THE MANNSVILLE MONITOR
EXCELLENT FOR SHEEP
ALFALFA ALMOST INDISPENSA-
BLE TO LIVE STOCK GROWER
From Comparative' Obscurity It Has
Come Into Prominence During Last
Ten or Fifteen Years -for
Breeding Animals
(By R J KINZER)
The use of alfalfa - cannot be too
strongly urged with sheep either the
breeding or fattening stock As the
method of farming has become more
intensified and the open range grows
less each year an acre of alfalfa must
be made to take the place of many
acres of range pasture
Sheep being ruminants are able to
handle a much more bulky feed than
horses A breeding flock of sheep can
be carried through the winter season
very successfully with but little grain
in' addition to alfalfa hay Ordina-
rily the first cutting of alfalfa is not
as good for sheep as the second and
third cuttings as it is usually coarse
and stemmy and sheep do not eat
these stems readily
It is about as safe to pasture old
sheep on alfalfa as it is cattle They
thrive on it and make excellent gains
but sheep bloat easily and there is
likely to be a little loss from - this
source Lambs can be pastured on
alfalfa with but little danger of bloat
and the way they grow on alfalfa Is
a delight to the shepherd They should
never be put on the pasture when
they are empty and hungry and it is
always well to allow them access to
some dry feed and keep them off
the alfalfa until the dew is off also
on damp days A mixture of alfalfa
and brome-grass or alfalfa and or-
chard grass is a safer pasture than
alfalfa alone
A flock of ewes and lambs can be
grazed for a short time each day- on
alfalfa with but little danger of any
Pure-Bred Ewes Wintered on Alfalfa
Without Grain
loss If a lamb-creep can be arranged
from the sheep corral to an al-
falfa pasture the lambs will soon
learn what it is Intended for and will
do far better on it than if confined to
a dry yard Newly seeded alfalfa can
be pastured with less danger of bloat
than an old field and the packing of
the ground by the sheep paesing over
it is frequently a great benefit to the
alfalfa
As a roughage for fattening sheep
alfalfa hay has no equal and cases of
bloat from the hay are exceedingly
rare It can be fed either whole or
cut and fed with grain Many prefer
this method of feeding claiming that
there is lesB waste by it In feeding
experiments nothing has been found
for roughage that equals alfalfa for
fattening sheep In an experiment
at the Kansas etation alfalfa and
prairie hay were compared as rough-
ages In the test the grain ration was
corn and cottonseed meal for both
lots Those receiving alfalfa hay made
an average daily gain of 336 pounds
per head while the lot on prairie hay
made only 188 pounds per head daily
the alfalfa lot making almost twice as
great gains The alfalfa seemed to
give the lambs a better appetite and
they were always ready for their grain
and as eoon as their grain was cleaned
up they were read£ for the alfalfa
a
Control of Onion Maggot
No entirely effective method of con-
trolling the onion maggot has as yet
been discovered according to the
Massachusetts experiment station
Successful as Breeders
To be successful as breeders it Is
necessary that we be good judges of
dairy animals have an ideal type in
mind and always in our selections and
mating keep working toward our
ideal
Protect the Birds
Protect and shelter the birds as
much as possible A few wind breaks
or thickets of brush on the farm give
the birds a nesting place and they pay
for it by catching many Injurious in-
sects Eradicating Weeds
Getting a weed in time saves more
than nine An average plant of wild
mustard for instance will produce
15000 seeds In a season Don’t let
them go to seed
Cold Rains Injurlus
The cold rain will stop the milk
flow if the cows have to stand stl day
without shelter
Toole and Implements
Well-kept tools and Implements to-
duce labor and Increase pleasure -'
TO DESTROY CANADA THISTLE
First 8tep In Eradication of This
Weed Is to Prevent All Plants
From Going to 8eed
T
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The Canada thistle is a perennial
which ranges from one to three feet
in height The flower heads are rose-"
purple in color A white feathery tuft
of hair is attached to the mature seed
which aids " in its distribution The
plant flowers from June to September
