Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1907-10-11
SIT the salt you use in the butter.

SIT the salt you use In the butter.
The chronic borrower Is a pest to
any neighborhood.
Weak food makes weak stock. This
Is especially Of colts.
| Sod blowing in the fall will help
kill out the white grubs.
Raise your own COWS and you can
mold their dispositions and their hab-
its, too.
Breed the sows early so that the
pigs will come in time to make good
growth.
Are all the tools cleaned and oiled
and put away from the sun and
storms?
Poor policy to shift the mixers. Let
the same man milk the same COWS
each time.
Salt and charcoal are essential to
the health of the livestock. Keep them
in the manger.
When purchasing a new tool mark
1t and assign it a definite place in
your tool house.
The forty-third annual meeting Of
theh National Wool Growers associa.
ton will be held at Salt Lake City
January 1919.
Mark your tools with your initials
so that if they are borrowed and not |
returned, there can be no question as
to ownership.
Dairy heifers should be fed largely |
on heterogeneous feed to keep them
growing and prevent the putting on of |
too much fat.
Any rapidly growing forage crop is
good to plant along the edge of |
bitches to prevent the banks from
washing. Alfalfa will prove exception.
ally good.
The best medicine for the sick hog
Is starvation. Stop feeding and ten
chances to one the ailment will disap.
pear and he will be ready to eat and
put on flesh.
Some one has remarked that there
Is more money in the dairy business
than has ever been worked out of 1t.
Why not plan to get a larger share of
this money?
Investigations by the Illinois ex.
pertinent station indicate that at
least one fourth of all the COWS in the
state are failing to return profit in
the milk pail.
Warm the cream to g. degrees be.
fore starting to churn and the butter
will come quickly. Test the cream oc.
casionally during the churning as
even temperature improves quality Of
the butter.
Get rid of the grafters among the
animals on the farm, whether it Is the
horse that won't do his share of the
work, the cow that eats more than she
produces, the scrubby sheep or the
slow fattening hog. And don't forget |
also that there are grafters among tie
poultry.
A poultry house punching bag for |
the encouragement of healthful exer.
else Is found in a head of cabbage
hung by a cord from the rafter and
about two feet from the floor. Try II |
and see the fun and remember that
every Jump at the cabbage head |
means increased profits.
Why shouldn't the farmer learn the
lesson which the big packers learned
years ago, that there Is untold wealth
In the wastes. What was thrown
away as absolutely worthless a few
years ago is now made to pay all the
operating expenses Of the big plants.
Hundreds of dollars of stuff goes to
waste on the farm every year. Study
TO utilize the waste and turn it into
Q profit.
Farmers throughout the country are
catching the spirit of the agricultural
experiment stations and entering the
Held OF plant breeding. It Is said
that not a mail passes through the
office Of Plant Introduction of the
agricultural department without a re-
quest from some enthusiast for some
new plant to be used in the creating
OF a new or the improving of an old
farm or garden crop.
Farmers In general who raise more
or less stock, and stock breeders in
particular, will be interested to learn
that an institute of animal nutrition
has been established at the University
OF Pennsylvania under the patronage