Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1907-10-03
III FARM
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Second growth clover makes splen-
did pasturage for young pigs
Put your confidence in good man
agement rather than in the veterina-
rian.
The pigs should have access to a
box containing salt, charcoal and sui
phur.
Horses will do better If given the
run of a small yard adjoining the
stable.
Cut the old canes out of the rasp-
berry patch and give the young canes
chance to mature.
Exposure to the hot sun Of the
summer is bad for hogs. Provide
some kind of shelter.
Mild cases OF diarrhoea in pigs can
be relieved by feeding fresh skinned
milk thickened with wheat -four.
A great deal of fruit can be grown
on very small plot Of ground If it
is well fortified and cultivated.
The health of the steer requires
good air and good feed; the air all the
time and the feed at regular periods.
Don't be a pessimist. Look on the
bright side of things. Matters turn
out better than we think they will,
generally.
1t is a good rule to purchase a new
boar as often as the sows have passed
their prime and are replaced by the
offspring of the old boar.
Planting cherry trees in the fence
corners is all right if care is given
them, but any fruit tree left TO shift
for itself will not return profit.
You will rest better after your hard
days work If you make the horses
comfortable by rubbing them dow
when putting them up for the night.
Free range hogs are generally mcrs
hearty and vigorous than the penned
ones. They do we'll in the COW pes-
ture and follow up the COWS with good
| results.
An advocate of tile drainage de-
clares his experience proves that it
| pays ten per cent on the Investment
and will return the principal in FIVE
years if the work is properly doEe.
The low-wheeied wagon ha,, it's uses
on the farm, but remember that the
lower the wheel the more times it has
to turn to get there, and for this yea
son the low wheeler is not good
road wagon.
Have you been so much interested
in the matter Of your field crops as
to have forgotten and neglected the
wood lot? Don't let any kind Of trees
grow there, but pick the trees which
make the best fre-wood.
Just send batch of vegetables
from your garden to your neigrScr
who did not have time, as he sails
to plant garden. Perhaps it will
make him repent of his folly and lead
him to make good resolutions for the
year to come.
In the grading of hogs fol the mar
ket reports it is the general rule that
the packing hogs are of a class that
are of poorer grade than the butcher
hogs, and they may include old brood
sows and all other hogs, except the
poorer classes, such as roughs, hoars,
and coarse stays that are heavy
enough for this class, and not good
enough for the butcher hog class.
Tenant farming may bring profit to
the tenant, but it works ill to the farm
nine times out of ten To be sure
there are good ard bad tenants, but
human nature is the same everywhere
and the farm which tt4e man does not
own is not going to receive the care
which the owner would give it. The
tenant is interested in the farm only
to the extent of paying his renal and
realizing as large profit as IL pos
, sible.
Feeding and breeding are closely re
lated Some eGperimenters have
found that when sows are fed very
sparingly or on improper kinds of foot
for some time before the breeding sea
son, it is often difficult to gat them Il
breed and the individuals in the litser
are generally pretty irregulas hotl
as to size and yigor. On the ale
hand, sows that are fed bountity.r
before narrowing usually breed Wit;
out difficulty, producing large and un,
form filters. OF course during thes
experiments the sows were fed a SUI!
able balanced ration and were giyel
y,1aptv of ayaroica