but usually matures In July The first
step in the eradication of this weed la
to prevent all plants from going to
Canada Thistle — Flowering Top of the
Plant and the Underground System
seed It is often necessary to go into
grain fields with a scythe and cut this
weed out to prevent it from seeding
before the main crop is cut Plow
the land as soon as the crop of grain
is removed Then replow late In the
fall leaving all roots possible exposed
A three-year rotation of barley clover
corn or other cultivated crop should
be practised
HEARD OVER THE FARM PHONE
Profitable Practise to Sell or Ship Eggs
Every Day — Pure Food Gives the
Best Flavor
Fresh eggs are all the cry from the
folks down town these days All
right too We don’t like to eat old
stale eggs ourselves For this and
other reasons it is a fine thing to ship
or sell every day if possible
Down cellar is a good place to keep
the eggs if you are compelled to hold
them a few days Fix up a little rack
with slats to lay them on so the air
may circulate about them all the time
This will help to keep the flavor good
There are those who claim that they
can tell what kind of food has been
given a hen to eat just by the taste
of the egg This is getting down to
a pretty fine point but it is no doubt
a fact that good clean pure feed does
give an egg a better flavor than that
which is half spoiled or entirely so
You cannot blame your neighbor for
not keeping up his share of the line
fence if you do not keep up yours
The woman who finds garden work
too exhaustive may transform it into
a healthful exercise by giving it her
time in the early morning or twilight
houfs
It Is worth while to know what your
hired man talks about when he is
alone with the boys A good man
can do them a deal of good and a
bad one — well you had better let him
go just as quickly as you can be-
fore you lose your boy body and souL
The average farmer makes a mis-
take when he breeds trotting horses
or other breeds not adapted to his
business
Restoring Fertility
Fertility may be restored to worn-
out land by saving all animal manureo
and putting them onto the land by
making use of all crop residues that
is putting back into the soil every-
thing not used for feed by turning
under green manures and catch
crops
Working for Independence
Give more attention to the orchard
the garden the poultry ahd the farm
animals and it will not be necessary
to worry so much over the general
crops With fruits vegetables poul-
try eggs milk butter pork and other
articles of food raised on the farm
for the family table it will not require
very large crops to make you lnd
pendent on the farm
Fencing -Pastures
If there is a permanent pasture on
the farm it rarely pays to fence the
individual fields of cultivated crops
but if the fields are pastured in rot
tlon it may pay to fence them
Start a Milk Rscord
Are you sure your cows are all pay-
ing for their board? Start a milk roo
ord and find out
More Weeds Tomorrow
Weeds today mean more weed
tomorrow
In the fields a big team makes baste
by tbs width of the furrow or swath
they cut
INJURY FROM - WEEVIL
— — — J ‘ f
1N8ECT DOING MUCH DAMAGE
IN WESTERN STATES
Brush Drag Is Effective In Knocking
Larvae Feeding on Stubble to
Ground Where Many Are -Mangled
or 8uffocated
(By B G TITUS) '
The alfalfa leaf-weevil which has
during the last few years been doing
considerable damage in parts of our
western states is a European insect
-which by some meane unknown has
been Introduced into this country
The species appears to be not un-
common throughout Europe and parts
of Asia and Africa It belongs to the
large order of hard-shelled insects
called beetles and in a group gener-
ally called snout-beetles To this same
group belong many of our most seri-
ous pests such as the plum curcullo
cotton boll weevil and strawberry wee-
vil It occurs all over Europe a por-
tion of northern' Africa and eastern
Asia It prbbably occurs throughout
all of the regions In which alfalfa is
cultivated in the eastern hemisphere
but rarely causes damage sufficient to
be reported
This weevil belongs to a family of
insects which feed principally upon
leguminous plants and several species
in the genus have been Introduced
Into the United States and Canada
Two of these the clover leaf-weevil
