Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1905-12-13
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The Merino Is the first sheep men,
toned In history.
If you have crop In the orchard,
do not cut too close to the trees.
Dust sprays are good but the liquid
ones are better because they adhere.
| The quality Of a sow's pigs when
she Is old determines when her days Of
usefulness are over.
One method of getting rid Of ticks:
Dip the lambs about week after
shearing the old sheep.
The Dorset is the most prolific of
sheep, two lamb crops per annum be-
ing possible with ewes of this breed.
| All buckets, cans and other utensils
with which the milk is brought in con-
tact should be made of tin. Rusty YES
sells should never be used.
Probably the most profitable animal
to raise is the hog. The litter is large,
they are ready for market early and
are usually of ready sale.
Keep your eye on the flock OF tur-
keys to see that they do not get start
ed to roosting away from home. If
you miss them some night keep an out
look for their new roosting place and
drive them home.
The hog is good assistant. both rs
to keeping up the fertility of the farm
and in helping to balance up on the
right side of the ledger at the close
OF the year. Don't forget the hens;
they can be made to play an import
ant part.
Dairying plays an important part in
successful rotation of crops, and af-
| fords a good means Of turning all
kinds Of grain and fodder into valua-
BILE manure, and so adding to the fer
tillty of the soil by feedlLs them to
dairy cows.
Considerable live stock should be
kept on every farm, that there may be
large amount of manure to apply to
the soil. 1t should be the constant |
study Of the farmer to make the farm
pay; this can best be done in connec-
ton with stock husbandry.
1t is easy to get the milk cans in n |
foul condition when used to carry milk |
or cream to market unless they are |
washed thoroughly after using. Don't |
kick If your cans Of milk or cream are |
returned marked mot fit to use," but |
rather correct the "evl of your ways"
The best way of treating bowel dis
eases, such as diarrhea, in flock of |
fowls, is to shut off all food for twenty |
four hours, add gill of lime water to
each quart of drinking water, and ut
the end of the twenty four hours give
a liberal feeding of linseed meal in soft
feed, which is an easier mode than CIV
ing medicine.
A simple way to start balky horse
Is to take a hammer and tap the horses |
hoof; the creature will be so surprised |
that 1t will go without further trouble;
this was done by new hand to one
Of our horses recently with success.
Another method is to undo the bride |
and lay it back on the horses neck,
taking the blinkers from the eyes, but
retaining the bit In its mouth.
The farm should be looked upon rs a
business investment, the same Us is
any other enterprise. A farmer should
expect to realize on his investment in
proportion to the skill and capital that
he puts into it. If he sells from Off the
farm everything produced, without re-
turning anything to the soil, as some
seem to think 1t can be done, 1t will
not be many years before it will be
found that there is nothing more to
sell, unless 1t be few barren acres
Hogs are built to root. They get a
good share of their living that way.
Hogs root where they find something.
usually grubs and roots that supply
needed elements not found above the
ground. Hogs grow rapidly, and they
need mineral matter MS well as flesh
and fat-building material. If hogs dig
up pasture ground it is because they
find grubs among the grass roots; it
Is worth something to have them de-
stroyed. and the pasture grows better
after the ground has been turned over.
The dairy farmers who make the
most out of the seasons work are
those who have the best cows and who
buy bran, middlings or other feed, if
1t is necessary to keep up the flow of
milk and the nervous strength and
power Of the COWS. 1t is easier to
maintain steady flow than to bring
a COW back to a full flow after she has
once fallen off. Better buy little
feed and maintain good flow than to
save feed at the expense of the milk
flow.
The results obtained when spraying
Apple trees Mt the Michigan Expert
ment Farm for San Jose scale We're
less satisfactory than with the peach
and most other fruits, as the trees are
generally not only larger and with
thicker heads than other fruit trees,
thus making them more difficult to
spray, but the loose and rough bark
upon the trunks and larger branches
make 1t almost impossible to reach all
of the scale, and the same is true re-
garding the fuzzy covering upon young
twigs of many varieties. For these
reasons the results ordinarily secured