Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1906-09-19

The corn grower seldom whlnes be
cause the weather Is too hot.
The lambs should be put in the feet
lots SO that they can be sent to mar
ket early.
In buying COW try to buy the COW
that the seller wants to keep. She |.
the good COW.
Whenever the swinging motion of |
hoe is made as popular us the swinging
motion Of baseball bat, then boy:
can't be kept from the garden.
Egg shells furnish material for new
shells. Do not feed them, though, I'm
less finely pulverized. for there is dan
ger of teaching the hens to eat eggs.
1t never pays to be next year farm
err, and yet 1t pays as well as it does
to be u last years farmer. Don't put
off any farming for tomorrow that car
be done today
Sometimes the things we do the bes
are not worth doing at all. One of tn
hardest things we often do seems mos
easy. 1t is in shaking hands with trou
BILE before we meet 1t.
Many farmers are thwarting the ra
nuisance by placing concrete founda
tons under their cribs and granaries
The expense is little more in the be
ginning, but there is saving In IT,,
long run.
Whenever man does anything tina
he knows to be radically wrong he won
ders what he has against himself tina
leads him to do such thing We ar,
constantly getting into trouble in Thu
manner.
The heavily padded collar Is not tn.
thing for hot weather. 1t Is all RICH
In cold weather when heavy drawing 1.
at hand, but when warm weather come.
there should be different collar ar
rangement.
A Missouri farmer has tried balint
clover hay as he made it. He cuts hi
clover one day and rakes 1t up ant
bales 1t the next and stores it In sheds
leaving small spaces between the bale.
for air. He reports results as satisfac
tory.
Have YOU ever tried having summer
collars for horses in summer and wlnte
collars for winter? 1t is good plal
and leads to fewer sore shoulders
Horses shoulders are not the sam,
shape or size in winter that they ar,
| In summer.
Some of the very accurate writer
are given pain because western farm
ern farmers insist on calling 1t dehorn
ing. The correct writer says it /
'dishorning." Whatever 1t is, 1t mean
removing the horns, and most farmer
understand what that Is.
The chicks should have varied ra
ton as well as the older fowls L
helps digestion and undoubtedly the,
enjoy the change. 1t has been sale
that bill Of fare is as necessary II
the poultry yard as in our own house
hold, for best results, and it certainly
is true.
Separate sheep and cows. They dom
do well together. The cows are par
ticularly sensitive about the places Ii
the pasture where the sheep hav,
trampled the grass down and left thei
droppings. Many farmers pasture thei
cows and sheep together, but they al
ways do it at loss.
The dairy ration should be palatable
1t should be nutritious. 1t should b,
digestible, abundant and as inexpen
sive as possible after the other essen
tlals are secured. But we should never
lose sight Of the fact that no ration
is ever good enough or cheap enough
to coax profit out of worthless COW
That dairyman who in addition to al
his other necessary work pumped b,
hand the daily water supply for hi
herd of twenty cows operated his bust
ness at tremendous economic disad
vantage. There Is saving that i
wasteful and economies that are ex
pensive.
A man needs all his Sunday schoo
raining to teach calf to drink. TIL,
inclination of the calf is to do wha
he believes to be right. When til,
teacher does us well along the lines Of
what he knows to be right he will BIZ
better teacher. 1t requires self-con
troll when a calf gives a snort and fill.
ones watch pocket full OF milk.
One cannot be too good to ones hors,
when it comes to making stalls. Nat
urally one would think that the wide
the stall the more comfortable tn,
horse would be. But the wider stall
may be dangerous after ALL The hors,
is more apt to try to roll in wild,
stall, and is more in danger of gettin,
fast than he would be In narrow stall
A medium width is best.
| Grating Wax
| A grating wax used at the Main,
experiment station is composed of one
| half pound raw linseed oil, one pount
beeswux, four pounds resin. Melt to
gether and pull like candy.
Weather Protection for stock.
All kinds of farm stock should b.
protected from storms. even In sum
mer. They should be brought hom
from the fields and put under shelte
until the storm subsidies. This will b
very little trouble. as they will readil,
do so, they requiring but short tim
to understand that they are better of
by so doing.
Salt for Poultry.
Salt Is rs essential for poultry a
for humans or animals. but it is no
| wise to feed 1t by itself The bette