Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1907-01-16

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If possible. select your brood sowt
when the pigs are or 6 months old
Sunshine, crude carbolic acid ant
air-slaked lime will keep the hogpen.
sweet.
Fowls that get little charcoal and
a few sunflower seeds once or twice q
week Will have red combs and bright
plumage.
You cannot make low-headed horse
look toppy and stylish by refining with
a tight rein, nor improve the style of O
lofty-headed fellows appearance.
Heaves, frequent coughing and diff
Guilty In breathing In horses, can nearly
always be traced to feeding dry, dusty
hay. Dampen all hay now before feed.
ing.
1t is about time for some faker to
bob up with some new variety Of alfal-
ia with wonderful qualities. A variety
that will do well anywhere and live on
anything.
1t is estimated that an active man
and active boy can attend to fifteen
COWS. These on fifty acres of land near
good town ought to make for him a
good living.
A dozen good fowls will furnish more
eggs than the average family requires,
and will leave surplus fer pin money.
Think what 1t costs to buy absolutely
fresh eggs all the year round!
The advertiser Of breed not only
lays the foundation for paying busl-
ness for himself, but helps boom his
breed and his association, and thereby
Indirectly benefits his brother breeder.
When a farmer sells a horse he
must give guarantee. When the
same farmer buys nursery stock he has
to wait until the trees come into bear
ing to see whether he has what he
bought.
The woman with a gasoline stove
and the farmer with gasoline engine
have all of sudden discovered that
the demand for gasoline by automobiles
has caused it to slide up notch or
two in price.
A thorough farmer can get more out
Of the scrub than scrub farmer can.
As rule that kind of farmer does
not keep the scrub any longer than he
can help. A scrub farmer will soon
make scrub out of pure-bred ami
NAL.
Hogs shipped into the stock yards
show the result of too much inbreeding
by careless farmers. who reason that 1t
does not pay to get new boar each
year while they have one which will
breed, and they lose enough in litter
or two to pay for new sire.
Breeding at random and repenting
at leisure has run Its course-at least
1t should have by this time. 1t is now
in order that less time and money be
spent on this, or that or the other
breed and more attention be paid to
the Individual animal.
A camel can easily carry weight
Of one thousand pounds on its back,
about four times as much as horse
can carry. The camel begins work at
the age of 4 and is useful for half a
century; the horse, as n rule, is nearly
played out at the age of 10.
Moving down strawberry tops just
after fruit has been gathered is prac-
ticed on many rich soils to cause the
plants to stool out more vigorously
and q retard runners. This iis, some
times followed by a hin dirt cnrarInr.
to further encourage stooling.
| An exchange remarks that what is
known in the market MS channels skin
Is really obtained sheep skin Innings
The supply of real channels is very lin
tied, and all there Is in the world
would not supply the United States fol
single day." Another decided score
for the sheep!
The free seed delivery has done some
good in the world after all. The agri-
cultural department at Washington
brought us sorghum from China, and
kafir corn has been given the semi-arld
country of the Southwest. MacaronI
wheat has been brought from Russia
and Japanese rice from Japan.
Now come the news that food adult.
Grafton is practiced in Germany jus,
as extensively as in this country. Tina,
Is awful after that country refusing ou1
pork products. 1t Is presumed that
Germany wants to do Its own adulter.
ating. The number of prosecutions fol-
adulterating food in Germany have In
creased from 400 to 5000 in 1908
| Who'd thought 1t?
More money may be made from or
chards on thin land when the trees are
set close, twenty to twenty-five feet
apart, than when only half that many
are set. The trees shade the groun6
better, and heat and drought will mo-
do as much damage us when the great
er part Of the ground is exposed to, tn,
sun to burn up the humus and dry tn,
moisture out of the soil.
When snow is on the ground, rab
bits have hard time securing food
and will eat anything that will pre-
vent starvation. 1t is then they girdl,
trees and do damage which is not with
in the power of the farmer to repair
Smearlng the trunk with blood or wrap
ping the trees with tarred paper o
mosquito netting two feet from tn
ground serves as protection.
/ For twenty years the Ohio Experl
ment Station produced an average n