The Elbert County tribune., 1907-05-23


the winning team on the farm
Corn diet for the ewes will make
them feverish and cause lack of milk.
The good-habit horse is easily spell
ed under the management OF the bad
habit man.
With all your planning for the work
of spring and summer don't forget to
plan for the harvest
A pint of strong cider vinegar and a
quart OF linseed oil make good fur
niture polish. Try it.
Look after the hog lice sharply when
hog cholera breaks out, for it is said
they spread the disease rapidly.
In sections of the country where the
soil is too poor for general farming
the poultry business can be conducted
successfully.
The choice of crops should be as
msoh a matter of deliberate, careful
planning as that of their planting, cul-
tivation and harvesting
Grass is as good for hogs as ii is
for cattle. Give them a pasture. and
thing by you in return.
II hilly ground is plowed crosswise
of the slope the chances for washing
under heavy rains is much decreased
over what it would be If the burrows
run up and down.
Does that collar fit? Perhaps it did
at the start but it needs readjustment
now. Attention to these little details
win give you larger return in serv-
ice from your team.
The separator must be kept clean
by washing thoroughly each time aft
er using. The slightest taint of foul
ness will affect all the milk and cream
that passes through it.
Horses at present prices are money
makers for the farmers who raise
them. Why not raise a few? Be par
ticular about the sire you use. Go far
to get the services of a good one.
The brooder that is handled right
is all right, to be sure, but there
never was a brooder invented which
could beat the old hen for motherli-
ness and thrift in rearing the little
chicks.
By .he way. how is your calendar
scrap book getting on? You ought to
be adding to it and you ought to be
jogging your memory from the clip
pings and memoranda you have put
therein.
Several professors in the Utah agr-
cultural college have resigned owing
to the action of the legislature of the
state in abolishing engineering from
the course of study. They felt it was
a backward step.
Here IS a point for the housewife to
remember when sweeping the caypet
Put a little kerosene upon salt and
then scatter over the carpet and
sweep. The dust will some up better
and not injure the carpet.
Land intended for parsnip growing
should be deeply and finely worked.
and supplied with liberal amount
of available plant food, so that the
Young plants will make quick, strong
start and strike down straight and
smooth.
Don't be afraid of the truth. Look It
squarely in the face, and if 1t is the
truth and you are wrong, acknowledge
1t and get right. Don't go on living in
error whether it has to do with farm
methods or the treatment of your
family Get right and then go ahead.
If you want to really know what
you can do with that bad piece of
road which lies alongside OF your
place, rig up road drag and spend
little time dragging the dirt up to
the center. One seasons faithful at
! tention at the right time will make
different road of it.
Is that same stone in the field on
which you broke your plow-point last
! year? And did you come within an ace
of doing the same thing this year? Jot
it down on your memorandum pad as
one of the jobs to be done at the first
opportunity and get that stone out of
the way.
Cement mixed with lime sulphur
wash to make 1t stick to the trees is
an innovation in the spraying line
which an orchardist in British Colum-
bia is said to be using. The plan is to
add four pounds of cement to each
so gallons of the spraying mixture.