The Columbus journal., 1908-01-01

II you do not. But the best plan 10 to
get the manure out on the land As
soon as It is made.
Change the hog pasture often. Have
. small house built on skids o it can
be dragged around to q new pasture
a. desired. II hogs are fed long in
one place the grass Is killed out.
The bull 10 At best an uncertain
quantity. Never trust him. Keep
your eye ON him. Never turn your
back to him unless he il securely
fastened and always have him under
stand that you are master.
In swine feeding. tests have shown
that the largest gain from feeding
corn meal alone is less than one-half
pound per head per day on wellbred
swine. Something is needed besides
corn, although this is very essential.
The Christmas q Is not the
only time you should seek to make
people happy. II you forgot all about
that family In your community which
you might have helped at Christmas
time, do It now. 1t is eve too late
to do a good deed.
Runty stock IL always hard to dis
pose Of. AZ perhaps you have dis
covered to your annoyance. Why raise
that kind? Care and good feed will
turn out good livestock which will sell
well and return q larger margin of
profit than the poor kind.
The scrawny horse on the farm eth
er tells q story Of neglect and abuse
on the part of the farmer. or one of
~worthlessness on the part Of the
horse. II the former. the farmer
needs reforming. II the latter, the
horse should be disposed of.
mo milk producer should sign a con
tract to sell milk for six months or a
year ahead at fixed prices. No grow
er of potatoes Or cabbages would think
Of pledging himself to accept fixed
| prices six months ahead of his pro-
duce." That sounds about right to us.
| What do you think about it?
1t is a safe guess that dairying does
bunch of COWS hudd!ed together in
! the lee of the barn yard. their backs
bumped up like jack rabbits, and each
fighting for a place in the patch OF
sunlight while chewing the butt ends
! of cGrnstalks.
The farmers part and responsibility
in forestry matters is thus empha-
sized by the Wisconsin Ag-iculturist:
Forestry has come to stay. and
farmers should take a deep interest
in it, for it means more and better
crops and a larger income. Every
farm should have its wood lot, well
protected and cared for"
Should the dairy COW be fat or lean?
1t is the commonly accepted theory
that the hes: dairy cows are always
{! thin. But Kimball's Dairy Farmer has
| this to say on the matter: "A great
many people are telling us that the
dairy COW should never be fat. but
the competent dairyman realizes that
the 10Y that makes the best record
is the o that comes in in fine condi.
ton"
The lantern light pickering in and
ont of the barn tells the story in many
cases of a farmer who has put OF the
chores until the darkness has fallen.
Besides increasing the possibility of
fires by use of the LANTERN. the farmer
makes the work more dihicult. for
one can always work much faster
and better by daylight. Why not plan
the work SO that all the chores are
out Of the way by nightfall:
Instead Of an elevated storage tank
many farmers are nov using an under
ground ~air-pressure tank which ran
not freeze in winter nor become I'M
duly warm in summer: which obviates
the danger of leakage or wind dam
age: and in which the water cannot
become foul or M-tasting, because 1t
is thoroughly aerated by the COM
pressed air. Such a tank IA be
placed in the cellar, OF buried in the
ground; 1t can be filed by e of u
pump operated by hand power. wind
mill, gasoline, electric or hot-air en-
CINE; it is simple. durable and salts
factory. The idea, in brief, is to take
an alright steel tank and pump
water into 1t from the bottom until the
air which originally filed the tank is
compressed. by the rising water, into
the upper half of tank. This gives
pressure enough to force a stream of
water on to the roof of the house.
The importance Of are in buying
alfalfa seed is emphasized by govern
ment experts who have tested seed
bought on the market and found in
one pound of so-called alfalfa seed
3 1920 noxiOus weed seeds: in another
23.OS2 and in still another 12.S48. OF
the first named pound less than SO
per cent. was alfalfa: less than %
per cent. was germiEable, and among
its impurities were $40 seeds of dod-
der-surely the devils " invention.
One pound of another lot contained
only a fraction owe five per cent.
that would prOW and Of a third lot