The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1908-09-11

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The vitality OF alfalfa is much lss-
sened by letting it stand very long
after the proper time for cutting.
1t is the COW which the man 10
anxious to sell that you cannot afford
to buy.
Keep only as many chickens as you
have room for. Crowding is always
disastrous.
Salt, fresh water and kind words go
long way in inducing the COW to I'LL
the milk pail.
Speltz when ground and mixed with
bran or cornmeal makes good feed
for milk COWS.
Do you know how to run your farm
as well as you think you know how
to run the country?
The stanchion is a cruel thing to
less the stable is screened.
Kerosene makes a good spray to use
In the chicken house, only be careful
Of fire or lighted matches after using.
One does not have to look at the
average farm orchard twice to know
hot TO ho
the farm.
Dirt is the great enemy Of milk.
From the feeding and handling Of the
COW to the final disposition of the
milk you cannot be too careful.
It should not be necessary to re-
be washed and scalded each time it is
used. Washing it out with clean cold
water is not sufficient.
Eggs that are uniform in size and
color find more ready market and a
better price than eggs not so assorted.
This Is one Of the strong arguments
in favor of one breed of hens.
The farmer has no one to blame but
himself when his soil becames impov-
erished. for both by crop rotation and
the raising Of livestock he can put
more into the soil each year than he
takes out
some kind. In purchasing an engine
get one that will do more work than
you will require of It, 1t will make its
running easier and will provide for In
creased business.
Tests made by the Minnesota sta
tion indicate that pork can be pro-
duced with less grain by hogging of
the corn than by feeding it in the
ear or snapped in the yards. Hogs
fed in the field showed a gain of at
least one-third more than those fed in
the yards.
After the first year 1t is almost i'm
possible to Judge the age of hen, and
for this reason leg bands should be
used to prevent you from sending the
young hens to market and keeping the
old ones. The cost of the leg bands is
as nothing compared to the convent
ence Of knowing each individual fowl.
Register the numbers in book and
under each number keep a record Of
the hen bearing that number. In this
way you will be able to deal intelli-
gently with your flock and make your
profits more.
A wallow for the hogs is good
thing in the summer time for 1t helps
them to keep cool. One of cement may
be made by digging a hole Is inches
deep and ten feet square. In the bot
tom pack six inches of coarse gravel
Or cinders, and on this lay three
inches OF coarse concrete. Smooth of
the surface and raise the sides six
inches higher. This makes shallow
basin, which will make good sani-
tary wallow, and barrel OF water a
day will be sufficient to keep 1t going.
If you have running water which
can be piped into the basin, SO much
the better
A method of curing alfalfa hay w1tn-
out the use Of hay caps which has
proved successful is to cut the alfalfa
in the morning as soon as the dew Is
off. allow 1t to remain in the swath
as late in the afternoon as possible
and yet get it raked before the eve
ming dews fall and then put it in tall
cocks, II it looks like rain; otherwise
leave it in the windrow over night. If
the next day is sunshiny the hay is
scattered after the dew Is of, allowed
to dry until late afternoon and put in
the barn. II the weather is not favor
able for drying, more than two days
will be required to cure the hay.
Here are some feeding maxims by
Prof. Beach which we are glad to