The state herald., 1908-08-28
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chicken house
Stone jars make the ideal package
Tor packing butter.
Cut out and burn branches on pear
tree infested with blight.
Remember an extra cultivation or
two in dry time is most as good as
rain.
Look over the stock you budded
this year and be sure the ties are not
restricting circulation.
Time to drag the roads is right af-
ter the rain. Little is accomplished TO
do the work when the road is dry.
When sheep are found on their
knees feeding 1t is high time to ex-
anime their feed to see what is the
matter.
Put something into the home life
make the other members of the family
feel that there is mo place like home"
Better crops. better stock. better
machinery. better land, better times
for the wife and family. better every
thing, should be the ambition of every
farmer.
Pasturing the meadows after NOW
ing is a doubtful proceeding. as the
vaule Of the feed which the stock get
is more than apt to be offset by the
lessening of the hay crop next year.
The yearly keep of a brood SOW is
estimated 10 cost SO. If she is n good
animal she ought TO give you two lit
ters a year OF eight pigs each, which
easily would net a profit of $50. Pigs
do pay.
High time that the flock was sorted
over, the wethers being penned to-
Gether and fed literally for market
and the breeding stock put by itself
and fed with n view of obtaining n
strong, healthy progeny next season.
Nothing will pull stock down in
flesh so quickly as the fly plague. Do
all you can TO make the horses and
other stock as comfortable as possible,
II may seem like n good deal of trou.
Bile. but II will put dollars in your
pocket In the end.
To pen hogs so that there is no
escape from the hot sun Is the most
shortsighted of management. Not
only will they not thrive. but disease
is apt TO breed among them. And yet
there are farmers who will shlftless.
ly subject their hogs to such treat
ment.
There is more than ever need TO
carefully select and pack the fruit
and vegetables sent TO market when
the flush OF the season is on. for while
poor stun will hardly sell at any price
that which is fine in appearance
that is. carefully selected and packed
will command a good price. Keep
the small imperfect stun at home for
the stock and poultry.
II is announced from the Kentucky
experiment station that positive cure
has been found for disease among
sheep known as scnb, and that this
fatal malndy had assumed such largo
proportions among the sheep OF Ken,
lucky that the state veterinary has
threatened to quarantine the state
against the shipping OF any OF the AMI.
mails out OF itn borders The disease
attacks the sheep In the nature Of n
large scab which In n short period OF
time covers It's entire body. not only
rendering the wool utterly worthless,
but In most cases killing the sheep
within short time. The disease II
contagious and has been spreading
during the past few months. 80 seri.
ously II IL said nearly every flock is In
fcctcd,
The best work can be obtained from
horses. and men too, for that matter.
when they are generously fed. The
old story Of the farmer who Htingily
fed buttormilk and whey TO his hired
men and found them dragging through
the work to the refrain. We won't
get through to-day" IN worth rc.toll.
ing he did his best TO drive the
men TO faster work. but without avail.
and at last left the field In disgust
hut before he reached the house he
had taken second sober though, and
wisely concluded that n more gencr,
ouH diet might Affect the spirits Of
his men and enable thom 10 put more
vim into their tasks, 80 he had wife
f1r III the best kind Of ham and egg
dinner Nor was he disappointed with
results for when he went 20 tho field
In the afternoon, the work was going
on with n rush ana clip. while the
men sang the refrain Hams and eggs.