The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1907-08-26

The best farm hand Is the farmer
himself,
It's easy to be shiitless, but y
doesn't pay:
Raise poultry whether you Ike it o.
not and learn to like It
Fresh, clean water is essential to
hogs asst Is to other stock.
See that the collars at the horses,
and keep them soft by proper care
The best time to dock lambs Is
Keep ahead Of the weeds or It will
son.
Feed grain to the ewes in pasture
II extra growth on the lambs is de,
sired.
Regularity in the care Of farm an
finals has much to do with obtaining
the best results.
Never let the horse stand when
heated without blanketing no matter
how warm the weather.
1t takes more skill to market crop
profitably than it does to grow it at
least often times 1t does.
Broadcast rape in the corn after the
last cultivation and It will afford good
pasturage in the fall after the corn Is
cut. Il
You may not be able to afford q
new sanitary stable but you can al.
ford white wash which will make
the present stable more sanitary.
The sore places on your horse
should be kept clean by washing every
day with carbolated water and then
dressed with a little good tar oint.
ment.
Be sure that the new trees you set
this spring have no label wires left
about the trunks, as. they will cut
of the circulation of the tree and per:
haps KILT.
Turpentlne soaked rags fastened to
the horse manger will do much toward
curing the animal Of cough or dis.
temper, as he will have to inhale the
fumes Of the turpentine while he
feeds.
The lazy hen, 1t has been said,
bears the same relation to the hen.
merry that the lazy man does in the
community. The only difference Is
that the former does make good pot
pie, while the lazy man is good for
nothing.
Oats cut in the milk and cured as
hay makes the finest kind of hay. One
farmer says that last season his hay
crop being short he cut three acres
of oats for hay and found that the
stock ate it more greedily than any
other hay, and that it proved excep.
tionally good for his mich cows.
A successful asparagus grower says
he keeps rust out of his asparagus
and saves cultivation, by sowing two
bushels Of cow-peas to the acre at
the first cultivation after the cutting
season is over. The peas keep down
the weeds and shade the ground, but
do not Interfere with the growth Of
the asparagus. The pea and aspara.
gus stalks are left on the ground I'm!
til the following spring and then
burned Of.
There Is no doubt that there are
many portions of the country which at
the present time are practically unde.
veloped agriculturally which have q
great future before them, but do not
let the alluring advertisements Of
such localities turn your head. Re.
member that the man who has writ.
ten them has something he wants To-
sell, and that he may be just stretch
ing It a little. Go slow In considering
a change Of location. Don't sell the.
old farm and rush on to thelnew locas
ton. Investigate first, Inspect the
land personally, and then don't make
the move until after, the sober second
thought 88
Nearly all sheep have worms In the
liver, but they do no harm unless
they are in such numbers as to cause
sickness and death. The treatment
for sheep thus afflicted is tonic,
made up as follows: Linseed meal
or, coarse wheat flour, 40 pounds
powdered anlse or gentian, and sui.
phate or oxide Of iron, four pounds
each; half a pint daily to each sheep.
In all treatment 1t is necessary to re.
move the affected animals to a per.
feotly dry pasture or salt marsh, on
either OF which the parasites will per.
ish To turn them on fresh pasture
that IA not dry, is to stock 1t with the