The state herald., 1908-10-23
Keep out of deb. If 1T is a possible

Molasses is coming more into favor
as n stock feed.
Get the corn husked before the snow
flies. Push the work
Pick your brood sows from the pigs
that belonged TO large litters.
Let the rams run with the sheep
only during the breeding season.
1t will cost you less to buy the dip
for the hogs than to feed the lice
Dip the hogs and clean up the pens
If you want to keep them free from
lice.
Keep your horse from bolting his
food. Mix the grain food with hay
cut in short lengths.
Except in southern localities 1t is
safer 10 plant fruit trees and straw
berry beds IN the spring.
Examine the horses feet occasion
ally and he sure small stones do not
become wedged in the shoes.
Don't store the vegetables too early.
Wait for weather verging on the freez-
ing point. then get them in quickly.
Some farmers have so many places
for their tools that IL Is hard for
them to know just where TO look for
them.
IL the strawberry bed as clean as
IL should be? No weeds should be
there when putting on the winter
mulch.
Tea made from buchu leaves is
recommended for horses having kid
ncy trouble. Dose. two ounces night
and morning.
Look ont for the stock during the
cold, sleety rains OF the fall Provide
shelter for them. or exposure will
cost you dearly.
Let the crops you failed to get this
year help you to better things next
year. Learn your lesson and profit
by the disappointing experiences.
II II is light, dry and wind.proof the
house will prove good for poultry, no
matter whether II measures up to
modern ideas of poultry architecture or
not.
Some farmers are so shiftless that
they will let young pigs sicken and die
light under their eyes as result OF
lice and will then wonder why they
have such poor luck.
Pick up any new ideas at the fair?
Test them out on the farm and make
them work for you. The new idea Is
valuable only when you put II into
the concrete form OF action.
Get the best ewes you can buy. II
YOU find pleasure and profit In sheep
raising, Sheep are reasonably cheap
his fall, In buying look well 10 the
size. form and texture OF the wool
coat.
In tests with asparagus In France
4 was partly concluded that the green
sprouts have the best flavor. and this
was believed To be due TO the pres.
enco of the chlorophyll. the green col.
Jring matter In the skin.
The farmer who spends all his time
at the state or county fair at the
amusement booths and upon the rnco
rack Is the farmer who goes home
without any new ideas or any ambl.
lion to raise better livestock.
KIN pea and bean weeylls now by
quitting these seeds into air.tight YES.
sells and fumlgnting them with blsul
1hide Of carbon. II the infested beans
be not fumlgated now. the weeyll will
continue to feed In them and TO mul
iply all winter.
Farmers are generally to blame for
he spread OF hog cholera because at
he FIRST suspicion OF the outbreak OF
he disease the afflicted animals are
rot Isolated from the rest Of the herd
and the hog quarters changed and the
I'D quarters dlalnfocted.
The stronger friendship you can
cultivate with the colts the easier will
YOU hnd II 10 train them and the
more willing servants will they be.
come. Get them Into the habit OF
ooking for the bit of sugar or other
idbit Speak gently TO them and po,
hcn.
Now la the time to sort over the
chickens, II you have not done Il be.
ore Select the mnat pfomialnp fof