The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1908-10-30
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The neglected hen is an indifferent
profit make
Overcrowding means under profits
with the poultry
Open furrows through the grain
field to carry off the surplus water.
Take a little pride in your place and
have it trim and tidy on the road side
Sunlight for the calf pens. Remem-
Der that, if you would have them
thrifty.
| 1t is mistake to keep ewes that
are over five or six years old. Fat
ten and market.
Do not breed the ewes before they
| are from year to IS months old, if
you would have large sheep.
The better farmer is evolved from
lHe ldIAtF llldI sees MS MISTAKES
and tries to do better next time.
Certified milk is simply clean milk
whose quality is vouched for by the
| producer and some accredited party.
Whatever it is that you have not
done that YOU have intended doing
quit your promissory attitude and DO
IT NOW.
Be sure that the stables and pens
are thoroughly cleaned and white
washed before the winter weather sets
in in earnest.
Dirty, musty bedding does not make
good feed for the horses, and they
will not eat it if given enough good
| hay and feed
Don't leave the potatoes in the
ground too long. Water-sOaked
ground Or blistering sunshine do not
dead.
No farmer to-day can afford to let
his boy. whom he hopes to have sue
ceed him upon the old farm, go
without a course at the state agri.
cultural college
Not only oil the farm machinery
when putting it away. but paint the
wooden parts. II doesn't take much
| paint. but it makes the machines and
tools last good sight longer
Money in raising colts if you do the
square thing by mare and Offspring
from start to finish But don't think
/ you can get Il good animal from Il
scrub stallion. Remember that blood
| will tell.
When weaning two or more colts
at the same time take care that one
does not become the boss and rob
cases of unthrift it is due to lack of
nourishment from this cause.
A sup of milk for the cats will keep
them tied to the dairy barn and make
them good partners in keeping the
place free from rats and mice. Re.
member that many Il farmer loses Il
tidy sum in providing board for the
rodents.
If you do not clean the fertilizer at
tachment TO the grain drill before put
ting away for the winter and oil the
parts. you will find in the spring an
incruslation on the inside that will be
hard to clean and which has eaten
well into the iron.
Pianos. like many other things
which contribute to the JOY and profit
of life, are finding their way more
and more into the farmhouses of the
land and women folks are learning TO
play them, too. Pleasant on the win
ter evenings to have good play and
sing.
In severe cases of "knecstring" give
the horse complete rest. shorten the
toe and apply high-heclcd shoe and
hot Concentrations continuously. or cold,
astringent lotions. When heat and ten
derness subside the high-heeled shoe
may be dispensed with the foot shod
level and active blistcrs applied. To-
dide Of mercury is the best.
Where cheese is made on the farm,
Il new tin washboiler will serve as a
cheese vat, and clean. splint basket
will do for a drainer. The mold can
be made from discarded peck mea-
sure. If rennet tablets cannot be Sc
cured rennet can usually be purchased
of butcher. since it comes from the
lining of the fourth stomach of n calf
Tablets are the most convenient and
can be secured from most drug stores,
or all dairy supply houses. One tab
le' will make 200 pounds of cheese.