Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-06-25

Pure water for the cow If you want
pure milk from the COW.
Look FOR lice on the little chickens
which do not seem to be thriving.
Sour milk is good for the little
chicks. Good for the laying hens also.
Spray the currant and gooseberry
bushes with white helebore to kill the,
worms.
Feed the lambs a mixture of oats
wheat bran and oil meal if you want
them to make specially rapid growth.
Sow some rape for the pigs II can
be drilled in or broadcasted It win
be ready for pasturing in about five
weeks.
If weeds gets up before the corr
run a weeder through the field. n
will knock the weeds out and WIZ
bring up the corn faster.
The farmer who tests his seed corr
is the farmer who is saved the dis
appointment of planting a whole field
and not having any of it come up.
II is the pig that grows right from
the start which proves the most profit.
able animal to raise. See that couds-
tions are right TO produce the best re-
suits.
Too much stock on The pasture is q
mistake. II provides insufficient food
for the stock and causes them 10 Craze
it down so close as to permanently in.
iure 1t.
II takes generous feeding 10 build
up the muscle cells broken down by
the hard work of the busy season. You
cannot do this by feeding corn to your
horses. Feed oats.
A bulls a bull to some farmers, nu,
matter of what breed, or color, or dis
position. But never was greater mis-
take made by a farmer than this. Ths,
bull is more than half of the herd.
The farmer who puts off securing
his seed corn until the last thing and
then plants anything he can get ready
quickly deserves no sympathy wheI
his cornfields prove a disappointment
There is such a thing as false econ
omy in feeding. If a third more en-.
pense in feeding gives you three times.
the profit. you can easily figure out
the wisdom of generous rations. Fee6
wisely, but not niggal dly.
On the first rainy day now get The
haying tools in shape. Haying wiz
be upon us almost before we reaiizE
it. This promises to be a good hay
ing year Prices may be lower. buk
the larger crops will bring the profits
up to fully what they were last year.
Wet wood is an aggravation, anG
there is a temptation to use coal oil
to hurry matters. But don't do 1t
Many person has tried it and been
injured or fatally burned But why
wet wood at all? Why not have the
wood supply under shelter and SO far
ahead that it will have good time tc
season.
Encysted worms in sheep cannot be
reached by drugs. Treatment must
be preventive. The mature worms
must be expelled from the bowels by
H. 90
surface waters must be avoided 2na
pastures known to be infected shoDl6
be pastured by other stock for = year
or two.
Theory and then practice. PUy
some of the new ideas you have
gained from reading during the winter
and from the discussions at the farm
ers' institutes you attended to WORK
for you. There is chance for improve
ment in the methods on almost every
farm. There is an easier or better
way of doing things than has been sss
practice. Get next to the new ways,
save all the labor you can without
danger of ieopardizing the crop.
A good scoop can be made out OF u
quart or two quart tin vegetable can
by melting or cutting off the top and
beginning at this open end, Sitting
back to within an inch of the bottom.
On the opposite side of the can make
similar slit and then cut out the
tin between these two slits OF one
side. Round off the corners at the
open end Take piece of broom han.
die and drive a nail through the bot
tom of the center of the can and into
the center of the broom handle and
there you are. The scoop is complete
Perhaps not quite as strong as n
boughten one but very seIyiceable.
Systematic rotation of crons will