Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1907-09-14


The best breeding sows are the long.
bodied animals.
Second growth clover makes splen'
did pasturage for young pigs.
Put your confidence in good man
agement rather than in the vet6rina-
rian.
The pigs should have access to
box containing salt, charcoal and sui
phur.
Horses will do better if given the
run of a small yard adjoining the
stable.
Cut the old canes out of the rasp-
berry patch and give the young canes
a chance to mature.
Exposure to the hot sun of the
summer is bad foT hogs. Provide
some kind of shelter.
Mild cases of diarrhoea in pigs can
be relieved by feeding fresh skinned |
milk thickened with wheat -four.
A great deal of fruit can be grown
on a very small plot of ground if it |
is we'll fortified and cultivated.
The health of the steer requires /
good air>and good feed; the air all the |
time and the feed at regular periods. |
Don't be d pessimist. Look on the |
bright side of things. Matters turn |
out better than we think they will, |
generally.
1t is a good rule to purchase new
boar as often as the sOws have passed |
their Prime and are replaced by the
offspring of the old boaS.
Planting cherry trees in the fence
corners is all right, if care is given
them, hut any fruit tree left to shift
for itself will not return a profit.
You will rest better after your hard
days work if you make the horses
comfortable by rubbing them down
when pRltting them up for the night.
Free range hogs are generally more |
hearty and vigorous than the penned
ones They do we'll in the COW pas
ture and follow up the COWS with good |
results.
An advocate of tile drainage de-
clares his experience proves that it
ho nj
and will return the principal in five
years if the work is properly done.
The low-wheeled wagon has it's uses
On the farm, but remember that the
lower the wheel the more times it has
to turn TO get there. and for this rea-
son the low wheeler is not a good
road wagon.
Have you been so much interested
| in the matter of your field crops as
to have forgotten and neglected the
wood lot? Don't let any kind of trees
grow there, but pick the trees which
make the best fire-wood.
Just send a batch of vegetables
from your garden to your neighbor
who did not have time, as he said,
to plant a garden. Perhaps it will
| make him repent OF his folly and lead
him to make good resolutions for the
| year to come.
In the grading of hogs for the mar
ket reports it is the general rule that
| the packing hogs are of a class that
are OF poorer grade than the butcher
| hogs, and they may include old brood
sows and all other hogs, except the
poorer classes, such as rOughs, bOars,
and coarse stays that are heavy
enough for this class, and not good
enough for the butcher hog class.
Tenant farming may bring profit to
the tenant, but it works i'll to the farm,
nine times out of ten. To be sure,
there are good and bad tenants, but
| human nature is the sa me everywhere,
and the farm which the man does not
own is not going to receive the care
which the owner wOE1d give it. The
tenant is interested in the farm only
to the extent of paying his rental and
realizing as large profit as is pos
sible.
Feeding and breeding are closely re-
| lated Some experimenters have
i found that when sows are fed very
sparingly or on improper kinds Of food
for some time before the breeding sea-
SON, it is often difficult to get them to
breed and the individuals in the filters
are generally pretty irregular both
| as TO size and Vigor On the other
hand, sows that are fed beautifully
before narrowing usually breed with
out dificulty, producing large and uni