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Show THE Dobbin's Palate Is Secondary Factor One of the outstanding reasons for this dissatisfaction and opposition is the difficulty that some dairymen encounter in meeting bacteria requirements In milk. Two reasons may be advanced which largely explain the failure to meet these requirements. One is the misinformation disseminated by some careless milking machine agents who minimize the labor involved in properly cleaning machines, and the other is the failure to Install adequate facilities to provide sufficient quantities of hot water for proper cleaning and sterilization. upply and Price of Feeds Determines Diet. Tickling the palate of the farm horse is a secondary consideration in planning his menu. John F. Dowler of the rural economics department of the Ohio agricultural experiment station has discovered that the quantities of home grown feed on hand, and' its market price, principally influence of diet of the farm horse. In 1927, when corn was higher In price than during the previous year, Get Sweet Clover Seed From Roadside Plants '20 bushels more of oats were fed per horse than in 1926, on 20 farms in iPutnam county where records were collected by the rural economics department. The amount of corn fed per horse remained about the same both years, but the horses worked 6 per cent more hours in 1927, when the larger quantity of oats were fed than In the previous year. On these farms, 355 pounds more of hay and 638 pounds less of corn stover were fed per horse during 1927 than in 1926. Hay was relatively low iin price and most farms had a good supply In 1927, hence they fed more of it, rather than the corn stover. The farmer feeds his horses those feeds of which he has had a good crop and which are usually low in price, Dowler finds. The pleasure or desires of his horses are not consulted but rather an economical cost of horse work Is kept in mind. 1 There is so much sweet clover growing on the roadsides and waste places all over the country that many farmers can get a little seed to try without very much expense by taking the binder and binding up a few bundles and then putting them through the thresher after the oats have gone through. Some favored few can grow sweet clover without applying lime and this is an easy way to find out. For many purposes, his unscarified and unhulled seed is more suitable for farm use than scarified and hulled seed. Any farmer who wants to save labor and get his sweet clover off to a good start in the spring in his wheat or rye can follow this practice. Sow Sweet Clover Late in Autumn if Desired Sweet clover may be sown late in the fall If desired. It should be sown late enough so It will not germinate 'Animals Infested With until spring. If it were sown just Worms Always Unthrifty early enough so it would germinate it would be likely to be killed by freezPigs harboring the common Intesti-na- l is about as roundworm frequently become un--i ing. Early springn seeding but seed the may start good, thrifty. Spring pigs that have to get as a tends it little quicker that stage In the development of In soil and soaked bedded the up by jthe worm whereby the eggs are swal-- 1 the time growing weather starts. If lowed and migrate through the lungs are favorable, you should in the larve stage, will now show conditious to able be it by June first pasture symptoms of the worm stage In which large numbers of the worms are found !in the small intestines. Pigs become uneven in size, unthrifty, rough coat-jeand are frequently found in fits of violent coughing. The long roundworm is the only spe-.clof internal parasite of swine that Lime Good Except on Pota:may be successfully expelled. The toes and Beets. experiment station suggests the (following agencies for expelling this Most home need fertilizer parasite: Reliable vermifuges Include in the form ofgardens manure supplemented oil of chenopodium or santonin. The with a complete vegetable fertilizer dose of santonin is 5 grains for a 50--; or superphosphate, and, for some vegepound pig. It is generally given in a lime is good. Lime, however, tables, capsule with 2 grains of calomel. Oil scab on potatoes and may encourages of chenpodium should be used in doses be harmful to beets, 4says F. 0. UnderOf 2 cubic centimeters to each 50 wood state of the college of agriculpounds live weight, and should be ture at Y. N. Manure should Ithaca, given in capsule or mixed with one i 10 to 20 tons the at rate of applied ounce of castor oil and given with a to on an basis of smallthe acre, or, jdose syringe. If chenopodium is given 50 to 100 pounds to 100 er areas, followed jin capsule form, it should be 'two or three hours later with a quick- square feet of space. The supplementary fertilizers should acting purgative In the feed. Epsom be applied at the rate of two or three e salts may be used for this latter to 100 square feet of garden. in amounts of one ounce per 100 pounds On rich soils, it Is advisable not to pounds live weight manure too heavily, as tomatoes and root crops may produce excessive top (Successful Working of growth at the expense of fruit and conditions either Modem Milking Machine roots. Under such or a superphosphate complete comThe successful operation of a milk-jin- g mercial will usually fertilizer garden machine depends largely on the overcome the difficulty. If manure is operator, said