and the lesser clover leaf-weevil have
done considerable "fiamage to the clov-
er crop In the eastern and central
states and the former has been re-
ported as injuring clover in the ex-
treme northwest They also feed on
alfalfa and other related planter
Many methods of ridding the fields
of these pests have been tried — burn-
ing sweeping and dragging — with
varying results Many patterns of'the
brush drag are in use but the one
which seems to be giving the best re-
sults is made by laying the butts of
rather short brush five or six feet
long In a row on a plank twelve or
fourteen feet long then another row
should be laid on the first consisting
of longer brush with the butts
trimmed a little further back so that
you will have in effect two brush har-
rows one following the other An-
other plank should be laid on the
brush butts and bolted to the under
plank In weighting this harrow lay
an ordinary tooth harrow teeth down
directly on the brush drag This
A Good Brush Drag
makes a very even weight at the
same time it Is so flexible that' the
drag will work its way down into the
small depressions as well as over the
elevations of the field
The brush drag is effective in
knocking the larvae feeding on the
stubble to the ground where it man-
gles many of them and suffocates
others by the dust stirred up If the
drag is built right there will be parts
KEEP A DAILY TALLY SHEET
Written Record Often Proves Valuable
In Recalling Some Little Trans-
action on the Farm
On our farm place there was hung
in a convenient passageway a'large
slate for the purpose pf hastily jotting
down any notable happening occurring
during the day
Each evening the accounts were per-
manently tabulated and kept for any
later day references which might' oc-
cur assisting In making a decided
point
In this simple way a great deal of
the tax and responsibility of endeavor-
ing to recollect this or that happening
on the farm was removed and the to-
morrow begun afresh — every day in
reality a new beginning with the pre-
ceding day’s hard - work forgotten
cleaned off the slate and the minds of
proprietor and helpers
One hae no idea how often such a
slate will prove the many instances
and transactions taking place in a year
on a farm of only ten scree though at
’be time they eeen of trifling account
of the brush- tearing through every
crown of alfalfa in the field and stir-
ring up the soil sufficiently to cause
a dense fine dust in which 'maby of
the younger larvae are suffocated and
which the older ones find it yery hard
to crawl through to reach thd plants
many of them perishing in the heat
of the sun
REMEDY for woolly aphis
Finely Powdered Tobacco or Waste
8tems Will - Prove Effective In -'
Eradication of Insects
(By F H HILLMAN)
Some effective remedies for the
woolly aphis are as follbws: -For
the apple root form which
causes knots or swellings on the small-
er roots — remove the earth three or
four inches of soli about the crown
for a distance of two to four feet from
Woolly Aphis — A Root of Young Tree
Showing Deformation B Section of
Root With Aphids Clustered Over
It’C Root Louse
the tree and sprinkle in four to six
pounds of finely powdered tobacco
Waste tobacco stems which can be
purchased very cheaply can be used
in place of powdered tobacco
Natural enemies do far more than
is generally supposed toward reducing
the number of aphids but in a dry
season especially nature must be as-
sisted if these insects are to 6e kept
reduced to nondestructive numbers
Kerosene emulsion is an efficient
remedy Add one part of a boiled
mixture of one-half pound of common
soap and a gallon of water two parts
of kerosene dilute with cold water
to form 15 to 20 partB A double hand-
ful of refuse tobacco boiled In a gal-
lon of water and diluted to form six
or eight gallons is a valuable and eas-
ily prepared remedy -Carbolic
soap dissolved and so di-
luted that a decided odor of carbolic
odor still remains is another very ef-
fective remedy
Preventive measures may be fol-
lowed by thoroughly washing in
strong soapsuds the roots of young
trees on -transplantation in case the
presence of the aphids is suspected
Oftentimes it may prove best to de-
stroy a badly Infected tree and re-
placed if at all by some tree other
than an apple
Soybean and Cowpeas
