The Columbus journal., 1907-06-26

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The best farm hand ID the farmer
himself.
It's easy to be shiftless. but 1t
doesn't pay.
Raise poultry whether you like 1t or
not and learn to like it
Fresh, clean water IL essential to
hogs u It Is to other stock.
Timely and judicious spraying II
good and cheap fruit insurance.
See that the collars 1T the horses.
and keep them soft by proper care.
The best time to dock lambs 10
VIXEN they are about two weeks old.
Keep ahead of the weeds or It Will
be q tail end race with them all sea
s0n.
Feed grain to the ewes in pasture
If extra growth on the lambs II de-
sired.
Regularity in the are of farm an
finals has much to do with obtaining
the best results.
Never let the horse stand when
heated without blanketing no matter
hcw warm tho weather.
It takes more skill to market q crop
probably than it does to grow 1t, at
least often times it does.
Broadcast rape in the corn after the
last cultivation and 1t will afford good
pasturage in the fall after the cor is
cut.
You may not be able to afford a
new sanitary stable but you can at
ford white wash which will make
the present stable more sanitary.
The r places on your horse
should be kept clean by washing every
day with carbolated water and then
dressed with a little good tar oint-
ment.
Be sure that the new trees you set
this spring have no label wires left
about the trunks, as they will cut
of the circulation of the tree and per-
haps kill it.
Turpentine soaked rags fastened to
the horse manger will do much toward
curing the animal of cough or dis
temper, as he will have to inhale the
fumes Of the turpentine while he
s
The lazy hen. it has been said.
bears the same relation to the hem
merry that the lazy man does in the
community. The only difference is
that the former does make good pot
pie. while the lazy man is good for
nothing.
Oats cut in the milk and cured as
hay makes the finest kind of hay. One
farmer says that last season his hay
crop being short he cut three acres
Of oats for hay and found that the
stock ate it more greedily than any
other hay, and that it proved excep-
tionally good for his milch cows.
A successful asparagus grower says
he keeps rust out of his asparagus
and saves cultivation, by sowing two
bushels of cow-peas to the acre at
the first cultivation after the cutting
season is over. The peas keep down
the weeds and shade the ground, but
do not interfere with the growth OF
the asparagus. The pea and aspara-
gus stalks are left IN the ground un-
til the following spring and then
burned OF.
There is no doubt that there are
many portions of the country which at
the present time r practically unde-
veloped agriculturally which have q
great future before them, but do not
let the alluring advertisements of
such localities turn your head. Re-
member that the man who has writ
ten them has something he wants to
sell, and that he may be Just stretch
ing 1t a little. Go slow In considering
a change of location. Don't sell the
old farm and rush OF to the new loca-
ton. Investigate first. Inspect the
land personally, and then don't make
the move until after the sober second
thought.
Another serious scale. pest has
made its appearance and is the sub
ject Of investigation by the govern
ment agricultural department. 1t is
known as the terrapin scale (Eule-
canium nigrofascinatum). and au-
thentic specimens have been received
by the bureau of entomology from
every state east of the Mississippi
river, and from. Missouri. Arkansas,
Inu3S1ana Toxaa Minnesota ond I'm.