The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1908-10-07
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W. FARM
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1t is impossible to keep the milk
utensils too clean.
Corn for the silO had rather be toe
ripe than too green.
The dairy without the Babcock test
er is like the engine without the gov
ernOr.
Cream that Is ripe for churning pre-
sents smooth, satiny appearance
when stirred.
The well-wOrn hoe is a good testi.
mOnial for the farmer. The rusty hoe
tells another tale.
Little things done in season will
tighten the big tasks and make farm
ing more pleasant and profitable.
One farmer recommends quarter
pound doses of baking soda for collie
in animals.
The fruit tree that shows a tenden-
cy to split at the crotch can be saved
by boring a hole at the point of the
split and putting a bolt through with
a washer at either end.
A twO-inch hole bored a foot deep
into the stump and filed with salt
peter to which water is added and left
to stand couple of months will
hasten the burning of the stump
The intestinal nOdules in nOdular
disease of sheep have been regarded
as tuberculOus in character, but are
now known to be due to the irrita-
ton caused by the immature form of
an intestinal worm.
After harvesting the root crops turn
the sheep in ON the fields. They will
pick up many of the small roots left
behind. Surprising how much good
feed is lost if the animals do not help
to pick it up.
Carrots are good feed for dairy cows
as well as other stock. When not fed
in too large quantities they provide
the best winter food for the milk cows.
The carrot is always greedily eaten
by stock, as it has in it a consider
able quantity of sugar and no element
of bitterness. Carrots are also sup
ho in
direction desired. but it would take
a good many carrots to accomplish
much in this regard. The effect of
feeding carrots is very good on the
digestive system.
Hogs need clear water and plenty of
it. The amount of water they natur
ally use is very great. 1t has been
found that a pig fed corn meal as a
principal diet used about 900 pounds
of water to 100 pounds of gain. A
pig fed barley meal used 1900 pounds
of water in making 100 pounds of gain
on that diet. Many pigs get little
moisture outside of what they get in
the slOp. They should have separate
drinking tank or trough filled with
water where they can drink whenever
they so desire Even if they get an
abundance of slOp they will drink
much water.
The appointment of a commission
by the president to study farm con-
iitions with a view to suggesting re-
:orms that will make farm life more
pleasant and wholesome has afford
cd the humorists Of the country a /
new subject for their witticisms
Here is how it strikes the rhymster
On the Washington Post:
We've been Investigated down to Pohick
on the Crick,
An 1 reckon that reform win strike us
farmers purity quick;
We want the chickens taught to lay an
egg just as they should,
Thout settin' up a cackle that'll wake
the neighborhood;
We want the pigs to break away from
customs of the past
An learn to use finger bowl and not
to eat so fast,
And cows should be persuaded not to
overturn the pals
When milkin' time comes round, an not |
be switchin' Of their tails.
We ought to make arrangements with |
the weather bureau, too, |
For havin' rain turned On or OF, accord |
in as it's due;
It's a mighty glorious feelin' to be look |
in toward the day
When we'll give up all the bothers Of our |
plain old-fashioned way.
When We'll sit up on fence rail in |
some cool an shady nook
An help the corn an 'taters grow by !
readin' from a book.
We've rolled our shirt sleeves down: no |
body wants to do lick
Until this farm reform has Lit at Pohick
on the Crick.
"No," said farmer with whom I
my horses until they are four years
of age. They always do better work
than the horses of my neighbors that
are broken earlier" What did he
mean? His idea of breaking a colt |
was putting it to hard work, and when
l suggested that the training of colt
should begin early in the first year he
looked at me in amazement. l asked
him IL it was not pretty tough job
breaking the four-year-olds, and he
admitted 1t was. The training of
colt does not mean that he must be
worked. 1t simply means the edu-
eating Of the animal to obey words of
to submission to touch of
harness and to follow the guidance of
the reins. And how easy all this is
while the colt is young and easy to
handle. A horse broken in this way