Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1904-11-30

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On account of them lying so close
together the shelter for hogs need not
be as tight as for other stock.
A low knee is desirable in a horse,
enabling the animal to make long
stride more quickly than when the
knee is set high up.
The first attribute of success in egg
production is healthy stock. No
amount of food viii give continued
supply of eggs If the hens are not
healthy.
Care and feed are essential factors
in making good stock. 1t Will not
Just grow" like Topsy, but must be
looked after at every stage of the
game.
Arrange to put few windows in
that dark barn. But few stables are
well enough lighted. Proper SANTA
ton demands It, Sunlight is . great
germicide. See that your stable has
plenty of it.
Hens will eat eggs whenever broken
ones are placed within their reach.
1t is natural for them to eat anything
that IS good to eat and in proper shape
for them to eat. To stop them from
eating eggs, therefore, Is to keep
broken eggs out Of their reach.
No one has actual knowledge OF the
value Of fall blowing in garden Until
he has tried it, When fall plowed the
soil can be prepared early in tie spring
and much depends on early vegetables.
Make the garden rich and then plow
1t in the fall, and note the beneficial
results next year. If you try this
plan once. you'll stay with it.
1t is often stated that eggs laid in
early spring, while the weather is cool.
have better keeping qualities than eggs
laid during August or even September.
This seems hardly probable, and one
should not hesitate TO store the sum
mer eggs for winter use, provided they
are gathered the day they are laid,
then put away in waterglass solution,
and stored in as cool place as may
be handy.
Frauds are still going the rounds.
One of the last zen is an old one
which promises TO increc Sc the guam
tity Of butter by adding something to
the milk. Those who take time to
think will readily see that butter can
not be added to milk. The amount of
butter fat taken from milk depends
upon the amount ii contains. Ii IL
impossible TO obtain something from
nothing.
A wind puff on horse is a distend-
ed condition of sack which confirms
synovia or joint oil 1t is caused by
sprain. A wind gall is liable TO
cause serious lameness at any time.
The trouble is durable. however, when
not due to a faulty conformation. and
when taken in its incipiency. Treat
ment consists in rest, firing and bills
tering, and shooting with a high heel
shoe.
Elbow grease will not take the place
of brains. 1t requires a blending of
these elements to move things. There
are those who are constantly endeav-
oring to substitute luck" or hope So
for real elbow grease. One farmer
rented a field to a man who used moth
! ing but elbow grease in growing Il
crop and he viii scarcely grow enough
corn to pay the rent on the ground
while the adjoining field will yield d
| paying crop. One used elbow greaSt
and the other used a combination OF
! forces.
The scientific man can analyze the
| food the cow eats, but the COW has to
rely on the taste or palatability. The
| dairyman will feed a combination o.
feeds such as he has, or will exchange
some of them for that which he does
not have, and he bases his reason on
results rather than analysis.
II scarcely ever pays to economic
in feed. The animal that has been fed
literally Is the first to get to mar
5et and will bring the best price.
When failure results, the pest thing
TO do is to see what was the cause
and remove it. Be reasonable about
such things.
In most of our farm operations we
do not know what eur products are
costing us. A very small percentage
of farmers know what products cos
them. They grow their feed. feed i
without stint, and when a sale is made
they feel that they have made some
money in the transaction. a very
good friend of mine says he keeps {
system Of books that is all right HI
counts his money OF the beginning o
the year and again at the close, and I
he has more at the close than he hat
at the beginning he has made the diff
ference. This is all right rs far as
goes. but It is not satisfactory.
Homestead
Experiments have shown that dee
blowing on some soils is the revers
Of beneficial. It cannot be too plaInl
or strongly impressed upon the min
that all plant food is only availaal
when in liquid form. 1t does ro
natter how much plant food there
in soil. If it is not reduced to Eiut
form II cannot be assimilateG b
plants. hence the necessity for keel