THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1945
AGRICULTURE
THE ADVANTAGE OF
SMALL FRUIT
Small fruits such as strawberries
and raspberries are some of the
valuable crops that can be planted
and cared for with less garden im
plements and nt the same time pro
vide a source of supply of fru.lt for
the average home than probably
any other fruit crop.
Tlie labor involved Is comparitiv
ly small to the present gardner and
has only a few hours of working
time left after hours spent at the
office or varilouh manufacturing
plants throughout the country.
If we were to analize the benefits
from these crops it would stack up
somewhere near these figures, take
for instance the strawberry- 50i) of
these plants will plant for home use
a plot of 1500 square feet or five
rows one hundred feeti long and five
wide, putting the berries IS inches
apart by three foot wide. On a lot
of any propotion these berries will
bear the second year, yeilding a crop
large enough for the average family
f four. The care of the crop is'nt
too complicated. It is necessary to
see that all runners are placed so
that they are in a single row and a
small amount of commercial fer
tilizer will pay good dividends.
In the spring it is generally re
quired to pluck the blossoms the
first year to insure that the growth
goes to the plant, rather than pro
ducing berries the first season.—
During the summer growing season
cultivation is essential, but paying
carefull attention to the depth and
also not tearing the new runners
which have set on.
Care should be taken not to put
the fertilizer too close to the plant
as it is generally agreed either to
drill the fertilizer or sprinkle it by
hand staying approximately six or
seven inches away from the plant.
Fertilizer during hot weather has
| a tendency to burnthe tender roots
causing the plant to die. In the fall
a fairly heavy covering of straw
or stable manure is desirable but
preferably just plain straw. This
This protects it from the cold and
in the spring the plant comes up
I leaving the berries on top of the
straw rather than having them lay
ing on the ground, and in the mean
time collects dust which during- the
rainy season sticks to the berry
this condition causes considerable
loss from rot due to the damp
ground. Leave the straw on during
the summer has a tendency to hold |
the moisture which the strawberry
> requires a great deal of.
Note: Next week “Raspberries"
Clean milk, is milk that comes
from heatlhy cows, is of good flavor
and free from dirt, and contains
only a small number of bacteria,
none of which are harmful,
j Disease-producing bacteria which
get into milk are .most likely to
gp come from unhealthy cows, un
healthy persons who do the milking,
contaminated water, flies, or filth.
Oreat numbers of bacteria may
get into the milk from the body of
and from u.tensils which have not
been treated with hot (steam or
boiling water) or a clorine solution.
Clean, well built stables, and
seperate milk rooms for handling
are important factors in the pro
duction of clean high grade milk.
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WRIGHT’S CASH GROCERY
FEEDING of SILAGE
Silage occupies a very Important
place in the feeding of live stock
ami may lie a major source of all
nutrients or, when properly made
it may serve primarily as a source
of carotene or other vitamins or
minerals. Crops for silage are rarely
a total failure as neither draught
nor excessive rains prevent the
making of at least part of a crop
into silage. Some crops can be
utilized more efficiently as silage
the entire crop is edible. Apparently,
any forage crop can be made into
silage, but where corn can be grown
successfully it is the outstanding
silage crop.
Good quality in the silage depends
on cutting the crop at the right
stageof maturity, chopping it fine,
thouroughly excluding the air, and
obtaining enough but not too much
moisture in the cut materal. When
silage is rightly put into and care
fully removed from the silo, there
is no loss from spoiling except on
the surface.
Silage is good feed for dairy cattle
of all kinds and for beef cattle, from
breeding cow to fattening steer.
Sheep like it, and it is well suited
to their needs. Horses and mules
may be fed limited quanities of
wholesome silage with satisfactory
results.
ADVICE GIVEN
POULTRY RAISERS
If poultry raisers will take a
little extra trouble this spring,
they can avoid a good share of
the losses caused by cocidiosis
according to Dr. William Moore’,
state veterinarian.
The disease according to Dr.
Moore, is not inherited, or passed
on through the incubator. Chicks
pick it up from infected soil, straw,
or litter.
“Therefore, if broodet houses
are thouroughly disenfec®! before
. chicks arrive— if the litter is
. built up regulariiy so that it is dry
\ and clean, and if birds are moved
I to clean ground not used by poult* y
, for several years then coccidiosist
, losses can be substantially reduc
ed”, said Dr. Moore.
BEEF CATTLE ’
Hee f cattle are well suited to farms
which haave sufficient non tillable
I land or other lowpriced land suit
| table for pasture purposes and a
sufficient acreage of crop land for
production of the grain and rough
ages needed for wintering and fat
tening purposes.
On farms where the sale of beef
cattle provides the major portion of
the farm income the breeding herd
should be large enough to provide
at least one car load of cattle for
sale each year.
Ordinary, under farm conditions
with adequate feed and proper care,
one mature bull will be needed for
30 to 40 cows.
An income may be derived from
the sale of milk or cream as well
as from beef by using beef-type
cow's with pronounced milk tend
ency. Uniformity in type and qual
ity of offspring i s an aid in market
ing. Highly bred beef calves may
be developed into desirable beef
by weaning time if they are creep
fed grain on good pasture.
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White Lace Flour, 25 lbs. $1.53
10 lbs. 63c
Gibbs Pork and Beans 9c
Std. Pack Tomatoes, 1-lb. carton 11c
Fairy Wand Peanut Bttuer 2-lb. jar 45c
Gold Cup Coffee, 1-lb. 25c
Silver Cup Coffee, 1-lb. 22c
High Grade Matches, 6 for 24c
Cider Vinegar, %-gallon jar 31c
Plow Boy Syrup, 5-lb. jar 40c
Gains Dog Meals, 5-lb. 46c
Quaker Oats, large size 27c—small 12c
Premium Soda Crackers, 1-lb. 19c
Spanish Olives, 3-oz. 21c
Mopico Dill Pickles, 1 quat 26c
Blue Ribbon Malt, 2%-lb 63c
Dixie Home Milk—large 9c—small 5c
Jefferson Island Salt, iy 2 -lb. 3c
Grapefruit Juice, 46-oz 30c
Orange Juice, 46-oz. 45 c
V-8 Vegetable Juice, 46-oz. 32c
Standard Corn, Cream Style No. 2 11c
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