The Elbert County tribune., 1908-04-09


els of grain a week
Be on the lookout for new ideas.
Little danger that you will ever know
too much about farming.
As the American farmer is known
abroad-'American butter is the
name given in Syria to oleomargarine
Overfeed or underfeed, irregular
feeding or improper feed are mistakes
to be avoided if stock raising is to
prove profitable.
Be careful and do not let the young
horses strain themselves under the
heavy spring work. An injury done
will be hard to overcome
Use spring wagon when hauling
fruit or vegetables. If you haven't
one get the springs for your farm
wagon to be used when needed.
Make up your mind now that next
winter you will take that short course
at the agricultural college which you
had half mind to try this year, but
just didn't.
Fodder which is scattered on the
ground and run over by the sheep ia
practically waste, for they will not
touch it, although perhaps suffering
from hunger.
Not had idea as the horses come
into the hard work of the spring to
clip them. A heavy coat of wet hair
is not very comfortable in cold
spring breeze.
Never think of marketing a thin
horse. The food it will take to put
him in good flesh will more than come
back to you in the better price you
will get for the animal.
Take a day off sometime and work
out a scheme whereby you can sell
some of your produce direct to the
consumer rather than paying most OF
the profit to the commission man.
In pan-raised cream you have the
pans to wash and where separator is
used you have the separator to wash.
Where is the difference? This for
those to answer who object to the sep
arator because of the work of wash.
ing it.
or fnf ho hno foi cd
ness just because you think a mud
hole and trough full of slop is all
that is needed to produce marketable
animals. Right kind of care and right
kind of feed are necessary to profit.
able hog raising.
The two important elements in feed
are the proteids, or tissue forming ele-
ments, and carbohydrates, or fat
formers. In breeding and growing
stock thought should be had for the
foods rich in protein, as clovers, milk.
oats, vegetables and wheat middlings
A good carriage horse will bring
from 5000 to $500 in almost any horse
market. while scrubs that cost almost
as much to raise will bring only half
that sum. While you are in the horse
raising business breed to good sire
and get an animal that is worth
while.
The wise dairyman need not fear tt1-
berculosis provided he Systematically
fights it. Test the herd at least once
year and remove those found to be
infected. Receive no new stock that
has not passed the test. This method
trected only by contact with diseased
animals.
Put in the raw material and bring
forth the finished product is what the
farmer does when he fertilizes his
soil and cultivates 1t and grows his
crop. Such farmer is in profitable
manufacturing business. But he who
takes from the soil and puts nothing
in the place of the crop removed Is
like the miner taking riches from the
ground and making no return.
Asparagus and rhubarb need lots of
manure, and scarcely too much can be
applied to the soil. Whatever may
be said concerning the typhoid bacil-
lus in horse manure and its dangers
to strawberries, certain it is that it
does not apply to rhubarb and aspara-
gus, for the latter plants are cooked
before eating SO that any germs which
might be present would be destroyed.
Prof. f. T. Hart of the University of
Wisconsin has devised a new milk
test for the discovery of the casein
content of the milk, and which is of
special interest to the cheese maker.
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