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Show i v. : Agricultural Hints i :; :: : :; ; :: :: ; : :: :--: :: : : :: : : : :: :: ;: : Leghorn pullets should not begin to lay until they are' from live to six months old. Hay should be mowed and stacked for several days before it is baled so that it c;.n swe-t. Teople in the United States use about one pint of milk a d::y per capita cap-ita ; those in England use about half of this. Willi the dis-ov.-ry the.t egg yolks contain vitamine D. thai which offsets rickets, new importance hes been added to t lie egg in feeding children. A successful club hoy said "I.earn-ieg "I.earn-ieg to keep records lies been one of the most important lessons to me." Some of the rest of us might profit by this remark. A good poison bait for slugs is: 20 pounds bran, 1 pound paris green, 2 quarts molasses. 3 oranges or lemons, lem-ons, and about 31i gallons of water. Scatter the bait in small lumps around the pleats in evening. Rye furnishes a good pasture for hogs during the fall, winter, and early spring mouths. Fail farrowed ;;-!ss which have access to rye pas-tore pas-tore during the fail and winter while they are being fattened for market wlli make fas!"r gains, and at lower cost for f"ed than pigs that are fattened. fat-tened. a dry Int. Brood sows that have rye pasture during the winter wlil fanov stronger and more thrifty Tigs. |