The Elbert County tribune., 1907-11-21
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Skim milk for the hens brings them
into the laying class.
A feed trough with wide bottom is
preferable for the sheep pen.
Ventilation without draft is one of
the necessities of the good hog house.
Bad fences are apt to create neigh
borhood breaches which are hard to
heal.
An idea used is better than a doz-
en- left to mildew in the recesses of
the mind.
Keep the skin of the horse clean
by thorough brushing and currying.
And don't forget the colts.
II managed rightly nothing on the
farm will return greater profit for the
food eaten than flock of good fowls.
y Strawberries grow best on land that
has been cultivated and fertilized for
some years before setting out the
plants.
Scours in calves may often be
checked by feeding a raw egg. Hard
boiled eggs fed with meal or mid
dlings are also good.
The brood SOW must receive differ
ent feed from the rest of the herd.
Very little fattening food should be
fed Cut out most of the corn
Good fences pay the year round.
The weak fence develops the breachy
animal, and one never can tell how
much damage the loose animal may
do.
Lining improves both heavy and
light soils, the former being made
more friable, and the latter more CO.
hesive and better able to feed the
growing crops.
Snuf1les in sheep are bad. Separate
the afflicted ones from the rest of
the flock. Proper care will prevent
the contracting of colds which de-
velop into such disorders.
The farm where the wife is
recognized as an equal partner with
the farmer is the one where peace
and equity rule, where there is COM
mon interest and a common purse.
Get a good book on the care and
diseases of farm stock, study it well
and then use your common sense in
connection with the suggestions OBJ
tanned in caring for the animals in
sickness and in health.
No farm is really complete without
a building in which to store the farm
machinery, and in one end of such
building there should be a workshop
In which the winter days can be spent
with profit in overhauling and repair
Ing all the machinery
The time is approaching when the
farmer will be his own price maker.
AS has been said, "the farm is truly
a manufacturing plant and the farmer
is manufacturer just as is the maker
of cloth, hardware and furniture.
Henceforth the farmer is going to
take an active part in making prices"
What are you going to do with the
plow when through with it for the sea
son? Too often it is neglected and
forgotten until next spring when 1t is
again wanted and then many a tedious
hour must needs be spent to get into
usable shape again. Clean 1t up now,
taI,t a.
away where it will keep dry.
The use of the cream separator
makes 1t possible for the farmer to
heat the milk without curdling 1t. In
summer time, especially, it pays to
heat it, If it is to be kept for some
time before being fed to calves, pigs
or fowls. Milk so heated will keep
sweet for hours longer than milk not
heated. 1t will be safe to heat it
nearly to the boiling point.
Now is a good time to get the
manure out on the ground II you
have not already done so. That which
is to be used in the hills of melons,
cukes, tomatoes and the like should
be hauled as close as possible to the
land where it is to be used and piled
up in fiat ricks. Finely ground, raw
phosphate rock mixed with the
manure as it is piled, will not only
add PHOSPHORUS to the manure but
1t will lessen the loss of ammonia
If the rock is not at hand, woods soil
or scrapings from the barnyard mixed
in will tend to keep the manure from
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