Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1907-10-30
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Clean out the fence corners.
Erect ears in pig indicate an un-
quiet disposition.
Lice and disease go hand in hand
in the hen house.
Funny, but the COW gives up her
milk by giving it down.
Keep the troughs clean whether in
the pig pen or the sheep cote.
Bring up the boys to hustle for
themselves and they will turn out all
right.
Frosty nights and cold rains are
not the right kind OF conditions for
the stock.
Keep busy on your own place and
be content to let your neighbor run
his own affairs.
The essential points of large crops
is first good breeding. second good
feeding, third good care.
When first weaving the colts, feed
often, for they take food many times
day from the dam when sucking.
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you with all the vigor and intensity
of low temperature and deep SHOWS.
The milking of a cow the first year
determines her future milking value.
Important then who handles her, isn't
IL?
: When the cows become thoroughly
chilled IL reacts upon the milk-giving
organs and cuts down materially on
the yield.
Secure the confidence of the dairy
COW by gentle, kindly treatment and
she will give a fuller, richer flow of
milk than when brutally handled.
Seed corn should never be stored in
a building containing live stock of any
kind for the reason that the moisture
given off by the animals will injure
it.
Look to the places in the barn roof
through which the rain drips and
close up the chinks in the sides
through which many a draft blows
upon the live stock.
Get all the fodder possible into the
barn or under other shelter before the
snow covers it, making it hard to get
in and putting it in poor condition to
feed to the live stock.
1t is not wise to let the brood sows
run together during the fall, as they
are apt to pile together cold nights
and this may cause loss of pigs.
Separate them a month before farrow-
ing.
Do you feed your poultry by guess
work, or do you estimate the amount
of food necessary to obtain the best
results? 1t is considered that about
four ounces of grain and meat feed is
the right portion for each hen per
day.
Ever have your neighbor bring back
the tool he had borrowed in broken
condition saying, You get it fixed and
I'll pay for it?" You are put to the
double trouble of making the repairs
and collecting the bill, besides being
deprived of the use of the tool until
il is fixed. Such a neighbor is a good
one to cut off the borrowing list.
Steers fed eight to ten pounds of
clover hay and 20 to 25 pounds of en-
silage daily, with all the ground ear
corn they will eat up clean twice q
day, should make satisfactory gains
1t will be necessary to accustom them
to the ground feed gradually; when on
full feed, they should eat 16 to 20
pounds a day and make gain of two
pounds daily.
Some Of the practical problems OF
the home and the farm, declares Prof
L. II. Bailey, should be added to man
nal training in country schools. How
to make a garden, to lay out paths
make fences and labels, are manual
training problems. How to saw a
board off straight, to drive a nail, e
make tooth for hand hay rake, tc
repair a hoe. to sharpen a saw, tc
paint fence, to hang a gate, to ad
just a pillow point, to mend a strap, tc
prune an apple tree, to harness q
horse-the problems are bewilderinl
from their very number. Manual train
ing can be so taught in the school:
that are equipped for II as In ter
years to start revolution in the agri
culture of any commonwealth.
Think how much good those heap,
of manure you have allowed to accu
mulate in the hen house would do II
the orchard and garden. IL is doins