The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1908-08-26
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Coal ashes will kill the mites in the
chicken house
Stone jars make the ideal package
for packing butter.
Cut out and burn branches on pear
tree infested with blight
Remember an extra cultivation O.
two in dry time is most as good as
a rain.
Look over the stock you budded
this year and be sure the ties are not
restricting circulation.
Time to drag the roads is right az
ter the rain. Little is accomplished to
do the work when the road is dry.
When sheep are found en- their
knees feeding it is high time to ex-
anime their feed to see what is the
matter.
Put something into the home life
which will make you appreciate it and
make the other members of the family
feel that there is mo place like home. a."
Better crops, better stock, better
machinery, better land, better times
for the wife and family, better every
thing, should be the ambition of every
farmer
Pasturing the meadows after now
ing is a doubtful proceeding, as the
yaule of the feed which the stock get
is more than apt to be Offset by the
lessening of the hay crop next year.
The yearly keep of a brood sow is
estimated to cost $40. If she is good
animal she ought to give you two lit
tiers a year of eight pigs each. which
easily would net a profit of $50. Pigs
do pay.
Nothing will pull stock down in
flesh SO quickly as the fly plague. Do
all you can to make the horses and
other stock as comfortable as possible.
1t may seem like a good deal of trou-
bic. but it will put dollars in your
pocket in the end
To pen hogs so that there is no
escape from the hot sun is the most
short sighted of management. Not
ON, nil h,ir h,,f
is apt TO breed among them. And yet
there are farmers who will shiftless-
~ subject their hogs to such treat
ment.
Ten hours a day on the farm will
count for mere where the work is
well planned. than 10 hours where the
hit and miss method is followed. 1t
is the farmer who never plans any
thing who is out after nightfall with
the lantern finishing up the tail end of
the chores.
There is more than ever need to
carefully select and pack the fruit
and vegetables sent to market when
tEo HUSH VI the SedSoU VII. loi p" HlIe
poor stuff will hardly sell at any price
that which is fine in appearance
that is, carefully selected and packed
will command a good price. Keep
the small imperfect stuff at home for
the stock and poultry.
In the early stages of the disease,
heaves may be cured by turning the
afflicted animal upon pasture or keep
ing on cornstalks or other duStleSS lax
ative food. Hay should not be allowed
except at night, and then in small
amount and shaken free from dust.
The bowels must never be constipat-
ed. the stable must be kept well aired,
and the use of water for drink. into
which a few drops of oil of pine tar
have been put. is recommended. Do
not use too much of the tar, as it will
nauSeate.
1t is announced from the Kentucky
experiment station that positive cure
has been found for a disease among
sheep known as Scab, and that this
fatal malady had assumed such large
proportions among the sheep of Ken
lucky that the state veterinary has
threatened TO quarantine the state
against the shipping of any of the ami
mails out Of its borders. The disease
attacks the sheep in the nature Of a
large scab which in a short period of
time covers its entire body, not only
rendering the wool utterly worthless.
but in most cases killing the sheep
within a short time. The disease is
contagious and has been spreading
during the past few months. so seri-
ously it is said nearly every flock is in
fected.
The best work can be obtained from
horses. and men too. for that matter.
when they are generously fed. The
old story of the farmer who stingily
fed buttermilk and whey to his hired
men and found them dragging through
the work to the refrain, I'VE won't
get through to-day" is worth re-tell-
ing. He did his best to drive the
men to faster work. but without avail.
and at last left the field in disgust.
But before he reached the house he
had taken a second sober thought and
wisely concluded that more gener-
Gus diet might affect the spirits of
his men and enable them to put more
. vim into their tasks. So he had wife
fix up the best kind of ham and egg
dinner Nor was he diSaDnOinted Will,