Prof. J. D. Brew of the not available, leaves, lawn clippings, j dairy department at the New York and similar plant refuse may be used State College of Agriculture, speaking as a source of humus. These should lat Farm and Home week bn the care be supplemented with two to four and operation of milking machines. pounds of a high grade garden fer(Some dissatisfaction with the opera-ttlo-n tilizer for each 100 square fet. of the machines still persists, Six pounds of ground limestone, or and considerable opposition comes half as much hydrated lime, may be from officials whose duty is to keep used for each 100 square feet where milk sanitary. there is an indication that lime is : fall-sow- sur-Iviv- ed Most Home Gardens i d, es IUi-jno- is pur-ipos- Need a Fertilizer UTffTATT basin paehee needed. Applications may be made One way every three or four years. Is to lime to avoid difficulty with the of garden apply it to one part at a time and then plant vegetables other than potatoes or beets on that part ever, the fact that this is a method of soil Improvement and fertilization sometimes leads farmers to try th practice under conditions in which It; cannot be successful. Object to Green Manure. e The object in growing a to crop, according forage crop specialists of the United States Department of Agriculture, is to .produce especially on poor soil as much material as possible to turn under. On very poor soils It frequently happens that even the strongest feeders can make but a poor growth, and consequently the benefit from the crop Is decreased. Even cowpeas will sometimes make only a poor growth unless the plants are stimulated by an artificial fertilizer. When a legume is grown the addition of nitrogen is not usually necessary, as the legume will gather Its own nitrogen ; but an application of phosphorus and potash often increases the crop greatly and thus enables the plants to gather more nitrogen. The phosphorus and potash that may be applied for the benefit e of the crop are not wasted either, as they will all be available for the next crop when the e crop decays. Fertilizer Used. What fertilizer to use and how much will depend on the soil and on the crop, but generally 300 to 400 pounds of 16 per cent superphosphate and 100 pounds of muriate of potash per acre will be found to stimulate the growth of the green manure so as to produce a larger crop than could have been grown without the fertilizer. The larger crop, if a legume, will gather more nitrogen than a small one could, and the soil will receive correspondingly greater benefit. It Is also good practice to apply stable manure to particularly poor spots, so as to encourage a good growth, and thus bring the field up to a more uniform productiveness. green-manur- Moving Chickens From Range to Winter Coop to Moving chickens fsom the range be winter quarters would seem to such a simple maneuver that no one could possible make a faulty motion, chick-enpo- x yet, if colds, roup, canker and are to be kept out of the flock at this time, the young stock cannot be put in winter quarters in any haphazard fashion. Conditions in winter necessarily differ materially from those of summer and early autumn. Changes in the care of the flock should be made grad- ually rather than abruptly. This can be done by taking seasonable action. Delays' are accompanied by dangers, exespecially when they mean undue posure. Even the earliest hatched and the most hardy specimens should be in winter quarters a few weeks before the ground freezes or the first snow flies. The latest hatched and smallest specimen? should be housed first. Before this, however, the winter home of the flocks should be well cleaned, disinfected and renovated. A. C. Smith, chief of the division of poultry husbandry. University Farm, St. Paul, Minn. Big Variation in Types of Soils Called Alkali There is so much variation in the types of soil called alkali that one is never sure as to just what to do for them until some trials have been made. The most probable treatment to give them is to apply potash, or horse manure because of the large amount of potash it carries. Probably about 10 tons of horse manure per acre, or about 200 pounds of potash salt per acre, applied in the spring, would make the corn grow on these alkali places as well as on the rest of the field. It Is worth the trial at least so-call- green-manur- green-manur- t - Corn seed treatment will not prevent com smut. The organism that causes corn smut lives ever in the soil and attacks the plant during the growing season I e Laurel Foliage Is Used I by Florists All Season Laurel foliage is used my florists 1 at all seasons of the year as well as 1 at Christmas time. It Is not prepared 1 In any way for use as greens, but merely gathered in convenient-sizebranches. There is also some sale for the shrubs themselves for use In landd scape gardening, but It is not always practical to dig the plants as sometimes It is not possible to dig enough root to Insure the plant living. The nursey plants are transplanted several times so that the root system Is more manageable. 1 n 1 BARGAIN (Prepared by the United Statee Department of Agriculture.) Green manuring is a practice growing in favor among good farmers, even in the central and northern states, although because of mild winters It is of greater present importance In the South. 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