Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1893-06-01
FARM AND GARDEN,
The Most Expensive ingredient
of Fertilizers.
USEFUL AGRICULTURAL ITEMS
The Requisites of Good POultrv
House - Selecting a Brood
Sow-Habit in Cows.

Salt and wood ashes in reach of hoo,
are beneficial. Good for horses also.
The neglect given the chicks now can.
not be overcome with good care bv and
by.
The nursery barn at the Worlds Fai,
grounds contains happy lot of high-brei
calves.
Seed potatoes should be exposed tba
light so that strong sprouts may be de.
veloped.
Is your experience that cooked q,
soaked corn is better than dry, hard corn
for hogs?
Health, comfort and neatness are the
things to be sought when building
poultry-house.
Little chicks enjoy fresh water to drink
Give them some, even though you pro-
vide milk for them.
If your fowls have the range of the
farm and have access to fresh water
they will need but little care.
1t takes as much brains to run farm
successfully as it does to conduct any
other business of like proportions.
1t is a mistake to become so absorbed
in routine work on the farm that no time
is left for thought, planning or recrea.
ton.
Ii you mean to sell spring chickens,
sell them in the spring--not in the fall
for s or 10 cents pound and lose money
on them.
Soft coal cinders and charcoal from
wood ashes or cobs should be among tls
"appetizers " kept on the hogs bill Of
fare daily.
Ii you are raising chicks for the eggs
they will lay, don't keep the cockerels
till fall; sell them as soon as large enough
for broilers.
A writer in an exchange says that, as
geese live on the herbage of the field, they
should be largely raised as substitutes
for mutton"
The Superintendent of the Kansas ex.
pertinent station says that the expert.
ments with sugar beets in that State in.
dicate that the soil is not adapted to
their growth.
A New York farmer thinks that the
cause of small yields of wheat in the
United States is due to thin seeding. He
thinks three bushels none too much to
SOW to the acre.
Nitrogen is the most expensive ingre.
dent of fertilizers. 1t is believed that
the cheapest means of supplying it is by
growing clover and plowing it under
green or by feeding the stock and return.
ing the manure.
PLYMOUTH ROCKS.
All who have bred Plymouth Rocks
are aware, and they who have not and
intend to should take heed, that the Ply
mouth Rock cock is naturally lighter
than the hens; and, says the Scientific
Poultryman, it is the custom of breeders
of show birds to mate light cocks with
dark pullets and use extra dark cocks to
get dark cocks and extra light ones to
get light hens-that is, hens to mate the
cock-thus making up pen that will
look very nice on exhibition but, il you
breed the pen, the result will be dark
pullets, and the next season you will be
farther away from the desired result than
before, and you will be compelled t.
mate them with very light cock to gel
the pullets lighter. 1t is as natural fol
the Plymouth Rock cock to be lighte
than the hens as for the Brown Leghorl
cock to be darker than the hens; and,
we want to breed to uniform color, tn
: only way is to select medium light hens
. blush gray, barred with dark or blue
. the bars being distinct, the cock being
little lighter than the hens, mating eac
Z. year the same way. If breeders will fo
/ low this rule, they will find that the Ply
|. mouth Rock will breed truer and will
!, able to breed show birds; otherwise W
must have two separate matings, one 10
4; cocks and one for pullets, which is no
(; always convenient for parties who cal
/; only keep one yard. 1t is too much lik,
a first cross on two varieties; some o
: them look very nice, but the next breed
, ing is away off.
HABIT IN cows.
Every man who handles COWS SHOULD
F, remember that they are creatures O
: habit. Habit made them, and hab
: alone will continue them in the line o.
Y their good work. To make use OF thi:
, knowledge we should always and on al
1 occasions treat the COW as nearly as pos
sible in the same way. She is fond o
her home life and its monotonous rou.
tine, and any deviation from that tread.
mill method greatly disturbs her eoua.
, nimity, and that disturbance acts imme-
dlately on her milk-giving organs greatly
to the loss of the man who owns her.
We have not found that she even likes a
2 change OF food, except from dry to grass,
and that upsets the milk yield for a few
days. She must have the same stall and
; the same companions; she must be
MIXED by the same man. If YOU have
got into the practice, which some men
} condemn, OF feeding her while you milk,
} then keep it up, for it has become q
: habit with her, and without it she will
be restless and inclined to hold up her
/ milk.
SELECTING A GOOD BROOD SOW.
A brood sow should be long, OF great
depth, broad in forehead and not too
closely coupled over the loin. Select her
after the pigs are weaned, so that she
Will have taken on natural form. She
should be retained as brood SOW until
or years OF age if she has proved good.
The constitution of many animals has
been ruined by breeding from young or
immature parents. A good SOW will give
thirty pounds of milk in twenty-four
hours. 1t has been tested and is known
to be fact. If litter of pigs would
make growth of four or five pounds in
twenty-four hours, it stands to reason
that, II seven pounds of milk will MAKE
one pound OF growth in a young pig Of
the age OF one week, a sow must neces.
sarily give at least thirty pounds Of milk
in twenty-four hours. .Mistreatment d
brood SOW should never be allowed;
gentle treatment OF sows in herds should
always be exacted.
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