The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1908-07-22


| brood SOW when not sucking pigs.
Cleanliness in the hen house is the
price of freedom from lice and mites.
Keep the boar in a separate pen far
enough away from the sows to keep
him from fretting.
The wet land will grow alsixe clover
when other clovers will fail. Try it.
It is high in nitrogen content.
There Is no reason to suppose that
the Plymouth Rock egg is harder to
break than that of any other variety.
Don't be discouraged. Corn often
more than makes up in July and Au-
gust what it has lost in May and June
from unfavOrable conditions
In climates where low temperatures
are constant during the winter a
hillside site for the orchard is to be
preferred to the low-lying place..
The grain from two-rowed barley Is
usually Of better quality than that
from the six-rowed variety, although
the production is not quite SO heavy.
The right start with work in the
morning makes things run smoothly
all day. Try planning out the work
the night before, so that each one OF
the hands has definite work assigned.
1t is coming to be more generally ad
mitted that the dairy farm needs the
dairy type of cow and the beef pro-
Queer must hold himself to the beef
animals. In other words. the dual
purpose idea is ON the wane.
Tile drainage Is a subject which IL
receiving more intelligent considera-
ton of the farmers than ever before.
1t is costly improvement, but repays
the outlay many fold in increased pro-
ductivity of the land thus treated.
The trap nest is the only sure way
of finding out the best layers, but the
observant farmers wife can pick out
the best layers and by keeping them
for the breeders next season she will
be on the road to improving her flock
and increasing her egg money.
Too many poultry yards are un-
slightly mud puddles after a rain. One
farmer eliminated such condition by
enlarging his yard space so as to take
in big patch Of green and by the
poultry house door laying a wide strip
Of cement and around this cinders up
to the point where the green sward
began.
New ideas are all right II they are
carefully digested and wisely used.
The man who plunges blindly ahead
into something which sounds good but
which may have weak and impracti-
cable points connected Herewith, is
the man who is constantly making
serious mistakes and is making fail
ure Of farming and stockraising.
Have you put in that patch of corn
for summer use for the cows? Re-
member that the pasturage gets pref
ty dry and thin during the hot weeks
Of July and August and you need
something to piece out and prevent
serious shrinkage In the milk yield.
1t is a great mistake to let the cows
run down In their milk.
Secretary Wilson defines the pro-
greSsive farm as one who rotates his
crops, tile-drains his land, keeps dairy
cows or mutton sheep or both, breeds
draft horses, does farm work with
brood mares and growing colts, and
improves the power of the soil by
growing legumes. How is It? Do you
come into the class thus defined?
A mason who is onto his job and
who builds in the interests of his en- |
ployer says II chimneys are plastered |
up inside as they are built with . |
mortar to which one-fourth common |
salt is added it will have a glazed |
finish to which the SCOT will not stick. |
and hence there will be no chimneys |
catching fire from the SCOT accumula-
tons.
A good oil or vinegar barrel cut in
half and placed over the pasture
spring will make good drinking place
for the stock Without the barrel the
water softens all the soil about which
is tramped by the stock until it be-
comes a mud hole. II the land slopes
away from the spring the other half
of barrel can be sunk into the ground
and pipe run from the half barrel at
the spring.
Spare that tree, There is not tree
OF any variety in the United States
is an apparent and immediate necessi-
ty for its destruction. There are few
pieces of wooded land west of the
Rocky mountains which will not soon
be worth more as they are now than
if cleared and under cultivation. Data
furnished by the agricultural depart
ment, and from other sources reliable
in details furnished, show that this is
absolutely the case. Estimates made
show that the hardwood timber Of the
United States will be practically ex-
hausted within the next 16 years. The
same estimate, with a heightened time
for destruction. applies to timber OF