The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-06-21


A good thing about the hog il that
ne may be able to utilize much Of the
waste of the farm and orchard.
The farmer who continually tries TO
cultivate four-horse farm with three
horses will always be one horse behind.
Don't be afraid to use the comb and
crush, if you wish your horse to shed
his coat, and come out slick and glossy
in spring.
The best dairy conditions cannot be
obtained where wooden pals are usets.
The milk sinks into the pores of the
wood and it is next to impossible -
cleanse them properly.
A Southern farmer says that good
results are obtained by feeding sum
lower seeds to horses, hogs and other
stock. The feeding of this requires
judgment, as the seeds are very rich
and should be mixed with bran.
In days ride all over the country
one viii see many up-to-date dwellings
everywhere with the old pioneer house
moved aside to be used as an out
building. That is all right. No better
Use can be made of these old structures.
Everybody likes strawberries, but ey-
erybody does not grow them. In order
that everybody may have all they want
70 eat somebody will have to grow them.
Three hundred plants will make good
starter and will make a bed large
enough TO supply one family table.
The fiocks of the world have dimin-
lshed 93,O0O,OOO head since 1873, or an
average of more than 100000 year.
growing taste for mutton, tubercu-
osis in cattle, and trichina in pork are
factors which, one writer contends,
have caused this decline.
Cows that come through the winter
very poor will require the greater part
Of the summer in getting ready to do
good service. 1t never pays to starve
A good milk COW. Her ration can be
reduced and probably changed some
what. when dry, but should not be
Withdrawn entirely.
Few men stop to think how glad the
small son is to go to town with the
father. 1t is good plan TO take him
to town occasionally. Many boys will
be glad to get up in the seat and ride
with the farmer to a neighbours. Why
not let him go along? To do the best
by boy a man needs to be boy occa-
sionally.
OF course the farmer shouldn't have
,cckleburs on his place. Nevertheless
they are sometimes found in the names
and tail of his horses. To remove them
quickly and easily take bucket Of hCt
water and dip the horses tail In it.
This will soften the spines on the
burrs, and then can be easily removed.
Just as good as hot water is a light
application of grease or any kind Of
machine oil.
An Arizona sheep-ranching company
gives the following estimate Of the cost
Of running 1900 sheep: Taxes, 1921 +;
wages, four men, $1,6S0 living, foar
men, S432; extra expense, lambiLg,
1850; shearing, 13 cents a head, $500 F.;
loss, 3 per cent, and mutton killed,
$3.50; feed for span Of horses and two
saddle horses, S204.5S; sundries, $500
$500 lambs, extra expense, $500; de-
probation in .3ucks, S540 Total, So
69O.5S This amount divided by 1000
gives as the annual per capita expense,
SLAP.
1t is barely possible that stand of
corn may be fundamentally correct
and not agriculturally perfect. An
Iowa corn gr.wer says: "A two-stalk
hill now and !hen does not surely. dim
lnish the yie;d one-third, nor does a
four-stalk hill surely spoil the yield
of that hill. In fact some years a
four-stalk hlil will out yield a three
stalk hill. IL some years the tsSostalk
hills will crywd the three stalk hills. ;"
1t is better to have stalks al every
intersection. Two intersections with
nothing and the next one six does not
average in the right manner.
Making Fodder PaIatnkIe.