Hints for Farm & Home 

To control white flies in the garden without sprays or powders, place styrofoam cups upside down on stakes spaced every three or four feet. Cover the cups with mineral oil. This attracts flies which will stick to the oil.

To clean off balers and other equipment before storage, blow off with leaf blower.

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For transporting your tongue-less plows from one field to the next, slipping an old automobile tire over the plow point will keep the plow from ramming in the team.

To train young heifers to respect fence wire this spring, put a hot wire across a corner of their pen.

To keep ants from getting into the house mix two parts Borax with one part white sugar. Spread around outside walls.

An easy way to wash off patios, porches, and vinyl siding: put soap and water in a garden sprayer. Spray everything good with that, let soak a bit, then hose it down with a water hose. Then just sweep it down with a broom to get it sparkling clean.

If you use electric fencing and have a cow that insists on slipping through, put a halter on her and fasten a bull chain to it. Really works well.

To make it easier to know how deep to dig the hole for wooden posts, mark your post hole digger with one-foot marks.

Add 1 tsp. Epsom salts to each hole when planting tomatoes. This prevents bottom rot and the tomato plant loves the magnesium.

To keep the dividers of your round bale feeder from getting pushed in, weld some lightweight steel tubing or pipe from one side to the other in an arch, and from each divider up to that, high enough for a bale to fit underneath.

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