The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1907-07-04
WI FARM
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Poor seed always demands a dis
count on the harvest.
Where you have an abundance OF
manure top dress the grass land.
Feed the concentrates with the
more bulky foods to get the best re-
suits.
Disk the corn land at every op-
portunity 1t will tell on The crop
you grow.
II you do not use a drill in sowing
the oats. SOW after the first disking |
OF the soil and then disk again.
The cows are the best judges as to
the amount of salt which they need.
Have lump In box where they can
get at 1t.
Choose carefully the mother OF
your chicks, for they have right to
be well born hence the wild hen has
no place as a hatcher
The commission business Is all
right IL the man with whom you are
dealing is honest Make sure of this
but sell direct when you can.
A piece of ground which is foul can
be cleaned in no easier way than to
| SOW oats and clover In the early
| spring Not too late to do 1t, IL done
| at once.
Success comes to the farmer as 1t
| does to the business man by planning
the work and then bringing every
available resource to bear upon work
ing out the plan.
You may get a little free paint on
your barn or other out-buildings or
the fence, by letting it to some ad-
vertising agency, but 1t makes your
place look cheap and unsightly Don't
do 1t.
Five essentials to the welfare of
chicks. Remember them. First of all
they must be kept warm and dry
and then have sufficient food OF the
right kind, plenty of pure water and
fine grits.
When among the stock always keeT
the eyes and ears open for ideas anc
information Make 1t point to In
vestigate anything out of the ordinary
Many trouble can be nipped in the
bud by timely attention.
The rust on the plow moldboard die
not make the work any easier thi:
spring, now, did it? A few minutes
last fall in coating with grease would
have made things go easier thi'
/ spring. Remember this when you pu
/ up the implement next fall.
, A good feed for young pigs is rec
; commended as consisting of two part
] middlings, two parts cornmeal, AM
. to every pound of this mixture adj
: in feeding one or two pounds OF skin
r milk. Oil meal can be used also :
Q good advantage, using little In eac
feed.
y Mold on the walls and cement foo
. of damp cellars can be kept down b
: washing with blue vitriol solution
one pound to five gallons cf watel
!. Formalin, one pound to ten gallon.
will also prove effective, or white
Z | In, xtb N nf pnrrnSiy
sublimate to five gallons has bee
placed, will do the work.
Some one who has II figured OF
!, says that a hen 10 be profitable to
!. farmer should give him profit {
u one dollar per year. When 1t is r
membered that the farm hen picks u
l. practically all her living 1t is NJ
Z; hard to find the dollar profit whic
n she makes for the farmer. togeth'
L with a large surplus as extra goc
IS measure.
II The amendments to the denaturt
o alcohol law passed by the last co
'r gress go into effect neyt Septembe
n and will undoubtedly operate
r greatly cheaper 1t. Farmers who wis
'r will be able to produce 1t on sms
y scale by distilling in suitably locke
sr still, and may have 1t denatured wit
g out the expense OF a bonded war
'r house. The provisions allowing Il
$. transportation of denatured alcohol
ID tank cars shonld also materially I
n duce its cost to the consumer.
t. The statement that a good COW ms
Dr. be worth as much as 19 ordinary Gov
70 sounds pretty big, but here are Il
r facts given by dairy expert to pro-
~ It: In one herd that was tested
ID profit of $4S50 per COW per year wi
n realized, and in another herd the pro
~ it was $3.50 per COW per year. or
ID other words. COW from the good he
ie was worth over 10 times as much
10 one from the inferior herd and w
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