The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-07-08
THE FARM.

you SOHoLnlng TO sell aG 4o@SU 0'0AJ
month in the year.
Management" This one word
has more meaning on the farm than
is generally suspected.
The farm may not yield big profits,
but is there any other calling so sure
to give a man a living?
How many tradesmen and men in
other lines of business are bankrupted
to one Of the farm 3?
Don't worry about the future supply
of timber. 1t will grow long after
we are past earthly needs.
No one animal is an exact type OF
its race. Hence the difficulty of test
ing the relative value of breeds.
More attention ought to be paid to
the teeth of our domestic animals.
They often suffer from neglect.
A small amount of easily digested
food is preferable to a large amount
that is more difficult to digest.
A wash of fresh buttermilk is said
to kill lice on hogs. The milk needs
to be we'll rubbed into the bristles.
Nature should be copied as near as
possible in care of fowls, and then
there will be less complaint of disease.
The scrub animal has a pedigree
which by adverse circumstances has a
downward instead of an upward ten
dency.
1t is a great luxury to live on a
good road. 1t pays everyone living
along a road to do his share toward
making it a good one.
Use but 10 not waste or abuse the
gifts of nature. She supplies enough
for all, if we have the intelligence to
Gss hem rightly.
w n only one ingredient is lack
ing 70 Cd = soil, that n when applied
will PSoa- . just as good results as a
complex manure would.
The b%dy to be well nourished
must have plenty of well masticated
digestible food. Do not make your
stomach do the cork of your teeth.
Remember the : S4ok of knowledge
is the oldest book of$n, and has been
wide open to all ever since man had
an existence on the globe.
If you are a farmer d& not be &C.
cusing the farm of producing hard
times. Look in other directions if
you want to find the
Pigs can be reared so as to have
seventy-fve per cent. of lean meat liz,
them by feeding bran and middlings.
Skim milk may also be fed.
A particular fertilizer may be bene,
fetal to one farm or field and of no
value to another, because that par
ticular ingredient is not needed
Nothing like a good old fashioned
summer fallow to cleanse lands from
noxious weeds and fit them for undis-
puted occupancy by useful crops.
Ped greet is very ALPHABETICALLY
so whether it is good or bad. No
animal, bear in mind, is without a
pedigree, whether it is recorded or
not.
We are told that very little of the
manurial value of feeding stuffs is lost
by feeding. Surely what is appro-
priated as food must be lost as manure.
Stand up like a man and honor
your calling. You may have wrongs
but they are not in your farm, although
some of them may be in your farming.
A western dairyman thinks that
dairy farmers as a class do not fully
appreciate the Importance of the
speedy withdrawal of the animal heat
from fresh milk.
Give your farm credit for furnish
ing you a home rent free, and for a
thousand and one n-ecessaries and
Injuries which you would have to pay
cash for in a city.
Perhaps the best remedy that can
be used to keep chicks in good con-
dition is pulverized charcoal mixed
with cooked feed. A daily ration of
it can do them no great harm.
There are growers of seeds who are
said to be very INSCRIPTIONS putting
seeds on the market that are worse
than useless. There is said to be
much fraud in onion seeds.
He is not a very enterprising farmer
who, if naturally slow, cannot hurry
his steps a little in haying, especially
when unfavorable weather has de-
layed the work far beyond it's season.
1t would be good for farmers if
some of their number would write out
farm experiences and observations for
publication, thereby conveying to all
interested many useful lessons that
otherwise must be lost, except to a
few.
If n farmer does not feel able tC
purchase and keep a thoroughbred
boar himself, in many cases it will
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