The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1901-06-21

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New milk and rats constitute bal
anced ration for the barn cats. See
that they have the milk if you want
them to catch the rats.
Well, there is this comfort anyhow
good crops almost always grow where
Che bad roads are. 1t is easy to have
good roads on poor soils.
Skunks do not hibernate as do bears,
but will come out of their dens on the
river bank during the milder days Of
the winter in search of food.
We came across a small western
town lately where creamery made
butter to the value of $4,000 each
year. That community was rich.
A dairyman in southern Minnesota
dried up his cows by feeding them pO-
tatoes. Why? A totally unbalanced
ration, woefully deficient in protein.
Glover is not only a fertilizer, but a
subsoler. Glover roots penetrate deep
ly into the subsOil and as they decay
certainly open up the subsoil for the
use of other crops.
1t always Injuries milk to be put in
closed can before all the animal heat
has been taken from it. Every one
handling milk should know this, but a
good many do not.
The rural mail route, the farm teIe-
phone and the Capitalization of the
country schools are three agencies
which are going to do much to change
things on the farm.
A crop Of white beans raised among
the trees of a 20 acre orchard is not
only a good thing for the young or
chard but pays about as we'll as any
crop raised on the farm.
We are asked how few COWS will JUS
tify the use of farm separator? We
should say 10, though we know Of
dairymen with only ten who think that
they could not get along without one.
We have weakness for porch over
the front door of the home and for a
pretty vine to trail over the porch-a
clematiS, a creeper, Rambler rose or
even just common old morning glories.
1t is said that the United States Sc
cures 500 varieties Of timber more or
less valuable in the new island possess
sions, and we are quite likely to get in
troduced to 500 different types of abo-
riginal cusSedness also.
One ton Of well cured clover hay is
worth as milk producing food almost
as much as two tons of equally we'll
cured timothy hay, and one pound of
clover hay fed a work horse is worth
almost as much as one pound of oats.
The white turkey is a much tanner
and more domestic bird than his bronze
relative. He will neither wander so
far from home nor roost so high, this
because the bronze bird is much more
closely related to his wild cousin.
Where the corn crop averages about3O
bushels an acre the crop can easily be
doubled Cr;xr
tation once in four years. The differ
ence between profit and loss in operat-
ing such land can be found in the fore
going statement.
Any man can make $40 a day for
three days put in on extra disking and
dragging of almost any ten acre field of
corn before planting. This matter of
giving land extra work and prepare
ton before planting a crop of corn is
not as well understood as it should be.
II man wishes to raise $175 horses
to sell, he had better dispense altogeth-
er with barbed wire on his farm fences
where the horses and colts run. A
barbed wire cut which will in no man
ner injure the horse for usefulness will
always take $25 off him when he is put
on the market.
The farm separator calf is always a
healthy calf. He is never troubled
with indigestion, scours, loss of appe-
tlte or lice. There is a vital and health
giving property about the milk fed
warm from the COW which can never
De impaired to it artifcially after it
has once become cold.
we never knew a man to have very
good luck with the mammoth clover as
nay crop. 1t is too coarse and is ant
TO lodge when the big stems become
mildewed and unpalatable. AS a fer
tilizer, the green crop to he Moved
under, 1t is better than the Medium
clover and is all right for a pasture
So great is the fertilizing yalue Of
the clover plant that we had as SION
have field in clover two years. re-
moving the crops of hay and seed. as
to have 10 good loads of manure spread