Free press., 1907-10-05

Don't buy an article because it is
cheap.
The fall is a good time to tile out
the orchard or garden.
Trying, not signing, is what con-
quers the perplexing farm task.
In laying in the fodder arrange it SO |
that it can be handled with the least
possible labor.
It's the stirred soil which in dry !
weather retains the moisture for the /
growing of the crops.
These cool nights when the horse |
comes in sweaty be careful to rub
him off and blanket until dry.
Generally speaking. the COW which !.
your neighbor is so anxious to sell is
just the COW you cannot afford to
buy.
Count the sheep often. How can
you know what is going on in the
[ uOCh unlOSS YOU lOOn II OfOA ON~"SAOA'
ally?
Remember this next time you are
sowing turnip seed Mix with sand
about a pound of seed to peck of
sand, and then distribute by hand.
The hen-eating hog should be looked
after. Such propensity is the out
I ~
ment until you have supplied the feed
he lacks.
A clean, dry bed is as much appre-
ciated by piggy as by you. Dampness
and filth are not conducive to sound
and refreshing slumber any more to
beast than to man.
Get the crops under cover. Farm
buildings may be expensive, but they
pay, for damage done to crops not
properly housed would soon pay for
the necessary buildings.
For collie in horses try aloes, twol
drains, and spirits Of turpentine, six
ounces Dissolve aloes in three
quarts of warm water, stir in tur-
; pentine and give as drench.
The fair which gives the best prizes
nj to the horses of the speed track, and
treats as a side issue the best Of
the hogs and sheep and cattle, is the
kind of an agricultural show which
a the farmer can proftahly stay away
e from.
Don't let the crowding of the work
rob you of the time to read your farm
paper. and Meadowbrook Farm Notes.
U The editor likes to visit with the
farmer during the busy season as well
: as during the dull, in fact, a little bet
E ter for it is then that he is able to
be of more practical service to the
farmer than at any other time. 1t is
the hint in season that is worth more
than an encyclopedia of knowledge at
a time when it cannot be used. Keep
read up.
The new barn of the Massachusetts
! Agricultural college has been pro-
noNnced by government experts as
. the best in the country from a sani-
: tary point of view. 1t is light and
VIGIL NSuI11dISu, d1O ID CdhPpCO WIN
|. apparatus for sterilizing milk. Al
though it cost $4,000, farmers who
{ have not that amount of money to put
IS into a barn can keep their COW sta
n bles light and clean, and thereby i'm
k prove the quality of the. milk and
: prevent disease.
e Investigations by experiment sta
! tions have proved that hogs easily
contract tuberculosis by eating the
e manure of COWS which are infected.
i If the cattle show signs of the disease,
% the hogs should be separated from
them at once There is not so much
danger in allowing the hogs 20 run
behind beef cattle as behind dairy
10 cattle. The former are young and
10 have not at the time they are fed be
4 come badly infected. Dairy cattle are
N older and the disease has had time
le to get a hrmer hold.
We have never tried it, but dairy
man who has, says that a calf thai
u has never sucked viii drink from. the
D pail from the word go. He fixes things
& so that the calf is kept from its dan
.E after calving, and few hours after he
n milks about three quarts in a pail an(
= puts it under the calf's nose SO as II
touch, and says that the calf will a
= once begin to drink. Our plan ha:
ie been to take the calf away on the sec
Or ond day and have found it no dificul
er task to bring the calf to drink from
Id the pail by inserting two fingers in tn.
re calls mouth and bringing her nos;
ar ! into the milk AS she begins to sucl
in gradually Withdraw the fingers an.
with a few times trying your calf vii
drink without further trouble.