Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1908-12-31
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Open up the hen house on bright
days.
Intensive methods are needed in the
dairy as well as in other lines of farm
Ing.
Milk is easily contaminated, and
hence is a most prolific medium of con
veying disease.
Do your hauling from the fields or
to the fields in the morning before the
sun has had a chance to soften up the
ground and cause the wagon wheels TO
pick up lots of sticky mud.
Don't put of until the last minute
the looking over the incubators and
breeders Be sure they are in good
shape. II they need new parts or old
ones need repairing, attend to 1t now.
Keep picked up around the home
stead, and around the stock buildings
too. Nothing is so sure an index OF
the character of the farmer as the
condition of the grounds about his
place.
Are you carelessly letting the liquid
manure go to waste? 1t is the most
valuable part of the manure. Save 1t
either by tight cutters running to
cistern, or use plenty of absorbents to
soak it up.
Foot-rot in cattle should be treated
with water three parts ard sulphuric
acid one part after the affected part
has been thoroughly cleansed, or it
should be smeared with pine tar and
a bandage tied between the claws and
about the pastern to keep out the dust
Have manure shed where you can
keep the manure spreader standing.
Have it handy to the barn 80 that the
manure can be dumped into the spread
er when the barn is cleaned each
morning. Then when the wagon is
full haul to the field and put on the
land at once.
Plan for little early lettuce next
season. Seed can be sown in hotbed
or greenhouse in February or March
and transplanted to open ground out
doors as soon as a piece of land can
be put in thorough working order.
Some time may be gained by growing
the plants in hotbed or cold frame
H. eK1ur
by mats or shutters when necessary.
Make the farm and the home some
thing besides just place for work If
you would tie the boys and the girls
TO it. The farmer who thinks only
of the work he is going to get out Of
his children and who thinks more of
the farm and the stock than he does
of his boys and girls need not be sur
prised that they are anxious to break
away from the farm when they are
old enough to choose for themselves
THE time is at hand when the farm
er will wake up from his Rip Van
Wrinkle sleep and look after his bust
ness interests the same as other bust
ness men do" writes one of our farm
ers. Yes, some of them are already
awake and are pushing methods and
measures by which farmers are get
ting closer together and forming plans
whereby they may have something to
say as to the prices they will get for
their produce.
Not much fun pulling the frozen
cornstalks from the outdoor shock.
Remember last winter when you were
doing the same thing you promised
yourself that you would either build a
silo and put it up or you would shred
1t and store it in the barn loft. but you
didn't. and now you are having an I'M
comfortable and disagreeable task OF
getting the fodder to the stock and
they are not finding IT very good eat
ing Let it be a lesson to you, and
be sure and plan TO have things diff
ferent another winter.
Don't let the hogs suffer from lice
You will be loser If you do, for you
cannot fatten animals which are fat
tening an eYer-increasing colony OF
lice If through neglect the herd is
found to have become badly infested
with lice, all bedding should be burned
and loose floors and partitions torn
out. Old boards and rubbish should
be burned The quarters should then
be thoroughly dlsinfected by spraying
with good dlsinfecting solutions After
disinfection. aE in the case Of disease
outbreak, everything about the place.
inside and out, should be thoroughly
whitewashed. Vermin are most com
mon around the ears. inside the legs
and in the folds Of the skin on the
jowl, sides and TANKS. In light and
isolated cases they may be destroyed
by washing the hogs with a good stock
dip properly diluted, applied by means
OF a broom. In severe cases. how
ever. especially where the whole herd
IL affected thorough spraying or dip
ping should be resorted TO. In this
case a dipping tank viii be a great