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Show FOK KUItAL HEADERS. 'ALUABLE INFORMATION FOH THE FARMER. Spinach Bumblefoot In Poultry To-Dressing Pays Profit In Live Stock Expense of Evergreens. Spinach. As spinach lasts but a short time it is necessary to sow it frequently. It is so hardy that it may be put in the ground very early. It grows rapidly and is soon ready for use. Theground should be made very rich, and the seed put in drills one foot apart and nA inch deep, though they do well when sown broadcast and covered a depth proportioned to their size. The thick leaved ami the large round leaved spinach are both good varieties for spinach planting. The New Zealand Zea-land for summer, and the prickly seed for winter, the one withstanding drouth, and the other hardy. The former is much used in New Zealand and has become extensively cultivated cultivat-ed as s kind ot spinach elsewhere. The prickly has triangular, arrow-headed leaves. There is ulso a Savoy variety the wrinkled leaves resembling cab- ily coated with white -er as to draw the attention of pHtlers-by. William T. Smedley. Profit In Live Stock, There are always fanners who will sell perhaps must sell calves, colts and yearlings. There's your chance. Go and buy and pay a fair price for the stock and keep it until 3 or 4 years old. Yes, if so inclined, you may include in-clude pigs and sheep. In order to make money by this route your farm must be in condition, viz.: There must be plenty of pasture, meadow or hay, and the bins and cribs full of oats and com. This necessitates that, with the intention of pursuing the course recommended, you must take a year to get ready. Ah, say you, that requires capital. Certainly. Do you know of any business which does not require capital? capi-tal? No other way than labor. That may be all the capital you have, and it may not be agreeable to invest that way. But, to return to our subject. I have never known a man who had good judgement of values, who studied the market reports, re-ports, and who persistently followed the course indicated, but made money, mon-ey, and in the long run became rich. bnge, and the Virollay, which is perhaps per-haps the newest sort, with very large, thick leaves. spinach, t hough so unlike in appearance, appear-ance, is a near relative of the beet and the mangel wurt.el. "Every year spinach spin-ach seems to increase in popularity. The market gardener, of course prepares pre-pares t lie ground and sown his seed in the fall. There is no reason why the fanner when he makes his garden in the spring should not have beds of spinach, as it requires little skill to cultivate it with success. It is well to give it a sheltered place, as it needs to grow rapidly to develop the succulent succu-lent tenderness of the leaf. Alter the spinach is quickly and well grown it should not bo spoiled in the cooking. The leaves may be pulled from the stalks, washed in cold water boiled 15 or 'JO minutes, then drained quite dry in a colanderchopped line in a wooden bowl returned to the saucepan sauce-pan and well heated and seasoned, then dished in a hot dish and garnished garnish-ed with slices of hard boiled eggs. This is the simplest and one of the best ways of serving this early and very desirable vegetable, but it may also be prepared a'hi creme, moulded t served on toast or with eggs. Bumblefoot In Poultry. . Bumblefoot, or scaly leg, is due to the presence of very minute parasites which migrate from bird to bird, especially es-pecially during the night at the roost-Ilaees. roost-Ilaees. Soak the legs in warm water as warm as tho hand can stand it and thereafter rub into thescaly parts a good coating of green or soft soap. Ttp&fc tVwi fronting tind ftppHention ' every morning for a week. Then with the handle of a teaspoon carefully remove re-move by degrees, day by day, more and more of the scales, but so that the foot is not wounded or in the least made raw. If necessary soak some more as at lirst. When thus as much as possible has been removed or that the leg has become reduced nearly to normal size, apply once a day during three successive days, a a thorough good coat of balsam of Peru, and eight days thereafter re- Eeat this last remedy as before. The alsam . should not be washed off. If after another eight days any undue soreness of the legs should There is still another condition, he must never be obliged to sell until his stock is in-lirst class condition. When you are ready to sell and your stock is in first-class shape, large, fat and handsome, keep the stock on your place and the buyers will come to you. First-class stock does not go begging; it will sell and for first-class prices, too, notwithstanding notwithstand-ing the syndicates or combines. The syndicate and other butchers have made contracts which must be met and sometimes the must will be for them to face. In such a case prices will go up and the boot will be on the Other leg, if you are prepared. Expense of Evergreens. Expense is urged as an objection to raising evergreens. It might have been urged os such years ago, but the skill of propagating this class of trees has become great, and it is more generally known how to grow them from the seed. This has cheapened them and brought the planting of evergreens within the reach of everyone every-one who has any hold on the soil. The price