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Show FOR 111 HAL HEADliKS, 'ALUABLE INFORMATION FOH THE FARMER. Spinach Bumblefoot In Poultry Top-Dresa ng Pays Profit In Live Stock Expense of Evergreens. Spinach. As spinach lasts but a short time it is necessary to sow it frequently. It is so hardy that it may bo put in the ground very early. It grows rapidly and is soon ready for use. Theground should be made very rich, and the seed put in drills one foot apart ami an inch deep, though they do well when sown broadcast and covered a depth proportioned to their size. The thick leaved and the large round leaved spinach are both u'ood varieties for spinach planting- The New Zealand Zea-land feu Huninier, and the prickly seed for winter, the one withstanding drouth, and the other hardy. The former is much used in New Zealand Mini has become extensively cultivated cultivat-ed as s kind of spinach elsewhere. The prickly lias triangular, arrow-headed leaves. There is also a Savoy variety the wrinkled leaves resembling cabbage, cab-bage, and the Virotlay, which is perhaps per-haps the newest sort, with very large, thick leaves. ily coated with white -er as to draw the attention of ptfc'Vrs-by. William T. Smedley. Profit In Live Stock, There are always farmers who will sell perhaps must sell calves, colts and yearlings. There's your chance. io and buy and pay a fuir price for the stock and keep it until 3 or 4 years old. Yes, if so inclined, you may include in-clude pigs and sheep. In order to make money by this route your farm must be in condition, vii.: There must be plenty of pasture, meadow or hay, and the bins and cribs full of oats and corn. This necessitates that, with the intention of pursuing the course recommended, you must take a year to pet ready. Ah, say you, that requires capital. Certainly. Do you know of any business which does not require capital? capi-tal? Xo other way than labor. That may lie all the capital you have, and it may not be agreeable to invest that way. But, to return to our subject. I have never known a man who had good judgement of values, who studied the market reports, re-ports, and who persistently followed the course indicated, but made money, mon-ey, and in the long run became rich. There is still another condition, he must never be obliged to sell until his stock is in-first class condition. Spinach, though so unlike in appearance, appear-ance, is a near relative of the beet and the mangel wurtzel. Every year spinach spin-ach seenm to increase in popularity. The market gardener, of course prepares pre-pares the urmiud and sows his seed in the fall. There is no reason why t he farmer when he makes his garden in the spring should not have beds of spinach, as it requires little skill to cultivate it with success. It is well to give it a sheltered place, as it needs to grow rapidly to develop the succulent succu-lent tenderness of the leal. After the spinach is quickly and well grown it should not bo spoiled in the cooking. The leaves may be pulled from the stalks, washed in cold water boiled 1 ." or 20 minutes, then drained quite dry in a colnmh rchopped line in a wooden bowl returned to the saucepan sauce-pan and well heated and seasoned, then dished in a hot dish and garnished garnish-ed with slices of hard boiled eggs. This is the simplest and one of the best ways of serving this early and very desirable vegetable, but it may also bo prepared a'la creme, moulded r served on toast or with eggs. Bumblefoot In Poultry. Bumblefoot, or scaly leg, is due to the presence of very minute parasites which migrate from bird to bird, especially es-pecially during the night at the roost-places. roost-places. Soak the legs in warm water as warm as the hand can stand it and thereafter rub into the scaly parts a good coating of green or soft soo-xj. Repeat this soaking and application every morning for a week. Then with the handle of a teaspoon carefully remove re-move by degrees, day by day, more and more of the scales, but so that I he foot is not wounded or in the least mado raw. If necessary soak j some more as at first. When thus as much as possible has been removed When you are ready to sell and your stock is in first-class shape, large, J'at and handsome, keep the stock on your place and the buyers will come to you. First-class stock does not go beuging; it will sell and for first-class prices, too, notwithstanding notwithstand-ing the symlicates or combines. The syndicate and other butchers have made contracts which must be met and sometimes the must will be for them to face. In such n case prices will go up and the boot will be on the other leg, if you are prepared. Expense of Evergreens. Expense is urged as an objection to raising evergreens. It might have been urged as such years ago, but the skill of propagating this class of trees lias become great, and it is more generally known how to grow them from the seed. This has cheapened them and brought the planting of evergreens within the reach of everyone every-one who lias any hold on the soil. The price of a hundred ever-greens ten years ago will now buy a thousai d The younger they are bought the elcaper they are. All antiquated to the contrary notwithstanding, there is no easier, nicer, more satisfactory and inexpensive work than transplanting transplant-ing young evergreens. All cost in evergreens now is time and labor m