The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1905-01-12

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which MAJ laud something which may or
not succeed with YOU,
ALFALFA FOR PIGS.
Much stress is laid pom the value of
alfalfa as a pasture for swine, and par
ticularly for growing pigs. by many writ
ers, but my experience with 1T has not
benn all I could wish, except when used
the alfalfa pasture combined with light
daily feeds of grain. usually corn. The al
falfa is rich In protein, hence the groWing
pigs need q c-arbonaceolls food to enable
them to make the proper proportions of
bone and muscle and fat. Growers of
swine go TO two extremes, they either4feeds
heavily 0fs some Eat ass.:sss feed or
their animals by feeding them
things rich in every thing but fat maxim
I consider. for summer feeding,
a pasture of alfalfa with a half corn fa-
ton an ideal ration for growing pigs and
tinuously feeding in this manner. Try the
experiment next summer il the alfalfa
pasture is in good shape.
HOW TO FEED A FURNACE.
The rapid increase in the number of
furnaces in farm homes makes this item
quite allowable in this department. After
three years of experience with a furnace
city friend has taught us how to get the
most from it at the smallest expense. and
we have found that our former poor re-
suits came largely through our method of
feeding the furnace 1t is characteristic
of the farmer to be frugal n we con-
fess to a mild attack of heart failure when
our city friend began to shovel coal in the
fire box. His idea is. and we have proven
1T correct. that to get the best heat-from
the furnace the bed Of Goals should be
level with or above the lower part of the
door and never below it. This is the plan
of care, starting at about 4 o'clock in the
afternoon. At that hour the furnace is
we'll shaken and coal put In so that during
the course of two hours the fire is a little
above the level of the lower part Of the
opening. 1t is now burning briskly, and
then the draft in the smoke pipe is cut oft
about one-half and the cooler in the door
opened slightly. The bar cooler we never
use exscpt when the furnace is shaken,
and then to prevent the dust from passing
up the pipes through the register to the
room above. Just before going to bed five
or six heaping shovelfuls of coal are put
on the fire, the cooler in the dor opened
more and the damper turned a, little
closer. In this wa the fire keeps nicely
all night, yet the heat is not cut off from
tIe pipes ledulHS 10 LHe registers. IN the
morning the cooler Is closed, the damper
turned full and the lower door opened: a
little coal is added if needed, but the
furnace Is not shaken; in an hour or less
1t is going at full speed and more coal is
added and then turned off for the day,
although coal is, of course, added when
needed during the day, but the shaking is
done but once. Try it.
LICE DURING THE WINTER.
Many farmers have an idea tina lice are
only bothersome among poultry during
the warmer days of the year. This rea-
soning may be based on the fact that not
so many lice are seen in cold weather, but
this is only because they are keeping warm
close to the bodies of the hens. There is
just as much necessity for eternal watch
fulness in the poultry huuse during the
winter as at other times; indeed more, for
If one Is working for winter eggs they
will not get them from ~lice-infested fowls.
If one Will make IL a part of the work
among poultry to thoroughly go through
the house for lice once in ten days during
the winter they will find plenty of them to
destroy, "a least at first. This is one rea-
son why ~rJul-rymen should be unusually
careful in providing plenty of dust boxes
ard st my that their contents is frequently
changed. Have the material in the nest
boxes composed of dry dust, some slaked
'''iiS ain d LlpSiot AhdilllS I'll lIIStCl DOW-
der. If fine coal ashes are obtainable the
will do nicely to work through the mass.
HELP FIGHT oLEO NOW.
1t is persistently stated that the manu-
facturers Of oleo will e%ndeavor to nave a
bill passed by the congress reducing the
tax on that commodity. This is a bill
which every farmer should help fight even
though he has no dairy. 1t has been pref
ty well demonstrated that oleomargarine
canno stand on it's merits and that it can
only remain, an article Of by
posing in the guise Of butter or being
taxed at a price which will enable it to
sell, at ii profit. much below the selling
price Of butter. Should this bill pass the
congress the next step will be to remove
the ban which prohibits coloring cleo to
resemble butter, and then we will be just
where we were before. Invest one cent in
a postal card or two cents in a postage
stamp and write our congressman, ask
ing him to vote against this proposed bill.
Just make it a part of your business to
see that lie gels other communications from
your ~neighbors along the same line and
he'll pay attention. Two or three letters
from as many farmers will make him
| smile, but let him receive POO or 300 and
he'll look serious. Write that letter now.
Don't wait for n%eighbor Jones to start
the ball, do 1t yourself.
THE OUT DOOR TROUGH.
Although the trough described is one we
use out Of doors during the summer we
have found it very convenient for indoor
feeding, using 1t in the shed where the
COWS and otlicr stock take turns in exer-
cising. 1t saves the trouble of carrying q
number of boxes into the shed and by our
plan of securing them to the walls no
trouble is had by having them under foot.
We have one set of these troughs and they
are uniformly eighteen inches high. They
are simply built by making a frame for
each end and making it stiff by a cross
piece. The top is simply a shallow box
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