The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1908-08-21

PlOW the poultry runs. 1t will lake
them look better and will gius the
hens new ground to scratch in.
Clean cool water at this tene OF
year Is needed by all kinds Ct farm
stock. II they would keep I prime
condition.
In picking out the hens that are to
be sent to market be sure that you get
the ones that will no longer prove
profitable to you.
The irritable man makts a poor
driver of horses, for HIS i'll temper
makes the horses nervous and he is
never able 10 get the best work out of
them.
The Indiana couple whose friends
made them presents of live poultry
on their Wedding day ought to feel
that they have calling to the poul-
try-raisins profession.
One farmer who has had trouble
with mud walows around his hog
troughs and who had tried clay and
sand without effect used sawdust as
a last resort and found it worked ex-
cellently.
Sometime sheep get deep wounds
in which after time maggots hatched
from the eggs of flies find lodgment
In such case inject kerosene to drive
out the maggOts. Treat every day
until the wound is healed.
The poultry interests of the farm
are growing Time was a few years
ago when the farmer was content to
market five dollars worth of eggs a
month, now he thinks nothing of ship
ping 60 cases a week, and he counts
1t sort of pick up.
Ten hours day on the farm will
count for more where the work is
well planned, than Is hours where the
hit and miss method is followed. 1t
| is the farmer who never plans any
thing who is out after nightfall with
the lantern finishing up the tail end OF
the chores
About the best thing you can do
with your common stock rams is to
sell them. Then add a little more to
the selling price and go off and buy
full bred animal to head your flock
for the coming year. 1t may seem like
extravagance at the time but you will
see the wisdom of 1t as you look over
the lamb crop of next year.
Turn the farm waste and neglected
spots into wood lots where you can
grow your own posts, poles, fences and
saw logs. 1t is decidedly worth while
to keep all Of the farm at work. The
owner pays taxes on all his land, and
is out Of pocket for whatever is not
earning him something. Further. by
growing a tree crop on land that is
too poor to plow the quality of the
land itself is improved. Forests add
humus to the soil, bettering its char
acter,
In the early stages of the disease
heaves may be cured by turning the
afflicted animal upon pasture or keep
ing on cornstalks or other dustless lax
ative food. Hay should not be allowed
except at night, and then in small
amount and shaken free from dust.
The bowels must never be constipat.
ed, the stable must be kept well aired.
and the use of water for drink, into
which a few drops of oil of pine tar
have been put, is recommended. DO
not use 100 much of the tar, as it will
| nauSedte.
| Here is recipe for sailing meat
which has proved satisfactory: For
| 100 pounds of meat take ten quarts of
saltpeter; one pound of pepper and
two pounds of yellow sugar. Mix
well. put in tub or some suitable
vessel, and then apply the mixture
well to the meat. Care should be
taken to apply it thoroughly in the
cracks and around the edges. After
the meat has taken all the salt pos
sible hang it up and powder it with
powdered boraX. Then smoke the
meat. This is said to be the most
successful method of sailing meat
there is. both from standpoint OF
purity and flavor.
Where hay is stacked in the field
hay derrick is almost necessity. You
can make one for yourself as follows:
Get a main pole about As feet long.
Plant on heavy plank that is pegged
to the ground, and run from the top of
the pole three guy ropes and fasten to
stakes is to 20 yards distant. The
boom for the top is made of a pole
about . feet long and is hinged to a
metal band on the upright pole at
about ten feet from the top A heavy
rope about II feet long secures the
outer end of the boom to the top of the
main pole The hay fork is attached