The Elbert County tribune., 1908-01-09

In cultivating the plum and cherry
orchards remember that it must be
shallow enough to avoid breaking the
roots. for the broken roots send up
shoots that suck the life OF the tree.
} Good deep hole in an out-of-the-
way place is the right place to plant
all the old tin cans, broken bottles
and other unburnable rubbish which
makes the premises SO unsightly.
Hercules cleaned the Augean stables
by flooding them with water from the
river. You can clean and sweeten
the atmosphere of your stables by
flooding them with sunlight.
Milk fed" poultry are poultry fat
tened for market on a milk and
ground oats diet. This food produces
white 1esh-just the kind that brings
the farcy prices.
Change the hog pasture often. Have
small house built on skids so it can
be dragged around to a new pasture
as desired. If hogs are fed long in
one place the grass is killed out.
Ever know a farmer to buy poor
COW because she was cheap and keep
her for years and think he had Sc
cured bargain? Many man is pen
ny wise and pound foolish when It
comes to the COW deal
One poultry raiser says he feeds
roupy chickens whole corn that has
been well soaked in kerosene. and
bathe the swollen heads and eyes with
mixture of equal parts of kerosene
and lard.
II there is not good balance struck
between the feed bucket and the milk
pail you better serve notice on your
COW THAI her room is better than her
company. Get rid of the Improbable
COW.
An uncultivated field will lose its
moisture very quickly, while a soil
which is stirred to the depth of two
or three inches SO that surface
mulch is formed keeps it's moisture
because the upward movement of the
moisture is checked.
Exclusive corn diet is bad for tho
brood SOW. She cannot farrow
strong pigs on such a fattening diet.
Little corn should be fed, but rather
ration made up of foods rich in
protein, such as wheat bran, ground
oats and clover.
A milking stool out of the core
around which fence wire comes wound
is the discovery of one resourceful
farmer. He nails a bit of board on
one end, to make the seat more COM
Portable, while he uses the auger hole
in the other end to hang the stool on
a nail when not in use.
Pride in ones own farm, stock, etc,
is all right, but don't let it become
stumbling block to you SO that
further progress towards better
things is stopped Always be on the
lookout for the new idea and the new
method which will increase the eff
cheney and profits of your farm.
Secretary of Agriculture Wilson es-
Inmates that more than $500, 900 900
must be regarded as value of the poul-
try and eggs produced on United
States farms in 1907. The farm price
of eggs December / this year was
given at 1872 cents, which is the high
est for long time, with the exception
of 1905.
In telling the conditions necessary
for the production of good butter one
maker who has made it life study
says you must back of the handling
of the milk and cream con-
slider first the quality of the COW and
next the quality of feed you are put
ting in her. Mold or any other impuri-
ties in the food is certain to affect the
flavor of the butter.
The lantern light Pickering in and
out Of the barn tells the story in many
cases of farmer who has put off the
chores until the darkness has fallen
Besides increasing the possibility of
fires by use of the lantern, the farmer
makes the work more difficult, for
one can always work much faster
and better by daylight. Why not plan
the work so that all the chores are
out of the way by nightfall?
Weston, the aged pedestrian, who
has just walked from Maine to Chi
cago, says the roads are worse now
than they were when he made the
trip forty years ago. Rather a Sc
we're indictment in view of all the
money which has been spent in road
improvement. Rather would 1t seem
as though it had been misspent. How