The Elbert County tribune., 1908-01-30
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heterogeneous food for the sows that
are in pig.
salt the cows every day rather than
at long and irregular intervals
A steady man and a steauy old
horse are needed to break the colt
right
Don't let the flock run down in CON
tiuon. Well-fed poultry are poor sub
lects for disease.
Feed regularly. The poultry will do
better and will show their apprecia-
ton in the fuller egg basket.
Proht by the mistakes made last
year. Don't fail second time in the
same way and on the same thing.
Better a small farm clear of debt
and well worked than a great big one
burdened with debt and not half
worked.
! The COW with the finical appetite
VIII not prove the profitable COW. The
COW must be a hearty feeder to give
a generous yield.
Can't afford a tank heater? Well.
you certainly can't afford to let your
cattle drink the water through the hole
cut in the ice in the tank.
Of course you cannot dip the sheep
now, but you can sift insect powder
into the wool and rub 1t well in. This
I Will knock the ticks and give relief to
the sheep.
What are you doing to make your
locality better? A good question to
ask yourself during these days when
you have time to think and leisure to
do the kindly deed.
| Have few nut trees on the place.
TheX are slow growers, but once es-
tabfshed they will provide your chill
dren and your children's children with
reason for thanksgiving to the planter.
The reason beef cattle are harder
than dairy cattle is that they have
more fat worked through the muscles.
The dairy cattle put the fat into the
milk or deposit 1t around their intes-
tines to be drawn upon when needed.
This country imports 5000, 900
worth of tropical fruits each year.
! Which leads us to ask how much of
this fruit hunger of our people might
/ be supplied by n better fruit produc-
tion at home? Are you helping to sup
/ ply the need?
It takes variety of feed to keep the
appetite keen and working to the full
limit. Remember this in your feed
ing. When steers begin to fuss over
snapped corn give them a change once
day of corn-and-cob meal, and along
toward the finish, deal out two pounds
of oil meal once day to each steer.
II you haven't a workshop in which
you can put little stove to give your
comfortable temperature in which to
work while repairing and overhauling
the machinery provide one at once. 1t
may mean little outlay, but 1t will
more than come back to you in the
facility and ease with which you can
make your repairs.
The Book Farmer Is generally the
progressive farmer. To be sure there
may be sometimes too much science
and theory and not enough practical
good common sense, but the farmer
who has the rare grace of combining
the two is the farmer who is raising
the average of farming and proving
that there is profit and pleasure in
the vocation.
By groups of three. Try them:
Three things to wish for-health.
friends, and a cheerful spirit. Three
things to delight in-frankness, free
dom, and beauty. Three things to ad-
mire-power, gracefulness, and dig
nifty. Three things to govern-tem-
per, tongue. and conduct. Three
things to hate-cruelty. arrogance, and
affection. Three things to love-pur-
ity, truth and honor. Three things to
be-brave, gentle, and kind.
Georgia is on the road to agricul-
tural prosperity, for an educated peo-
pie means better farms and better
farming. The legislature of that state
last year passed an act establishing IL
agricultural high schools as branches
of the State College of agriculture.
These schools receive from the state,
each, about $4,000 year, but each
community in which such a school is
located must furnish net less than 200
acres OF good land and the necessary
equipment The people of Georgia
have reRnOndad enfhltsIa aficaIIu 10