The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1907-08-15

LOO olIeH country ScnOOl teachers
are city bred young men or young
women, who have no thought or lik-
ing for agriculture. They are not the
teachers who can show pupils the ad-
vantages of farm life.
A recent case of scours among a
bunch of neighbours calves shows the
Importance Of giving careful attention
to h feeding pals. These pals had
been used for over a month, and dur
ing all of that time had not been
thoroughly scalded. The only attempt
at cleaning was rinsing with cold wa
ter. A short time ago one of the
scours n died. Three others of the
bunch now look as if they would not
pull through.
Pioneer days may have past in the
central west, but the pioneer practice
OF throwing the manure out Of the
horse stables and allowing it to lie
there for months, has not passed by
a long ways. Frequently one sees the
accumulation of six months or more
heaped up against the sides Of the
stables. Every ton of hat manure
which was thrown out last winter has
Low lost at least SO per cent. of its
value.
The fall is the ideal time to scat
ter manu1e. Why not make one job
of it and scatter the manure thinly
now, instead of putting it in piles and
then go owe and scatter with a fork
next spring. 1t is economy to make
the manure go as far as you can, and
then go owe the fields more fire.
quently.
Many orchards have been hurt this
season with SUI scald. The way to pre-
vent such injury is to head trees low.
SO that the trunk is shaded. Where
trees have been headed high the. only
thing to do is to protect the trunks
with building paper, boards or anything
that Will break the sun.
Timothy hay is the kind in greatest
demand for horse feeding in cities.
Here hay sells upon it's quality. One
may think he can fool his own stock
with poor hay; but let him send a load
OF oVer-ripe. badly colored hay to mar
ket. The returns will show that city
hay buyers are up to snuff.
Sometimes hogs will not thrive, al
though they have an abundance of pas.
ture and. grain. There is such a thing
as Keeping hogs too long on Glove and
the system demands something else
Cut down the rations for a while and
feed ON charcoal, salt and copperas
This frequently will start a hog on the
upgrade.
IT the garden has been a failure this
year start right this fall for better re.
suits next spring. Pile on we'll rotte6
manure and turn up the ground this
fall Tor a thorough freezing. And ther
ION try to grow vegetables and weed.
on the same piece Of ground.
An experiment station states that tn,
value of the made on a farn
where twenty COWS, four horses. ffty
sheep and ten pigs are kept, is arount
s6ou. and that about one-half Of it is II
the liquid manure.
There does not seem to be any imme
date danger Of the American hen O
COW ciogging the market. IT seems tina
the appetite of American people 70
dairy and poultry goods is CROWN,
1astsr than h output. Just think, tn,
poultry and eggs of this country ar
worth more every year than our corn
oats and hay crop combined.
Keeping sheep is profitable, providin,
n can keep clear of ailments an,
pests. When stomach or tape worm
get hold of the lambs they soon pia,
havoc. These things 'rruSt be hapdla