The Columbus journal., 1908-07-15

There is never an overproduction
of choice fruit
Milk twice a day and milk at regu-
lar times if you would obtain the best
results from your herd.
Whether it is sunshine or rain, the
good dairy cow is always busy turning
profit for her owner.
Chickens in the orchard pick up
thousands of insects, worms, ETC..
which would prove injurious to the
trees and fruit.
Starved land cannot grow good
crops. Provide the elements which
the crop needs and harvest day will be
q day of rejoicing.
Don't let the work-Gay drag out to
IL and 16 hours. Ten hours of field
work is enough and will accomplish as
much in the long run as a longer Gay.
Try it and see.
A few days Of pasturing on the stub
Bile fields after the grain is cut and out
of the way will provide considerable
good feed for the stock and will be a
good thing for the field.
Tile are far to be preferred to the
open ditch. They cost more, but they
do the work of drainage more perfect
ly, and do not offer the chance for
the soil to wash away as is the case
with the open ditch.
Don't haul your hogs in tight box
wagons. The loss Of one hog by over,
heating will more than pay for a
panel rack for the wagon. Money Is
well-invested that provides greater
comfort for the stock.
The fenced farm is the only one on
which livestock can be kept and the
rotation of crops followed. and as this
method of farming is the only profit
able one in the long run. it follows
that the farm must be fenced to be
handled properly.
Twenty per cent: butter fat weighs
BAG pounds to the gallon after all the
air has settled from it. while the
40 per cent. weighs only s.22 pounds.
When fresh from the separator the
weight is less because of the air con-
tanned In the cream.
The Holstein breeders in their re-
cent national meeting appointed a
committee to secure a federal law
for the inspection of cattle for tuber-
culosis and to do away with inspection
by the states. There is no question
that such a law would prove advan-
tageous.
Prevent the soil washing on your
farm. Many fine fields in some of the
western states have been ruined by
soil washing. Some are washed so
badly that they can no longer be
worked with modern farm machinery.
Soils that have a good supply of hui
mus are not subject to washing. as
they have a greater WITHHOLDING ca
pacity.
Unless the stock is fed an amount
over and above that which is needed
for body maintenance there will be no
gain. A thousand-pOund steer has
been found by experiment to require
daily Is pounds of timothy hay, II
pounds Of clover hay and seven
pounds of corn meal just to keep on
an even keel. More must be fed if
there is to be any gain.
An enterprising merchant in a west
ern town has fitted up a rest room for
the wives of farmers who drive to
town and who sometimes have tedious
waits for the husband to finish his
business and his street-corner gossip.
Furnished as it is with rockers and
tables on which are magazines, fash
ion books. etc, it is growing in popu-
larity, and is good advertising for the
merchant. Here is a hint for mer-
chants in other towns.
Be sure that the influence OF the
hired help upon your boys is not harm
full. You are pressed for the need Of
help and you take in most anybody
that will give you the needed assist
ance, and that person may be impure
in thought and deed. he may be given
to vile language and delight In telling
the unclean story. Do not let your
boy be thrown with such a person
whole days at a time. Think of the
corrupt seeds which may be sown in
a boys impressionable heart. and
which are almost sure to bring forth
fruits of misdeeds some day.
It seems at the present time that
the graduates of the state agricultur-
al schools Of the country are finding
no trouble in getting located. The
young man who knows the science of
good farming and how to apply II
commands $75 to 500 a month, with
his board and lodging, and lives cas-
lily. comfortably and wholesomely. The
farmer, who can do so. should give
his sons the education that will thus
lift them to the heights of their &C.
cupation. Young men trained SO that
they can command such financial re-
turns for their services to others can
use their scientific training to still
greater profit for themselves. The sci.
entific farmer, who is worth 800 or
$50 q month to another man, is