The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1908-09-16
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In buying a gas engine select one OF
larger capacity than you need. 1t is
economy
Do not buy clover or alfalfa seed
until it has been tested for vitality
and purity.
Give the brood mares good care and
the colts next year will repay you for
the trouble.
Peas fed to sheep give the best re-
suits when split or crushed and fed
with other foods.
Think of the corn these hot days.
What is oppressive to you is life and
growth for the corn.
There is money in livestock raising.
but 1t takes the man who under
stands his business to get 1t out.
Experiments have proved that silage
is not only good for the dairy COW but
for the stock that is being fattened for
beef
A shed in which to shelter from
wind and a pasture to Craze in is all
that is required to make geese raising
profitable.
1t is folly to invest in expensive
seed unless you are going to give the
care which will bring results and give
you return for your investment.
We have never tried it. but a man
who has says that ground hogs can be
easily gotten rid OF by shooting off a
half stick of dynamite in the hole
The agricultural department has
just issued 4 pamphlet on deer farm
ing which suggests the possibilities of
new and growing feature of stock
raising.
The wood lot handled right can be
made a source of income and profit.
The government will be glad to give
you needed advice as to methods of
treatment.
Warts in horses can be treated sue
cessiully. it is said. by rubbing the
warts until they bleed, and then rub
bing them with saleratus. Repeat the
operation few times and the warts
will be gone.
Prof. Eckles OF Missouri Agricul-
tural college reports that PedrO's Es-
tella. a three-year-Old pure bred Jer-
sey COW. has just completed a years
official record of IL .GG3 pounds OF milk
ard 605.9 pounds of butter-fat. This
is 81? pounds of fat above the next
best Jersey record for a COW Of this
age This three-year-Old COW has pro
duced more than five average Missouri
cows the past year. This record
shows the remarkable development of
the modern dairy COW.
The horse owner occasionally has a
horse that develops colds. distemper
and lung trouble. and will be inter
ested in the prescription of an old
horseman who says he has used ii for
over 40 years upon his horses and
that his father. a horse doctor of the
old-fashiOned school. used it many
years before his time. He says that
the remedy is perfectly safe and there
is no danger from giving little over
the regular dose. The prescription is
as follows: Oil pine tar, one pint;
oil Oraganum. one ounce; powdered
blood root. one ounce; powdered
root. one ounce. Dose, one
from three to five times
a day, placed we'll back of the tongue.
A farmer who believes in the garden
adjunct to the farm put out this chal-
lenge: If anyone wants to know the
value of a quarter of an acre of ground
let him put up against the products OF
that much garden the price he pays
for vegetables from the last of June
TO the last of September. In our gar
den We raise enough for two large fam
lies. As a return for our labor we
have sweet corn. potatoes. sweet pota-
toes. tomatoes. cabbage. radishes. kohl
rabbi beans. peas. onions. cucumbers.
lettuce. rhubarb. beets
and several kinds of berries. AS fast
as one thing is gone others come on To-
take it's place. Late planting of Gu
rumbers. cabbage. potatoes and tur-
nips MAY be kept up for winter use.
The treatment for cutwOrm in
grain is suggested by DR.. James
Fletcher of the Canadian experiment
farms. after thorough investigation as
follows: When grain is found to be
attacked by cutwOrms the fields should
at once be examined TO discover. if
possible, what species is at work. If
the cutwOrmS are of a Surface-feedins
kind, like the red-back cutwOrm, they
may frequently be controlled with
ease by scattering pOis-
oned bran lightly through the grain.
near the spots where the caterpillars
are most numerous, or ahead of them.
when they are so numerous as to have
assumed the marching habit. IL land
is systematically kept clear of weeds
in autumn. there will seldom be
trouble from cutworms in the crop
of the following year. Prairie or sod
land which is to be broken for seeding
the next year should be fed off as late
nc noccihIa mr. moved before breaking