The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1907-02-14
Sour milk helps nll the egg basket

Try the dairy thermometer. Don't
cost much and II Is a labor vel.
Ugly tempers in colts are devel
oped by careless and harsh currying-
The automatic chicken farm is only
a dream. You must work II you would
get eggs and healthy chickens.
Fall apples are good for the cow
Put up and mixed with the grain ~
ton increases the value of both.
Secretary Wilson says give Tho
boys better training In agriculture and
they won't be so apt to leave the farm.
Dry corn cobs make a good starter
for fires. Try them. Don't forget, too.
that charred corr cobs are a good COR
dition feed for the hogs.
The title of p. +. practical Farm
er)is one which can be earned only
by thought, time, study, hard work
and expenditure of some money.
Montana sheep growers have organ
lied the Montana Wool Growers assu-
citation, which includes a wool-selling
company with a capital of $500, 900.
The abandoned farm Is bad enough,
but how about the abandoned or
chards and the abandoned gardens on
the farms that are not abandoned.
A windmill and a system of under
ground pipes will lessen the work OF
distributing water for the stock. Don't
do by manual labor what you can do
by machinery 1t doesn't pay.
Lots OF good ICED corn, you say.
but IL is still in the shock! Remem-
Der. that one good, selected seed corn,
hanging by the husks in a cool, airy
place Is worth nine In the shock.
Verify, one egg differeth from an
other in accordance with the differ
ence of the food out Of which the hen
has manufactured the egg. Quality OF
egg depends upon quality of food.
When you let iirefang in the man
ure, caused by drying out and burn
ing from the heat caused by fermen-
tation, you are losing part of the
nitrogen, a very valuable element.
The two essentials to the success
full wintering of bees are plenty of
naturally arranged stores and plenty
of young bees. Some protection +
the outside of the hive is desirable.
An English gardner writes that his
plot of ground measures about 30 feet
by 9 feet, and at a cost of Is cents has
produced two pecks of peas, so round
beets, 33 pounds of beans, and 80
pounds of tomatoes 1902 in number.)
IL your horse Is troubled with
heaves do not feed too much hay.
Give more oats and water before feed
ing. Do not work hard for an hour
after feeding, and do not expect too
much from such a horse. Wei food ID
best-and keep the bowels open.
Lumber even at the present high
prices Is cheaper than food. Lumber
put into sheds for cattle protection In
a permanent improvement, but II you
depend on feed to keep them warm
you will have to keep giving 1t and
will have nothing to show for 1t in
the end.
Experiments In dry land farming in
the arid district near Caldwell, Idaho,
will be made by Prof. H. r. French.
Of the Idaho agricultural college at
Moscow. He has a tract of 800 acres
in the sage brush country, so acres OF
which is being plowed for dry farm
ing; the rest will be irrigated this
winter. The experiment will be in
grains, vegetables and ornamental and
forest trees.
A new method of killing tree borers
Is mentioned by the American Agri-
culturist and nay prove of interest
and value to readers of Meadow
brook Farm Notes: "Bisulphide OF
} carbon may be injected into holes
} where the insects are at work. The
best injector is a metal or small cheap
glass syringe, or a small machine-oil
can. About a t~easpoonful of bisul-
phide of carbon is sufficient for each
} hole, IL injected with some force.
After injection, the holes should be
plugged with grating wax. 1t would
be difficult to treat an entire tree By
this method, but the trunks and low
: er branches can be reached"
Next years weather accurately fore
} told presents an attractive idea to the
farmer, and If the aim of the govern
ment is realized we may find the ag-
riculturist of the future consulting his
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