The Elbert County tribune., 1906-04-26
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NOTES.

NO-ES.
Oats are better food for the horpe
because they are more easily digesteA,
and possess the essential constituents
of s good food in better proportions
and therefore, by throwing less work
on the digestive organs are less liza
BILE to cause Indigestion and collie;
but they should be dry, clean and free
from rust.
Never mate slow. sluggish horse
with a rapid, spirited one in making
up a team, as there is considerable
risk of spelling or baking both ami
mails. Such tenn is never pleas
ant TO drive. nor Us it judicious ar
rangement of horso power In such a
team, urging the slow horse general
ly excites and frets the other one. 1t
is just as important to arrange the
teams with reference to the disposi-
tion of the horses as it is to pay at
tention to their relative size and
strength
In selecting trees from the forestJ
care should be taken in this selection
that they be not too large, too old.
too crooked. or grown in too much
shade. Beautiful, young, symmetrical
and well-grown trees should always be
selected 1t is a great mistake to
think a tree is not beautiful because
it is small or young. 1t is another
mistake to think that you must have
large trees in order to get quick shade.
Medium or even small trees will often
give good shade as soon as large trees.
and they are always healthy and
sound when they do get large.
The commercial orchard should be
composed of but few varieties, too
few, in fact. to furnish anything like
succession of early and late fruit.
The home orchard. on the contrary,
should be composed of many varieties
from the earliest summer fruit to the
late keeping winter sorts
Don't turn the cows to pasture be-
fore there is any substance to the
grass, and when they are turned out
keep on feeding small amount of dry
feed for a few days, just to bridge
over a little from hay to grass.
When the hired girl moves out of
the front parlor to entertain the
neighbor's hired man in the hammock
meath the trees in the front yard,
then, and not until then, is it warm
enough to begin. obliging the cows to
sleep out of doors, and it is also about
the time that the calves can be put to
pasture.
We recently asked a buttermaker
at what temperature he pasteurized
his skim milk. He replied about as
hot as he could bear with his fin.
gers. The finger is certainly a very
poor excuse for taking temperature.
when thermometer can be bought
for % cents. 1t is this kind of slip.
shod methods used in heating milk
that disgusts so many creamery
patrons with pasteurizing.
If the hogs want to root up that
old June grass pasture let them root
and root to their hearts content II
they are too refined or highly bred to
root, root it up yourself with disk.
harrow or drag; and don't stop un.
i-.il you think it is almost ruined,
then as the warm rains come you will
see it thrive and produce grass as it
never produced before. June grass Is
like some men. When left alone Il
gets hidebound
When you begin working your horse
this spring do not try to see how
much you can do the first day, and
ruin the horse. Many horses have
been hurt for life on the first days
work in the spring Remember that
at this time the horse is not used to
hard work, and often has had poor
care during the winter, and should
get used to it very gradually The
spring is the hardest time for the
horse, and the owner should see that
he has the proper care and feed.
For northern latitudes here is
good suggestion for nrOvidipu Lotto