The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1889-04-04
THE FARM.
Points for Farmers.

Points for Farmers.
Separate the weak sheep from the
flock and cuddle them IA little.
Take plenty of time with the colt.
Too much haste has spoiled lots of
horses.
Cut the "water spouts" off the
good trees, and cut the poor trees
out altogether.
With wire and good posts an effec-
tive, durable fence can be built at
comparatively low cost.
Do not waste wood ashes. They
are sufficiently valuable to pay for
saving and applying to the soil.
Remember that one ill-tempered or
slow walking horse will do much
harm on a farm where colts are rails
ed.
Keep the floor of the poultry house
dry by all means. The dry earth
stored last fall will now come in
play.
Pigs sometimes have Inflammation
of the bowels; cause, too much corn
or milk, either will cause it. Put
them on the ground and give less and
lighter food.
"lf you want COW to do her best
give her just as good quarters and
as good care as you do your favorite
horse" advises Pennsylvania farm
er.
White fowls when dressed for mark
ct do not show pin feather marks as
do the black breeds. This is a point
in their favor which is worth consid-
ering.
A big growth of clover is a great
weed destroyer; but it must be
"thick as hair on dog" to do this
effectually. Put on plenty of seed.
When egg-production alone is your
object you need no males. The hens
will lay as we'll without them (some-
times better), and the eggs will keep
longer.
Drive the little pigs for half an
hour around the pens, to keep away
the thumps. All dry food and all
corn will tend to make crazy sOws.
The fat butter is a mixture of sew
eral fats, chiefly oIeine, an oily fat,
palmitine and stearine, allsolid fats.
There are also small quantities of
five other fats present.
Hog disease preventives. A dry
warm bed to sleep in; not more than
five in bunch; plenty of succulent
food of some sort; apples, roots.
silage, clover hay, and halt their
food bran or middlinos, oil meal
every day, and salt always by them.
If turned out into the barnyard
'for exercise" nineteen out ofevery
twenty COWS will stand and munich
at the pile of wet straw which has
passed through the horse stable.
though they be well fed. And then
Fhose who use the milk will wonder
what makes it taste Of the stable"
AS sooA as an early crop is off
piece Of land, before the weeds start,
plow it up and SOW rye. Here is late
pasture for. COWS this year and early
feed next. Plow it under next season,
if your stock feeds it past granting,
and put in any crop You choose. The
moisture and warmth produced bv
the decay of green stuffturned under
is really wonderful.
When some horses lie down they
strike the back part of the fore leg
with the calks of their shoes and
bruise it. After while a callous
comes on and sore. The only way
ia prevent it is to put q thick pad
around the horse when standing in
the stable, to keep the shoe from
bruising the place. Dress the sore
with any sort of hniment, anu grease
it till it is healed,
A Rrahma pullet requires more
time to mature than Leghorn. In
majority of cases the pullets that
commence laying early do not grow
to as large size as those that may
be considered as late layers, They
often, therefore, commence laying
before they are fully matured. In
selecting eggs for breeding, asa rule,
the pulets should be about q year old,
ln order to receive the necessary vig.
or and vitality with the chicks.
d, N. Kern, in Practical Farmer.
Our farmers must keep abreast OF
the times They must think. They
must read; they must study they
must experiment; they must exert
their minds to the fullest extent to
drag out from mother earth her
secrets of fertility. Let them do it,
and she will reward them with fertile
| fields and good crops in abundance
and they will enjoy the richest bless
ings of the most satisfying and no.
blest occupation on earth.
Should you order pure breeds, do
not on their arrival. place them in
the yard with other fowls, but give.
them time to rest and recover from
their Journey. A bird on the jour
ney fails to eat, or receive water, and
il placed in the poultry yard viii be
cowe5 and frightened, and thus be
kept away from the troughs, Al
ways give them time to eat> drink
and rest, and if then placed among
the home fowls they viii be. in o. bet
ter condition to take care of them,
Selves
| The Shorthorn cattle hare doubt
less been injured for both breeding