The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1907-01-17
vi" FARM
RA zMs;, III

barbarous practice.
Meat scraps should be fed two or
three times a week.
Exercise Is necessary for the health
in breeding stock in hogs.
Ewes milk is thicker than cows
milk, but otherwise closely resembles
it.
Catch the hogs by one of the fore
legs. It's easy and saves bruising
them.
In breeding sheep, select uniform
animals and breed for a definite pur-
pose.
Cows easily contract colds that de-
yelop into catarrh by needless ex-
posture.
Sell when things are high. Buy
when they are low. Good rules to APP
ply to all business operations on the
farm.
Beets or beet tops will not flavor
the milk u~npleasantly If fed to the
COW at least four or five hours before
milking.
The currycomh should not hurt, but
should stimulate the hide, and its use
be welcomed rather than feared by
the horse.
Wooden manufacturers were obliged
10 import last year 250,000,OO pounds
of wool. Is there not a suggestion in
this why you ought to keep a few
sheep?
There's money in the cow if she is
the right kind of an animal, but it
takes the right kind of a man and the
right kind of treatment to get it out
of her.
David Fairchild declares that there
are millions of acres of land sown
every year with the wrong crops,
causing millions of unnecessary crop
failures.
The old-time practice of raising
oxen n getting a pair ready for mar
ket each yea was a thrifty one. A
good plan is to buy a lean young team
not broken and making it do all the
work while becoming sleek, fat and
civilized.
The Ohio experiment station has
found that planted groves of catalpa
and locust may give returns exceeding
$40 per acre annually, which will
prove a handsome return from five
dollar land.
What kind of a bed has you horse
to lie upon? Is there a mass of reek.
ing wet straw underlying the thin
upper coating of fresh straw which
has been scattered about? You can.
not expect healthy animals, fitted for
work, if you do not keep the stables
clean.
According to statistics there were
17,570,000 mich COWS in the United
States in 1905. The dairy products
were valued at $685., 900, 900. Divide
the one by the other and we find that
the average cow produces $37.S5 OF
milk and cream in a year.. Too low
Is your COW only an average COW
Get rid of her and get a better.
A special irrigation pillow has been
devised in Europe, where irrigation is
being extensively practiced. The gov,
eminent in a report describes it as
follows: Directly behind the pillow is
attached an ov~al-shaped ditch in the
furrow made by the pillow. This roller
is provided with scrapers to prevent
its clogging. Attached to the mold
board are two blades extending back
wards at IN angle of about As degrees
The dirt spread out by the pillow is
thrown out both sides of the ditch by
means of these blades, which smooth
the surface next to the ditch. At the
outer end of the blades are attached
few harrow teeth, which spread what
ever dirt reaches this point
n IcCChl DuliSllh VI II oOulu AdTO
lima experiment station calls attention
TO the fact that while sweet potatoe.
may be produced in abundance a
small cost and furnish a cheap, nutri
tious and palatable food, not only TO
man. but for domestic animals, the,
have fallen far short of the full meas
ure of success as a market crop be
rauSe first thew are too bulky IN ma,
for extended transportation, and, sec
ond, they cannot stand rough handling
and exposure to freezing weather
The station, therefore. undertook 4
find a method by which the potatoe
might be dried, with an improvement
of the keeping quality and no loss O
edible quality. After numerous eS
perIments 1t believes that these re
suits may be obtained by boiling tn,
a.. M oman lyattla ond drxytp,