The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1908-10-23
Keep cut of debt II It is a possible

Molass"e is coming more into favor
as a slurE ICED.
Get u" corn husked before the snow
flies. Push the work.
PICK your brood sows from the pigs
that bel1negd to large litters.
Let tie rams run with the sheep
only during the breeding season.
1t Will cost You less to buy the dip
for the hogs than to feed the lice
DIP The hcGs and clean up the pens
If you want TO keep them free from
lice
Keep your horse from boiling his
food. Mix the grain food with hay
cut in short lengths.
Except in southern localities it is
safer TO plant fruit trees and straw
berry beds il the spring.
Examine the horses feet OCCASION
ally and be sure small stones do not
become wcdged in the shoes.
Don't store the vegetables too early.
Wait for weather verging on the freez-
ing point, then get them in quickly.
Some farmers have so many places
for their tools that it is hard for
them 10 know just where to look for
them.
Is the strawberry bed as clean as
it should be? No weeds should be
there when putting on the winter
mulch.
Tea made from buchu leaves is
recommended for horses having kid
ney trouble. Dose, two ounces night
and morning.
Look out for the stock during the
cold. slocDy rains Of the fall Provide
shelter for them, or exposure will
cost you dearly.
Let the crops you failed 10 get this
year help yon to better things next
year. Learn your lesson and profit
by the disappointing experiences.
If it is light, dry and wind-proof the
house Will prove good for poultry, no
matter whether ii measures up to
modern ideas of poultry Architecture or
not.
Som" farmers are so shiitleSs that
they will let young pigs sickcn and die
light under their eyes as result Of
lice, and will then wonder why they
have such poor luck.
Pick up any new ideas at the fair?
Test them out on the farm and make
them work for you. The new idea is
valuable only when you put it into
the concrete form of action.
Get the best ewes you can buy, if
you find pleasure and profit in sheep
raising. Sheep are reasonably cheap
this fall. In buying look well to the
size, form and texture Of the wool
coat.
In tests with asparagus in France
il was partly concluded that the green
sprouts have the best flavor and this
was believed to be due to the pres
once of the chlorophyll, the green col
orinS matter in the skin.
The farmer who spends all his time
al the state or county fair at the
amusement booths and upon the race
Track is the farmer who goes home
without any new ideas or any ambi-
ton to raise better livestock.
XIII pea and bean weevils now by
putting these seeds into air-tght YES
sells and fumigating them with bisuI-
pilide of carbon. If the infested beans
be not fumigated now. the wccvil will
continue 10 feed in them and to mul-
iply all winter
Farmers are generally TO blame for
the spread Of hog cholera because at
the first suspicion of the outbreak OF
the disease the afflicted animals are
not isolated from the rest OF the herd
and the hog quarters changed and the
Id quarters disinfectcd.
The stronger friendship you can
cultivate with the colts the easier will
YOU find it to train them and the
more willing servants will they be-
'ome. Get them into the habit of
ooking for the bit of sugar or other
idbit. Speak gently to them and pet
heal.
Now is the time to sort over the
If you have not done it be
ore. Select the most promising for