The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1908-09-02
H e %%%
AMaM,,. @-

Think right II you would walk
right.
Charcoal is good for the hens, es-
pecially in hot weather.
Lime wash all the stables. 1t will
make them sweet and clean.
The cleaner the poultry house the
less trouble there will be with pests
and diseases.
There are always two sides to the
farm help questionable helps side as
well as that of the farmer.
Screened stables and generous use
Of the spray will help you through the
summer without much loss in the milk
flow.
Don't get in the habit or dosing your
animals. Provide good care and good
feed and there will be little need to
dope them.
Provide good screens for the house
if you have not already done so. The
day of the old cloth mosquito netting
should be past for most farmers
Pigs in the orchard will pick up all
the windfalls and perform a double
service. They will destroy the in
furious insect life and they will also
grow fat on the fruit.
To mark your name upon metal.
melt tallow or beeswaX upon the tool
10 be marked, write your name in the
tallow or wax, being sure to scratch
clear through to the metal surface
Then pour into the letters thus made
a few drops of nitric acid. Leave for
q few minutes. Then wipe off acid
find >your tool has your name that
won't come off.
The farmer needs to know the plants
he would grow as well as the quality
of the soil he would cultivate. Plants
differ widely in composition, range of
root. period of growth and in their
ability to gather that which they need
from the soil. These are facts which
a farmer should be familiar with in
order that he may intelligently manure
the soil and plan the rotation of crops
he wishes to follow in a manner that
will give the best possible results.
Wireworms are difficult to get rid
of. Prof. Singerland's experiments
at Cornell have shown that salt is eff.
fective II used in sufficient quantities.
but he found that it would be neces-
sary to use some six to eight tons of
salt per acre to destroy the wire
worms, while even a dressing of 900
pounds per acre interfered with the
termination of wheat, and neither
drove the wire worms deeper into the
soil nor caused them to migrate to any
appreciable distance. He did find,
however. t1idt numbers
of the adult beetles were attracted
and destroyed by fresh punches of
clover dipped in strong paris green
water. Fall blowing. however. is eff
fective in destroying many of the click
beetles, the parents of the wire
worms. which hibernate in their pupal
cells. On the whole. a short rotation
OF crops is the only method of control
that can be unqaiifiedly recommended
bringing in. wherever possible, a
crop on which the pests do not thrive
well, as clover.
Here are the views of western cat
tleman on dehorning. His rule is to
always dehorn in the fall and to
never dehorn calves. He goes on to
say: Never breed polled cattle SIM
ply to avoid dehorning. If you think
the polled breed better than one with
horns. then all right, but everyone
knows that natural polled cattle are
more vicious than horned cattle if
the latter are dehorned properly at
the right time. Now to the point
Leave the cattle with horns until they
learn that they are weapons of de-
Tense and offense, then dishorn and
have them realize that they have been
deprived Of the weapons with which
they can inflict injury. This will
make them tame. Polled cattle are
never deprived of any weapons and
for this reason are not as void of
offense as the ones that have learned
TO use horns, and are then deprived
of them. The advantages of dehorned
cattle over natural polled stock more
than pay for dehorning.'
English dairy experts have just COM
pleted experiments which prove that
when in good condition a COW will
take of her body whatever is deficient
in food in order to give her normal
quality of milk. That an extra sup
ply of nutritious food at all times in
creases the quality of milk, but the
percentage of fat is not in any way i'm
proved by it; if anything, the tendency
being rather the other way. That an
extra supply Of nutritious food
almost Invariably increases the solids,
not fat, of the milk. That a ration
poor in food ingredients has a very
slight tendency to reduce the solids
not fat in milk, but has little appre-
cable effect on the fat. That with
a poor ration a COW in full weight will
lose carcass weight, while on a rich
diet she will get weight. That al