Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1905-09-13


Keep up the mulch about trees and
the hardy border with lawn clippings,
hay or anything to keep the moisture
in the ground.
Notwithstanding the millions of |
sheep that have been bought and sold
in Chicago, there are hundreds Of
Chicagos children who have never
seen n sheep.
Draft horse prices still continue
high in the horse markets and every
span or single horse of good quality
goes at the owners price. Plugs, how
ever MS usual dull sale.
Collect seeds of spring wild flowers
and start wild garden from seed in
stead of ravishlng the woods You
will enjoy the life histories of the wild
flowers far more in this way.
II flowers are few. scatter some
nitrate of soda and little bonemeal
on the ground. rake it in and you will |
notice big change in three days
after the first rain or artificial water
ing.
The first sheep that touched what
is now the United States came from
Spain to Old Mexico with Francisco
Vasquez de Coronado in 1910, but they
did not last. Fifty years later Juan
de Onate brought the Merino whose
descendants remain to-dny
There are to-day plenty of farm
dairymen who are following up-to-
date methods who receive from to %
cents above quoted prices for cream
cry product for their butter. Cleanll-
ness. system and painstaking are the |
prices paid for success in the farm
dairy.
On every farm where hogs are
raised there should be pen strongly
built to keep by themselves all hogs
that may be purchased for the farm. |
This same pen may also be used for
the segregating of animals that may |
show signs of being sick. A precau-
Ton Of this kind will sometimes check |
an attack of cholera at Its beginning.
Texas growers are asking the rail- |
roads to furnish transportation for
one man with every car of produce
shipped, this man to accompany the
car to look after its contents en- route |
and Its disposition when 1t reaches its |
destination. And why not? Why not |
furnish this transportation. when
shipments of livestock are furnished
1t?
Over 400 gallons of milk shipped to
Chicago from one OF the suburban
towns were recently returned to the
shippers, who had been feeding brew
cry malt to their cows. 1t was learned |
that thirteen farmers had been using
this feed and they will not be allowed |
to sell any milk In the city until they
ksss changed the food of their cat
A pound of salt is sufficient for six
teen to twenty pounds OF butter. The |
difference In cost between the very
best salt and the very poorest is but
the merest fraction of cent per
pound. How foolish 1t is to use any
thing but the best. In buying salt the
thing to do is to purchase the best
that can be had and figure on price
afterward.
Flavoring butter with the odor of
froct fpworr ic ono of tho o,.fO of tho
French peasantry. The process is very
simple, and consists of putting the
little prints, which have first been
wrapped In a thin cloth, into tight
porcelain dish on bed of the roses,
or whatever blossoms are chosen.
Among the flowers which give the
most desirable results are clover and
nasturtiums.
Sheep are really long lived animals
and with good care they have been
known to live and bring lambs up to
fifteen years old. This age is reached,
however, only under the best care
and special feeding. Pasturing is not
so conducive TO long life as special
feeding, in which roots are used abun-
dainty. On the whole-it is not profit
able to keep sheep over six or seven
years, which is about the average life
of sheep under good ordinary care
The sheep-killing dog is evidently
an important factor in keeping down
the supply of sheep in this country.
1t is n difficult problem, but if every
stray dog found on tile farm is shot
that will help the cause some. Then
1t is possible to fence dogs out. Fine
meshed wire fence is not expensive,
and either permanent fences Of this
material can be built or hurdles may
be made and used. The use of hur-
dies Is common In some countries and
1t has its good points.
In states where hog cholera is an
annual visitant the small hoghouse Is
to be preferred to the large one,
though with the small house it re-
quires more work to take care of the
hogs than in the large house. The
houses that are movable present adj
| vantages that the big houses do not,
as the small movable ones may be
placed in any field where 1t is desir-
able to pasture the hogs The danger
from disease is thus greatly reduced
and the grazing of the swine may be
better controlled than in any other
way.
Commercial fruit growing seems to
be steadily moving southwark and
westward. Not so very many years
ago New York was one of the great
est apple shipping states; New Jersey
and Delaware were the banner states
for peaches. Now many other states
are ahead of these in the production
Of these fruits In a number Of south
ern and western states there are both
| apple and peach orchards that abso-