The Elbert County tribune., 1908-03-26
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Clean out the nest boxes often.
animals.
Teach the calves to drink from the
pail from the start.
Careless. shiftless methods never
yet produced profitable pork.
OIL meal is worth about two-fifths
more than bran as feed for cows.
Loosen up the mulch on the straw
berry vines. II 1t has become packed
down.
Variety of feed is essential to vigor-
Gus growth in sheep or other farm
animal, for that matter.
Know exactly what 1t is that you
want of the hired man and then be
sure that he gets your idea.
AS a rule, make 1t to the boys inter
est to stay on the farm and he will
stick. OF course there are exceptions.
| A fourth of an acre of good land
planted with variety of small fruits
will keep a large family supplied
throughout the season.
The dirty stable, the dirty COW and
the dirty mixer is a triple combina-
tion Of filth which is sure to tell on
the quality of the milk.
Does your soil need any special fer
tilizer? Be sure the commercial fer
tilizer you contemplate buying con-
tains elements which your soil lacks.
The most profitable gains with pigs
Is made when allowed a good run of
clover or peas. The habit of shovel
Ing corn out to pigs is too prevalent
in the corn belt.
Don't let the low prices of hogs dis
courage you. There will come the
swing in the circuit and again they
will bring better prices. You cannot
keep good thing down.
or course you have not forgotten
that you promised yourself a garden
for this year. Have good generous
variety of the vegetables you like.
My. how good they will taste when
the time comes.
1t does seem as though 1t was i'm
possible to get time to drag that road
when the other work is pressing so
hard at this season of the year, but
II you will only take the time, before
the summer is over you will feel that
1t paid.
You are paying good round price
now for having let the cows run down
during the winter. It's a question in
your mind after all whether the econo-
my in feed is not more than Offset by
the rundown condition of the stock,
now isn't It?
Moldy corn is dangerous feed II
used very freely, especially with
horses. There is lots of corn of this
character this year. and the tempta-
tion is great to feed 1t up, but do not
attempt to save 1t at the expense of
some valuable horse or other animal.
AS rule farm tenantry works Ill to
the country school. The renter cares
little or nothing about local improve
ments and the land owner takes ad.
vantage of the town school and to les
sen taxes is disposed to have the
country school run as cheaply as pos
sible.
Be careful and not lay out more
work for the spring than you can sue
cessfully do. This does not mean that
you should cut out the garden which
your wife has been asking you for
these many years. Stick to your prom
ise and give her good one. You will
enjoy 1t as much as she will when the
time of harve4t comes.
When boy labors on the farm all
through his minority and comes to
manhood's estate and feels that he has
nothing that he can really call his own
1t is no wonder that he has a yearning
to get out into the world and shift for
himself where he has the chance to
work for himself and has the chance
to know how money of his very own
| feels.
Soil that because of its nature and
location can be used for but little
else than pasturage land can be i'm.
proved by the sowing of blue grass
and red clover seed. Even If the land
is scattered among rocks and stumps
1t can be improved by dragging har-
row over the thin spots and scattering