The Columbus journal., 1908-11-25
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NJ FARM
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Always take you wife into your
confidence and let her help you work
out the hard problems.
Care must always be taken in feed
ing new oats after old dry oats. The
change should be gradual.
stock which will not pay their way
through the winter season.
Feed all stock SO that there will be
gain. Ii is a losing business to feed
SO as to just keep them even.
Ask the wife's advice and follow 1t
after ii is given. You cannot go Tar
wrong when you trust her judgment.
Keen the skim milk on the farm.
You cannot afford to let it go. Get
separator. sell the cream and feed the
milk to the pigs and calves.
A windbreak for the orchard would
prove a good thing and evergreens are
about the best for this purpose. Plan
10 set some out in the spring.
Plan to improve the long winter
evenings by some course of study or
reading and in planning out the work
for next season. Try each year to
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One method of feeding molasses to
horses or other stock is to mix 1t with
water and dampen the hay which has
been cut into short lengths. Then to
this the ground feed may be added.
Fall blowing of the ground is good
both because 1t exposes many insects
to the killing frosts Of winter. and
also because ii puts the ground into
condition for early planting in the
spring.
II you have kept q record Of your
field operations and made note of soil
and crop conditions during the grow
ing season you will have valuable
memoranda for comparison with the
actual results obtained and will thus
be able intelligently to determine what
are the best methods for you to follow
in your farm operations.
Plan work for the rainy days. A
good job for the days when the wealth
er shuts YOU in is that of going over
the harness, oiling and repairing 1t. A
majority of farmers are very slack in
the way in which they care for the
harness. Cleaning and oiling and re.
pairing weak places will make harness
last twice as long as it will under
conditions of neglect.
The department of agriculture has
estimated that the crop values will
mount up to eight billions of dollars
five hundred millions more than last
year. Who dares to say that this
has been a poor year? 1t has been
trying one in some respects and some
sections have suffered, but taken as q
whole the farmers have done better
than ever before. Praise God from
whom all blessings flow.
To have good silage one must have
good silo. If you are going II
build one and want to get the best II
formation regarding the best types
OF silos, send to the Iowa Agriculture
college for its recent bulletin on sill
construction. This bulletin gives II
condensed form the advantages ant
disadvantages of all the various type!
OF silos. together with practical hint:
on their construction. PrOfuse Illus
trations aid in making the meanin,
clear. II is a pamphlet that will b
invaluable to any farmer or dairymal
who is contemplating the erection
silo.
Farmers who are in any way en-
gagged in fruit raising will be intel
ested in the program planned by tn
Illinois State Horticultural society TO
its annual convention at Champaign
1t proposes to give course or Lex
lures and laboratory work along prat
tical horticultural lines in addition t
the usually interesting program
which includes instruction in the prOI
agation of plants by seeds. cuttin
and grating. the grading and packing
of fruits and the selection and jude
ing of exhibition fruits. Three Who'll
days will be devoted to the subject o
spraying. in its various phases. Thre
sessions will be given to the stud
and demonstration of pruning frui
trees. Due attention will be given t
landscape gardening. Horticulture an
vegetable gardening.
lands are not to be found in the grea
arid west. nor in the swamp lands O
some of our southeastern states. The
are to be found in small patches on in
Vulnerable farms throughout the cour
try. And why so? Because on
farmers are thoughtless and careles
and do not by the best methods &c
the best out of their soil. By specia
treatment there is scarcely a squar
foot of ground on any farm which car
not be made to pay a profit. Ho'
much of your farm is PRACTICAL
worthless? Study it up. Don't le
it lie idle any longer. If it need
draining. tile it. If it needs bui.cin
up, put stock on it and fertilize /
Find out what is the matter with
and then apply the remedy. Your stat
agricultural college stands ready {
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