The Elbert County tribune., 1907-04-04

ness.
The breaks in your neighbor's
fence are, easier to see sometimes
than those in your own.
Crunbly cheese can be remedied in
the manufacture. A variety of con-
ditions may give rise to this fault.
Let the garden be half the living
The garden plot may not only be a
money maker but health giver.
good show for the pure maple
sugar product now is the new pure
food law. Will help the farmer some.
Rhubarb needs lots of manure, it
requires from 25 to so loads per acre
annually to secure a paying crop.
People engaged in chicken raising
as business have proved without
doubt that a single kind kept to itself
makes the most money.
Make 1t practice every spring to
set out few trees on the farm. You
will be surprised as the years roll by
to see what showing you will make
in timber
A hump-backed lamb has an empty
stomach or something worse. Find
out the trouble and then remedy it.
Perhaps the eve has not enough
milk to nourish the little fellow.
Remember that cloudy warm
weather is the best for the sprouting
of seeds and for this reason the seeds
of the garden should be planted at
time to secure these conditions.
The proper handling of machinery
on the farm is a vital factor not only
In the results obtained but in the
wearing qualities of the machine
Don't blame the machine for your
own inefficiency or carelessness.
From experiments at the Maine ex.
pertinent station the indications are
that by selecting best layers for
breeding purposes, and by proper
feeding, the average egg yield of a
flock can be increased.
The annual butchering on the farm
is a great event to the country boy,
but care should be taken that 1t does
not become a brutalizing influence
upon the younger children of the fam
lily.
Oliver Wendell Holmes said this for
the encouragement of the tree plant
er: When we plant trees we are doing
what we can to make our planet a
more wholesome and happier place for
those who come after us. if not for
ourselves.
Roup has become almost a common
disease among poultry, and it is doing
much damage TO the poultry industry
everywhere. A well known poultry
writer says: mo fowl is ever really
cured of roup, and the disease is
spread by the use of these apparently
cured fowls as breeders"
Professor Babcock of the Wisconsin
experiment station says that GOV 8
should receive about one ounce of salt
each per day Cows differ greatly IL
regard to their ability to live without
salt. At the station mentioned cows
were kept without salt to see Low
soon their health would appear to be
affected by the deprivation. One cow
showed the effects in month and an
other in about a year. In time. how
ever. the effect of not having enough
salt is very injurious.
The value of the Babcock tester in
determining the relative merits of diff
ferent members of the herd must nee
essarily depend upon the frequency
with which the tests are made, the
number of milkings from which the
sample is taken and the accuracy with
which the test is carried through.
Many have claimed that two or three
tests, made at intervals of sever al
months, with the weight of milk. will
| furnish a fairly accurate basis for es-
timating the fat yield of a COW for
one year.
ne inOSt SuStSSSiui iai ihSi 10 Hot
always the best farmer. The former
may raise fine stock and grow big
crops, but If he does not also grow a
crop of good ideas and rear bunch
of manly boys and womanly girls. and
reach out the glad, helpful hand to
push along right conditions in his
community, state and nation, he lacks
many qualifications which go to make
up the best farmer. No farmer can
limit his activities and his interests
to the 160-acre farm and be what he
ought to be.