Sharp County record., 1907-05-03
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count on the harvest.
Where you have an abundance OF
manure top dress the grass land.
Feed the concentrates with the
more bulky foods to get the best re-
suits.
Disk the corn land at every OPP
portunity. 1t will tell on the crop
you grow.
If you do not use dill in sowing
the oats, SOW after the first disking
of the soil and then disk agaia,
The COWS are the best judges as to
the amount of salt which they need
Have a lump in box where they can
get at it.
Choose carefully the mother Of
your chicks, for they have a right to
be well born, hence the wild hen has
no place as hatcher.
The commission business is all
right II the man with whom you are
dealing is honest Make sure Of this,
but sell direct when you can.
A piece of ground which is foul can
be cleaned in no easier way than to
SOW oats and clover in the early
spring Not too late to do 1t, if done
at once.
Success comes to the farmer as it
does to the business man by planning
the work and then bringing every
available resource to bear upon work
ing out the plan.
You may get little free paint on
your barn or other outbuildlngs or
the fence, by letting II to some ad.
yertising agency, but it makes your
place look cheap and unsightly Don't
do IT,
Five essentials to the welfare Of
chicks. Remember them. First of all
they must be kept warm and dry,
and then have sufficient food Of the
right kind, plenty Of pure water and
fine grits.
When among the stock always keep
the eyes and ears open for ideas and
information. Make II a point to In.
vestigate anything out of the ordinary.
Many trouble can be nipped in the
bud by timely attention.
The rust on the plow moldboard did
not make the work any easier this
spring, now, did Il? few minutes
last fall In coating with grease would
have made things so easier this
spring. Remember this when you put
up the implement next fall
A good feed for young pigs is rec.
commended as consisting Of two parts
middlings, two parts cornmeal, and
to every pound OF this mixture add
IN feeding one or two pounds Of skim
milk OIL meal can be used also 10
good advantage, using little In each
feed.
Mold on the walls and cement floor
OF damp cellars can be kept down by
washing with blue yitriol solution,
one pound TO Ave gallons of water.
Formalin, one pound 10 ten gallons,
will also prove effective or a white.
wash In which al ounce Of corrosive
evblimate 70 Ave gallons has been
placed, will do the work.
Some one who has II figured ont
says that hen 20 be profitable 20
farmer should give him n profit OF
one dollar per year, When Il IL re.
membered that the farm hen picks up
practically all her living Il Is not
hard TO find the dollar profit which
she makes for the farmer together
with a large surplus as extra good
measure.
The amendments 20 the denaured
alcohol law passed by the last con.
grees 10 into effect next September,
md will undoubtedly operate 10
greatly cheapon t. FOrmen who wish
will be able 70 produce Il on q small
scale by dietllling IN a suitably locked
still, and may have II denaturod with.
out the expense Of bonded ware,
house, The provisions allowing the
transportation Of donatured alcohol In
tank cars should also materially re.
duee lie cost TO the consumer
The statement that good COW may
be worth az much as 10 ordinary cows
sounds pretty big, but here are the
facts given by dairy expert 10 prove
g. In one herd that was tested a
profit Of $3.50 per COW per year was
realized, and In another herd The prof.
Il was $3.50 per COW per year. or In
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