The Columbus journal., 1908-06-03

chicks. Good for the laying hens also
Spray the currant and go0seberry
bushes with white helebore to kill the
worms.
Feed the lambs q mixture Of oats
wheat bran and oil meal IL you want
them to make specially rapid growth.
Sow some rape for the pigs. 1t can
be drilled in or broadcasted. It will
be ready for pasturing in about five
weeks.
II weeds gets up before the corn
run q Weeder through the field. II
will knock the weeds out and will
bring up the corn faster.
The farmer who tests his seed corn
is the farmer who is saved the dis
appointment of planting a whole field
and not having any of 1t come up.
1t is the pig that grows right from
the start which proves the most profit.
able animal to raise. See that condi-
tions are right to produce the best re-
suits.
Too much stock on the pasture is q
mistake. 1t provides insufficient food
for the stock and causes them to Craze
1t down so close as to permanently in
jure 1t.
It takes generous feeding to 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. no
matter of what breed, or color. or dis
position. But never was greater mis-
take made by a farmer than this. The
bull is more than half of the herd.
The farmer who puts of securing
his seed corn until the last thing and
then plants anything he can get ready
quickly deserves no sympathy when
his cornfields prove a disappointment.
Wet wood is an aggravatiOn, and
there is q temptation to use coal oil
to hurry matters. But don't do 1t.
Many a 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 50 far
ahead that 1t will have good time to
season.
Encysted worms in sheep cannot be
reached by drugs. Treatment must
be preventive. The mature worms
must be expelled from the bowels by
the administration of a vermifuge.
surface waters must be avoided and
pastures known to be infected should
be pastured by other stock for year
or two.
Get through with the chores early
and spend the evening in mapping out
the work for the following day. In
this way you will get time for needed
rest and will find that your time will
count for more. The hired man
should never have to spend his time
hunting you up to ask what he shall
do next. Give him his orders for
the day. Don't crowd him too hard
but give him plenty to fill the day.
Theory and then practice. Put
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 in
practice Get next to the new ways.
save all the labor you can without
danger of jeopardizing the crop.
A good scoop can be made out of a
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
a similar slit and then cut out the
tin between these two slits on 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 a
boughten one but very serviceable
1t pays to prepare special burrows
drop it in the plow. burrows. Prof.
R. A. Emerson of Nebraska suggests
that a good method is to throw up
ridges over the rows in order that
the weeds which start in the row may
be killed by narrowing the ridges
down as the plants are coming up.
The seed should be cut to one or two
eyes and planted about four inches
deep. IL inches in the row. II there
is any scab ON the seed it should be
soaked before cutting for two hours
in a solution Of one-half pint formalin
to Is gallons water. Seed which is
badly wilted and sprouted will not
yield over half as much as sound.
plump unsprouted seed.
Systematic rotation Of crops will
prove most effective in overcoming
all corn pests. especially root pests
such as the root louise and the diff