Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1905-11-15


than Australia.
Plow the garden, if practicable, and
or scrapings OF barnyard. Tie straw
around the rose bushes.
1t is. claimed that the original sheep
was black. There was probably one
white" sheep in every flock.
A Wisconsin farmer turned his
wormy sheep into tobacco field and
let them trim the suckers. That
ended the worms.
If you have rootlouse or damp
barn cellar, you can set the celery up
right ON the floor, so that the roots
will keep moist and the tops dry.
They say there is not great deal
of difference between the stomach of
the hog and that of man. AT any rate,
charcoal is found to be useful in as
slStlnS the work OF DOtl.
Green corn. stalk and all, is good
starter for the fattenlng hogs, but it
must not be their entire ration. A
little dry feed, rs old corn or barley,
is Indispensable in keeping up their
strength and regulating their bowels.
When one habitually allows other
things to interfere with his work with
his poultry, Irregularities become so
numerous that his poultry keeping Is
likely to be remarkable chiefly by long
periods of unproductlyeness and al
most constant losses.
Don't leave any old grass or other
mulch around the bases of trees for
field mice to nest in. They will eat
the bark from the tree close to the
ground If it Is hard winter. After
the first hard freeze, raise a little
mound of earth around the stem for
protection against mice.
The man who likes hogs we'll enough
to like to stand and see them eat, Is
almost certain to be successful hog
raiser. Such Il person becomes ac-
quainted with the individual hogs and
can always tell if any Of them are OFT
their feed. Be interested in your hogs
if you would make them profitable.
North of Virginia, celery for winter
use should be stored before December
Dig up the plants, roots and all, and
Stand them close together in mar
row trench, the tops level with the
ground. Cover them with boards and
n little earth. AS the weather gets
colder, put on more earth and some
manure.
An Indiana hen stole her nest in an
abandoned wheat stack, and every
fowl that strolled by the nest laid an
egg in it. When the old hen marched
proudly UP to the farmhouse with her
family, she was followed by two ju-
yenile turkeys, five chicks, an infant
guinea and two ducklings, and seemed
reasonably proud of the variety she
had achieved.
A 1O0-acre hog pasture man gave the
following as his summer method Of
caring for swine: Through the sum-
mer-NIay, June, July and August.
feed but once Gay, after the sun has
gone down; that is, if you have nice
IL,
chickens have gone to roost and your
hogs get the corn. They sleep all night.
Get up the next morning and go out
in the pasture and eat grass with the
cattle.
In some sections 1t ls the custom to
wrap tender vines and shrubs In straw.
There is no decided objection to this
if the top is left open SO that circu-
lation Of air will pass over the shrub,
and if one is sure no mice will get in
near the bottom to gnaw the tender
shoots. The plan of laying over the
partially tender vine and covering it
with soil is also adopted in some sec
tions but vine so tender rs to re-
quire this treatment ought not to be
planted.
The Danish authority on tuberculo-
sis, Prof. Bang, lately expressed the
opinion to company Of visiting Eng
fish farmers that the tuberculin test,
while not infallible, was trustworthy
in over ninety per cent Of the cases
tested. The main point in his system
Of preventing the spread Of the dis.
ease was complete separation of all
infected animals, rs shown by the test
and the separation of the calves in q
day or two il from infected cows and
feeding these calves on pasteurized
milk. In this way the disease could
be weeded out in the second genera.
ton. He insisted that there was nc
need of destroying the meat of tuber
culous animals. rs there was no risk
after cooking.
Ensi1age Good for Feeding.
Prof. Whitcomb says: The health.
fulness of silage for sheep is a mat
ter regarding which opinions differ
so test was undertaken at the Ore
gon station with a flock Of twenty
five breeding ewes and ram. They
were fed with all the steamed vetcl
and clover silage they would eat, will
about 3 pound Of oats per head pei
day in addition. During the forty
eight days Of the test the sheep gained
100 pounds, consuming 65S pounds o.
silage and .4s pound Of oats per pount
Of gain. With the exception of one an