Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1906-11-16
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Keeping the skin Of the work horses
clean. enables them to sweat freely
and thus is essential to their health.
The true type of a dairy COW is that
which furnishes the most and best
OF any commercial products at the low
est cost.
Do not undertake to keep too many
hens at IL time. 4 few well cared for
Is better than a large number left to
look out for themselves.
Get rid Of the surplus horses that are
not growing into money. There is no
advantage in keeping enough extra
horses to eat all that useful mes earn.
1t is rather poo economy to cram
80 cents worth of drugs down the
throat Of q sick chicken that would not
be worth over Il quarter, if it were
well.
1t is the hungry hog that is always
looking for Il break in the fence. 1t is
the chicken eating sow that should nev-
er be bred. Her kind will not pay for
the raising.
Some people seem to regard it 4
pleasant surgical operation to eat
their heads Off" and they feel it is not
expensive to keep stock that Will do
that same thing.
Regularity costs no more than irreg-
ularity and it means much in the
management of stock. Stock have no
timepiece, but it wonderful how they
can tell when feeding time is at hand.
Without exercise, it is impossible for
the muscles of young horses to develop,
hence the necessity of u good-siZed field
for them to run in. If you would have
horses with endurance. give the colts
a chance to develop their muscles.
Good sense and docility as well as
lack OF sense and ~trcachery are mat-
tiers OF transmission by Inheritance.
This is true of ailments, habits Of
action, disposition and all those things
which 90 to make a good or bad horse.
A cavalry authority in Belgium est
mates that there are more than S.O0O,-
900 horses In the world. There are o.
00O,O 900 in Russia, while Germany and
Austria-Hungary each has more than
the British isles, where it Is reckoned
there are about 100000. .
It is usually the hired help that
watch the clock that complain most
of bad luck, hard times and lack Of ap-
probation on the part of their en-
ployers. The kind who don't watch
the clock have little time to complain,
and even less inclination to do S {.
Farmers and gardeners in the yicin-
Ity Of Bennington, vt, are sustaining
large losses as the result Of the inroads
Of Belgian hares, which are the Off
spring Of pairs of these animals which
were turned loose when this craze sub
sided some three or four years ago.
In securing u good supply Of eggs the
Inborn tendency of heavy laying is an
important point. 1t is a tendency
which goes in certain strains the same
as in certain families OF cattle, and
without it no amount of skillful care
and feeding will produce the best re-
suits. ,tr
The largest individual wool clip ever
grown ON the American continent was
shipped from Billings, Mont, to a Bos'
ton firm. The clip weighed 100000
pounds, and forty-four cars were re-
CURED to carry it. The owner refused
an offer Of "a cents 4 pound for the
wool.
Let the farmer who wants good colts
select the best grade mares and breed
them annually to one good type Of
horse. OF course, the quality of the
dam always has more or less influence
upon the progeny, but 10 matter how
good or how poor the mother, the best
sire obtainable Is none too good.
Indiana has a fertilizer law which Is
aimed to protect the farmers and gar
deners within her borders. It provides
that fertilizers offered for sale shall not
only bear the inspection label OF the
state chemist, but shall give the per-
centages Of the ingredients which they
contain, SO that the purchaser may tell
at a glance what he is buying.
From observations made with a num-
Der Of hens it was found that in every
instance the eggs were moved every
day and did not remain in he same
part of the nest more than three days.
The thorough amer in which the hen
turns the eggs MAJ vel! furnish us q
cIew to the most natural treatment of
the eggs when under the artificial con-
ditions OF the Incubator.
In Missouri, where sheep or domestic
animals are killed or manned by dogs,
the owner Of such animal may recover
against the owner or keeper of such
dog or dogs the full amount Of dam
ages, and the owner shall forthwith
kill such dog or dogs; and for every
day he shall refuse or neglect to do so
after notice, he shall pay and forfeit