The Jasper news. [volume] (Jasper, Missouri) 1898-1924, 1908-06-18

Pure water for the COW IL you want
pure milk from the COW.
Look for lice on the little chlckent
which do not seem to be thriving.
Sour milk is good for the little
chicks. Good for the laying hens also
Spray the currant and gooseberry
bushes with white helebore to kill the
worms.
Feed the lambs a mixture Of oats.
wheat bran and oil meal II you want
them to make specially rapid growth.
Sow some rape for the pigs. 1t can
be drilled in or broadcasted. It will
be ready for pasturing in about FIVE
weeks.
II weeds gets up before the corn
run a weeder through the field. 1t
will knock the weeds out and will
bring up the corn faster
The farmer who tests his seed corn
is the farmer who is saved the dis.
appointment of planting a whole field
and not having any of 1t come up.
It is the pig that grows right from
the start which proves the most profit
able animal to raise See that condi-
lions are right to produce the best re-
suits.
Too much stock on the pasture Is
mistake. 1t provides insufficient food
for the stock and causes them to Craze
it down so close as to permanently in
jure 1t. &
1t takes generous feeding to build
up the muscle cells broken down by
the hard work Of the busy season. You
cannot do this by feeding corn to your
horses. Feed oats.
A bulls a bull to some farmers, no
matter of what breed, or color, or dis
position. But never was greater mis-
take made by farmer than this. The
bull is more than half OF the herd.
The farmer who puts OFF securing
his seed corn until the last thing and
then plants anything he can get ready
quickly deserves no sympathy when
his cornfields prove disappointment,
Almost every farmer will find the
silo. a profitable Investment. BY it's
aid you can provide succulent feed
for the COWS the year round, and thus
keep the milk flow up to the top notch
all the time.
On the first rainy day now get the
haying tools In shape. Haying will
be upon us almost before we realize
1t. This promises to be a good hay
ing year. Prices may be lower, but
the larger crops will bring the profits
up to fully what they we're last year
Wet wood is an aggravation, and
there is temptation to use coal oil
to hurry matters. But don't do 1t
Many a person has tried 1t and been
injured or fatally burned. But why
wet wood at all? Why not have the
wood supply under shelter and so fal
ahead that 1t will have good time tc
season.
Encysted worms In sheep cannot BIZ
reached by drugs. Treatment mus
be preventive. The mature worms
must be expelled from the bowels by
the administration of vermifuge
surface waters must be avoided ant
pastures known to be infected should
be pastured by other stock for veal
or two.
Get through with the chores earl,
and spend the evening in mapping GU
I the work for the following day. III
| this way you will get time for needed
rest and will find that your time vii
count for more. The hired MAJ
should never have to spend his tim,
hunting you up to ask what he shall
do next. Give him his orders TO
the day. Don't crowd him too har,
but give him plenty to fill the day.
Theory and then practice. Pu
some of the new ideas you hav'
gained from reading during the winte
and from the discussions at the farm
ers' Institutes you attended to worl
for you. There is chance for improve
farm. There Is an easier or bette
| Way of doing things than has heen ii