The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1908-08-28
Keep the cream OF the flock. SAll

me ounce OF prevention is specially |
po'eh' In the summer time and Is
worth fully two pounds of cure
'iean the work horses at night. and
frequently sponge off the legs from
the knees down. Dry thoroughly.
IN" growing turkeys have reached
point where they need little at
tenlion now. Keep track of them,
however
Where there is much undecomposed
Veeg able matter on the surface OF the
ground it is good plan TO disk before
plowIng.
Monltng time coming, egg produc.
tion essening. Keep flock in thrifty
CONDITION SO as to get them through the
mouliing season and have them strong
for fall laying
Never vary the rule to clean the
separator thoroughly after the milk is
run through. A dirty separator will
turn ont tainted milk and cream and
lead 70 all manner of troubles.
Horses are foundered by letting
them drink when heated and then per
mitting them to stand. Let them
have a few swallows at a time and
keep them moving until they have
colcd off
1t is estimated that it will pay the
farm"r TO own a manure Spreader II he
has 40 tons of manure to spread
year, Spreading 100 tons will. it is
claimed. save in cost of labor 25 to
so per cent. on the cost OF the
spreader.
Props under apple trees supporting
heavily laden branches tell a story of
Ignorance or neglect earlier in the sea
son. The fruit should have been
thinn"d. A good rule is that branch
should not be expected to mature
more fruit than it can support easily.
Three essential rules should be kept
in mind in breeding dairy cattle. First.
constitution; second, utility, and
| ity has cash value which must al
ways be considered. for the appear
ance of an animal is often her best
selling quality.
With plenty of good pasture. even
where COWS are stabbed or yarded at
night, it is a question whether any
grain is needed, but if it be deemed
advisable to feed some grain there
could be nothing better than plain
ground corn, if it were not for the fact
! that ground corn is SO concentrated
that when fed alone it fails to be di-
! sested as completely as it should be.
, 1t is therefore expedient to mix the
corn with some more bulky material
and for this purpose there is nothing
quite so good as bran. We therefore
| recommend mixture of ground corn
and bran in equal parts by measure.
| Finely ground corn and cob meal
would probably do equally as well.
The season for the broody hen is al
most past, and yet readers of Meadow
brook Farm Notes will be interested
and amused at what we are pleased
to call the "red-ribbon" treatment for
breaking up the desire to set. Its
discovery came about in this way:
Mrs. Farmer was in despair because
nearly all her hens wanted to set and
that after she had hatched nearly all
chickens she cared to raise. A city
cousin happened to be paying visit
to the farm at the time and more in
a spirit of fun than of real knowledge
of how to discourage Mrs. Hen in her
worthy but untimely aspirations. he
volunteered to handle the case and
set the poultry affairs to rights. TAX
ing sundry scraps of red ribbon. red
flannel, red anything which the won
dering woman could supply, this city
cousin disappeared in the hen house.
while she and the other members of
the family awaited developments. But
they were not long kept in suspense,
for forth from the door OF the hen
house there presently came sundry
animated punches of feathers inter-
spcrsed with wild cackles, while
srrcaming out behind there iuttered
the red streamers which had been
fastened most effectively to the tail
appendages Of the hapless birds. Such
commotion as they did stir up in
that barnyard. Each decorated hen
went through all the gyrations
OF a circus acrobat and one
succeeded after sundry attempts
in flying completely over a
tall tanning mill standing in the yard |
Never was there such an appreciative
audience, and never perhaps before or
since were there such a surprised and |
Indignant bunch OF hens as those be-
dccked birds, but be it said to the
credit of the city cousin. his remedy |
worked, and not one Of the hens had |
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