The power of the soybeans and
cowpeas to gather nitrogen from the
air the -large amount of organic mat-
ter they are capable of producing and
their beneficial effect upon the tilth
of heavy soils are qualities which
commend them in the highest degree
to say nothing of their value as feed-
ing stuffs
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Keep After the Insects
A bead louse on a chick is easy to
find but it takes a sharp eye to lo-
cate the mites Keep after them
but later are worth recalling for edVie
purpose to some one who wishes data
This kind of a written record re-
freshes and proves interesting to look
over at any time it tells of a certain
amount of labor that has been passed
over of blunders successes failures
that have been entirely forgotten
It also gives a history of the help
employed which is of importance in
recommending them to others -
In the various industries of stock
raising poultry work fruit growing
dairying hay and grain raising in
erecting buildings the whole story
may be given off the “slate tally" day
by day by those moet Interested on the
farm — F R - - ’
Success In Hog Breeding
One of the moat successful bog
breeders in Illinois says that he nevpr
breeds from sows under 13 months
and never keeps bis breeding stock
fat This man thlnkb that much trou-
ble with very young pigs is caused by
feeding them too early and that they
should not be fed until they have
grown big enough to exhaust tbeli
mother’s milk entirely
Children s clothes
should be fresh and '
sweet — this means a '
big wash— never mind
-use RUB-NO-MORE
CARBO NAPTHA SOAP
Washday then has no
terrors No rubbing
No worry — clothes
clean— germs killed-
mother happy s
CARBO NAPTHA
SOAP used on your
linens and cloth
means a clean
healthy happy
Rermless home — It
does not need hot
water - - -
Carbo Disinfects Naptha Cleans
RUB-NO-MORE RUB-NO-MORE
Carbo Naptha Soap ' ' Washing Powder
Five Cents— All Grocers
The Rub-No-More Co Ft Wayne lad
i
Throw Away
your complexion troubles with your
pow'der puff — no need of either
when you use pure harmless '
rfMtCt Face
— Pomade
“The ALL DAY BEAUTY POWDER”
At all dealers or by mail 50c
Zona Co Wichita Kansas
Going to Extremes
When taken to police headquarters
Proud said that his home was in
heaven He is believed to be from
Chicago — Baltimore Sun
Keep It in Your Stable
For external use on horses nothing
that we know of equals Hanford’s Bal-
sam Many trainers use it as a leg
wash because It keeps the skin in fine
condition and should cure lameness
Adv
The Plan of Opposites
“What Is the best way to get some
hard cash ?”
“Get hold of some soft thing"
Only One ‘‘BROMO QUININE”
To get tha genuine call for full name LAXA-
TIVE BROMO QUININE Look for aigoature of
E W GROVE Cures a Cold in One Day Stop
Cough and headache and work off cold 25o
Few of us become round shouldered
from carrying other people’s burdens
For proud flesh use Hanford's Bal-
sam of Myrrh Adv
Two heads are better than one — ex-
cept in a family
y
Pork
and
Beans
Delicious - Nutritious
Plump and nut-like in flavor thoroughly
cooked with choice pork Prepared the
Libby way nothing can be more appe-
tizing and satisfying nor of greater food
value Put up with or without tomato
sauce An excellent dish served either
hot or cold
Insist on Libby’S
Strive to become a leader the sup- -ply
of followers exceeds the demand
For fresh cuts apply Hanford's Bal-
sam Adv
Don’t expend all your admiration on
your ancestors Save a little for your-
self Cures Old Sores Other Remedies Won’t Cura
Ths worst eases no mailer of how long standing
art curod by th wonderful old rUablo Dr
Portsr'a Antiscptlo Healing OIL It rllevss
i ulo and Halt at th earns time 22c 50c tlQflt '
In Hiding
"Hips are coming in again"
“Hurray! Now mother can come
back from Europe"— Judge
How To Q1 vo Quinine To Children
FEBRILINB It tha Irado-mark Basis riven to an
Improved Quinine It is a Tatlss Syrup pleas-
ant to take and doss pot disturb the stomach
Children take It and savor know It is Quinine
Also especially adapted to adults who cannot
take ordinary Ouiniaa Does noS nauseate W
cause nrvoosnsas nor ringing In tha bead Try
It ths neat tims yon nsd Qolnlno for any pvr-
Pom Ask for -ouace original package The
earns FEBRILINB It Mown la hot tls- si Sant