Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1906-03-28

| Late melting hens are as rule in
different winter layers.
Avoid shipping fowls to market in
crates that are too crowded for com
fort.
Honey is the saccharine liquid gath
cred by the bees from natural sources
and stored in their combs.
Potatoes are not the best food for
egg production. Balance them with
linseed meal, bran, clover, etc.
Sheep restore to the soil larger
proportion of the elements they take
from it in grazing than do any other
stock.
Parched corn, wheat or oats makes a
pleasant change in the diet of the hens.
Almost any change is relished by Bid
DIV, and is beneficial.
For scaly legs, which are the work
of minute parasite. an application
of SULPHUR and lard, once week, is
good. Scrub legs first.
Because sheep will make n better
use of poor pasture than will any
other stock do not try to raise them
on one that is absolutely bare.
The dust box Is necessary for the
fowls during the winter time If they
are to be kept free from lice. Nothing
is superior to road dust for this pur-
pose.
Disposition needs to bo considered
In hogs as well as in other stock.
The hog with short nose, thick head
and short body is liable to be quiet and
easy to manage.
For soft-shelled eggs, give hens more
exercise. Cut out corn and give vege-
tables In abundance. There is no medi-
cine worth trial. An injection of oil
into vent may relieve local inflamma-
ton.
Fowls should never be allowed to
run at large in the barn. They injure
the hay and oftentimes cover the eat
tie and horses with lice and mites.
They should have warm quarters by
themselves.
There is no need of being bothered
with chicken lice. Anything that will
kill lice on sheep. will also fix these
chicken pests. Then, dipping is SO
much more convenient and is attended
with less danger than greasing.
Breeding sheep are now so high that
1t really seems reckless to buy them !;
but, If it is, buy now or never, better
to buy few and make start. Sheep
on farm seem somehow to be evil
dences OF success and harbingers of
luck.
At no period in the history Of this
country have there been SO many new
candidates for admission to the ranks
of the sheep and wool raisers as to-day.
The sheep business seems to have a
greater fascination for men of all
classes than any other rural occupa-
tion.-Sheep Breeder.
The sheep has been intimately as
ISOLATED with man, probably longer
than any other animal. The wool and
flesh have been esteemed by the human
family probably as far back as any
records reach. Wooden goods are
known to have been made In Asia two
thousand years before the beginning of
the Christian Era
Under no circumstances must a
brood SOW and her pigs be shut in a
nasty, muddy pen" This Is the adj
vice Of very successful and expert
enced breeder to n beginner. Note
that no decent breeder ever treats his
fine brood cows that way, and why
not just MS well extend this common.
sense treatment to the "just plaiu
breed" or those of no breed at all.
More tanning mills are worn out by
hauling over the country in farm
wagons over rough roads than are worn
out in actual use. Many IRE permitted
4 to fall into disuse by neglecting the
sleeves which rust out easily. The best
place for the latter is in case made
expressly for them where they can be
kept dry and they should be given an
oil preparation occasionally. 1t Is bet
ter to own mill than to depend on
borrowing.
In this day of telephones 1t is de-
plorable condition when farmer goes
to town with n load of hogs to find that
they have declined in price from ten to
fifteen cents per hundred, and all be-
cause he has no phone. A man who
has no phone may feel independent.
but he Is most dependent ana Is at the
mercy of all who deal with him. He
is not in touch with his fellow farmers
or with the world. If person only
needed phone once 1t would pay
to put 1t in.
A dog is not the hest animal to send
after COW that is giving milk. When
accompanied by small boy with a
whip the condition has not been helped
any. A Nebraska man has been max
ing some tests of milk when COW
was warm and excited and at other
times. A COW being brought by dog
and a boy was very warm and excited
and her milk tested %. The next
morning her milk tested Al, and a
week later when she was brought up
by man and was perfectly cool, her
milk tested g..
Feed More Glover Hay.
AS rule, little clover hay is fed
to horses, largely because of the large
quantity of indigestlble material in it,
and this is correct, SO far as horses
actively at work are concerned, but
clover hay may be safely fed, with
other roughage, to horses doing little
or no work, and because Of the pro.
4 tein content in 1t, will materially re-
duce the quantity of concentrated food
needed. For feeding cows, calves, OF
even steers II NAV he used To preat