The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1905-05-19

nAins IN soil about The roots elNe i, mora
, Mttrt then lintsh filias III tn" hole with
sood soil Ntd alc chances ar, lhe trce ~ll
A. thrive
WATER FOR SWINE.
| There are farmers WHO raise swine and
I never feel ii necessary 10 give them water
to drink They argue tlnet the STOP is
composed largely of water that is ali
necessary. 1t probably Is IN many cases
when the slop consists af one part solids
aud min parts water. hat II the slop il
nutritious az IT should be, and ii corn ia
ted in addition, tho sMiue need cotsidcri
ahle water, Men OF experience claim that
swiuc carefully watcrcd are rarely dis;
oased and they have lttuc difficulty in pre-
venting item from making wallows. ~.
a matter OF fact about half of the nasti,
hess of the hog is due TO the carelcssnesS
OF its owner. Give the hos half n chance
and he or she will be reasonably clean.
Try the trough of cold. clean water Al.
feeding time and see for yourself what the
swine think of 1t. q
VENTlLATlNG POULTRY HOUSES
There 5 always more or less controversy
going on over methods of ventilaung poul-
try houses, or course there are good and
bad methods. but almost any pian which
VIII give the house plenty of air without
causing a direct draught of air to strike
the fowls. VIII answer the purpose. 1t is
true that some OF the more elaborate sNs-
tens of ventilation are valuable like the
one which runs a hollow shaft from about
a foot from tho ground out through the
roof. On the other hand if one places the,
windows in the poultry house properly, il
is no moro difficult to air a room or to
furnish ventilation for the poultry than it
IS Tor the occupants of a house. The main
airing OF the house may be done while the
fowls are out OF it and, during the cold
weather. oven at hight it is comparatively
easy to arrange a shield in the form of a
BOARD over the opcn window so that ventl-
lation will be good and still the cold air
rot strike the fowls. This ventilation mat
ter Is an important one even during the
summer II The fowls are to occupy the
houses at night, as they should so that it
VIII pay to concoct some plan for furnish
ing the ventilation properly.
SKIM MILK FOR PIGS.
On any farm whore pigs are raised and
SKIM milk is available it may be fed with
proftt in connection with grains or various
Kinds. To use the skim milk without the
grain is not getting the best out of 1t. The
usual plan OF feeding skim milk To pigs
from two to three months old is TO make
a mixture of middlings or ground corn
WIN fiNe times the quantity of skim milk,
this ration furnishes about the same nu-
tfi'ncnt that docs the milk of the SOW and
the pigs will thrive on it. Some pig rails
" i''AVh consisting Oh one part OF
m.ddllnss one part of oil meal and four
parts of ground corn MIXED with water in
lieu OF skim milk and Gnd K fairly salts
iaeto'Y. CONSIDERABLE care must he used
III inc !eeuing of young pigs and it pays
10 Wy ana arrange a ration which will
Keep them growing as sturdily as possible.
WATCH THE HORSES CLOSELY
Spring work on horses is very hard, par
ticularly If tnev have nor had tho bost of
care and good food during the winter so
they should he closely watched that they
do not show SUMMONS of b,oa kline dow,
If there is any Indication of this watch
them carefully and note If tbey soo,n tn
have any trouble in nasticatinr tbotr
food. If so see if tho tooth arc TOO sh,rn
and If this is found 10 he tho GA ( t,rn
them over to a veterinarian for rnn,irs
sec that the food Is sufficiently rich
and in sufficient variety. and ospec.allv
that The hay given ,ho,n is of tho hast
quality. See we'll To their grooming 10
water and 10 their sleouins Quarters
See that the harness is clean and that If
fits we'll. If they seem a little ,lroonv
under good care and feed brace. ,hom M
"A littlc by this tonic: Mix one-half ounce
of ground geutian. one dram powdered
aud two drains of ground pin~,r
i'm the feed three Zines eacb dav ,ntii tbov
SHOW signs of Improvement.
COLI STORAGE EGGS.
A farmer who is i'm n position ia raise
poultry TO advantage for thn ser market
recently confded 10 the writer, that he
the cold storage supply another
winter and he proposed TO wait untl he
saw what came of that before he wont i'm
deeper. Investigation showed that there
was n considerable quantity of eggs ON
cold storage which would be turned on the
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