New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1889-04-03
THE FARM.
Points for Farmers.

flock and cuddle them a 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 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.
eff you want a COW to do her best
give her just as good quarters and
as good care as you do your favorite
horse advises a Pennsylvania farm
or.
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 a dog to do this
effectually. Put on plenty of seed.
When reproduction aloneisyour
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 oleine, an oily fat,
palmitine and stearine, all solid 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,
sslage, clover hay, and half their
food bran or middlings, oil meal
every day, and salt always by them.
Ii turned out into the barnyard
for exercise nineteen out of every
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
those who use the milk will wonder
what makes it "taste of the STABLE"
AS soon as an early crop is off
piece Of land, before the weeds start,
pillow it up and SOW rye. Here is late
pasture for cows this year and early
feed next. Plow thunder next season,
if your stock feeds it past granting,
and put in any crop you choose. The
moisture and warmth produced by
the decay of green stuff turned 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 callous
comes on and sore The only way
to prevent it is to put 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 liniment. and grease
it till it is healed.
A Brahma pullet requires more.
time to mature than a Leghorn. In
a 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 year old,
in order to receive the necessary Wig
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,
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