The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1896-12-10
HINTS TO FARMERS.
GOOD SUGGESTIONS.
What is Best and What is Not.

Record.
1t there is dead limb on a tree cut
it off, as it may be diseased. II a dead
limb is seen close observation OF the
tree should be made to discover the
cause.
There should be regular hours for
feeding, not varying minute, and the
animals will soon learn the proper
times and will come up to the barn
from the fields without being driven or
called.
The larger an animal the more II
costs to maintain It, as a rule, hence II
will cost much more, in proportion to
weight, to produce hog weighing 5OO
pounds than one weighing 100 pounds,
consequently there is larger profit per
pound from the small hog than from
the large one, and the farmer can keep
more small hogs than he can large
ones.
When large numbers of stock are led
together the stronger Will continually
crowd away the weaker ones, who fail
to procure enough food to keep in good
thrifty condition. Such an unequal
division causes an increase in the cost.
1t is better to divide up into reasonably
small lots, according to size, age and
condition.
More money can be made from poul-
try as a business, in proportion to capt.
tai invested, than from anything on the
farm, but not by giving up such work
to women and children. Some expe-
rience is necessary to success, and the
business, though supposed to be easlly
understood, is difficult. The hens pay
we'll at all seasons and cost but little III
summer.
The average yield of corn III the
United States is not quite % bushels
per acre. 1t is smaller than it should
be, even in this great corn year, and
shows that the farms of this courtr!
are not made to yield as largely as ths
land is capable of doing. With more
| fertilizers and proper rotation OF crop;
the average yield Of corn could be III
creased at least 25 per cent, which
would nroduce a sum equal to all thu
MORTGAGES on farms. Larger crops cos
less proportiona]ly than those that ar
smaller.
When to mortgage farm depends
az is we'll known, upon necessity on
the farmer who mortgages his farm i
order to build fine house upon 1t ma
find himself without farm or hous
should he meet with an unfavorab'
season. If borrowing upon mortgage
to procure stock or fertilizers Is DOR
the money is then invested on the far'
in a manner which permits OF retul
therefrom and an opportunity to pr
! off the mortgage. No farmer shou
borrow, however, If he can avoid It,
l he Is adding interest by so doing.
An excellent suggestion in Yves
ern journal is to have an old farm wa
on thai ls of but little value for al
, other purpose other than tor holdl1
ing manure near the stable and thr<
the manure directly into the wage
hauling it to the field whenever 10
;. is obtained. By so doing there Will
no barnyard accumuiations, and II
cornstalks are shredded and the str'
also cut, the manure will reach t
field in fine condition, the hurry
hauling all the manure ON the fal
when busy being avoided.
q Hogs do not do we'll whe;, large nu
beers are kept together. 1t disease &c
n not get among them the hogs are st
10 liable to sudden chills, budding toge'
. er AZ they are sure to do in cold wea1
er, and thus exposing themselves alt
~ natelv to extreme heat and extrel
cold. Besides, in any large lot there
" sure to be difference in size. 1
le stronger Will always crowd the veal
from the feeding places. An underll
.. among herd of hogs has poor char
for growing. The same amount OF 1e
gwen to hogs distributed In small
Of even size will make more pork tt
, if large number are fed together
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