Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1906-11-14

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Keeping the skin of the work horses
clean, enables them to sweat freely
and thus is essential to their health.
The true type of dairy COW is that
which furnishes the most and best
of any commercial products at the low
est cost.
If n dairy COW Is properly fed and
cared for she will do her best, but she
will never do all that she is capable of
without good care.
Do not undertake to keep too many
hens at time. A few well cared for
is better than large number left to
look out for themselves.
Get rid of the surplus horses that are
not growing Into money. There is no
advantage in keeping enough extra
horses to eat all that useful ones earn.
1t Is rather poor economy to cram
so cents worth of drugs down the
throat of sick chicken that would not
be worth over a quarter, If 1t were
| well.
1t Is the hungry hog that is always
looking for a break in the fence. 1t is
the chicken. eating SOW that should new
er be bred. Her kind will not pay for
the raising.
Some people seem to regard 1t a
pleasant surgical operation to "eat
their heads off," and they feel 1t is not
expensive to keep stock that will do
that same thing
Regularity costs no more than irreg-
ularity and it means much in the
management of stock. Stock have no
timep,ece, but it wonderful how they
can tell when feeding time is at hand.
The alfalfa business is vet in Its Ia
fancy. There seems to be so many
things that one can learn about 1t.
This can be learned best by trying a
small acreage, though it is too late
to SOW this year.
Without exercise, it is impossible for
the muscles of young horses to develop
hence the necessity of II good sized field
for them to run in. II you would have
horses with endurance, give the colts
a chance to develop their muscles.
| Good sense and docility as well as
lack of sense and treachery are mat
tiers of transmission by inheritance.
This is true of ailments, habits of
action, disposition and all those things
which go to make good or bad horse.
The present day haying machinery
has taken great deal of sweat out of
the business. In looking at some of
the machinery manufactured for this
purpose 1t almost makes one feel that
~ Moulus Ue d j.edoule W AaNS 10y 'hS
1 the whole year round.
A cavalry authority in Belgium esti-
mates that there are more than 8,O00,-
600 horses in the world. There are o.
100000 in Russia, while Germany and
Austria Hungary each has more than
the British isles, where it Is reckoned
there are about 100000.
1t is usually the hired help that
watch the clock that complain most
of bad luck, hard times and lack of APP
probation on the part of their en-
ployers. The kind who don't watch
the clock have little time to complain,
and even less inclination to do SO.
Farmers and gardeners in the vicln-
ity of Bennington, VT are sustaining
large losses as the result of the inroads
of Belgian hares, which are the Off
spring of pairs of these animals which
were turned loose when this craze sub
sided some three or four years ago.
In securing good supply of eggs the
Unborn tendency of heavy laying is an
important point. 1t is tendency
MS III certain families of cattle, and
without it no amount of skillful care
and feeding will produce the best re-,
suits.
The largest Individual wool clip ever
grown on the American continent was
shipped from Billings, Mont. to Bos-
ton firm. The clip weighed 100000
pounds, and forty-four cars were re-
quired to carry it. The owner refused
an offer Of "a cents pound for the
wool
Let the farmer who wants good colts
select the best grade mares and breed
them annually to one good type of
horse. OF course, the quality of the
dam always has more or less influence
upon the progeny, but no matter how
good or how poor the mother, the best
sire obtainable is noNe too good.
Indiana has fertilizer law which is
aimed to protect the farmers and gar
deners within her borders 1t provides
that fertilizers offered for sale shall not
only bear the inspection label Of the
state chemist, but shall give the per-
centages of the ingredients which they
contain. so that the purchaser may tell
at glance what lie is buying
From observations made with num-
Der of hens 1t was found that In every
instance the eggs We're moved every
day and did not remain in the same
part of the nest more than three days.
The thorough manner in which the hen
turns the eggs may well furnish us
clew to the most natural treatment of
the eggs when under the artificial con-