Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1907-05-30

Make the brood sows take exercise.
Glover, of whatever variety is the
farmers best friend.
Meat fed to the SOW which eats her
pigs will keep her from doing so.
New starters may be used every
year and the old comb melted into
wax.
To-day is the time to do good; to-
morrow is soon enough to pay the
grudge.
Let the cloth which is used in
washing the milk utensils be used for
nothing else.
Common sense is the best medicine
you can use in treating the sick ami
| NAL on the farm.
The percentage of profit which the
farm returns is proportionate to the
kind of management which it has.
There are vacant places on every
| farm where trees ought to be grow
! ing for the blessing of future genera
| tions.
The old canes pruned from the
berry bushes should be burned, for in
their destruction many insect pests
| perish.
The bath which the hen likes best
Is the dust bath. Give her the dirt
and she will supply the spraying ap-
paratus.
Get in a little work in the orchard
while the ground is too wet to work.
A little time and good pair of eyes
| will see lots to be done to help the
trees into healthy condition.
There is little excuse for the blinds
on horses, but no excuse at all for
the blind that is loose and Tapping
back and forth against the horses
eyes.
The farm is a big place to lose
things on, which the man who drops
the tool where he happens to use it
last finds out often to his sorrow. Ac-
quire the habit of putting things in
their places.
The feeding of the pigs intended for
fattening should differ from those
which are to be developed for the
breeding pen. Force the growth of
the pigs that are to be marketed and
fatten rapidly by the feeding of rich
carbonaceous foods.
Begin to prepare now for the short
pasture problem which may confront
. you next summer Raise some fod
der crop that will help you over the
critical period. Remember that what
the COW shrinks during such period
\ is almost impossible to recover, even
by the most generous feeding.
A beekeeper urges the importance
of leveling up the apiary, marking ou
the paths, etc. This work pays il
more ways than one, and should no
be neglected. Have everything il
readiness so that no time may b.
lost when time becomes valuable in
pecuniary sense. This is good man
agement, and absolutely essential t,
success.
Siberian alfalfa introduced in thi
country to supplement durum whea
in rotative system so as to avoi
summer following may mark anothe
epoch in the agriculture of the north
western prairie regions where rair
fall is slight and the winters are e,
ceedingly cold because practically tn
same conditions exist in the steppe
of Siberia where this alfalfa is nativ
and where it grows very successful,
Give the seed potatoes bath
corrosive sublimate solution made u
in proportion of one ounce of the sui
Innate to seven gallons of water. Th
will kill the scab germs, and if til
planting is on land free from germ
= the crop will not be affected wit
scab. The usual way is to put tt
potatoes into bag and immense the
in the solution for an hour and
half. They are then spread out ar
dried before planting. Another goo
scab remedy is to soak the seed tube
for two hours in a solution of one-ha
pint formalin in Is gallons of waite
Secretary Wilson in his recent /
port on the work of the federal me
inspectors under the new law shoy
that they are passing on an enormo
number of cattle, hogs and shee
The report shows that during Jul
August and September, 1906, 9,6S
900 carcasses were inspected. In
tober, November and December
100000 carcasses were passed upo