of a hundred ever-greens ten years ago will now buy a thousai d The younger they are bought the cheaper they are. All antiquated to the contrary notwithstanding, there is no easier, nicer, more satisfactory and inexpensive work than transplanting transplant-ing young evergreens. All cost in evergreens now is time and labor in transplanting and transportation if gotten from a distance, and the list of urawtuui uqw bhow.t.hat these have been reduced to a minimum. At prices which growers offer them now anyone having any enthusiasm or inclination in-clination toward tree planting should I not ignore evergreens. Notes of the Dairy. All milk should be strained immediately im-mediately after it is drawn. Pure cold water should be allowed in qunntitiesliniitedonly by the cow's capacity and desire to drink. Alilk is better for being kept over night in small quantities rather than a large quantity in one vessel. In warm weather all milk should be cooled by the temperature 'of the atmosphere, after it has been aired, but not before. The oils of the various kinds of grain fed to dairy cows have very much to do with the quality of the butter. Cottonseed, while giving nn increased flow of milk, rich in butter fat, makes the butter greasy and sticky. Oats and bran give good oils for butter, but the best is the oil of corn. To the general use of corn in feeding dairy cows in tlie West is due to a great extent the line flavor of. Western butter. Insect Poisons. IIellkhoke. The powder is sifted on alone or mixed one part to 20 of flour. With one gallon of water one-quarter one-quarter pound is mixed for spraying. Paris Urkkx. With 20 pounds of flour from three-quarters to one pound is mixed nnd applied by siftinc or by a blower. The same amount of the insecticide to 40 gallons of water is used as a spray. London Purple. To 20 pounds of flour from one quarter to one-half pound is added and well-mixed. This is applied with a sifter or blower. With 40 gallons of water, to pound is mixed for spraying. Carbolic Acid. A solution of one part in 100 of water is used against parasites on domestic animals and their barns and sheds; also on surface of plants and among the roots in the ground. Bisulphide of Carbon. For use in the ground a quantity is poured or injected among the roots which are being infected. Against insects damaging stored grain or museum material a small quantity is used in an air-tight vessel. be apparent, apply once daily so long as it may seem necessary, a' coat of vaseline. IHiring the treatment the birds should be kept from wet or muddy ground. The poultry house should be thoroughly scraped nnd cleaned out as well as the nest boxes. These latter, as well ns the roosting poles should be treated with scalding hot water, and so should the Moor, walls and ceiling of the poultry house. If this latter is not convenient or easily accomplished in a sulliciently. thorough manner every nook, corner hud crevice should be given a coat of hot lime wash. The dirt removed from the poultry house and the contents con-tents of tlie nest boxes should be carefully care-fully collected and burned. If the roosting poles a re old nnd full of crack, it is best to put iu new ones, which should first be given a coat of tar and dried. The floor of the poultry house ns well as the nest boxes should be cleaned out at least once every week and some coal ashes dusted on the floor and into the nest boxes beneath a fresh wisp of straw. Top-Dressing Pays. It has been the custom with us to haul the cattle manure direct to the rass-lunds as it is made, and the longer we follow the practice the more certain we are that in no other way can a farm be more rapidly improved. By no manipulation can manure be made richer in the elements of fertility than when lirst produced. Then why store it and risk the danger of waste from exhalations nnd leaching? By applying in its fresh coarse state we get all the plant nutrition there is in it, and in addition have the benefit of it as a protection to grass roots in winter, and a shelter from the scorching scorch-ing heat of summer. Year by year our fields increase their yield of corn and grass other crops are of secondary second-ary importance with us in this dairying dairy-ing region. When we began the ex- Ceihnent we were almost alone in it, ut gradually our neighbors have been adopting thesystem.and it invariably shows its advantage in the increased productiveness of the farms. I can not imagine a farm so poor that, by stocking it to its capacity and applying apply-ing the manure to the surface as fast as made, it can not be rapidly increased increas-ed in productiveness. I have seen very thin land, with apparently no grass on it, treated through winter with the manure from the stables, that by the next autumn was so heav- Farm Notes. Early hatched chickens are the best for laying and for breeding; silect the best and keep them. There is much in knowing how to feed poultry to the best advantage as any stock on the farm. Many farms' will have no pigs and lambs as disturbing elements this season. sea-son. In some cases a good reason is evident the plague recently for the first lack; nnd occasionally one is justified jus-tified in barringout the lambs. Many general farmers are likely, as a result, to be "disturbed" also, in roundingup the year, to make income and outgo meet. |