Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1906-11-21

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The milk-fed calf needs water. This
ls something that should not be neglect
ed.
There is no use talking about MAX
ing a wet farm contribute its full share
unless it Is tile drained.
The quick opening and shutting of an
umbrella in the face of runaway
horse will often bring him to stop
when other means fall.
The average weight Of hogs received
on the markets is much less than few
years ago. The demands of the mar
kets are undergoing change.
Pullets and 2-year-old hens are the
most profitable. After a hen is 3 years
old she becomes improbable for an egg
producer, and Is rather tough for table
use.
Little pigs of the same size feed bet
ter together than when large and small
are mixed in pen or yard. Separate
them thus and good results will then
follow.
There is such thing as being a
country gentleman. In no other place
can more renl gentlemen be found. 1t
Is right.
A wheat drill with fertilizer carries
with it suggestion that should be
talking to Its owner to keep up the
fertility of the soil. Winter wheat felt
lowed with clover means keeping up the
| fertility.
Did you ever stop to think that IL all
men were sharp there would be no sale
for gold bricks? If all men could sue
cessfully launch some scheme there
would be no biters. no schemers and no
get-rich-qulck schemes.
Red raspberry plants should be taken
from young, healthy bed Plants
from an old bed are vigorous and more
liable to be diseased. The proper dis
lance between the rows is seven feet
for garden culture and eight feet for
field culture.
Orcharding and hog breeding are
now the joint order Of the day among
progressive fruit growers in the
southwest. The two Industries COM
bine most tremendously. Cross fences
and feed patches are needed, however,
to insure absolute control.
A number of small portable poultry
houses are handy on a poultry plant,
as they can be used to place brooders
In in the early spring, and later can
be utilized for growing stock, breeding
hens or laying hens, and can be moved
to different points on the farm.
What the ben on the farm needs Is
the proper assortment of grain, plenty
of green food and a full proportion Of
meal and grit. If this is provided and
they are properly housed and made to
exercise you will have hens in winter
when 1t pays well to have them.
If the farmer has growing bearing
peach, plum or other fruit tree whose
name is not known 1t should be iden-
tilted through the committee on nomen-
clature of the State Horticultural soci-
| ETY. In order that the owner may pur-
| chase other trees like the one now Civ
ing satisfaction.
The man who keeps his horses
scared of him" all the time is wonder
Ing why they do not come up to him
when he Is In the far side of the pas
ture trying to catch them. He is heard
to say. III ever catch you I'll give
you sound thrashing,' and that prob
ably explains why lie can't catch them.
In storing potatoes one should not
bruise them, as they rot worse when
they have become bruised. Many are
under the impression that they can be
handled like coal. OF course some
times one. feels pressed for help and
time and they IRE handled more rough
" than there is any necessity for do.
ing.
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Az eApel.nient WIN young pigs at
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milk with 31a per cent fat than on
milk having more than 5 per cent. The
best results were secured with skim
milk. Many good farmers have raised
fine calves on diet almost exclusively
sof skimmllk.
NJ, obo,oro is 49,
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Is introduced or not. When one has
done all he can along precautionary
lines, he VIII probably get caught after
all, but the careful man generally
comes out ahead.
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