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Show THE RICH COUNTY REAPER- - RANDOLPH. UTAH Kill Queen Ant to Get Rid of Pests Poison Is Suggested to Kill Off Whole Army. D Events in the Lives of Little Men 1 The best way to get rid of ants Is to find their nests and to destroy the queen, according to Prof. Glenn W. Herrick of the New York State College of Agriculture. With the queen killed, no more eggs will be laid and the production of the worker ants stops. Carbon bisulphide kills the queen and gets rid of, the workers. It may be difficult to find the nest, and sometimes when the nest is found it Is hard to get at, as in the foundation walls. When the colony is located, however, pour an ounce or two of the liquid into each of several holes made In the nest with a sharpened stick, and then quickly stop up each hole with a clod of dirt A heavy wet blar.ket thrown over the nest helps to retain the gas and to make fumigation more effective. The liquid evaporates quickly and the gas permeates the whole nest, destroying the colony. Carbon bisulphide is highly inflammable and explosive and no fire should be brought near the place which is being fumigated. Professor Herrick also recommends the use of tartar emetic. To make this, mix tartar emetic with extracted honey at the rate of one part to twenty parts of honey. If some of this mixture, pourned into individual butter plates, is set In the places where the ants are troublesome, the insects may be driven away. Every Farm Yard Loses Much Needed Fertility THE FEATHERHEADS A Bad Sign CALF STARTER IS MADE AT CORNELL Dry Mixture Gives a Good Growth and Is Cheap. Eliminating entirely the troublesome task of heating water to mix with calf feeds, the new calf starter devised at the New York State College of Agriculture has proved successful in tests at the college, according to Charles H. Crawford of the depart- ment of animal husbandry. Calves have been grown to six months of age at a total cost of $36 by ucing the new dry mixture, and but 325 pounds of whole milk was fed during the first 17 weeks. The mixture contains 320 pounds of ground yellow corn, 320 pounds of rolled oats, 320 pounds of winter wheat bran, 160 pounds of linseed meal, and 880 pounds of dry, skim milk. The calves were fed the calf starter for the first 16 weeks when they were changed to a cheaper concentrated mixture called the heifer ration. The heifer ration has 300 pounds each of ground yellow corn, ground oats, and wheat bran, and 100 pounds of linseed oil meal. Both of these feeds gave good growth and are cheap, Mr. Crawford says. The calf starter was limited to five pounds and the heifer ration to four pounds daily. Hay was fed liberally. The new feed Is not sold commercially, but a letter to the animal husbandry department of the New York State College of Agriculture a. Ithaca, N. Y., will bring details of the plan and the feeding schedule. Everj farm yard has fertility going to waste. It may be little; it may be much. Every piece of undiseased vegetation is the source of fertility if it Is properly saved. Every bit of vegetable matter left over or not used in the preparation of feeds or foods would make the greens grow greener Chance for Quick Calf In the garden or the flowers grow more Profit Seen on Ranges beautiful if converted into fertility Creep feeding is applied to calves and properly used. the same as to pigs or lambs and is In other words, select a spot someadapted to corn belt farms. where within easy reach and make a especially It also Is being practiced successfully compost pile of all the vegetable tops, on the ranges and especially on the naleaves, straws butts, cornstalks, un- tive pastures of Kansas, says R. R. consumed hay and so on. Mix in a Thalman of the University of Nelittle good soil; Incorporate into the braska pile as it is made some commercial an April According to recent-testsfertilizer materials; keep it moist If calf fed will'cbnsume an avercreep water is available and you will have of six bushels of grain. This will some excellent fertility to apply to age add approximately 60 pounds to his choice spots in the garden, lawn or weight by market time. - Should the other part of the farm. Lse fer- calf sell for 10 cents a pound, the tilizer in somewhat the following pro- extra weight would return $1 a bushel portions: To each 100 pounds of dry for grain fed. In addition to increased vegetable matter such as above men- weight, creep fed calves sell from $1 tioned, mix in three pounds each of to $2 a hundred higher than similar sulphate of ammonia and air slaked calves not fed grain while receiving lime, and one pound or superphosmilk. Should more finish and weight phate. be desired before marketing, creep fed calves may be placed in dry lot after weaning for a short period. Usually to Prevent Unique Way 30 to 90 days will prove sufficient