transplanting and transportation ..if gotten from a distance, and the list of growers now show that these h(ve been reduced to a minimum. At prices which growers offer them now anyone having any enthusiasm or inclination in-clination toward tree planting should not ignore evergreens. Notes of the Dairy, All milk should be strained, immediately im-mediately after it is drawn. or that the leg has become reduced nearly to normal size, apply once a day during three successive days, a a thorough good coat of balsam- of Peru, and eight days thereafter repeat re-peat this hist remedy as before. The balsam should not bo washed off. If after another eight days nny undue soreness of the legs should be apparent, apply once daily so long as It may seem necessary, a coat of vaseline. Ihiring the treatment 'the birds should be kept from wet or muddy ground. The poultry house should be thoroughly scraped and cleaned out as well as the nest boxes. These latter, as well as the roosting poles should be treated with scalding not water, nnd so should the floor, walls and ceiling of the poultry house. If this latter is not convenient or easily accomplished in a sufficiently thorough manner every nook, corner and crevice should be given a coat of hot lime wash. The dirt removed from the poultry house and the contents con-tents of the nest boxes should be carefully care-fully collected and burned. If the roosting poles areoldand full of crack, it is best to put in new ones, which should first be given a coat of tar and dried. The floor of the poult ry house as well ns the nest boxes should be cleaned out at least once every week and some coal ashes dusted on tho floor and into the nest boxes beneath a fresh wisp of straw. Top-Dressing Pays. It has been the custom with us to haul the cattle manure direct to the grass-lands as it is made, and the longer we follow the practice the more I certain we are that in no other way I'll re cold water should be allowed I in quantities limited only by the cow's capacity and desire to drink. Milk is better for being kept over night in small quantities rather than a large quantity in one vessel. In warm weather all milk should be cooled by the temperature of the atmosphere, after it has been aired, but not before. The oils of the various kinds of grain fed to dairy cows have very much to do with the quality of the butter. Cottonseed, while giving an increased flow of milk, rich in butter fat, makes the butter greasy and sticky. Oats and bran give good oils for butter, but the best is the oil of corn. To the general use of corn in feeding dairy cows in the West is due to a great extent the line flavor of Western butter. Insect Poisons. Helleuouk. The powder is sifted on alone or mixed one part to 20 of Hour. With one gallon of water one-quarter one-quarter pound is mixed for 8 praying. 1'AUis tiuKKN'. With 20 pounds of flour from three-quarters to one pound is mixed and applied by sifting or by a blower. The same amount of the insecticide to 40 gallons of water is used ns a spray. Iosnox I'l'Ki'i.K. To 20 pounds of Hour from one quarter to one-half pound is added and well-mixed. This is applied with a sifter or blower. With 40 gallons of water, to pound is mixed for spraying. CaRHOi.m Ann. A solution of one part in KM) of water is used ngainst 1 parasites on domestic animals and can a farm tie more rapidly improved, Ily no manipulation c manure lie made richer in the elements of fertility than when first produced. Then why store it nnd risk the tlanger of waste from exhalations and leaching? lfy applying in its fresh coarse state we get all the plant Tintrition there is in it, and in addition have the benefit of it as a protection to grass Toots in winter, and a shelter from the scorching scorch-ing heat of summer. Year by year our fields increase their yield of corn and grass other crops are of secondary second-ary importance with us in this dairying dairy-ing region. When we begaui the experiment ex-periment we were almost alone in it, but gradually our neighbors have been adopting the system, and it invariably shows its advantage in the increased productiveness of the farms. I can not imagine a farm so poor that, by I stocking it to its capacity and applying apply-ing the manure to the -surface as fast as made, it can not be rapidly inereas-' inereas-' ed in productiveness. I have seen very thm land, with apparently 'no j grass on it, treated through w'inter 1 with the manure from the stables, j that by the next eutuntn wns so heav- their barns and sheds; also on surface of plants and among the roots in the ground. Hisi'LiPniOE of Cakbon. For use in the ground -a ''quantity is poured or injected among the roots which are being infected. Against insects damaging stored grain or museum material a small quantity is used in an air-tight vessel. Farm Notes. Early hatched chickens are the best for laying and for breeding; select the best and keep them. There is much in knowing how to feed poultry to the best advantage as any stock on the farm. Many farms will have no pigs and lambs as disturbing elements this season. sea-son. In some cases a good reason is evident the plagne recently for the first lack; and occasionally one is justified jus-tified in barringoutthe lambs. Many general farmers are likely, as a result, to be "disturbed" also, inroundingup the year, to make income .and outgo meet. |