The Delta independent., 1907-05-24
NlHA FARM
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Poor seed always demands q 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-
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 a 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 it, II done
at once.
Success comes to the farmer as it
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 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 keep
the eyes and ears open for ideas and
information. Make 1t n 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 did
not make the work any easier this
spring, now, did 1t? A few minutes
last fall in coating with grease would
have made things go easier this
spring Remember this when you put
up the implement next fall.
A good feed for young pigs is rec
commended as consisting of two parts
middlings. two parts cornmcal. and
to every pound OF this mixture add
In feeding one or two pounds of skim
milk. Oil meal can be used also to
good advantage, using a little in each
feed.
Mold on the walls and cement floor
of damp cellars can be kept down by
washing with blue vitriol solution,
one pound to five gallons of water.
Formalin, one pound to ten gallons.
will also prove effective. or Il white
wash in which an ounce of corrosive
sublimate to five gallons has been
placed, will do the work.
Some one who has It figured out
says that a hen to be profitable to
farmer should give him profit OF
one dollar per year. When 1t is re-
membered that the farm hen picks up
practically all her living 1t Is not
hard to find the dollar profit which
she makes for the farmer, together
with large surplus as extra good
measure.
The amendments to the denatured
alcohol law passed by the last con-
gress go into effect next September.
and will undoubtedly operate to
greatly cheaper it. Farmers who wish
will be able to produce 1t on a small
scale by distilling in a suitably locked
still, and may have 1t denatured with
out the expense Of bonded ware.
house. The provisions allowing the
transportation of denatured alcohol In
tank cars should also materially re-
duce its cost to the consumer.
The statement that good COW may
be worth as much as 10 ordinary cows
sounds pretty big, but here are the
2, ~ uivor hv n dofry aYpnrf IN prOvo
It: In one herd that was tested
profit Of $48.50 per COW per year was
realized. and In another herd the prof
1t was $3.50 per cow per year, or in
other words, COW from the good herd