The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1908-10-02

The separator cannot be kept too
clean.
If you are in the chicken business
be alive and progressive.
When cream is not ripe for churn-
ing you will lose much of the butter
fat.
To realize the best profit from dairy
cows all the feed should be grown
upon the farm.
Dairy show at Chicago. December
2 to 10. Remember the date and plan
to attend.
Wash out the feed troughs. clean
the corners of the sour feed, and many
a case of collie will be avoided
Be sure the rungs on the ladder are
safe before trusting yourself on them
at any great height.
Now is the time to fatten up the
old ewes. Feed turnibs, oil-meal,
ground oats and corn, and market as
soon as possible.
II the wearing parts of the harness
are kept clean 1t will last longer, as
the dirt is gritty and hastens the
uyeor upnp tho barpocc haCidaS max.
ing it dry and liable to crack.
1t is good thing to have the horse
so gentle as to be able to crawl un-
der him, and then it is good thing
not to do it. It is a poor place to be
if the horse should suddenly startle.
A look over the pigstye fence Of
neighboring farmer showed me that
his bunch of halfgrown pigs were al
most too busy scratching for lice to
feed properly. That kind of hog rails
ing don't pay.
Do you know the size of your vari
Gus fields, or do you merely guess at
only that you may accurately estimate
fertilizer needed for the land, but that
you may know the crop yields.
Not single apple should go to
waste. What cannot be marketed, or
used by the family should be gath
cred and fed to the stock. Rotting
LOT hn n11- ic
dead loss. but it insures good in
sect pest crop for next season.
Most farmers are able to place a
fair valuation upon their farms, the
crops and the livestock. who never
have any kind of appreciation of the
value of their wives. A good wife is a
farmers best asset. Cherish and love
her. Let her know that you realize
that it is her management and pluck
which have brought the farm to what
1t IL.
Keep the musty hay out of the dairy
barn both as feed and as bedding. as
the mustiness represents the exist
fungous srowths. The spores get into
the milk by way of the air and often
cause bitter and other fiavors. Some
times also they produce growths in
the milk that cause stringiness or
thickening of the milk.
Here is one mans secret for making
hens lay in winter: About September
he shuts them up and gives very
poor diet for week or two. Then
he let's them out and feeds all they
can possibly eat. This forces the
molting period. and before cold wealth
er comes on they all have their new
coat of feathers. Then they are ready
for business and keep at it through
out the winter season.
The matter of short or long period
of milking of COWS is matter of
habit. For this reason if during her
first period of lactation she is MIXED
regularly to within few weeks of
dropping her second calf, she accepts
this as her destiny. On the contrary.
If the milking period with first calf
is limited to four months, it will be a
difficult matter to overcome the incli-
nation here as elsewhere, to follow
in the old path. The only remedy is
persistent milking even when but very
little milk can be obtained,
The automobile is finding its way
upon the farm more and more and
one of the important features of every
state fair is the automobile section
Here is what western farmer saws
concerning the horseless carriage. He
has one: We have owned and used
an automobile since last November
and find it very useful and satisfactory
in our business. 1t is great saver in
time. as well as the cheapest way to
get about. The principal use to which
we put the machine is as runabout
But 1t could be used advantageously
for several other DurDOses in farr.