ounces. It would need around 10 ounces of milk a day. You would feed your goat a little over three ounces of food three times a day. Colostrum is the milk a mother produces when a goat is first born. In the event your young goat was rejected or abandoned by its mother, you will have provide colostrum yourself. It is difficult for a goat to survive without a steady intake of colostrum. You need to get a baby goat colostrum within its first 24 hours of life. If you have a goat on your farm that recently gave birth, milk that goat and bottle feed your goat the mother's milk. However, you may not always have real colostrum on hand. In the event you don't have colostrum, there are many online providers that allow you to purchase colostrum. If you know you're raising goats, freeze milk from goats who have recently given birth or keep colostrum substitute on hand. It's vital to get colostrum to a goat as soon as possible. When bottle feeding, it's always best to get your goat as natural ingredients possible. These will best assure your goat gets the vitamins and minerals it needs to thrive. Go for goat's milk or cow's milk, which you an find at most grocery stores. Never feed a baby goat powdered milk or canned milk. These can cause health issues. If you're using cow's milk, add three tablespoons of corn syrup per gallon of cow's milk. In general, you should aim to feed your goat around three or four times a day. Space out feedings over the course of a day, as kids need to eat on and off all day. If your goat is looking for food and seems hungry, bottle feed it as needed. However, keep the total amount you feed within the range you calculated based on the goat's weight. If your goat is three weeks old or older, provide hay and water for free feeding as well. Place the proper amount of milk in a regular baby bottle. You do not need a special bottle to bottle feed a goat. Pick up a conventional baby bottle from a department store for the feeding process.
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Figure out how much food your goat needs. Provide colostrum for very young goats. Use natural ingredients if possible. Determine how often to feed your goat. Put the formula in an ordinary bottle.
Article: The ring is typically worn on the third finger of the left hand. This is the most common way to wear an engagement ring in many countries, especially in Western cultures. This dates back to the highly romantic idea that this finger has a vein that leads directly to the heart. That isn't true, but it's a nice thought for when you're looking down at that pretty ring of yours. Wearing your ring on the third finger of your right hand is absolutely acceptable as well. The right hand is actually the traditional hand in countries like Russia, Greece, and Columbia. Wearing your ring on your right hand doesn't have to signify your culture, though. It can simply be a personal preference. Once you've decided on the hand you'll wear your ring on, consider how you will wear it after the wedding ceremony. You may decide not to have a wedding band, and that's okay! If you have a wedding band, you will typically wear your engagement ring on top of it. There are traditions, but in the end, the choice is yours. Wear it on whatever finger feels the most comfortable. This could be your index or middle finger. If the size of the ring is the reason why you need to wear it on a certain finger, you may want to consider resizing it. Sometimes wearing the engagement ring on your finger isn't the best option for you. This could be because of your career, a physical reason, pregnancy, or simply because you don't like to wear anything on your fingers. Choose a chain that you like and slip the ring onto the chain. Wear it around your neck as you would any other necklace. It will be even closer to your heart. You can also look into companies like Ring My Neck, which makes necklaces specifically for engagement rings.
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Wear it on your left hand. Flaunt the ring on your right hand. Stack it on top of your wedding band. Choose to wear it on any finger you want. Wear it around your neck.