The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1908-03-13


Save the waste on the farm and ar
ply it to lifting the mortgage.
AS a rule too little light Is admitted
to the COW stable. Put in some more
windows.
nursery stock dry out. Heel in until
ready to set out.
The low prices of some animals
prevailing now offer a favorable op-
portunity of stocking up.
High-priced corn and low-priced
hogs is a combination which has
caused the farmers some concern.
Dragging the roads when they are
the muddiest makes them the smooth.
est and hardest when they are dry.
The food trOughs and drinking foun-
tains should be kept clean and sweet.
Foulness here may result In sick
birds
1t is a good idea to keep track OF
the horses teeth. Sometimes little
bit of attention will save lots Of fu-
ture trouble.
The farmer who watches the little
things is the farmer who does the
big things in the way of crops and
stock raising.
If you are not breeding up, be sure
that Indifference and neglect is re-
sulting In a lowering of the grade of
your live stock
TT be sure fool of man can make
TOOL of colt by injudicious han
ding. but ordinary petting never hurt
a colt and never will.
Chickens will eat most anything, but
whatever the food it should be good
and wholesome. Moldy or rotten stuff
should never be fed them.
More men fail in the poultry bust
ness through over-enthusiasm and at
tempting too much at the beginning
than from any other one cause.
When horses teeth are defective
and no longer have that grinding pow
er which is necessary to the proper
mastication of its food it is well to
feed ground oats.
Some colts. of course, are more easi-
ly spoiled than others, but if he early
gives indication of not having ordin-
ary horse sense let the other fellow
have him at his first offer
| A place for everything and every
thing in it's place is a good motto for
the farmer. How many minutes and
even hours it would save sometimes
when you are in need of some par
| ticular tool.
Some agricultural expert has dis
covered that a top dressing of ma
nure will prevent evaporation Of
moisture from the soil to the extent
Of about a ton Of water to the acre.
! Think of the value of such water to
the crop during the growing season.
Here is one mans method of crow
extinction which he claims is a grand
success. In his 40-acre field he dug
a pit and then covered it ever so that
its presence could not be detected
After entering this pit he initiates
the call of the crow until it attracts
the birds. When within shooting dis
tance he uses his gun. When he kills
a number he fastens them about the
blind in natural position and their
presence adds to the attractive pow
ers of the deception. He has already
killed more than thousand of the
birds. bringing him in a revenue in
bountics of over 500, and expects to
kill as many more during the remain
der of the winter.
What man when building house
stitch not down and couhteth the cost
thcreof?' And what farmer is there
who having sowing and growing
and harvesting season ahead of him sit
teth not down and planneth out the
work thereof? Oh, there are lots of
them. The season is upon them be
fore they have taken any thought as to
what they are going to plant where
they are going to plant it, and how
they are going to prepare and cult
vate the ground. and the result is
that it is a sort of blind farming which
begins nowhere and ends dangerously
near bankruptcy corner or next door
to the poor house. What folly. The
wise farmer stitch himself down and
considcreth carefully the work of the
coming season, he recalleth the mis-
takes of the past, and rcsolveth that
he will do better next time. This is