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

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 he 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 IL Pennsylvania farm
err
White fowls when dressed ormark-
ct do not show pin feather marks as
do the black breeds. This is a point
i'll their favor which is worth consid-
ering.
A big growth Of clover is a great
weed destroyer; but it must be
"thicll as hair on dog" to do this
effectually. Put on plenty of seed.
When 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 Il mixture of sew
eral fats, chiefly oIeine an oily fat,
palmltine 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 a bunch; plenty Of succulent
food Of some sort; apples. roots.
silage, clover hay, and halt their
food bran or midllin@s. oil meal
every day, and salt always by them.
II turned out into the BARNARD
<for exercise, nineteen out ofevery
twenty COWS will stand and 7nupch
at the pile of wet straw which has
passed thruu9h the horse stable.
though shey be we'll fed And then
Fhose who use the mills will wonder,
what makes it taste Of the stable,T
AS soQh as an early crop is offa
p.ece of land, before the weeds start,
pillow it up and SOW rye. Here is late
pasture for COWS this year and earlv
feed next. Plow it under next season.
if your stock feeds it past granting,
and put III any cE0p YOU choose. The
moisture, shd warmth produced by
tie decay of green stuffturned under
IS really wonderful.
When some horses lie down they
strike the back part of tbs fore leo
with the calks of their shoes and
bruise it. After while callous
comes on and a sore. The only way
t. prevent it is to put a thick pad
around the horse when standing in
the stable, to keep the shoe from
bruslng the place, Dress the sore
with any sort Of liniment. ana grease
it till it is healed,
\ Rrahma pullet requires more
time to mature than a Leghorn. In
majority Of cases the pullets that
commence laying early do not grow
to as large a size as those that NAV
be considered as late layers They
often, therefore, commence LAYING
before they are fully matIrcd. In
selecting eggs for breeding, asa rule,
the pulots should be about u wear old,
III order to receive the necessary Vig-
or and vitality with the chicks.
D. \, 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 either fowls, but give.
them time to rest and recover irons
thetr journey. A bird on the Jour
ney fails to eat, or receive water. and
ifplaced in the poultry yard viii be
cowe4 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 will be in a bet
ter condition to take care of them>
Selves
1he Shorthorn cattle hare doubt
less been injured for bath breeding
and milking qualities by keeping
breeding animals too fat They
show aft well in this condition, but
with this breed as with all others, the
moderate flesh Indicative Of thrifty