Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1908-08-12

Cleanliness Is essential In hog rails
g as 1t is in. the dairy
/ Make your own repairs whenever
nd wherever possible
When the sows are sucking their
Young they should be fed some grain
Raising mules ought to be profitable
when young team will sell fron $500
10 5000.
Feed all the corn and oats to the
iambs you would force to marketable
condition.
The successful farmer must be Jack
or all trades and complete master Of
the art of farming,
BE not Weary in fighting the lice, for
in due season they will get your fowls
if you do not get them.
The good reputation is not gained
by pretense, but by being and doing
what you desire to appear to be.
! Paint the rfngworm spots on the cat
tic with tincture of iodine, or smear
with sulphur and lard, or other good
oil
The horse that has worked hard all
Gay has earned a good feed, a good
curryins and a good bed See that he
gets them.
Is it right? is the only correct basis
Of settling every question Will it
pay? should only be asked after the
first is answered squarey.
If you let the cows shorten up on
their milk yield during the hot months
because of short feed, they will not
regain their maximum yield until after
they come fresh again
Let your mistakes become stepping
stones to better things Experiences
is dear teacher, sometimes, but
lessen thoroughly learned under his
discipline often proves lifelong
blessing.
One Of the quickest ways of improy-
ing the soil of a farm is to put it down |
to clover, field by field and pasturing
the hogs on it. Cow peas may also
be sown and when full growth is at.
tanned the hogs may be turned in
Questions you cannot ask yourself |
too often Do things look tidy about |
the premises? Is there place for
everything and is everything in its
place? Do | realize the value Of the
manure and am getting it out of the
land as fast as possible?
Here is a hint for the housewife:
Mildew in white clothes may be re-
moved by soaking for short time in
! pail of water to which has been add
I'd heaping tablespoonful of chloride
If lime and then hanging out in the
sun to bleach. Repeat the process if
he mildew does not all disappear.
Good alfalfa seed should be yellow,
With faint tinge of green, the seeds
ire mostly pointed at one end, al
hough many are kidney-bean shaped
md few are nearly round. The latteri
ire difficult to tell from seeds of sweet
lover or trefoil. But clover seeds are
much larger than alfalfa seeds, al
hough of the same shape.
Ticks leave sheep after they are
heared and go to the lambs on ac-
cunt of the better protection offered
hem by the long lambs wool. 1t is a
.ood plan to dip the lambs, using a
God commercial or tobacco dip. To
make sure they are free from ticks
hey should be dipped twice, as new.
Of is apt to come on. The second dip
ing should be given about two weeks
fter the first.
The trap nest has revealed some in
and suggestive conditions
)ne man reports 215 eggs from IA
irds for last January. AS they were
il trap-nested he knew the eggs of
ach. One hen laid 1856 eggs in her
rst laying year; As of them were laid
uring the Matching season and all in
ubated only five were infertile, One
ullet, whose egg record was about
he same, did not lay single fertile1
gig the whole season. She was put
18th different males in an effort toI
ct some fertile eggs from her, but
he effort was not successful. The
uestion arises, do we breed out fers
lity by breeding for large egg yields,
nd shall we be Obliged to begin with
he old average layer, after series
+ years, and breed up to the large
gg yield again?
An agricultural banking system Is
uggested by some who would aim to
erve the interests Of farming com
lunities and prevent the money Of
he farmers getting into the CONTROL