The Sauk Centre herald., 1908-03-19
HINTS FOR FARMERS
Suggestions That Viii Help Things
Go Right and That Will Result
In Money Making

A correspondent writes as follows
in the Northwestern Agriculturist:
1t is time that we farm women
We're beginning to get ready for the
work of Matching our poultry And
, as incubators and brooders are used
SO extensively, a word in regard to
preparing for the needs which will
later arise. l hope will not be out
of place. AS many who have brood
ers use the outdoor kind and there
fore do not provide houses for them,
| they would find it to their advantage
if this year when the matches comes
off they would have some kind of a
house TO keep the brooder in. 1t
will save much time and labor. as
we'll as worry.
'It need not be an expensive affair.
Il can be made of one thickness of
lumber if the cracks are we'll bat
tened. 1t will mole than pay for
itself, especially when the brooder
is needed for another hatch, which
should not be before six, or better,
eight weeks, especially in the early
spring months, when We are apt to
have some very cold rainy days. Then
the little chicks will need the warmth
Of the brooder
"The mistake is often made Of put
ting too many chicks in one brooder,
causing some to be trampled and
killed. If inside of a small house /
find the different kinds of brooders
l have used give better results. even
if so-called out-of-doors brooders.
Another advantage of these small
houses is that if constructed rightly
they can be used later for the birds
if the other coops are fall. In that
case they can be lined with paper.
I'VE also find by years Of ex-
perience that it does not pay to have
each common sized incubator run,
as it is not the number We hatch,
but the number we have to keep or
sell that counts when we are adding
UP our profits in the poultry business.
TT would be the means of prevent
ing much sickness among turkeys if
they could be kept from wandering
over swampy grounds, for their
fondness for angleworms seems to
be responsible for most of the dis
eases to which they are subject;
that is to say, infectious diseases
The breeder who is aiming to put
pure bred cattle on the market
should remember that old rule that
always holds good 1t is: that no
lasting reputation can be gained un-
less the foundation be quality. Don't
get in hurry to make sales of pure
bred stock until there is no ques-
tion about the quality. Get the
quality before you try to make sales
and the sales will then take care
of themselves, says the Northwestern
Agriculturist.
There is another very important
thing to remember. No matter how
good the quality may be, the pros
pective purchaser must be satisfied
that the stock he is about to buy has
been we'll cared for. No one will
want to buy pure bred stock from
a careless breeder.
The buyer places more emphasis
upon the connection between quality
and care than one is apt to imagine.
He knows that the breeder who is
satisfied with inferior conditions on
his farm is not very particular
about anything, and that he is in
clined to be satisfied with a poorer
quality than he (the buyer) is look
ing for.
A little pipeclay, dissolved in the
water employed in washing linen,
cleans the dirtiest linen thoroughly
with about half the labor, and saw
ing fully half of the soap. The
clothes will be improved in color just
as if they had been bleached. Shrink
the flannel before you make it up,