Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1907-04-03
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W. FARM
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Use kerosene oil for scaly legs.
Green cut bone, let US repeat,
makes hens lay.
Poultry like variety in food, just
like humans.
Old hens are better than pullets for
Matching purposes.
Cleaner quarters for the poultry will
lessen the bacterial troubles.
1t is not wise to plant too many va
rieties If you are to do commercial or
charding.
Thorough stripping lessons the
number of bacteria to be found in
the milk at the next milking
Cut out the star boarders from your
herd. Many COW does not pay for
it's keep
Silage is not considered suitable
feed for the brood mare, being too
laxative.
Remember, too much care cannot be
given to the selection and preparation
of seed.
While cattle may be successfully
graZed on rape, it is better for sheep
and hogs.
Look hard after those rubbish heaps
which have accumulated about the
house and barn.
AS general principle it is better to
hold to one breed and to patiently
breed up for better layers and strong
er birds.
AS farmers seed is so shall his
crop be, for he cannot get away from
the solemn fact that whatsoever he
soweth, that shall he also reap.
1t is not the cattle on thousand
hills, but the cattle on our own one
hill which should be our chiefest con-
Germ.
Paint woodwork of horse manager
with tar to stop gnawing. The tie
rope may also be smeared with the tar
If the horse is In the habit of biting it.
II the money some folks spend in
inn Nxri11 &c, Il
ing tame oats, what profitable crop
might be harvested.
Don't accept as final authority in
management and treatment of poul-
try the instructions of numerous ad-
vertising poultry books
When the farmer has progressed
far enough to see the wisdom of u.s.
ing a pure-bred sire he will be con-
tent no longer with the old slip shod
methods.
To give that boy the best education
you can in the line of business he is
to follow is to give him an equipment
for life which he will appreciate more
and more as the years unfold.
No farmers son who is to follow
the high calling of his sire should be
denied the fullest preparation which
the agricultural college can give him
for his life's work
During the days you cannot do any,
thing else improve the moments in
replenishing the woodpile. The rush
OF spring work prevents such work.
Shame to make it necessary for the
women folks to chop the fuel.
Prof. Forbes, Illinois state entomol.
ogist, has no word of commentator
for the English sparrow, but he est
mates that the meadowlark as an in
sect destroyer is worth 90 cents a
year to the farmer. Worth protecting
don't you think?
What kind of poultry shall one
keep? That depends. If you are rails.
ing poultry for market you want the
table fowl; If for egg production you
want some one of the great laying
breeds; il for family use only, you
want the general purpose fowl.
BY careful breeding the Maine ex
pertinent station has increased the
average yield Of it's hens from 12C
eggs per year to LA eggs per year
No female has been used in the breed
ing pens for six years whose mother
did not lay at least 160 eggs in hel
pullet year. No males have beer
used as breeders unless their mothers
laid above 200 eggs per year.
The feeding of the heifer is an i'm
portant factor in developing her dairy
qualities. The food should be rich Ii
ash to make bone and rich In protein
to make muscle and blood. If fed toe
b. -. r.