Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1905-02-01

Chickens can be made to grow fast
er by feeding often.
Furnish as great a variety Of diet
as possible and feed as much as the
fowls will eat.
Do not hatch bantams until late in
the summer II you would have them
beautiful and diminutive.
There should be constant and per-
sistent culllng of the flock, always
keeping the best at home.
The farther you are from market,
the greater is the need Of condenslng
products by feeding grain and stores
to animals.
Careful selection is one of the most
important points in stock raising of
all kinds, and is important to the
sheep raisers.
During the winter plenty of bedding
is necessary in order to have the stock
comfortable and save the manure to
the best advantage.
Carelessness in the little details nee
essary to good management will soon
show In the condition, health and pro-
ductiveness of the fowls.
A fleece should possess the property
Of uniformity. This refers to covering,
density and quality. A good fleece
should be as nearly uniform in all parts
as practicable.
sheep are valuable for cleaning old
pastures and fields. not only because
they eat most varieties of weeds, but
the seeds are digested SO thoroughly
that they do not terminate.
Leave apples in cool places until
danger Of very cold weather, as they
will not freeze as readily as potatoes.
Cabbages and turnips will also with
stand very low temperature without
injury.
Polled cattle and those that have
been dehorned are not subject to "hol-
low horn." but they are subject to hol-
low stomach or they may even be ex-
posed to the ravages Of the "wolf in
the tall"
1t always pays to look for hard
winter. If one is ready for hard
winter and 1t does not come he will
be agreeably disappointed, but should
he be unprepared and 1t comes lie will
be most woefully surprised.
The old cry that the silo is fit only
for the newspaper or pencil farmer is
fast going and will soon be gone. If
some of the slow coach dairymen do
not soon plan for silo their more
progressive neighbors will outstrip
them.
Where and how is the cream sepa-
rator kept? In the State of Mime
sofa 1t is crime to keep the separator
In the stable or barn. That is proper
law. and most people are inclined to
believe that there should be no need
for such law, but there is.
The man who owns good dual pur-
pose cow flatters himself that he has
good COW and that he is doing well,
and perhaps he is. But he is not doing
his best until he makes success by
reaching the highest degree of one or
the other branch of the cows useful
ness.
Careful experiments show that tile
honey bee is quite as essential for tie
perfect pollination of our fruits as
the humble bee is in the clover fields.
In Germany the humble bee is pro-
tected by legal enactments. With us
every nest is destroyed at once after
its discovery.
Wheat that is damp when threshed
will shrink more than that which is
dry. The shrinkage will be from one
to five cents per bushel in price. In
holding grain Of any kind 1t will al
ways be well to take into considera-
ton the shrinkage that is sure to take
place.
An Oklahoma farmer reports that he
has been able to rid his place of the
boil weevil by growing one crop of COW
peas. This weevil will not eat the
COW peas. and have all starved while
one crop was being raised. If this
practice could be made general It
might be solution OF this vexed prob.
lem.
The Use of dwarf peas and beans
as a cultivated crop in orchards and
then turning under the vines after
picking the pods is recommended. The
orchard has the benefit of continuous
cultivation at the proper season; the
plants when plowed under enrich the
soil and the picked product pays the
bills.
When an Eastern writer wishes to
confuse people about yield of corn he
mentions the measurement in so many
bushels Of ears which signifies nothing
III tue way VI measurements: III tQe
South 1t is "bar'ls' of corn. In the
corn belt whenever man speaks of
bushels of corn he means one bushel
of shelled corn.
A fruit grower who believes in thin
ming fruit, and practices what he be-
'lieves, removed one-half of the crop
of an extremely heavy setting of
Keifer pears and allowed it to 20 to
waste on the ground. The portion that
matured was fine and sold at high
prices. In the growers opinion the
yield was larger than if all fruit had
remained on the tree.
Every year we have men who try to
farm more land than they can attend
to. Every year We hear them say they
will never do 1t again and yet they
keep at 1t. The man who lays out
more work than he can perform is a
"crawfish," for he is going backward
and will finally come out whence he