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Show Weeds rob the soil of moisture. Kaffir corn is not as good for laying lay-ing hens as wheat Is. Farmers should raise their own hay, grain and ment, as well as fruit and garden vegetables. You don't have to wait till the incubator in-cubator Is in the mood. It's ready to set whenever you want It to. In trying up cauliflower heads be sure there is no moisture In the center, cen-ter, or the head will certainly rot. For best results In buttermaking It Ms. well not to have the churn over half full, and it is better to start with less. By cutting cabbage Instead of pulling pull-ing It, you stimulate a growth of small shoots that are dellclously tender ten-der and mild. The flaring milk pall Is being done away with in all sanitary dairies and the hooded pall with small opening is taking its place. Bacteria do not thrive In the cold but in heat only. If you keep your milk below 40 degrees the bacteria will have small chance. Beans are not as good a feed for live stock as peaH. simply because they are not as palatable; the cows don't like them so well. To keep a cow from switching her tall nothing Is so convenient as a hoop made of five or six feet of heavy rope thrown over the rump. The average milk cow drinks from R0 to 100 pounds of water a day. The more a cow can be Induced to drink . the better for the milk flow. If one extra potato were added to each plant grown In the United States the actual Increase in the annual yield of Ihe crop would amount to 21.fiOO.000 bushels. Just how deeply the corn and other spring crops should be cultivated and just how long the cultivation should be continued is a matter upon which farmers differ widely in opinion. |