The Columbus journal., 1908-09-23
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For the farmers use the drafter is
the best animal to own.
Have the poultry house light and
airy and, above all, clean.
Spraying is absolutely useless un-
less done at the right time.
The best milk pail is the one with
the fewest number of seams.
Hens compelled to sit upon the
ground are apt to develop rheumatism.
Don't let the harness get stiff and
hard. Money out of your pocket II
you do.
The orchard is no place for live
stock. save perhaps pigs and the
chickens.
Well-kept machinery will make the
work of the farm easier. both for the
farmer and his team.
Never mix fertilizer or manure with
lime. Work the lime into the surface
before applying the fertilizer.
The sore neck and shoulder upon
the horse is more easily prevented
than cured. Keep close lookout.
Fruit trees that are worth a place
ON the farm are worth caring for.
Without care you will not get salts
factory results.
do a little forestry work on the
farm this fall. Plant q patch of trees.
The nursery catalogue. OF the forest
service of the agricultural department
may help YOU Send for it to Wash
inston, ID. G.
Who would think to look at the
scrubby teams some farmers are con-
tent to drive that there was one bit
Of personal pride or ambition in them?
It pays to have good team and it pays
to keep them right.
On fields where the clover crop was
almost a failure. the Ohio experiment
station tried lining with good results
The lime was burnt and then ground
and spread over the ground at the
rate OF one ton per acre.
The man to be a successful breeder
of livestock must have a true love and
interest in his work. and he must also
have 4 thorough knowledge of the
pedigree of his animals, that is, he
should be certain that there is real
basis for the qualities which he thinks
his stock possess.
DO you know that it is poor econO-
my to save the cost of building at the
expense of heavy loss of feed stuffs?
tered out doors loses in value many
times what the interest would be on
the money invested in a building suit
able to house it? Figure it out for
yourself.
You study TO provide just the right
conditions for growing the biggest
crops. Are you doing as much for
your boy Remember he needs the
right kind of soil to grow in and the
right kind of cultivation to develop
the best in him. and who but mother
aud father should give the matter
most thought and attention?
The wagon or buggy that is left out
of doors in the hot sun Is more than
certain to develop a case of rattles
about the wheels, and when far from
home some time you may roll a tire
of and the wheel collapse If the
tires become loose run the wheel
through boiling linseed oil and. after
letting stand for several days. paint.
This will give them a new lease of
life.
Come now. be honest. 10 you know
just what your COWS are doing for you?
Ten chances to one that there are
some r0bber COWS in your herd and
you don't know it. because you have
never kept any record Of their milk
yield. neither have you tested their
milk as to butter fat content 1t is
just guess work with you. What
would you think of the merchant in
town that was content to handle goods
year in and year out without knowing
whether it was at a profit or loss? And
yet that is exactly what the dairy
farmer is Going who does not know
each individual COW and what she is
doing for him. Make up your mind
you begin at once to find out what
each COW is doing and weed out the
Improbable ones.
Farmers throughout the country will
be interested in the investigations
which the experts appointed by Presi-
dent Roosevelt are to make into the
social. sanitary and economic condi-
tions of farming communities. The
men he has chosen are well equipped
both by experience and training to
perform well the task in hand and to
make recommendations which will
prove of real practical help in solving
some of the most vital problems which
face the farm life of to-day. These
men are Prof. L. H. Bailey of the New
York college of agriculture; Henry
Wallace of Wallace's Farmer. Des
Moines. Ia; President Kenyon l.. BUT
terrified of the Massachusetts agricll-