Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1906-02-07
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Remember that the good COW cannot
stand abuse. She must have good care.
Spirits Of turpentine may be used
with good results In curing coughs in
pigs.
II you cultivate your orchard prop
erly, you will not have to renovate 1t
so often.
1t costs no more to produce clean
milk or cream than 1t does to produce
the other kind.
Beauty in form and appearance is
not safe indication of the value of
SOW as breeder.
Keep the cows out of the corn fields
on cold or stormy days. 1t is expen-
sive feed they get.
1t is mistake to breed SOW too
young; she should be at least 8 months
DID, and - is better.
You should have hotbed and cold
frame, so that you can have fresh vege-
tables i'll April and May.
Give the seeds and plants plenty of
room to grow, SO that seeding will be
easy and tangling of vines impossible.
Roup starts simply as cold. Germs
seize upon the intlamed parts as good
home and then we get malignant, In
fectious type.
Look them over carefully, and select
closely; and send to the butcher every
animal that is not up to the standard
of excellence.
Fowls are valuable only when they
are handled with view to getting the
best there is in them. Once proved, n
fowl is valuable asset.
Nothing looks much better or pref
tier in summer than n well-kept hedge
fence. On the other hand nothing can
become greater nuisance than one
that has been poorly kept.
Sheep increase 30 rapidly and ma
ture at such an early age. and their
flesh is SO wholesome for food, that
on the majority of farms flock can
readily be made profitable.
Since no use can be made of sow's
milk 1t seems unwise to be in hurry
abolt weaving pigs when the moth
era milk supply is still good. The
sucking pig is making its lowest cost
| growth.
| There is shortage of horses and !
mules. The only remedy for this stu
| alton is for breeders to hold good ones
for high prices and breed the mares
more diligently. The former move is
the safest method.
1t is claimed that one sheep for
each COW can be kept with very lit
| tie if any additional expense as the |
sheep consumes much that the COW |
| will refuse. All the same sheep need
| good nutritious food, and pay for 1t. |
In every neighborhood there is at |
least one man who bears the reputa-
ton of being able to do the most work
\ in the least time of all his fellows. |
The reason usually lies in the fact
that his machinery is kept in perfect
4 repair and his methods are strictly up
| to-date
The discussion seems undated be-
tween the advocates of cultivation Of
fruit trees and leaving them in sod
Those on one side seem to have as
strong arguments as those on the
other. The probability is that for
young trees cultivation is the best, and
for old trees sod is just as good If not
better.
There will be no investment for
good blood on farm where the own
or does not believe in it. One has to
believe before he is convinced that it |
is good thing. The fact that there
IRE many scrub farmers trying to
keep good stock on scrub care is in
creasing the ranks of skeptics. Good
stock and good care 60 together.
The weight of the grain from an
acre of corn is about the same as the
weight of the cured fodder. Forty
bushels of corn should weigh about a
long ton, and the weight of the fod-
der will be nearly the same. There
may be variations sometimes. but one
can estimate very close to the weight
of the cured fodder by arriving at a
knowledge of the number of bushels
of corn from each acre.
The average American farmer would
marvel at some of the things eaten by
foreigners Laplanders mix earth with
their bread and Russian peasants use
crock -four Some poorer classes OF
Hungary actually eat earth. Seaweel
is sometimes used as a food from neces-
sity. Chinese are said to eat bird
nest SOUP" whatever that is. In Spain
the snail is luxury. Americans are
eating many things in the absence Of
pure food laws, that they have no de-
sire to eat.
A large pecan tree in Berrlen Coun-
ty, Ca, has spread of branches of
1913 feet. Its trunk at two feet above
the ground has a circumference Of II
feet, and Mt height Of five feet 1t
measures 01a feet around. 1t is said
to bear twelve to fifteen barrels of
nuts annually, and as they are of the
unmproved or common variety, they
never sell for less than Is cents
pound, and the crop brings from $40 to
800. The tree is supposed to be be-
tween sixty and seventy years old.