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Show GENERAL FARM NOTES. The late cutting of alfalfa weakens the plants and lessens their vitality. Alfalfa raisers find it to their advantage ad-vantage to have a few stands of bees. Do not wash the butter too much; it will remove some of the fine, delicate flavor. It will be found good policy to repair re-pair leaking roofs while the weather is dry and warm. Some successful poultry raisers are in the habit of sowing crimson clover in the pasture or run for their poultry. By all means put a concrete floor in tho hog house. It is the most satisfactory, sat-isfactory, most sanitary and most permanent floor which can be used for the purpose. The young apple trees on the hillsides hill-sides which are mulched with strawy manure are making a good growth this season and the foliage appears quite vigorous and green. Cob pipe corn is a native of Mis-touri, Mis-touri, having been produced through years of selection, in the vicinity of Washington, Missouri, where a number num-ber of pipe factories are located. |