The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1906-12-07

will ship all their best hay to market,
md feed any old stuff TO their
stock. Better keep some for he spring
work time.
Now is the time to do the home
knife. scraper. barrel or kettle for
SCI lding, and Il good platform for work
ing, one ought to do Il good job.
Corn huskers have been scarce this
season, even though as high as 4 cents
q hushel was offered. Many are press
ing into service all members of the
family to get in the great crop.
Select the best pure bred ram YOU
car afford to buy to head Your dock.
A strong vigorous RAM, deep in body,
vide across the loins. heavy muscled,
will bring lambs worth raising.
New corn has been giving lots of
trouble this faal iii the hog feed 1t.
The trouble started when farmers b.
gar feeding new corn TO hogs running
OF pasture, and emitting all dry @eed.
Not one person in ten is o good milk
CT. Never moistem the hands. and to
get the best results milk quickly, but
gently. Anything which excites the
COW will check the easy fiow of milk.
There is an urgent demand for
trained young men. Factories wan
them. owners of large farms want
them II many are wanted in The
work of the department of agriculture.
The shrinkage in corn between crill-
'bing time and May i following Will
amount To as much as 10 per cent.
This year grain buyers in many sec
tons are still eXacting eighty pounds
TO the bushel.
Farm fowls having the run of the
feed lots and corn cribs, win not do
much winter laying. Corn is TOO fat
tening for an exclusive ration Tor lay
ing hens. Use more wheat, oats, clover
hay and some milk.
Pigs of different sizes should be sep
a.ated now. The big ones are apt TO
crowd the smaller ones away from Che
feed troughs, and many of the smaller
ones will be slnothered if they aye al
lowed to sleep With older hogs.
The vegetable garden should be
ploWed up this fall and we'll covered
with well rotted manure. The garden
rs apt to become soggy n nonproduc-
tive and should be literally covered
every fall with barn yard manure.
The corn root louise has been play
Ing havoc with the Illinois corn during
the past season. One authority places
the loss in one district at two and one
half million dollars. If nothing else
will, the corn louise will drive farmers
to raising other crops.
All stock taken from pasture or green
feed should be started on grain grad
hllllV. We recent1V henrd of a chaao
feeder who turned 100 lambs into the
dry feed lot, where there were self
feeders full of corn and oats. He lost
twenty out of the bunch.
Much of the corr which has been
going into the cribs this fan is soft and
Immature. If this is cribbed in large
quantities there is liable to b. trouble.
This corn should be stored where
Ventilation will carry off the excess
moisture.
lice is to keep the poultry house clean,
III We proper ventilation and have
handy dust baths composed of road
dust to which sulphur has been added.
Apply kerosene frequently to the
perches and inside the nest boxes.
Beginners sometimes have trouble in
eiC e III llltII II1Cu-
bators. 1t is pretty hard to be gov
erred by any set rule. Eggs of differ
ent breeds of fowls vary in thickness of
shell. Then the construction of the
machine has much to do with the nee
essary amount of moisture.
The last four years has shown the
folly of planting seed corn which is too
dig and too late for the northern Sec
ton Of the corn belt. Growers are ia
blame, for four out of five who buy
seed corn send for some big-eared va
Tlety. Better corn II more of 1t NAV
De had by planting seed suitable to
The right depth to pillow has always
been a question open for discussion As
a general rule, blowing should not ey-
coed six or seven inches in depth, and
for small grains, to be sown immedi-
ately after blowing, two or three inches
ts deep enough. 1t is a mistake to
turn up very much of the subsoil. IF
the darker colored soil is wearing off,
the thing to do is to build up the ton
soil, instead of turning to the surface
the subsoil.
Som armer try to make a beef bu,l
do service in both the beef and dairv
herds. Don't do it. 1t will kill your
dairy business In about three years
What you want is a first-class dairy
herd bull for the dairy COWS. and If
beef cattle are kept by all means use
a beef bull. It's a pretty nice job to
keep both going on the same farm
In the early days of shipping cream
to the factory 100 miles was supposed
to be the limit which cream could prof
itably be gathered. Now a big concern
us shipping cream from western Iowa
ipoints to Chicago. "o