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Sweet Potato Growing
In planting sweet potatoes, do we have to make hotbeds just like those for tomatoes, or if just a plain seed-bed will do? Is it necessary to irrigate them or not? You can bed your sweet potatoes in a warm place on the sunny side of a building...
Sweet Potatoes
What kind of soil and climate does it take to grow sweet potatoes, and can I grow them in any part of Contra Costa county, and about what time is the best to plant them? Sweet potatoes do best in a light warm loam which drains well and does n...
Sweet Potatoes Between Fruit Trees
I am expecting to grow a fall crop of about twenty acres of sweet potatoes. The land is a heavy, sandy loam in the interior, which has been set out this spring to almonds, apricots and prunes. I wish to grow sweet potatoes between trees. Would a...
Swelling On The Dewlap
I have a cow that has a large lump at the point of the breastbone, the dewlap. This lump is as large as a cocoanut, and was caused, I think, by friction against a low manger in eating. Get equal parts of tincture of iodine and soap liniment an...
Taking The Bloat Out Of Alfalfa
Will Italian rye grass and red top clover be a success under irrigation as cow pasture in this county, either separately or mixed with alfalfa? To sow in bare spots in the alfalfa, would the rye grass prevent bloat? Italian rye grass and red c...
Taking The Crops Off The Land
The feeding value of clover hay is so great that the livestock farmer cannot afford to leave a crop of clover on the ground as a fertilizer. The second crop of red clover produces the seed, and, if the yield is good, is very profitable at the prices ...
Tankage
The waste from the slaughter of animals goes into a product called tankage. The refuse is cooked for removal of the fat, and then ground. It may run high in nitrogen on account of the amount of meat in the mixture, and it may be low in nitrogen and ve...
Teaching Chicks To Perch
What is a good method of breaking in young brooder chicks to use the roosts? At from six to eight weeks old the chicks should be taken from the brooder quarters to the colony houses and range, or wherever they are to be located, and at this t...
Temperature And Moisture For The English Walnut
What amount of freezing and drouth can English walnuts stand? Under what conditions is irrigation necessary? The walnut tree will endure hard freezing, providing it comes when the tree is dormant, because they are successfully grown in some pa...
Temperatures For Citrus Fruits
What is the lowest temperature at which grapefruit and lemons will succeed? The grapefruit tree is about as hardy as the orange; the lemon is much more tender. The fruit of citrus trees will be injured by temperature at the ordinary freezing ...
Teosinte
What about "Teosinte," its food value, method of culture, and adaptability to our climate, character of soil required? Teosinte is a corn-like plant of much lower growth than Indian corn. It may be of value as a forage plant on low, moist, int...
That Old Seven-headed Wheat
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The Best Fertilizer For Sand
How can I best fertilize soil that is pure sand? The best fertilizer for pure sand is well-rotted stable manure, because it not only supplies all kinds of plant food, but increases the humus in the soil, which is exceedingly important in maki...
The Best Legume For Cover Crop
What would you advise to sow as a crop to plow under? When should it be sowed, and when plowed under? The best crop for green-manuring in any locality is the one which will make the best growth when surplus moisture is available for it, and wh...
The Breaking-plow
Land containing enough clay to give it an excellent soil inclines to become firm. During the growth of a crop, when plant roots fill the soil and prevent deep stirring, the particles pack closely together, limiting the power of the land to make fertil...
The Canada Pea
Among field peas there are many varieties, but the one chiefly grown in the United States under the general name of the Canada pea is the Golden Vine. It makes a green forage or hay that is rich in protein. Usually it is grown with oats, giving a hay ...
The Clover And Timothy
The timothy and clover sod is made inexpensively so far as labor is concerned. The first crop of hay is chiefly clover, and the soil is enriched by the roots and stubble, while the hay is converted into manure. The second year the hay is nearly cle...
The Content Of Manure
When the crops of a farm are fed, the manure contains nearly all the plant-food that went originally into the crops. In the case of idle work-horses on a maintenance ration, the manure contains practically all the plant-food. Cows giving milk remove s...
The Corn Worm
Last year all my ears of corn were infested with maggot, growing fat thereon. Can you help me scare them away? You have to do with the so-called corn worm which is very abundant in this State and one of the greatest pests to corn growing. It i...
The Covered Yard
If the possible value of manure were realized, provision for its care would be made as promptly and surely as provision for the care of a harvested crop. There are only three conditions that must be provided in order that manure may be preserved with...
The Cow Has Infectious Mastitis Due To Introduction Of Some Infection
Give a saline purge (1 pound. glauber salt), inject peroxide of hydrogen, after which pump in, sterile air. Apply externally camphorated oil once daily. Camphorated oil has a tendency to dry up the secretion of the gland and is used advisedly. ...
The Cowpea For Hay
The hay is one of our most palatable feeding-stuffs. Livestock may reject it the first time it is put into the manger, but a taste for it is quickly acquired, and soon it is eaten greedily. The high content of protein makes it exceptionally valuable ...