, 1907-08-29

M~A FARM
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The orchard is an ideal pig pasture.
The brood sows should not be too
fat.
Sweet apples are a good fattener
for the pigs.
Clean off the hog feed foor every
day, If possible.
No farm but should have It's small
fruits for home consumption, at least.
The ridges left by the disk harrow
can be removed by letting the harrow
lap one-half.
A separate pen for the hoggish hog
n more clover, middlings and milk
for the chicken-eating hog.
The hog has earned the reputation
of being dirty because man has pro-
vided dirty quarters for him.
In building the buildings for the live
stock and poultry, have them open
to the south or east, If possible.
Haven't you noticed that good fruit
always sells well? Resolve that that
is the only kind of fruit you will put
out.
The continual planting of orchards
in the opinion of some threatens an
overproduction of fruit, but such fears
are groundless.
Keep the grounds about the house
and farm buildings tidy. 1t is so
easy for the rubbish to accumulate.
Take time to clean it up.
No one realizes more forcibIy the mis-
fortune of the lost opportunity. than
does the farmer, for the out of season
crop seldom brings a profit.
The rich ~barnyard has given place
to the rich field on the progressive
farm where the manure ~spreader dis,
tributes the MANURE as rapidly as
made.
Many a man finds it as easy to lie
about the age of his COW as his wife
! does about her age. Funny how they
always want to count less years than
they have lived.
Zoe many sheep in the cattle pas
ture is not a good thing, for the rea-
son that the sheep Craze close and
soon make it SO that the cattle cannot
get a good cropping.
And now during the height of the
harvesting season take time to con-
slider that the agricultural fair season
is upon you. and plan to attend either
county or state show, or both If you
can.
The feeding value of beet pulp may
be Judged from the fact that 1t con-
tains nearly 80 per cent. of water,
less than n per cent. heterogeneous
matter, and about six and one-half
| per cent. of digestible carbohydrates.
and less than one-tenth of n per
cent. of fat.
Verify there is a COW conscience and
a horse conscience. They are made
of India rubber, and are capable of
stretching aroun all manner of glow
ing testimonials concerning the ami
NAL which it is sought to sell. Don't be-
lieve your own father in the COW or
the horse trade.
A Canadian agricultural experiment
station has found a new and pleasant
er method of making kerosene emul-
sion. 1t has discovered that eight
! ounces Of -four will hold one quart of
kerosene in suspension. If the flour Is
first scalded two ounces will be sufi-
cient to make an emulsion which
will remain in suspension for three
days.
The two general qualities of stock
feed are fat-producing properties.
known as carbohydrates, and muscle
forming materials, known as the pro-
tein. In providing a ration for ones
stock it is well to know the relative
quantities of each in the different
kinds of feed, and the following table
gives some Of the more important
foods together with the digestible pro-
tein supplied by them:
Corn (for comparison) 70
Corn slower tor comparison ........,, IL
Cottonseed meal ST. 9
Linseed meai-old process ..............29 3
Ilnseed meai-new process .............2S .2
Glucose meal
Grano gluten .26.7
Gluten meal .25.S
Sugar meal 1877
Mhea 1913
Wheat bran 10 2
Dark feeding 1875