The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-01-03

1t requires as mucn leeu anu care
to keep scrubs as first-class animals,
and as the improved animal will ma
tnre earlier and bring better prices,
the scrub cannot necessarily compete
when profit is the object
A business must stand or fall on
the merits of it's chief product; the
by-products may pay more or less, but
the business is not conducted for the
sake of the by-products. Dairying is
no exception to this rule.
High-priced labor cannot be made TO
count OH low-priced land. On low
priced land the owner must perform
his own labor. At all times it will De
necessary TO keep the cost of produc-
ton down as low as possible.
One of the greatest troubles in feed
Ing poor grain is not so much in the
loss, as compared with good grain. but
in the fact that overheated or musty
grain causes many of the diseases
which ordinarily affects fowls.
E. L. Stewart, owner of an orchard
near Prosser, south of Spokane, sold on
an average of S44O worth of apples
from each acre of his fifty-acre tract.
In one instance he secured between
1000 and 5000 boxes of apples off six
acres
Occasionally horse will form a
habit Of chewing the ends of the halter
strap and such other parts of the har-
ness as he has access to- Equal parts
of cayenne pepper and fish oil applied
to such straps will cure the worst
strap chewer.
Pigs will begin to eat with the sows
when two or three weeks old. If get
ting plenty of exercise, it will not hurt
them to crack a little corn But the
ideal feed is skim milk and shorts in
the form of a thin slop. 1t will make
them grow and not get overfat.
Lambs should be weaned at about
3 months and put on fresh clover pas
ture. Each day some grain should be
given in the trough, to make growth
and overcome the check that might be
caused by weaving. One or two good
quiet ewes left with the flock will keep
the lambs quiet.
The two-row cultivator is here to
stay, and is one of the implements that
hurries up the cultivation when the
hay Is getting ripe. A field of corn
that can be cultivated In one day has
the advantage over field which re-
quires two to go over it. To the corn
grower this is evident.
Recent reports tell of the great
spread of the San Jose scale This
rrinous pest will sweep away the trees
wherever community neglects it and
permits it to spread. 1t is possible to
check ii, and while the checking may
be costly, it is far less costly than is
the destruction of the fruit and other
trees.
Some breeders claim that chickens
from eggs laid earliest in the season are
the most likely to live and thrive after
Matching. 1t Is claimed that continu-
Gus laying enfeebles the hens system to
such an extent that the later eggs In the
spring litters are not so well endowed
with yigor.
Horse breeding is being greatly en-
couraged by the government in japan.
and $4,000 has lately been made
available by the Mikado's government
for the establishment of public studs
at various points in the island empire.
and jt is proposed to begin at once the
purchase of 1,5OO stations to be placed
in these public depots.
Poultry and dairy farming are a good
combination. In these days of improved
dairy methods when the cream is sep
arated from the milk Immediately after
being drawn from the COW, the dairy
farmer has plenty of skim milk. which
Is an Ideal food for poultry, and there
is more money in feeding it to the hens
than to the hogs.
Pumpkins are good feed for lambs
In the fall. especially when they are
troubled with paper skin. caused by
them if they are sliced or cut and
sprinkied with salt. but 1t is better 10
provide fiat-bOttomed trOughs. with
compartments each being large enough
to receive the half of a pumpkin cut in
such fashion as to have the pieces lie
fiat, with the inside uppermost
Parasites develop rapidly and should
never be allowed to exist if possible.
as the sooner the work of stamping
out the cause of the disease Is done.
the less labor required. Minute fungi
should be carefully sought and fought
with the spraying mixtures. The spores
increase so rapidly that a days 6>lay
may result in heavy loss. Each form
has its own habits, requiring prompt
and hasty work for it's suppression.
Nearly all plant diseases are the re-
suit Of fungus growth
To give a horse a drench, place a
stout rope in his mouth and around up
per Jaw. Back him up in a stall or
corner. Throw loose end of rope over
beam overhead and let another man
hold 1t taut or loose as required. Stand
On box and lift horses head up. Take