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Show Take Your Cue From C S U Let's Can Some of That Chicken If poultry keeping Is one of the enterprises on your farm . . . it probably seems that the job of culling is never done. Every so often a few birds will go out of production . . . and you have to decide how to dispose of them. It may well pay you to can some of the birds at home . . . especially at times when the market price is low. Canning chicken is a reliable way of preserving pre-serving it . . . and it's all cooked and ready to heat up, if you want a chicken dinner in the twinkling of an eye. That's today's suggestion sug-gestion from our C S U staff. If you prefer frozen chicken, have them viscerated and frozen. Chicken freezes well. Your extension exten-sion service will have bulletins on Homo Canning of Meat and Poultry. Mail them a card for this time-saving guide. Meat chickens will likely be cheaper this fall. Fix Up Those Fiuit Trees Some fruit orchards are still not pruned. Is this good? Many are still not cleaned of last year's weeds and debris. There are bloom on some of the trees. Top-working and bridge grafting graft-ing will need to be done. There you have a couple of mighty important im-portant words, when it comes to either the home orchard or commercial com-mercial fruit enterprize. By top-working, top-working, you can substitute desirable de-sirable varieties. And by bridge grafting, you can repair damage caused by girdling of the trunk or limbs. That's today's word from the pomology experts at the college. Your county agent will be glad to give you written material ma-terial for orchard care. Your fruit trees respond to care and feed to your benefit. It's getting get-ting later than you think. A Definite Father-Son Father-Son Paitneiship Do father and son work together to-gether on your farm? If the son is of age . . a good father and son partnership arrangement has many reasons to justify itself. In fact, a good father and son business bus-iness arrangement can be the basis ba-sis for an excellent farm business . . . according to folks in the agricultural economics department. depart-ment. The son contributes strong back, and the enthusiasm of youth The father contributes capital and the experience of ae. Tiiis combination can result re-sult in progress and successful oreration. Your extension service will have material to guide you in making this arrangement. You can help yourself. You and your son, or sons, deserve to know what to expect of the farm. |