The Columbus journal., 1908-06-17
Break your colts early.

| tuS ISuCS Which, 0CROA oS0O yVOA
land from your neighb0rs'.
It is generally the man who has no
silo who discovers that silage Injuries
the cows teeth or works other Ill to
1 the stock.
The fair season is coming Plan
now to get something ready for the
| show, and do what you can to make
| your local fair q success.
Don't waste much time with the sick
fowl. Separate at once from the rest
Of the flock. and II it does not respond
quickly to treatment use the az and
shovel
We never will know how many farm
ers owe their success to the manage
ment and good judgment Of their
wives, and what is worse, many farm
ers do not realize it themselves.
Colorado farmers have the organic
ing fever and are forming unions
with a view to lettering their condi-
lions. They expect to make money
by buying in CARROTS and selling for
cash t. O. b.
Not too late to sow silage corn. Get
the corn in and then plan for the
building of silo in which to put it
foil
to the feed next winter and repay you
several times over for your trouble.
Machine grease can be readily
cleaned from the hands by a little
kerosene and sawdust. The oil will
cut the grease and the sawdust will alb
sorb both oil and grease together, so
that soap and water will have
| chance to do its work.
Where the cream of cows of un-
equal milking periods is mixed togeth-
er see that the whole is thoroughly
mixed and ripened. Unless this is
done a considerable portion of the
slower cream is washed into the but
termilk as soon as the quicker cream
comes to butter.
An Iowan reports the birth of a
short-horn calf without tail, the end
of the backbone coming but an inch
or two beyond the hip joint The calf
is healthy and doing WELL This is not
common occurrence, but a great
many similar cases are on record.
The writer had a similar case when
he was on the farm 20 years ago.
Under the head of fool farming may
be enumerated such fads as raising
frogs, squads, skunks, and even rails
ing ginseng. Such fads may work
with those who thoroughly understand
the business, but the average farmer
will find that the potato patch will
stand him in better stead than any of
these schemes which seem on paper
at least to offer big inducements.
The average dairy COW costs $40
per year to feed. 1t is easy to figure
out that if the income from the sale
of her milk does not exceed this
amount. the COW is clearly not paving
her way. The only satisfactory meth
cd of determining this question is by
weighing the milk and testing the per
cent. of butter fat it contains by the
Babcock test. A COW that does not
Fay takes up just as much room rs a
profitable one. Sell her for beef.
This Is the ration which a Pennsyl.
vanian feeds his turkey poults with
good success. The poults require no
food until day old. as nature has pro-
vided for them, but water and sand
should be placed within reach. The
food should not be of sloppy kind as
that leads to bowel trouble. Curds or
Dutch cheese is liked by them and
they thrive on it. Stale bread mois.
tened and squeezed dry is good
Onion tops and dandelion leaves
minced fine should be fed each day
while in confinement Corn bread is
the best food when two weeks old
and later cracked corn or wheat
should be provided.
II you are raising any calves this
year with a view of adding them to
your herd Of mixers. remember that
present handling has much to do with
future usefulness. Feed to deyelop
the paunch, and when the heifer comes
fresh give special care to handling and
milking SO that the udder may be de-
velOped as much as possible. It is
well to keep heifer milking for over
a year before going dry for another
calf, as this establishes the COW as a
persistent mixer. A heifer that is
allowed to 60 dry too soon after hav
ing first calf can never be made the
COW she would have been IL she had
been MIXED for longer time. To be
sure the small quantity Of milk OBJ
tanned oftentimes does not pay for the
milking, but the future will more than
repay one for the time thus spent.
In case of death of the mare or for
other reasons she is unable to nurse
her colt, proceed a. follows: Take
some Of the freshly-drawn milk from
the COW which gives the poorest milk
that Is the milk which has the least
butter fat in it-add a dessertspoonful
Of sugar to q pint of milk: put It in a
bottle or teapot on which you can
slip some sort of q nipple Feed the
colt at first some ten times in "a
hours. beginning with a half-pint and
increasing gradually. BY the time the