Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1908-11-04

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TIE ram should be pastured away
from the ewes.
The good horse will sell himself.
Why raise any other?
Leaks in the barn and the house
roofs Should be fixed right away.
Before taking the colt from the dam
be sure he has learned to eat grain.
If you have not already done so,
do net delay to cut he asparagus tops
ana burn.
The crop Of children Is just as i'm
rortant looking ae,er and cultivating
Is the field crops.
Think Of the fruit season next year
md give The bushes AID trees the at
'tnuon they Ie,d
Proyi'n ', ~ Nlth for the hens
hafcr = a"d freezes ard it is
impossible 70 get the dust.
In dcc5'n~ wta ,yri-s to grow on
the farm be COVE ca ty those varie-
ties which do woll your locality.
,o01nu frr Iho 70 ord bic
family would be mere plentiful if the
chickens were managed more intelli-
gently.
Now is the time to go through the
orchards and vineyards and pick CO.
coons and egg clusters from the trees
and vines.
Good care of the work horses al
ways pays. The seasons hard work
should be Offset by better care and
better feed.
The old corn crib can be made rat
and mice proof by lining with wire
netting. The cost of netting is more
than Offset by the saving in corn.
The manure from COW is worth
about Sc year if hauled out to the
field at once; about SO as handled on
the average farm, Do you see the
point?
The suspicious noise in the hen
house may be a weasel at work. Find
out, rout out and kill if you possibly
can If you don't, rest assure Mr..
Weasel will.
| Dirt hauled on the roads means
muddy roads next spring. Do road
filling and dragging in the spring.
Then in the fall, supplement the work
by good dragging again.
Improvements continue to be made
in the milking machines, so that now
several seem to be doing satisfactory
work. Where Is or more cows are
kept the machines prove profitable.
Clean up the orchards, burn all rub
bish and you will not only destroy
many insect pests, but will remove
lurking places for mice who would
do injury to the trees during the win
ter time.
1 Knowing how much the cows are
giving in milk and knowing how much
it costs to produce it, are two differ
ent things. But the second is more
important than the first in carrying
on profitable dairying.
An all-around good fertilizer Is
made up of 500 pounds of nitrate OF
soda, 200 of good bone, 200 of acid
phosphate. 100 Of mnriate Of potash;
apply at the rate of 200 to 300 pounds
per acre. This is Prof. Voorhees, for
mula.
Paralysis in pigs II not Of long
standing may be helped and even
! overcome by giving three drops of the
fluid extract Of nux vomica in Is
I drops of the oil Of gaultheria, and 4
! tablespoonful Of cod-liver oil twice a
day for several weeks.
Store onions in a loft, rather than
in cellar, as in the latter place they
are apt to sprout. A few parAnips
can be well kept IN the cellar by put
ting in moist sand. Don't pull them
all, though, for freezing sweetens
them Potatoes should be stored in
bins.
II you do not want to keep the cab
bage In the cellar try this method
1 Select the driest place in the patch,
pull up the cabbages and stand close
( " together. heads down. Cover with
soil from five to SIX inches, thinIy at
flrst, 20 they win not heat, covering
only enough TO prevent freezing a.
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