The Columbus journal., 1908-11-04
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III FARM
AMM.,. mr.

Herds grass.
Kill a sheep this fall and corn the
meat. 1t Is delicious.
Never feed more to the animals than
they will eat up clean
Often the pessimist needs a change
Of diet as much as anything else.
Keep down the weeds In the fall
1t will tighten the work in the spring
Pig raising Is most successful where
skim milk Is large part of the feed
ration.
Machinery all housed? You cannot
afford to let the rust eat out the lining
of your pOcketboOk
Irregular feeding Is one contribu-
tory cause to horses acquiring the
habit of boiling their feed.
Put mulch of strawy manure
around the berry bushes and the grape
vines, but don't put on too early.
Your first mistake is excusable. your
second. never; for no man has any
business making the same mistake
twice.
The dairyman's profits come in dur
ing all the year. That is one reason
why that type of farming is better
than any other.
A good herd of cows of one breed
and in thrifty condition is the best
kind of an index to the character of
the farmer who owns them.
Colts will not raise themselves. Hit
and-miss methods never yet produced
the best horses. Remember that rails
ing colts pays if you give them intel
ligent care
Careful feeding can keep up the
milk flow. 1t does not pay to let 1t
run down, for once a smaller yield is
established 1t cannot be increased I'M
til after another calving.
The cold rains of the fall prove a
great drain upon the vitality of the
live stock. The farmer that does not
provide shelter for the animals is
working against his own interests.
Not only place the farm machinery
under cover, but oil it up so that
atmospheric dampness will not rust
the exposed bright parts. A little
time now will save days Of trouble
next spring.
A tidbit in the way of piece of
sugar or an apple will prove ideal in
winning the confidence of the colt
Always have something for him, and
you will be proud and delighted at the
attention he will shower upon you.
Grade up your dairy cows by using
a pure bred bull. 1t may take few
years to do it. but each year saving
the best of the heifer calves will give
you in time a herd of sOws that will
prove far more profitable than your
present herd.
Raise the best crops you can and
sell them at the best price you can,
but don't speculate. The farmer that
begins to deal on the grain market has !
taken his first step to ruin, for moth
ing but failure and loss ever came to |
the farmer who tried his hand at the !
game.
An old swindle that is being tried |
on the farmers again is that of selling |
them a new and wonderful kind of
wheat and binding them by a contract |
to return to the man (whO thus places
them in a way to get rich). certain
number of bushels of the grain next
year. Look out for 1t.
Sheep that have been a long time
without salt are apt to make them
selves sick eating too much Of it
when the opportunity comes. Be
regular in feeding 1t to them, or. bet
ter still. provide box to which the
flock can have access at all times.
They will help themselves, and will
eat only such as is good for them.
Sun. rain and wind will do 1t harm
It loses a greater amount of its finer
particles by the teaching of rain water
than does soil that is covered with
some crop. 1t is well for a soil to be
covered most of the time. even il the
crop grown has to be turned under.
For this reason some agriculturists
SOW a crop in the early fall when it
IAN make only enough growth to part
y cover the ground during the win
.er. They pillow this under in the
spring.
Some fowls are weak because born
hat way. They inherited their weak
ness from the lack of materials or of
litality in the egg. Such birds will
-equire a good deal Of doctoring if
hey are to be kept alive and are the
,nes on which the most attention has
o be bestowed In any flock there is
certain per cent. Of this kind of
,irds and IL does not ray TO bother
much with them. They are good
enough for eating and should be fat
eped and disposed of. A weak fowl