The Columbus journal., 1908-08-19

Water sprouts should be kept cat
out
Don't delay longer the marketing OF
the old surplus stock.
Dip for the ticks. Sheep infested
cannot be fitted for market.
Know Your commission man before
consigning him a shipment of goods.
Cows that are neutrality-suspicious.
forced-to drink stagnant water will
give strinsy or ropy milk.
Plow the poultry runs. 1t will make
them look better and will give the
hens new ground to scratch in.
Clean cool water at this time Of
year is needed by all kinds OF farm
stock. II they would keep in prime
condition.
In picking out the hens that are to
be sent to market be sure that you get
the ones that will no longer prove
profitable to you.
The irritable man makes a poor
driver Of horses. for his Ill temper
makes the horses nervous and he is
never able to get the best work out of
them.
The Indiana couple whose friends
made them presents of live poultry
on their wedding day ought to feel
that they have a calling to the poul-
try-raising profession.
One farmer who has had trouble
with mud wallows around his hog
troughs and who had tried clay and
sand without effect used sawdust IA
a last resort and found il worked ex-
cellently
Get Babcock tester and ascertain
the quality of your cream. The gov
ernment will send you pamphlet ex-
planning all about the machine if you
will write TO the department Of agri-
culture at Washington.
Sometimes sheep get deep wounds
in which after a time masgOts hatched
from the eggs Of flies find lodgment
In such case inject kerosene to drive
out the maggotS. Treat every day
until the wound is healed.
High time that the flock was sorted
over. the wethers being penned to-
gether and fed literally for market.
and the breeding stock put by itself
and fed with a view of obtaining
strong. healthy progeny next season.
The poultry interests Of the farm
are growing. Time was a few years
ago when the farmer was content to
market five dollars worth of eggs a
month. now he thinks nothing of ship
ping 60 cases a week, and he counts
i q sort of pick up.
About the best thing you can do
With your common stock rams is to
sell them. Then add a little more to-
he selling price and so off and buy
full bred animal to head your flock
or the coming year IL may seem like
at the time but you will
zee the wisdom of it as you look over
he lamb crop of next year
Turn the farm waste and neglected
pots into wood lots where you can
row your own posts. poles, fences and
aw logs. 1t is decidedly worth while
wner pays taxes on all his land. and
5 out of pocket for whatever is not
arning him something. Further, by
rowing a tree crop on land that is
DO poor to plow the quality of the
md itself is improved Forests add
umus to the soil, bettering its char
cter.
Here is a recipe for sailing meat
-hich has proved satisfactory: For
90 pounds of meat take ten quarts OF
altpeter: one pound Of pepper and
NO pounds of yellow sugar. Mix
-erl, put in a tub or some suitable
essel, and then apply the mixture
-ell to the meat Care should be
,ken to apply it thoroughly in the
racks and around the edges. After
he meat has taken all the salt pos
bile. hang it up and powder IL with
owdered borax. Then smoke the
.eat. This is said to be the most
lccessful method OF sailing meat
,ere is, both from a standpoint of
urity and flavor.
Where hay is stacked in the field
ay derrick is almost a necessity. You
IN make one for yourself as follows:
ct a main pole about As feet long.
liant on a heavy plank that is pegged
, the ground, and run from the top Of
le pole three guy ropes and fasten to
axes Is to 20 yards distant The
pom for the top is made of pole
bout Is feet long and is hinged to
etal band on the upright pole at
bout ten feet from the top. A heavy
,pe about II feet long secures the
lter end of the boom to the top of the
ain pole. The hay fork Is attached
: pulleys placed at the upper end Of
le boom at the point where this meets
le main pole and at the base Of it. By
eating this derrick between two
undctions two stacks can be built
ithOut moving II. A fine way to use.