The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-10-10
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Pigs will thrive on skim milk as on
nothing else.
Eggs and mites are never plentiful
on the same farm at the same time.
There are no tonics better for the
calf than plenty OF sunshine and pure
air.
Skim milk with ground corn and a
little bright hay will make calves
hump.
1t is the unproductive things-things
that are neither growing nor produc-
ing-that keep a farmer down.
No animal will deteriorate so rapidly
from neglect or show so marked an i'm
provement for good as a well bred
sheep.
There Is no doubt that a steer can
be fattened on a fewer number OF
pounds of dry matter when he is
fed from a silo.
The Angora goat breeders of Ore
gon say that the annual clips from
their fiocks amount to nearly $4,000,
while the value of their yearly increase
approximates $350,OOO.
While corn and alfalfa hay will pro-
duce excellent beef, the addition of cot
tonseed meal, even if you have to pay
S23 to $25 per ton, will make quality
| that will bring more money.
Why farmers who can readily grow
or buy corn slower and hay at low cost
continue to purchase some of the low
grade oat and other feeds which are
little richer In protein than oat straw,
| they only can answer.
Alter cream becomes sour, the more
ripening the more it depreciates. The
sooner 1t is churned the better, but 1t
should not be churned while too new.
The. best stage for churning is when
| acidity begins to become apparent.
Helfer calves intended for the dairy
must be kept growing continually, as
any check In their growth is cause
| of loss in size and development of the
| digestive organs and consequently az
fects the future value of the animal.
Feeding and general care and man
| agement have as much to do with in
| creasing the product of individual ami
mails as breeding or blood But it must
not be forgotten that undue forcing
shortens the life and usefulness Of the
cow very rapidly.
Fall pigs do better If they can have
| plenty of range. Exercise and variety
OF feed will keep them in good health
If the farmer Will give his pigs a fair
show for exercise along with suitable
shelter and feed he will find two filters
ler year will pay better than one.
To fatten fowls rapidly is the great
secret Of doing SO profitably. This ne
cessitates that they be kept closely con
fined during the process. Even the
matter of profit aside, and the in
creased excellence of the flesh Of close
ly kept fattening stock over that which
is allowed to roam is very great.
The rural school too commonly suf
fers for want Of variety. This is moi
because this condition cannot be ale
Waited, but simply because it is not
The general course of instruction need.
Frightening with what might be said Il
be laboratory work or practical studies
In things to be found ON and about the
farm.
One Of the most harmless and bene
fetal foods is liaseed meal When tn,
fioct appears dYoopy and seems to los,
appetite, the sowls may be restored t.
health very readily by giving them lin
seed meal and this soft food once {
day. A gill OF linseed meal to ever,
ten hens Is sufficient 1t should not
however, be used as regular diet.
If you do not believe the COWS lool
upon a strange dog as an enemy, jus
watch them when such an ANNA
comes into the yard. The horns o.
every one will be high in the air. Yo,
can hear the cattle sniff, and Will,
some will charge on the dog, other
will turn tail and run like deer. Ever.
such invasion costs more than yo,
know in the flow of milk as we'll q
Its goodness.
A most successful dairyman says b.
can make fairying pay good return
l when he can grow and market his 20
tatoes for enough cash to pay all of hi
feed bills. He is making about 120 gal
Ions Of 12%ent milk every day in tn
year and hires two men and one boy
At present he is working 112 acres o
land and outside Of his dairy income b
has sold more than $1,000 worth o
hay from his farm this year and 300
bushels OF potatoes.
Farmer Tricks the Bees.
John B. f. Wright, who lives on
farm two miles north of Elmer, \. J
has the tnird-story of his house bore
with holes which swarms of hone
bees havc found, much to his delight
The holee lead to closets in the BED
rooms, AID the unsuspecting bee make