Free press., 1908-04-11

The feet of sheep should be trimmed
in the spring and fall.
One can judge a mans temper by
visiting his cow stable
Ground limestone is good for soils
which puddle easily after rain.
Provide cistern into which all the
liquid manure may be drained.
Pigs will not be profitable if forced
to sleep out OF doors these cold fan
nights
Never buy COW until you have
| tested her by milking her twice in
| succession.
Regular time for feeding with the
sheep is as important as with the 9th
er live stock.
1t is a wise farmer who knows how
| TO hire others to do work he is not
| able TO do himself
Poverty is punishable by hard labor
for life. No need of the farmer be-
ing overburdened by either.
Getting hay in on the eight-hour
| system is good, that is, eight hours
| before dinner and eight hours after.
! 1t is more profitable to discuss farm
| problems than to get tangled up in a
political argument with your neighbor.
Borrowing your neighbors' tools
| and borrowing trouble are sometimes
| identical, for the one leads to the
| other.
Pass on the good ideas to your
neighbors. 1t is the good things we
share with others which we keep most
! surely for ourselves
If the COWS were permitted to
| choose owners would they want to
stay with you or go with your more
| thoughtful, careful neighbor?
| Ringbone on the hind foot of horse
may be benefited by treatment, but
when on the forefoot unnerving is
about the only cure for the lameness.
Who are the ''old fogies?" Surely
not the rugged old farmers who have
too much sense to adopt off-hand
| every new-fangled notion as it comes
| along.
The diseased hog should be removed
| from the herd as soon as possible and
| placed in quarantine. A little pre-
caution will save spread of serious
| epidemics, sometimes.
| The farmer that hauls bad cream or
! milk to the creamery lowers the quail
ity OF butter produced by the cream
cry and injuries the interests of all the
farmers patronizing the place
Are your. COWS afraid of you? If so
they will not do the best by you
would not keep a hired man on my
! place five minutes who did not have
enough sense to treat the cattle right.
Don't do all the thinking for your
| boy. Cultivate the habit in him of
thinking for himself. Make him self
reliant. Let him get up against diff
| culties and then let him work his own
way out
At a show in New York city recently
a new-fangled mixer operated by elec-
| tricity was in practical use. Is the
day approaching when the work of
! dairying will be so simplif1ed as to be
classed with the easy occupations?
| Make the poultry house snug for
| the winter. Be sure there is good ven
tilation, however. Try the muslin cur
| tain over part of the window from
which the glass has been removed
| This will give fresh air without
| draught.
1T is the lofty ideal that redeems
| the life from the curse of common
ness, and imparts touch of nobility
to every calling" and none more so
| than that OF farming. 1t is the farm
eli with the lofty ideals who finds in
the old farm wealth of joy and glad
ness and an appreciation of the bounti-
full goodness of God.
Apple culture offers one of the most
| promising features of fruit farming
| of the future. There is cheap land in
! abundance in sections where the soil
and other conditions are well adapt
| ed to its production. But men are
wanted who have an intelligent appre-
citation Of what the trade demands,
and knowledge of soil care and cul-
tivation.
| The farmer is living more comfort
| able today than he did twenty years
| ago, and it costs more. With larger
outgo there must be larger income.
We often wonder if the farmer is do
! ing all he can to make his farm pay.
Sheep have long been neglected me-