The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1908-07-18

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1t is the early lamb TO the market
which catches the highest price.
You like your barb and the horse
likes to be curried. 1t does him good,
too.
Manage the pasture as would a hay
field. 1t is most important and
valuable part of the farm
The COW that has been intelligently
wintered will now give good report OF
herself as she gets On full grass.
As a rule 1t does not pay TO doctor
poultry. Preventive measures are bet
ter than all the remedies you can find.
Give the lawn clippings to the hens
and the little chicks. if they are con-
fined in yards. They will make good
use Of them.
Exchange ideas with your neighbor,
give him a helping hand occasionally,
speak the encouraging word, be really
and truly neighborly
The second corn exposition is
| booked for Omaha next December.
Go in and try for some of the many
prizes which will be offered.
A good COW poorly kept needs a
new master, poor cow well kept is
unavoidable. and should be sent to
the butcher to make room for good
COW.
Pumpkins growing in the corn rob
the corn of nothing which it needs,
and it gives the farmer an abundance
| of good feed for the cattle during the
winter
Keep in touch with the young stock
during the summer. Visit them at
least once a week Take them some
salt In this way you will keep them
from getting too wild.
Blue grass provides the most salts
factory pasturage as it forms firm
sod not injured by the tramping of
the cattle. It is a persistent grower,
and it is rich in protein.
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.
Mares milk for the colt is best, Of
course, but the little fellows can be
raised or COWS milk if it is managed
right The mares milk is thinner and
sweete3 than cows milk so that in
feeding the colts cows milk it should
be diluted and sweetered slightly
With the coming of warmer weather,
and the time of year when the mid
day sun is strong, do not forget that
the sheep and lambs need shade. If
there are no trees in the pasture, pro-
vide some kind of shelter. One can
be made out Of rough boards and
thatch roof in the fence corner.
Get the habit! What habit? The
habit of doing your farm work on time
methods In other words get the habit
of getting out of the ruts and staying
out The farmer is the most prone to
get into habits that are bad and then
sticking to them, so that it is hard to be-
lieve sometimes that he has any sense
at ALL Get the habit of getting out of
the old bad habits and getting into
good new habits.
Feed the skim milk, don't make
cheese Cheese sold off the farm
takes more nitrogen with it than but
ter, the loss being about one dollars
worth of nitrogen for every 1000
pounde of milk used. Ii you sell but
ter you sell only the butter fat, which
has no particular fertilizing value. If
you get your skim milk back and feed
it to pigs you save at least rs per
cent of the fertilizing material in the
milk There can be no objection to
making and selling cheese, however,
If the plan of farming includes some
means of restoring the nitrogen and
phosphates sent out in this way.
Ringbone that has become firmly es-
tablished upon a horses leg is hard
to treat Firing seems the most sat
tsfactory method, but this should be
done by a good veterinarian. In its
early stages rfngbone may sometimes
be cured by proper shoeing which will
straighten the foot and relieve the
strain which causes the trouble. Ring
bone Is caused by injury to the ten
dons of the foot Or by blows. sprains,
or overworking before the bones have
been fully formed and hardened. 1t is
regarded as one OF the diseases which
may be transmitted by heredity, or,
rather, the tendency to it may be
transmitted.
Pigs in the clover now mean dollars