The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1904-09-17
Farm and Stock Notes.
10 RI ralIst, sedalfa, No.

Edim anu otOCk NUlet,
From The Rur alist. sedalfa, Mo.
Twenty-Five acres thoroug bly, titled
will return more profit-as we'll as
satisfactlon-than so acres slobbered
over.
The acknowledgements method is
the curse Of agriculture. Whatever iS
worth doing at all should be done In
telligently and thoroughly.
A fast walk is the most valuable
and Serviceable gait for a farm horse.
Tram the colts to be good walkers
before allowing them to trot under
harness or saddle.
Mules and young colts are not suit
able pasture felloWs-the colts are
liable TO injury and will be permanent
" damaged BY being kept frightened
all the time.
We're the medicinal virtues Of sonnd,
ripe fruit known and appreciated at
their real worth a great many doctors
would have to seek other employment
or 60 hungry, Mother Earth produces
no greater LUXURY than good fruit.
There is something lacking in the
diet of the COW that develops an appe-
tite for bones, old shoes and similar
uncowlike substances. Plenty Of salt
with a little air Stacked lime added
will often correct this false appetite.
} The breeder of pure bred live stock
Is expected-and iustly-by bis neigh
bors to be a progressive and up-to-date
farmer whose methods Of farm work
should harmonic with the pretensions
z Of his live stock. What really good
farmer would desire to buy breeding
stock from cockleburs farm?
Given sufficient 'sugarlng," a scrub
steer may be matured into so credible
Gbeei as will sell IN competition with
pure breds, but the extra expense and
time required will neutralize the profit.
T The ''sugsr" necessary to pad out
one scrnb will return more profit il
p applied to fattening pure breds.
With proper limitations fruit grow.
L ing and poultry raising go we'll to-
r gether. The fruit trees and vines at
2 ford shade and relish for the poultry
and the latter ''save" many a bug,
+ beetle and worm that would prey on
the fruit But keep your hens on your
own premises.
= The old Pennsylvania 's method OF
! saving bacon salt-by putting plenty Of
1t on will bear transposition to white
i washing around the poultry houses.
Often and literally should be the
!. withdrawing rule and thin enough to
spray so as to reach all hooks anC
! crevices. Seek and you will fnd-tht
Z pest hid away in places that thicl
whitewash will not reach.
A subject the importance Of whicl
j is apparently but little understood b,
the average fruit raiser is drainage
l While fruit trees consume a grea
= deal Of moisture they will not prosper
in water. Thorough under dralnag,
will do much toward improving til
4 health and vigor OF the trees, increas
ing the yield, improving the quaint.
; aud lessening the liability Of injury
from frost.
Have you ever noticed that In tn
majority Of cases Of "balky horse'' tn
driver balks before the horse does
Such is a fact. He acts and feels lik
he expects the horse to balk and it doeI
The horse has but one idea-a stubbor
determination to not 60 and unleI
the driver Possesses sufficient INTEL
gence to judicously apply 1t, instead
removing the balky idea he will displs
anger, abuse the horse and thus inter
silly its stubbornneSs.
MissourIans have heard . great de-
about 'Alnm" In connection wlrh bal