Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-09-27
HuSBANDRY HINTS.

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FooD that IS calculated to fatten an animal
rapidly should be used sparingly.
Much care should be observed IN always
keeping seed-corn perfectly dry during
storage
| MouLDY grain should not be fed to fowls
| If dried in the oven and scorched just q
little it makes wholesome food.
TT is dangerous practice to put halters
on young growing animals IN the pastures,
| where they are not strictly under the eye OF
| the herdsEan.
BETTER have two well titled acres than
four neglected. Better one hill IN fine
growth than two starved. Better one good
animal than two poor ones.
| If we breed what the market demands,
| the purchaser will come to us; but it we do
not breed what the market calls for we
must search for customers.
ROTATING crops, manuring lands and
subduing weeds are to farmer what
keeping his factory in perfect order and re-
| pair are to the Indispensable
| to success.
/ TIE farmer who spends his money before
| he gets it is always at disadvantage, for
as soon as he gets any money some hand is
reaching for it, and he no sooner has it than
it is gone.
THERE are too many farmers who do not
give the farm credit for its Just dues, such
! as the use of house and every thing in the
/ way of meat, butter, eggs, fruit and in fact
almost every thing the farmer and his fami-
~ live upon.
| IF foods are fed that are rich in blood
making and muscle-forming character,
/ like bran and oats, the cow puts the fats of
the food into the milk and uses the rest for
the support Of her system, and stronger
| flow of milk is the result
GRASS is the foundation of success in
farming. It assists during the process OF
rotation to improve the soil, and enables
more and better stock to be kept The
farmer who succeeds in securing good
hay crop has won half the battle.
AUTUMN is the time to prepare for early
chickens. Dispose of all surplus birds and
push the early pullets forward If they
lay early they will become broody early.
can be no early chickens reared in the old
| way.
WITHOUT education, and without books
and papers, person may become good
practical farmer by the force of habit and
do his work as perfectly as machine, but
he thereby becomes mere machine, or
beast of burden, with no more bodily COM
fort or intellectual enjoyment than his
horse.
No PRUNING at all is safer practice than
the putting of a sharp knife INTO the hands
of an ignoramus. It requires skill and
knowledge of varieties and their peculiar-
ties which few possess to prune apple and
pear trees properly. What would be good
treatment for one variety would be ruinous
to others.
DIVERSIFIED farming requires that after,
as producer, the farmer shall have got the
raw materials on hand he must, as manu-
facturer, convert his hay, grain, etc, into
cattle, hogs, sheep, poultry, etc. Thus his
duties change Now as a tiller of the soil,
then as a stock breeder. To-day as me-
chanic, tomorrow as physician, treating
an ailng animal. Can the education and
raining of such one be too extended and
emerald
To MAKE good milk there must be the OBJ
aiming of the necessary elements from the
feed. or else the COW shrinks down to q
mess she can afford, or she draws upon her
body for the lacking clements; and the big
mixer, grass-fed, hy-bothered and dog
pestered, gets poor and her bones rattle.
Tho owner says she is a good COW; "she
milks down poor every summer" forgetting
when she does get chance, she consumes
an undue amount Of food that results to the
owner in no profit.