The Columbus journal., 1908-12-30
G. asifgaS!&s !. e.s
III FARM
AAM.., III

Open up the hen house on bright
days.
Intensive methods are needed In the
dairy as well as in other lines of farm
ing.
Milk is easily contaminated. and
hence Is q most prolific medium of con-
veying disease
Clean. dry bed for the horses should
be the rule. A horse that has been
compelled to lie on bare boards or
upon wet manure Is In no condition
for work the next day.
Do your hauling from the fields or
to the fields in the morning before the
sun has had q chance to soften up the
ground and cause the wagon wheels to
pick up lots Of sticky mud.
Don't put of until the last minute
the looking over the incubatOrs and
brooders. Be sure they are in good
shape. If they need new parts or old
ones need repairing. attend to 1t now.
Keep picked up around the home
stead, and around the stock buildings.
too. Nothing is so sure an index of
the character of the farmer as the
condition of the grounds about his
place.
Are you carelessly letting the liquid
manure go to wasteB 1t is the most
valuable part of the manure. Save 1t
either by tight cutters running to a
cistern. or use plenty of absorbents to
soak it up.
Foot-rot in cattle should be treated
with water three parts and sulphuric
acid one part after the affected part
has been thoroughly >cleansed, or it
should be smeared with pine tar and
bandage tied between the claws and
about the pastern to keep out the dust.
Have a manure shed where you can
keep the manure spreader standing.
Have it handy to the barn SO that the
manure can be dumped into the spread
er when the barn is cleaned each
morning. Then when the wagon is
full haul to the field and put on the
land at once.
Money made by farming is the clean
est. best money in the world. 1t is
made in accordance with Gods first
law, under honest influences. away
from the faint of trade, or the fierce
heat of speculation. 1t fills the pockets
of the farmer at the expense of no
other His gain is no mans loss; but
the more he makes the better for the
world at large.
Plan for a little early lettuce next
season. Seed can be sown in hotbed
or greenhouse in February or March
and transplanted to open ground out
doors as soon as a piece of land can
be put in thorough working order.
Some time may be gained by growing
the plants in hotbed or cold frame
covered by glass sash and protected
by mats or shutters when necessary.
thing besides just place for work If
you would tie the boys and the girls
to it. The farmer who thinks only
of the work he is going to get out of
his children and who thinks more of
the farm and the stock than he does
of his boys and girls need not be sur
prised that they are anxious to break
away from the farm when they are
old enough to choose for themselves.
The time is at hand when the farm
er will wake up from his Rip Van
Wrinkle sleep and look after his bust
ness interests the same as other bust
ness men do" writes one of our farm
ers. Yes, some of them are already
awake and are pushing methods and
measures by which farmers are get
ting closer together and forming plans
whereby they may have something to
say Al to the prices they will get for
their produce.
Not much fun pulling the frozen
cornstalks from the outdoor shock.
Remember last winter when you we're
doing the same thing you promised
yourself that you would either build a
silo and put it up or you would shred
1t and store 1t in the barn loft, but you
didn't, and now you are having an un-
comfortable and disagreeable task of
getting the fodder to the stock and
they are not finding 1t very good eat
ing. Let 1t be . lesson to you. and
be sure and plan to have things DIFF
ferent another winter.
Don't let the hogs suffer from lice.
You viii be a loser IL you do. for you
cannot fatten animals which are fat
tening an ever-increasing colony Of
lice. II through neglect the herd is
found to have become badly infested
with lice, all bedding should be burned
and loose floors and partitions torn
out Old boards and rubbish should
be burned. The quarters should then
be thoroughly disinfected by spraying
with good disinfecting solutions. After
d;sinfection, as in the case of a disease
outbreak, everything about the place,
inside and out, should be thoroughly
whitewashed. Vermin are most COM
mon around the ears. inside the legs