The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-11-26

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A cock is decided nuisance n the
flock after the breeding season is over
Feed the soil and it will feed you.
Starve the soil and it will starve you
To get the best favored milk the COW
should be fed nothing until after milk
ing.
The man who relies ON luck for the
main part of his crop will have an easy
time harvesting
1t NAV be wise to encourage the
sheep to eat freely to add a little grain
in the form of oats.
The incubator never flies the coop
and never changes its mind. Ii IS on
the job all the time. Not SO the cranky
hen.
We must not lose sight of the fact
that a cow must earn her board for
the entire year before she can begin to
show profit.
The horse that is "all legs is not
the one you want. Try to get those
that are we'll set, neither too long legs
nor too long bodies.
1t is easy to hang up your harness
if you once get into the habit OF IT,
How many farmers do you know that
drop them on the floor?
Prayer may bring rain, but the lively
cultivator and the persistent hoe Will
make dust mulch that will keep the
moisture in the ground.
More than 1000 acres of watermelons
were planted last spring between Pen
sacola and River Junction, Fla, dis
lance of only a few miles.
The fowl that begins 20 mott during
August or September has much bet
ter chance to survive the winter than
the one that begins in the late fall.
Wood ashes may be applied at the
rate of % to 90 bushels to the acre.
One ton of good wood ashes will con-
tain about fiO pounds of phosphoric
acid.
All dairy products are intended for
human food and it is only justice TO
our fellow beings that we do our part
to insure a clean and wholesome article
Of diet
Use well-rotted manure on the gar
den plot, if you have not done so be-
fore, working it well into the surface
DR. Z inches of the soil. Do not delay
this matter any longer.
In feeding ensilage it is essential that
the silos be far enough from the stable
to eliminate al. danger of the milk alb
sorbing the odOr of the ensilage when
| il is thrown out of the silo.
1t has been found that fowls with
deep. angular breast bones have to be
fed longer 10 make them look well,
and they consume considerably more
feed than those having uniform breast
bones
To build and maintain a dairy farm
would seem TO be an easy task, yet
there is more in the man than the sur
roundings. There are but few first
class dairymen and they have diaries
| corresponding.
A good 'front.' counts in business
and a well-dressed. clean and prosper
disappearing farmer can get better
bargain than the man who looks IKE
a tramp and shows he has no acquaint-
ance with the bathtub.
Some people who refuse to pay 81
sitting for fertile eggs from pure-blood-
ed stock, and take their chances of
getting them at the grocery store,
sometimes get eggs that won't hatch.
The breeder know why.
A Kansas man recently sold forty
head of Hereford yearling heifers at
S40TO. They yielded a net profit of
$50 per head They were bought as
weanlings. roughed until last july
| then fed for about ten months on al
| falfa and corn.
What we need in producing good
dairy products is economy, vigilance
land common sense whether the product
lis being sold to the city trade, made
| into butter on dhe farm, sold to the
creamery, condensary or the cheese fac
tory.
If the droppings of the fowls are not
In normal condition give a teaspoonful
of soda water (bicarbonate) to each
afflicted bird In making the water use
three heaping teaspoonfuls of soda to a
pint of water Follow with 1-grain
quinine pill each night for three nights
| In succession.
In keeping track of the family x
penses it is well to have all items of
merchandise charged, with payments
monthly or quarterly, or pay cash for
all items as soon as ordered. Where a
mixed system of payment is followed
there are likely to be confusion and
more or less misunderstanding as be-
tween patron and merchant.
While the clearing up of the patches
If small trees and brush along the road
sides and fence rows and in the pas
lures may tend to improve the land
scape from the aesthetic point of view,
it means the destruction OF just so
many places of shelter for. the bird life