The Elbert County tribune., 1908-01-23

Bed the horses well so they will not
bruise their knees on the floor.
You help yourself when you help
your neighbor to be a better farmer.
Mix your feeds dry and wet after
wards. If you want to secure a good
mixture.
Eggs from the best of the two-year-
old layers are considered best for
Matching.
With goodly flock of chickens the
farmer is never at a loss for little
ready money.
able at low enough price 1t makes a
practical dressing for roads.
When buying stock for breeding
purposes be willing to pay the price
which will secure the good grade ami
NAL.
II the temperature of your fruit and
vegetable cellar ranges too high open
the door during the night and close it
during the day
The mistakes of the past should be-
come stepping stones to better things
this year, not stumbling blocks which
are going to bring further failure.
To sell the corn off the farm sells
the fertility off the place but fed to
the stock it returns a double profit, in
fattened cattle and hogs and in
manure.
When the name and tail are al
lowed to become clogged with dirt it
is apt to create itching. resulting in
the horse rubbing himself in such a
way as to injure them
A diary for the dairy might be
good thing this year. Begin to keep
a record of the cows. See what each
one is doing. Test the milk once a
month. Weed out the poor COWS.
Keep the appetites of the hens
sharp, so that they will always be on
the search for food. Underfed is bet
ter than overfed with poultry every
time. But the best rule is to study
your flock and feed just right
Making time and marking time
sound good deal alike, but they are
vastly different in fact. The maker
of time is the hustler, the marker of
time is the fellow who stands still
and shuffles. Lots of stepping but no
headway.
1t is said that not two per cent. of
the edible plants of the world are
grown by the American farmers. This
is reason enough, then, why the gov
ernment should send its agents into
all the world to find new plants better
adapted to our lands than some we
are now growing.
Swifts words are still true: Who
ever makes two ears of corn, or two
blades of grass. to grow where only
one grew before, deserves better of
mankind, and does more essential
service to his country than the whole
race of politicians put together" Can
you stand up brother and say that's
me?"
Mark it down as a safe rule that the
bleating calf lacks something in the
way of food, water or care to insure
its comfort. However there are calves
that will bleat almost continuously
and for no other reason apparently
than because they are of that uneasy,
restless spirit which marks them as
undesirable to raise for dairy pur-
poses. Get rid of such animals.
Lord John Russell held farming in
high esteem. He said: an a moral
point of view, the life of the agricul-
turist is the most pure and holy of
any class of men; pure, because it is
the most healthful, and vice versa
hardly find time to contaminate it;
and holy, becafse it brings the Diety
perpetually before his view. giving
him thereby the most exalted notions
of supreme power, and the most en-
during view of the divine benignity."
Some fruit growers make practice
of washing their fruit trees once a
year with soap suds. The rough bark
is scraped off. This destroys possible
hiding places for injurious insects.
After the scraping wash the trunk of
the tree, as far up as you can reach.
with strong soap solution: One part
soft soap to 109 parts of water. An
old broom is good thing with which
to apply the wash. The forks of the
tree should receive a good washing
too.