The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-09-03

Provide 1t for them.
Rape makes fine hog feed. They do
not 'bloat on ii as sheep do.
Sow a little more clover and divide IL
up into hog pastures. 1t will pay big.
1t is a good scheme to use kerosene
literally about the interior of the place
the entire year.
A dairy COW shut up in dark stable
and fed on highly concentrated food
quickly burns out.
Better to plant little in the gar
den and plant we'll than to half plant
q great quantity of stuff.
The community where the good dairy
COW is in the majority is the comInu-
nifty which is marked by contentment
and prosperity.
Pie is good, but nobody wants it three
times day. and nothing else. No
more does a hog want corn month in
and month out without change.
The feeding out of the odds and ends
of fodder before the cold and wet fall
weather ruins 1t Is important and
means the saving IF snug sum every
year.
Feed the cow all the hay or other
CHI &c
running on good pasture. Her appetite
tells her better what she needs than
| you can tell.
There are about twenty-five kinds Of
nut-bearing trees in the United States.
The consumption of nuts is increasing
| rapidly. the demand evidently growing
much faster than the home supply is
Increased.
Some genius of figures estimates that
the corn crop of Missouri for 1907
would fill 100000 farm wagons,
which, If hitched close together. would
make a chain that would reach around
the world.
All good sheep feeders have good
racks and feed boxes or troughs. a
flock may live if fed on ground, but
nothing less than keen hunger will
prompt SO delicate an animal to take its
feed from the wet and filth of a yard
| The tax commissioners of some west
1 IN tnc 10 Gr6 ONT
whether they can tax land which was
previously entirely worthless, but
which through the expenditure of large
sums Of money for irrigation has been
brought TO large fertility.
In spite of the fact that Professor
Milton Whitney says that there is
enough land east of the Missouri river
to sustain the population for the next
fifty years, Texas drainage system is
expected to reclaim 100000 acres
which lie along the coast.
The first butterfly farm was estab-
lished about ten years ago by William
Watkins, famous English entomol-
| ogist, at Eastbourne, England. There
are now many similar farms in France
and other countries The object of
these farms Is to rear silk worms
At the University of Illinois nearly
! 100 students were last year enrolled
In the course OF elementary bird study.
The object of this work is TO prevent
the needless destruction of birds and to
teach farmer boys how to protect those
which are useful to them.
The Holstein breeders I'm their re-
cent national meeting appointed n
committee TO secure a federal law for
losls and to do away with inspection
by the states There Is no question
that such law Would prove adyan-
tageous.
A Kansas City man who went to n
neighboring poultry farm to buy a trio
picked out three good-looking birds and
rendered a $50 bill in payment, expect
ing about SO in change. He almost
tainted when he was Informed that the
price of the rooster and two hens was
$3.50
Unless the stock is fed an amount
over and above that which is needed
for body maintenance there will be no
gain. A thousand-pound steer has
been found by experiment to require
daily 10 pounds of timothy hay, IL
pounds of clover hay and seven pounds
of corn meal just to keep on an even
keel. More must be fed IL there is to
be any gain.
If neighbOr asks us to do an err
rand or two while in town why be
grumpy? We may want to ask a favor
ourselves next day or next week. And.
by the way, some men have a knack of
doing troublesome act for a neighbor
In such a manner as to create the i'm
| preston that II is the one thing that
gives him great pleasure. That is
fine gift and we cannot cultivate 1t too
much.
1t seems at the present time that
the graduates of the state agricultur-
al schools of the country are finding
no trouble In getting located. The
young man who knows the science Of
good farming and how to apply il
commands $50 to 500 a month, with
his board and lodging. and lives cas-
lily, comfortably and wholesomely. The
| farmer, who can do so, should give
his sons the education that will thus
lift them to the heights Of their oc.u-
patton. Young men trained so that
they can command such financial re-
turns for their services to others can
nse their scientific training to still
greater profit for themselves The sci
| entific farmer, who is worth 500 or
| $50 n month to another man, is worth
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