Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 September 1906 — HINTS FOR FARMERS [ARTICLE]

HINTS FOR FARMERS

Naaarc Aid *• Fruit Trees. A Pennsylvanian states that be has never used commercial fertilizers in an apple, orchard. If the ground is too poor to produce apples, nothing is better than barnyard manure, which answers every purpose for a mulch or for enriching the ground. In planting an apple orchard the ground should be farmed every year for about ten years, growing such crops as potatoes, truck, etc., so that the ground will get manure as often as the crops will require It, and that will be sufficient for the growth of the apple trees and fruit. After that time the land may be seeded down and occasionally farmed and manured sufficiently to keep the land in a fertile condition. Better Work With Separator*. While the merits of the farm separator are quite generally understood, dairymen in many instances fail to properly appreciate that it is invariably applicable to their own individual conditions and that to every one separating cream from milk it offers a means of better and more satisfactory results. The advantages of the farm separator over the gravity system are too numerous to give a full or extended enumeration, but those o*! most importance are more perfect separation, greater value of skim milk, saving of time and labor, saving of ice and a better quality of butter. American Cultivator. * The Mo4en Pereheron. The modern Pereheron stands sixteen hands high and over, weighs from 1,700 to 2,200 pounds and is white, gray or black in color. He has an intelligent head of a type peculiar to the breed, rather small ears and eyes, short, strongly muscled neck; strong, well laid shoulders and chest; a plump, rotund body; strong back, heavy quarters and somewhat drooping croup. He usually is low down and blocky, on short, clean legs, devoid of feather, and has well shaped, sound hoofs. -A. S. Alexander in American Cultivator. Br«cdl*g Ewe Larthu. Old sheep men have long considered It a bad practice to breed ewe lambs so t£ey will lamb after they arrive at one year of age. They usually disappoint their owner, and they lose growth In consequence. The ewe should have her first lamb when she Is about two years old. At that time she has obtained her growth and is much more liable to do well. A flock of sheep is the best helper In keeping up the condition of land without extra expense. Sail Charcoal Per Hoc*. Hogs should be allowed free access to a mixture of charcoal and salt, more especially so from the time they are started on green corn and right through the feeding period until they are marketed. This Is a matter that Is recommended so much that its great importance is sometimes uot believed in by farmers. Tlils mixture seems to satisfy a craving thnt Is incidental to a corn ration. Above all don’t 1* afraid to give the liogs a little salt. The Scrub Mnlllon. * Too many scrub horses are raised. The long talked of colt crop that was to flood the market falls to materialize. For several seasons past this colt crop has been threatened. Imt the prognosticators are unable to make good. If all the horses now seeking market were' what buyers required, tlje crop would be worth far more money. The evil agent la the scrub stallion, and be ought to be retired.