The Elbert County tribune., 1907-12-05
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storing for winter.
Frequent watering of the horse when
on the road is a good rule.
Poor practice that of feeding the
sheep on the ground, out of doors.
The care the brood SOW receives is
skill.
The straw stack is good asset
See that it is built to withstand the
weather.
There is growing demand for the
midwinter lamb. Have you ever made
any effort to supply 1t?
y Verify, happy is the farmer who
can think of yesterday without re-
grets and of tomorrow with hope.
Feed and care are the price of eggs.
Can't get the latter without giving
the former. especially in the winter
time.
Pick the brood sows from the ami
mails which show a kindly disposition.
The nervous SOW does not make a
good mother.
The best butter comes from the
best cream and the best cream comes
from the cows which get the best
haf
Is the territory Immediately under
your own hat well governed? Remem-
ber he that ruleth his own spirit is
greater than he that taketh city.
Grade your apples for market. The
best will bring a better price, and the
others will sell just as well as though
the selects were mixed in with them.
Weigh the stuff you sell off the farm
and weigh that which you buy for
use on the farm. 1t is only as you
, do so that you can sell intelligently
and buy safely.
Be gentle in your treatment of the
poultry. If they fly from you 1t is the
plainest kind of an Indictment that
something is wrong with your meth
, DDS of handling them.
Do not commit the folly Of trying
to winter more stock than you have
feed for. At this late day better get
rid of the surplus even at sacrifice
than try to carry through to spring
On scant rations.
The dairy farm cannot get away
from the Sunday work. But then 1t
is possible to do much of the work.
outside of the milking Of the cows,
On Saturday or Monday. The effort
should be to reduce the work on Sun
day to the minimum
Pushed the horse hard to get in
ahead of the storm. That was looking
out for your comfort. After you are in
ook out for the faithful animals COM
fort. Rub him off as dry as you can
and blanket lightly until he has
steamed off, then put on heavier
blanket.
1t is probable that the selection of
che higher ears for seed corn tends
.owards increased size and later ma
.urity, as also the selection of ex-
:remely low ears tends to reduce the
fize of the plant. shorten the growing
season and decrease the yield. A
nedium height, to be determined by
o. 1T 1oo d.,
20 be desired.
To prevent rabbits gnawing the
.rees of the orchard a wire netting
= can be wrapped about the trunks, or
wash either repulsive in taste or
poisonous can be used to coat the
.runks. A wash of two pounds of
,loes to eight gallons of water makes
good wash. 1t should be applied
,econd time during the winter. Rab-
pits and mice may be poisoned by
placing bits of vegetables about the
orchard on which has been placed a
mall amount of strychnine.
Save .he liquid manure above all
.hings. 1t contains great deal of
valuable fertilizer, many times more
han most farmers suppose. To save
his it is necessary to mix 1t with
. some absorbent material or have 1t
-un into a tank from which 1t can be
aiken to the fields. If allowed to re-
main in the tank in hot weather 1t
will undergo chemical changes which
will largely destroy the fertilizing
qualities. In winter this it not so
likely to occur, but there is always a
LANCER in keeping it, for the reason
mentioned. If kept in bulk It should
:. ,e put on the land as often as con-