The Elbert County tribune., 1908-03-26


The thoroughly halter-broke colt is
more than half broke.
A sun bath for the early spring
calves is about the proper thing.
HOGS are by nature grazing animals.
For this reason provide pasturage for
them
Fruit trees mean added value to the
farm Set out few this spring. Not
too late yet.
Treat the COW kindly and keep her
clean and she will give you more milk
and OF better quality.
Put In Just enough pop corn for your
own use next winter when you are
gathered about the fireside.
Clean of the cows and don't forget
the tail If covered with dirt, slight
swish viii send lots of dirt into the
pail.
The man who has won failure by
his shiftlessness is not so much in
need of sympathy as he is of a course
In the school of privation.
Don't be so wise in your own ways
that you cannot learn from your neigh
bors, or find helpful thought or hint
in Meadowbrook Farm Notes.
Being ready is half the battle. More
than half the failures on the farm are
due to the fact that we are not ready
to do work when 1t ought to be done.
Remember with the return of spring
weather that the keeping quality of
milk depends more on cleanly meth.
ods OF handling than upon weather
conditions.
Dip the sheep this spring after
shearing, even though you do not no.
tice any ticks. Remember about the
ounce of precaution being better than
a pound of cure
| From two to three hogs can be fat
tened II allowed to follow a bunch of
steers, with the use of a very little
extra corn. Most corn-belt feeders
count two pigs per steer
Laborsaving machinery for the
farm is all right. but the owner of
the small farm must remember that
unless the expensive machine can be
kept busy it is hardly profitable for
his farm alone.
Farmers are coming to understand
that manure Is never more valuable
than on the day 1t is made, and are
more making practice Of getting 1t
out on the fields as soon as possible.
whether they have a manure spreader
or not.
The advantage from sowing the
seed of mammoth clover is that,
since 1t is legume. 1t is a nitrogen
gatherer, and II 1t secured a good
stand and made vigorous growth it
would add considerably to the stock
of fertility in the soil
When paris green is put up in small
packages the weight of the package
is often included with the green Thus
a pound package may contain only
about Is ounces of green. For this
reason, IL one uses large quantities of
poison, 1t is cheaper to buy 1t in bulk
The army ration for horses consists
of 15 to 20 pounds OF hay daily, with
10 to IL pounds of good oats. When
doing extra heavy service a larger
amount of grain is allowed. At this
rate ton of hay will feed horse
about 30 days, allowing for ten per
cent. waste.
Care has to be exercised with the
mare In hot weather while colt is
sucking her. because overheating her
often gives colt the scours. By hav-
ing the colt come in the fall the mare
suckles him while she is doing no
work. and she can give him a much
better start than when he is born in
the spring.
1t has been demonstrated by the ex-
pertinent stations and by practical
tests of innumerable farmers that crop
rotation not only pays In better crops
but that where properly carried out
actually increases the productivity of
the soil from year to year. Have you
given this matter any thought? Have
you considered that with this coming
season you ought to begin some sort
of crop rotation and prove to your own
self by practical test that the system
pays?
The wonderful advancement which