The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1907-01-10

who lacks the courage to go VI
against the real thing" With wire
worms and root lice attacking corn.
With rust or Smut attacking wheat and
oats, with blight attacking onions and
c taking hold of the potatoes, the
grower should keep in training and put
up a stiff fight. Right now is a good
INT to study up on these things, SO
that you will be ready for the trouble
when 1t comes.
The ~pig-eating SOW can be cured if
she is taken in time. Reduce her corn
allowance, n ada shorts, oats and g
little oil meal. When sows farrow late
In the spring and have the run of
woods or pastures. they seldom form
these habits. 1t is the sow that is kept
IN close quarters, or around the feeding
puhks, that becomes a cannibal. And
don't forget to feed some clover or al
talfa hay.
Under some conditions it may be
good business to market habitat cat
tie, but that does not mean tina the
FEEDER is making any money out of
the operation. AS a rule it will pay
TO buy corn and feed to the finish. A
month or two longer feeding will usual
~ put on enough quality to bring fair
prices.
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The best feed for calves is clover
hay, corn fodder along with some a
straw. A subscriber asks whether we
would advise feeding c~ottonseed to
calves. Where nice clover and fodder
are fed literally the calves do not need
~cottonseed. A little oats and shelled
sorn may be fed to advantage.
Some people are afraid to harrow
corn. A spike tooth harrow is Just
the thing in the field, before the corn
appears in the rows. If the field is
clean once over will be enough; but
when a weedy field, or if crust forms,
go over again, and keep going until
you start the c~ultivators.
Sheep men put great stress on the
proper winter care of the breeding
ewes. They should be kept thrifty, and
not hampered. With plenty of exer-
else, and such foods as fodder, clover
hay, oats, bran, with some roots oc-
c~aslonally. they will come in capital
condition.
An Indiana farmer sows all his wheat
and oat ground to clover. After the
grain is cut he turns in stock. The
clover stands until the following May,
When 1t is turned under and corn is
planted. Under this treatment he gets
eioiii y v " 10 puSi1elS OIL corn per acre.
Guess work. has no place in farm
management. Every feeder should
keep tab on his ~fattening stock. and
the only way to do 1t Is by weighing
them occasionally. Put up scales. and
use them. Weigh out everything, then
you won't nave to guess at ~shrinkage.
Iowa farmers have been much pleased
with the years result in using the split
log In Keeping roads in condition.
While there Is no concerted movement,
armer in many townships have united
and each n has done his share In
Keeping the roads in condition.
Potato growers have learned that Gull
tivation is very essential, the object
being to loosen UP the soil rather than
pack it. The soil should be lifted and
turned. Cultivate the same as corn,
aeeply at first and very shallow the
last time over.
Are you taking all the manure YOU
san and putting it upon the land which
most needs it? This is the time to
make the stock work up the coarse
stuff. Do your part by putting the
manure on the fields, before any is
wasted.
az p.ssulAs SoWs should now be
condition OF the SOW at breeding time
a a great deal to do with her litter.
II she IS IN ut condition she will likely
orlns q litter of even or eight fine,
lusty !
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Don't try to fatten the boar. Ee
should w ample food to develop and
him In good condition. An all
corn diet is hardly the ideal one for
the boar which will now soon be called
for hard service.
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iried. Some have narrowed tbair faf1
wheat, the object being "a mako . e,,a
We doubt yery ,nnch ,yhatha,
his is a good thing. srhe whaat ,nats
ought not to be Disturbed IN tha f.li
Keen salt and ashes rvbara ~
have EASY access to tbam p,,t P pss
into a self feeder and kaan . 800 s,sn
DIV ON hand Wood ashas : ~ h bap1
IL Won cannot ana anUthinr sa pes
N aAo puiiieu'
We are nor r,.,na
IA tho rrass lands 7r,.ana = sas,naom
GOD forage crons that manW ,iI
.atsa-s are keening Lose land N Sra.a
tivnted crons ,aiss upoa eui7
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Every dav now ann,,has;yas tha ,m
portance Of using seed adaptad to your
conditions and SOL. Il proper seed corn.