to Injury to Grape Crop put them in top finish for the fat cattle Perhaps the best way to avoid in- market Such animals meet with a jury to grapes from bees consists of ready demand at any season and respraying the grapes and in growing turns will more than meet the extra the grapes to the ripening stage with- labor or cost Involved. Well bred out punctures or injuries. Following calves of good quality should be the this, of course, thf grapes should be aim for creep feeding. harvested promptly when they are ripe. If for any reason the grape berries are allowed to hang on the canes Well Constructed Tank and become over-ripmuch injury is Efficient for Cooling liable to occur from bees. to tests at the state exAccording We may summarize by saying that station at Geneva, N. Y., periment we should grow the grapes in the best in farm tanks cooling to secure in order a possible way high Is and easier efficient as from equally quality, firm, well ripened berry, says a writer in the American Horticultur- a sanitary point of view as cooling ist. If they are not allowed to become ove an aerator. The electric refrigover-riplittle or no injury will occur erators now being offered for sale for use on dairy farms are practical and from bees reliable. Whether the farmer uses a tank of the old style using ice or one of the new ice machines, the tank should be large enough so that when filled with cans of milk there will be twice as much Ice and vater as milk. A tank 35 Inches wide, 60 inches long trees are the best trees and 26 Inches deep has a capacity of for planting. six cans. When the six cans are in, there are two gallons of water and Potato spraying should begin early ice for each gallon of milk. and continue late. , e, e, . In a bunker, and spent some time floundering about in the sand. His wife sat down on the top of the bunker, opened a novel, and said, quite affably: "You see, darling, I knew perfectly well you could do all your playing in one place if you wanted to. London WAS VERY DEAR Tit-Bit- Grace What was Mr. Wise just Mag-jgl- e Baying that he loves his wife? No, he said that she was very jdear to him." I Oae Point of View Brown How did you find the acoustic properties of the new church? Jones Great! If you sit well back you can't hear a word of the sermon. , A Difference People are buying as much as ever, said the optimist Yes, agreed the pessimist, but they are charging It Sounded Good Farmer Do you want a job planting watermelons? Dusty Willie Yus, provided its plantin' em in me. grum-blin- Poor Husband On her birthday she moved her low chair close to her husbands side as he sat reading. She placed her dear little hand lovingly on his arm and it along softly toward his coat collar. Hubby, she said. What my love? he asked. I was just thinking Were you, my love? I was Just thinking how nicely this moved JUST PRACTICE Farm fcCTSfe One-year-o- ld s. , Proved Wifey Right would never take her Robinson Mrs. husband's golf seriously. She was one of those people to whom all games are ;an absolute mystery. One day she accompanied him to the g links and followed him round, all the way. At last he landed suit of clothes you have on would work into a rag carpet Chicagc Daily News. 000 ErS rr Purslane is a villainous weed, but not to be despised when boiled as greens. Dairy Facts Bonemeal Is excellent for vines and all garden purposes, and may be used freely without danger of burning. Testing opens the way to sound business dairying. 0 . Whats the game. Fly Bug No game at all, I am practicing for my political speech tonight." 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Carelessness in feeding Increases milk production costs. New Landlord Farmer Fodderton They say SI Wethersby made a trip to Washington and got took in by a swindler. Farmer Wheatbread I dont know whether he got took In or not but I heard him tell he bought the White House and Just sent the President a bill for one months rent Quack grass is one of the earliest plants to start growth in spring and it grows until freezing weather in reserve, and need to have that reserve replenished. Prevent the growth of horns in calves by using a caustic stick which you can buy from your druggist. An Even Deal It must cost a lot to keep your car so nice and clean. Yes, and the car returns the compliment by keeping me clean. Thousands of raspberry, currant, and gooseberry bushes are loafing on the Job of producing fruit because they are not given an annual pruning to cut out the nonbwirlng wood. The dairy cow herds will show their increased cream by appreciation checks to owners who do a good Job of putting up alfalfa hay for next the falL 0 0 cows frequently sufa severe strain on their calcium High-producin- fer 0 0 0 0 0 Recent experiments have indicated that acids contained in silage are not harmful to cows. 0 g 0 0 0 0 '000 winters feed. |