The Columbus journal., 1908-11-04

Rape makes a good pasture Tor
hogs.
Piow the land only when 1t crum-
bles away from the plow.
Not. shall I build q silo?" but
How large shall build it?".
Get, things in shape for the win
ter. Make the poultry snug
Try feeding wheat to the hens and
see II it will increase the egg yield.
Kind words is the oil that makes
the machinery of life run smoothly.
Get after the tent caterpillars In the
trees. Cut out their nests and burn
them.
Why not a good dairy II dairy
herd at all? You can have such by
care in breeding.
Currant bushes should be propagat-
ed only from bushes that bear the
most and best fruit.
Attend to the tile draining this fall.
Perhaps all that ails that young or
chard Is the need of thing.
Poison vines growing in the fence
corners are poor testimonials to q
farmers character. Dig 'em out.
Good winter quarters must be pro-
vided for the sheep II they do well.
They need sunlight, fresh air and dry
floor.
Neglected to mark the turkeys ana
now there comes the dispute with the
neighbOrs as to who's who. and what's
what.
Pound for pound. sheep manure Is
three times as valuable as COW ma
nure. One argument in favor Of keep
ing sheep on the farm.
The manure spreader is drudge
saver. Many a farmer thinks he can
not afford one who would find that
few seasons work would more than
pay for it.
The overhead rack is a poor place
from which to feed the horse. Be-
sides being an unnatural way for the
animal to feed, it causes a great deal
of dust, which is a bad thing.
Have a hospital pen where the
sheep that give evidence of being
sick can be isolated and treated. Many
a contagious disease can in this way
be kept from spreading In flock.
Pull a few of the tomato plants on
which green tomatoes still hang and
put in the cellar They will ripen and
you will continue to have ripe. fresh
tomatoes until after Thanksgiving, II
you manage right.
The chief trouble with the party
line is that some folks make hogs
of themselves and monOpOlize the
telephone in visiting to the prevention
of the transaction of urgent business
by other parties on the same line.
Watch the chickens when the farm
er is going through the barnyard.
and you can often learn a heap as to
what kind of a man he is. II the
hens run as though in fear of their
lives be sure that that farmer has a
brutal strain in him which even the
chicks have discovered.
Don't let the fences get in bad re-
pair. 1t is not only an invitation to
the stock to get breechy. but it makes
the work of fixing them up much more
difficult than would have been the case
had they been fixed in season. Re-
member the old adage, "A stitch in
time saves nine"
A road which has successfully stood
he test of two years at MankatO,
Mimi. and cost only 80 cents a lin
aal foot, was made by OVERLAPPING the
ordinary road with crushed stone and
rravel upon which dressing of ce-
nent was spread followed by a coat
ng of sand and then well rolled.
In our opinion the best time for a
.ow to come fresh is in the fall, for
he stimulus which then comes to
he tactical glands will with proper
eeding and care continue a good milk
low through the winter; then, with
resh grass in the spring, a still fur
her stimulus is received. On the
,ther hand, the cow that Is fresh in
he spring receives all the stimulus at
nee, then as fly time comes she be-
,ips to shrink and when she goes
IN winter feed she falls on rapidly.
A farm paper suggests use for
Id tin cans by melting of the tops
nd bottoms and Strengthening out the
in and lining the inside of the chick
N house. 1t certainly would make
he walls and corners mice and rat
roof. but how about the lice and
mites? The small overlapping pieces
4 tin would prove ideal hiding places
or the pests. This dihiculty might
e overcome. however. by whitewash-
ne and making sure that the cracks
Tere plastered flush with the white