Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1906-06-27
When man goes out to buy horse
nowadays he has to take along with
him about $3.50 to 5000.

When a man goes out to buy horse
nowadays he has to take along with
him about $3.50 to 5000.
A good thing about the hog Is that
he 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
brush, 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 used.
The milk sinks into the pores Of the
wood and 1T is next to Impossible to
cleanse them properly.
A Southern farmer says that good
results are obtained by feeding sun
flower 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 will see many up-to-date dwellings
everywhere with the old pioneer house
moved aside to be used us an out
building. That is all right. No better
use can be made of these old structures.
Everybody likes strawberries, but ev-7
erybody does not grow them. In order
that everybody may have all they want
to eat somebody will have to grow them.
Three hundred plants will make good
starter and will make bed large
enough to supply one family table.
The fiocks of the world have dimin-
ished 93,OOO,O0O head since 1873 or an
average Of more than 100000 q. year.
A growing taste for mutton, tubercu-
losis in cattle, and trichina in pork are
factors which, one writer contends,
have caused this decline.
Cowstha 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Withdrawn entirely.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 so 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
cockleburs on his place. Nevertheless
they are sometimes found in the names
and tail of his horses. To remove them
quickly and easily take a bucket of hot
water and dip the. horses tail In 1t.
This will soften the spines on the
burrs, and then can be easily removed.
Just as good as hot water is light.
application Of grease or any kind of
machine oil.
An Arizona sheep branching company
gives the following estimate of the cost
Of running 1000 sheep: Taxes, 1924 !;
wages, four men, $l,6s0; living, four
men, $432; extra expense, lambing,
$3.50; shearing, 10 cents head, $500;
loss, 5 per cent, and mutton killed,
$3.50; feed for span of horses and two
saddle horses, $2O45s; sundries, 5000;
$500 lambs. extra expense, $500; de-
probation In bucks. $40. Total, s5,-
690.5s. This amount divided by 1000
gives as the annual per capita expense,
SLAP.
1t is barely possible that a stand of
corn may be mechanically correct
and not agriculturally perfect. An
Iowa corn grower says: "a two-stalk
hill now and then does not surely dim
inish the yield one-third, nor does a
four-stalk hill surely spoil the yield
of that hill. In fact some years a
four-stalk hill will out yield three
stalk hill. In some years the twostalk
hills will crowd the three-stalk hills"
1t is better to have stalks at every
intersection. Two Intersections with
nothing and the next one six does not
average in the right manner.
Making Fodder Palatable.
While we would not advocate the sub
stitution of fodder for grain by any
means, there is no doubt but what
more fodder may be fed to advantage
by the majority of dairymen with IL
corresponding cheapening of the grain
bill. For example: During the first
month when the cows are on pasture,
before the feeding is very good, we
follow the same plan of feeding as dur
ing the winter-namely, preparing
mixed rations of fodder and grains.
Storing Potatoes.
There is more loss in storing pota-
toes than in storing any other crop.
Barring all wastes from rot, there is o
heavy shrlnkage, both in quantity and
weight. A bin holding 100 bushels will
shrink in size nearly one-tenth, besides
a greater loss in weight. A bushel bas-
ket full that will weigh fully 60 pounds
| in October, when taken from the soil,
will not weigh SO much after being