The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1906-10-04
ABOUT THE SMALL FARM.

ABOUT THE SMALL FARM.
So much is being printed concerning the
desirability of the small farm over the
large one, we have often urged 1t in this
department, there is abundance opportun-
ity for one to get a wrong conception of
the situation and make costly and almost
fatal mistakes. With some readers the
impression seems to prevail hat the adj
vice is to turn to gardening on a few acres
and let the rest Of the farm shift for it.
self. This might be profitably done in
some cases and in some sections but in
the majority Of cases it would be suicidal.
There are many farms In the country on
which corn is the main crop. A man may
have fifty to 100 acres in corn and make a
crop of thirty or forty bushels FER acre
while If he had twenty acres in corn he
could readily increase his yield and, PEI
haps, put the balance into meadow and
make much more actual profit with much
less work than he did on the larger area.
Here is an instance OF where he would
gain by the change. On the other hand
he might turn one-half of the fifty acres
into truck garden stuff and by reason of
the added expense for help and fertilizers
and his distance from market make less
money and do more work than he did on
the fifty acres in corn even with the low
crop average. The mater of a reduction of
the cultivated area. must needs be looked
q SloSSly dIiO IL LIS Slldll6c . luddS,
do it on the lines which will increase the
profit and reduce the labor n expense
else 1t is not a profitable move.
FEEDING GREEN BONE.
There is some misconception regarding
the use of bone for poultry. Much dry
ground bone is used which is of little value
to the poultry. On the other hand the
green cut bone, which is readily broken
into pieces suitable for the poultry to con-
sumo, by the use of the bone mill, sup
plies .ne fowls with considerable nitrogen
GUS food in addition to furnishing the al
bumen for the eggs and the lime for the
shells SO that, in winter, when the fowls
cannot get the necessary materials for
these purposes III the range, the green
bone Is absolutely necessary to them for
best results if one is looking for eggs. In
addition, the cost is very small for bones
can be had from the local butcher, as a
rule, az little or M cost SO that the ex-
pense is the cost Of the mill and the la
bone is fed in your hennery this winter if
you would get proper egg returns.
WINTER FEEDING OF SWINE.
Some people feel hat it makes no diff
ference where or how the hogs are fed
provided they have enough feed. This is
not logical reasoning for unless the swine
are fed in a manner and in a place SO that
they can eat comfortably the food does
not benefit them as it would under other
conditions. When cool weather begins we
arrange our troughs under cover and place
them on one side of a platform raised sew
eral inches from the floor care being taken
not to get them too high or the hogs will
slip In getting up particularly as they get
heavy. The idea of the platform is tina
after they have finished feeding they will
get down on the lower level where the
bedding is and where there is more room.
In this way there is little opportunity to
soil ,le troughs, we place them a little
high so that the heavy hog would be some
what troubled to get its feet In the trough,
and nothing to tempt them to stay on the
platform after they have finished eating.
Troughs placed in the manner described
also give one an opportunity to keep them
much cleaner than would be possible in
any other way. The plan is worth looking
into and few hog houses are so arranged
that they cannot be planned to provide
for this manner of feeding.
MAN AND WOMAN FARM COM
FORTS.
1t must be confessed that on many farms
throughout the country the man plans
things as far as possible so that his work
can be conveniently done and with as
little labor as possible. This is very prop
err and 1t is c~ommendable If he will also
plan the house SO that his wife will nave
convenience as well. A man does not
dream of the number of steps a woman
takes in a day In caring for ner house.
From dining room to Kitchen and back
perhaps fifty times a day: to the garden
to the well, to the outbuildings, up stairs
and down cellar over and over again. 1t
Is as hard or harder than blowing all day
and yet few of us men think so. Often
times a little Encouragement of the rooms,
n at small expense would solve the
whole problem. Here are a few small, in
the sense that they cost little either in
time or money, improvements which viii
save the wife steps. Place range. sink and
work table as close to each other as pos
slble without risk Of humping into one or
the Other. Have tile entrance to the cell