The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1901-10-01
AGRICULTURAL.
Notes.

1t is waste of time and money to
breed poor stock.
Fatten and sell off the poultry as soon
as they are large enough.
AS the poultry have no teeth see to it
that they have plenty of grit.
1t is as necessary to weed out the
stock as it is to weed out the garden.
Gull out the hens that are not going
to lay this winter. You will make
money by it.
It will soon be time for thoroughbred
roosters to be cheap. Secure one and
breed up your flock of common hens.
Sheep-raising can never be made to
pay satisfactory profits unless the lambs
are carefully taken care of and
watched.
You may have the best COWS in the
world, but if you do not breed and man
age them properly they can never be
made to pay.
If you have piece of rough land that
is lying idle put few sheep on it, and,
to say the least, you will be able to get
the taxes off it.
A large percentage of the distress
and complaint among the farmers is
because they have not learned the great
lesson of the age-cheaper production.
One of England's greatest sheep
raisers recommends as a lamb food two
Iparts bran and one part corn meal OF
crushed oats or barley; and one parl
cottonseed meal.
Lambs should be fed with some def
mite idea in view right from the start
Start to feed them properly through the
eve and don't stop until they are fin
ished for market.
. One good thing about creameries i:
that they pay according to the percent
age of fat in the milk. This encour
ages the farmer to use his best endeav
ors to produce milk of better quality
1t is a mistaken idea that sheep re
, quire shelter only in the winter time
It is equally essential in the summer
months for protection from the heat o
the sun, and as refuge from the tor
menting flies.
1 know of three men who last weel
drove whole afternoon on Long Islant
trying to buy fowls at twelve cents
pound, and after all their efforts fou
was all that could be secured. Som
lone is losing money by not raising poul
TRY.
1t is reported that a herd of horne
COWS was bred to polled bull. Ninet
\ lper cent. of the calves had no horn:
The young hornless heifers, bred ais
to polled bull, never had horne
: calf. This shows how easily horns ma
be bred away.
Fowls that are killed directly from
free range, where they have bee
bountifully fed for some time previous
ly, but having taken plenty of exercis
and are in perfect health, are to b
preferred for the table to those ths
have been kept in close coops.
Laying hens must not te all disturb
ed; they like their nests to be fair
dark, and as secluded as possible, an
these points should receive consider,
= tion in arranging nest boxes as far {
4 can be managed, and this especially al
1 plies to the light breeds, such as th
Leghorns or Minorcas.
One advantage in having pure-bre
COWS is that it leads one to practiG
pure-bred feeding. There is such
thing as scrub-feeding as well as scru1
stock. When person gets good co
he is much more likely to take goo
care of it than he is of a scrub. Nor
but good cows having good care ar
feeding pay in these times of shal
competition.
Figure out how much your milk cos
you per 100 pounds. Remember evel
poor cow makes it cost more, and ever
:. good cow reduces the cost. If yol
Te milk costs too much, weed out the POI
nd COWS, or, better yet, weed them OF
J, anyway. You may have good cows ar
-. ra be skillful feeder, but if you are not
he good soil manager, and do not grow tt
milk food crops wisely, you are pret
sure tn meet with a had ending