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Show Garden Farm Notes Topping corn serves to materially reduce the yield. A hive of bees makes a delicious thing to have about. There is little practical benefit resulting re-sulting from the use of a mulch with wheat. Early oats almost invariably yield more heavily than late oats. The use of a tile under four inches in diameter is not to be recommended. Spraying of potatoes with Bordeaux mixture is a preventive of potato blight. Any impervious covering will check but not entirely prevent deterioration of silage. Get that piece ready for alfalfa. Better double, disk It again Just for good luck. You cannot keep your farm permanently per-manently productive without the use of legumes. Don't put in the alfalfa seed too deep; and remember to roll It well after sowing. A barnyard full of manure nevef produced a big corn crop until it was spread on the field. Tobacco uses up a large amount of plant food and for that reason should be heavily fertilized. Now and then old cisterns are used for silos and make good receptacles for preserving silage. Keeping any machine well oiled and in proper repair not only Increases efficiency, ef-ficiency, but decreases the amount ol power required to run the machine. |