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Show Farm Notes ....................,...? Leghorn pullets should not begin to lay until they are from five to six months old. General purpose breeds take about a month longer. Discard any normal boar which has sired one or more herniated pigs. Such a boar will transmit factors for hernia to more than half his offspring. Sweet clover is one of the best honey producing plants. The plants bloom abundantly and bees are very fond of the nectar. Sweet clover honey has highest quality. Timely succession plantings of vegetables include endive, fennel, dwarf snap beans, root celery, late celery, kale, kohl rabi, and lettuce, say State college vegetable gardeners. garden-ers. If yo plan on storing grain it will save money to Inspect and repair the granaries now. Eradicate the common com-mon grain robbers, rats, which is not such a hard Job. Shoot calcium cyanide cy-anide into the holes with a dust gun. Cattle can be dehorned at any time of the year excepting during hot weather when flies are bad. However, the best time to do this is in the spring or late fall after the flies bava left. |