The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1908-10-28
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It's the singing hen that is the layer
Slick up around the place before the
SHOWS fly.
The neglected hen is an Indifferent
profit maker.
Overcrowding means under profits
with the poultry
Open burrows through the grain
field to carry OF the surplus water.
Take a little pride In your place and
have 1t trim and tidy on the road side
Sunlight for the calf pens! Remem.
Der that. II you would have them
thrifty.
1t Is q mistake to keep ewes that
are over five or six years old. Fat.
ten and market.
Do not breed the ewes before they
are from q year to IS months old, IL
you would have large sheep.
The better farmer is evolved from
the farmer that sees his mistakes
and tries to do better next time
Certified milk is simply clean milk
whose quality is vouched for by the
producer and some accredited party
Whatever it is that you have not
done that you have intended doing
quit your prOmissory attitude and DO
1T NOW.
Be sure that the stables and pens
are thoroughly cleaned and white.
washed before the winter weather sets
in In earnest.
Dirty, musty bedding does not make
good feed for the horses, and they
will not eat 1t II given enough good
hay and feed.
Don't leave the potatoes in the
ground too long. Water-soaked
ground or blistering sunshine do not
do them any good after the vines are
dead.
No farmer to-day can afford to let
his boy. whom he hopes to have sue
coed him upon the old farm. go
without a course at the state agri-
cultural college.
Not only oil the farm machinery
when putting it away. but paint the
wooden parts. 1t doesn't take much
paint, but it makes the machines and
tools last good sight longer.
Money in raising colts if you do the
square thing by mare and offspring
from start to finish. But don't think
you can get good animal from a
scrub stallion. Remember that blood
will tell.
When weaving two or more colts
does not become the boss and rob
the others of their food. In many
cases of unthrift it is due to lack of
nourishment from this cause
A sup of milk for the cats will keep
them tied to the dairy barn and make
them good partners in keeping the
place free from rats and mice. Re-
member that many a farmer loses a
tidy sum in providing board for the
rodents.
II you do not clean the fertilizer at
tachment to the grain drill before put
ting away for the winter and oil the
parts, you will find in the spring an
incrustation on the inside that will be
hard to clean and which has eaten
well into the iron.
Pianos. like many other things
which contribute to the Joy and profit
of life, are finding their way more
and more into the farmhouses of the
land, and women folks are learning to
play them, too. Pleasant on the win
ter evenings to have good play and
sing.
In severe cases of "kneestring" give
the horse complete rest. shorten the
toe and apply a high-heeled shoe and
hot lamentations continuously. or cold.
astringent lotions. When heat and ten
derness subside the high-heeled shoe
may be dispensed with. the foot shOd
level and active blisters applied To-
dide of mercury is the best.
Whitewash the henhouse. It will not
only kill on the lice but will set as
a disinfectant 1t is q mistake to sup
pose that lice must only be fought
during the hot months. The vermin
are ever present, though during colo
weather they are not so active-anG
that is just the best time to catch
them. The more carefully you do this
work in the fall, the less trouble you
will have in the spring.
The highest yields of the socalled
Alaska" wheat which the Colorado
and Idaho experiment stations were
able to obtain under the most favor
able conditions were from 20 to 30
bushels per acre. This is great dis
appointment to those who were ad
vised that a yield of 200 bushels to the
anro uac tho usual result Moreover