The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1908-08-26

worth fully two pounds of cure.
Clean the work horses at night. and
frequently sponge of the legs from
the knees down. Dry thoroughly.
The growing turkeys have reached
a point where they need little at
tention now. Keep track of them,
however.
Where there is much undecomposed
vegetable matter on the surface of the
ground it is good plan to disk before
blowing.
Moulting time coming, egg produc-
ton lessening. Keep flock in thrifty
condition SO as to get them through the
moulting 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 out tainted milk and cream and
| lead to all manner of troubles.
Have regular hours for doing the
milking. Great temptation to let 9TH
er work interfere with the thought
that the milking can be done most
any time. Such reasoning is fallaciOus
for irregularity in milking lessons
| the milk flow.
1t is estimated that it will pay the
farmer to own manure spreader II he
! has so tons of manure to spread a
year. Spreading 100 tons will, it is
! claimed. save in cost of labor 25 to
SO per cent. on the cost of the
J spreader.
Props under apple trees supporting
heavily laden branches tell story of
ignorance or neglect earlier in the sea-
son. The fruit should have been
thinned. 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
| third, beauty. The last named quail
ity has a cash value which must al
ways be considered, for the appear
ance of an animal is often her best
selling quality.
From all reports an agricultural set
Element experiment seems TO be work
ing out successfully in Austria Hun
gary. In order to turn the tide of en-
igration the Hungarian minister of
agriculture secured an appropriation
for the purchase of several thousand
acres of good land. This was par
celed out into rural districts, with
land prices and taxes reduced to a
minimum Model farms and villages
are now in operation and apparently
succeeding in the purpose for which
they were intended.
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 d.
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 a 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 Matched nearly all
chickens she cared to raise. A city
cousin happened to be paying a 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
spersed with wild cackles, while
streaming out behind there fluttered
the red streamers which had been
fastened most effectively to the tail
appendages of the hapless birds Such
a 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 ever a