The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-04-09

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The animals comfort means the
owners profit.
No one who has to labor woS a living
should slight small industries.
The older and heavier an animal is
the larger must be the ration of sup
port.
Good crops. stock, fertility and IN
dustry are the essential factors in good
farming.
An unpalatable food will not be eaten
beyond the point of maintaining mere
existence.
The palatableness of food is very
nearly measure of the amount that
will he consumed. while consumption
measures production.
There is an urgent need OF more Eight
in majority of dairy stables. Many
Gairymen also need more light on the
subject of dairying in order to quo
coed.
Go through the orchard and snail
fruit plantations and clean up all the
brush and burn ii. You destroy dis
eases, insect pests and weed sceds
without number.
of ventilation cause much loss among
amateur poultry keepers. \ large per
cent of the chicks die and those shat
survive are runty and understood.
Upto-daIe creameries are testing
every can Of cream on the day it is
delivered and giving the patron the re-
suits the next time cream is deliver
ed i; this is certainly long step toward
building up the home creamery.
While you are pruning select good,
smooth shoots, cut about one foot long
with two or three buds-a bud at the
top and bottom. Plant them at once
in q slanting position with the top bud
just out of the ground. lamp the soil
firmly and mulch with coarse manure.
Any farmer engaged in raising live
stock cannot afford 10 feed his grain
to anything but the best. BY carefully
culling out the tail enders and steadily
striving to improve by a iudicious Sc
lection of breeding stock. i herd can
be BUTT up that will give satisfaction
and profit.
1t il an interesting fact that, while
the exports of bacon from the United
States TO the United Kingdom have
fallen off from 100000 pounds in
1890 20 :97, 100000 pounds in 1904,
with hams the exports were 65,OOO,OOO
pounds 10 1890 to 100000 pounds
in 1904.
OF the agricultural products import
ed into the United States during the
past year plant products constituted
$403O00,000. OF this amount the chief
items were: Sugar and molasses, S9i,-
0OO,OCO: coffee, $4,000. 600; vegetable
fibers. S62,OOO,O0O; fruits and tobacco.
each $2G,OOOOOO; vegetable oils, $15.-
100000.
A plucky city lad recently advertls-
ed in a farm Journal that he wanted to
go to the farm. He was soon placed
and now other boys are following hiy
plan. No doubt thousands of home
less city boys could be placed In the
most favorable kind of country envir
onment could they but get in CORE
spondence with the right parties.
A fringe of weeds or brush alonl
the roadside may be said to serve c.
double purpose. In the winter ii viii.
hold snow enough to blockade the road
and later on water from the melting
snow will make the roads nearly i'm
passable on account Of mud. Will soiue
one please suggest a remedy for the
habitually tired man who allows weeds
or brush TO auorn his roadside?
On every farm where grain Is raises
and where intensive methods have be-
come imperative the seed drill shou,6
be used for all the small grains Not
only Is less seed required where toe
drill is used. but by sowing the seed
on ax-ar, day+h op1 IN, coil 4,