The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1908-10-21

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for the hogs than to feed the lice.
Dip the hogs 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 wedged 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 to 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
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and morning.
Look out for the stock during the
cold, sleety rains of the fall. Provide
shelter for them, or exposure will
cost you dearly.
Let the crops you failed to get this
year help you 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 it measures UP to
modern ideas of poultry Architecture or
not
Some farmers are SO shiftleSs that
they will let young pigs sicken and die
right under their eyes as a 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 we'll to the
size. form and texture of The wool
coat.
The farmer who spends all his time
at 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.
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-
come. Get them into the habit of
looking for the bit of sugar or other
tidbit. Speak gently to them and pet
them.
Now is the time to sort over the
chickens. if you have not done it be-
fore. Select the most promising for
breeding stock, put the culls by them |
selves and fatten for market. Don't |
winter single chicken more than YOU |
can accommodate and surely not one |
that Hiis not turn you profit.
The . mere. rule is that the work |
horses during the busy season should |
receive two pounds of feed for each |
100 pounds of live weight, the heavi-
est feeding being at night. But one
must not forget that the individual
of the animal must he
in determining the proDer
ration.
Plan the work so that Sunday is not
made day for picking up the loose
ends of the work dropped during the
week. We know many a farmer who
tries to still conscience troubled
over Sunday work by the plea of the
necessity of the work, when in reality
the necessity has arisen only because
of careless. shiftless methods during
the week.
The farmer who supplies cream to
the creamery can help to raise the
standard of the butter which the
creamery turns out by using care tc
deliver cream that is free from bad
flavOrs and taints Thus the cream
cry man can get better price for
his butter and he will in turn be able
to pay a better price for high grade
cream. Where the patrons of a cream
cry work for the success of the bust
ness it will prove mutually helpful.
If you do not want to keep the cab
bage in the cellar try this method:
Select the 'driest place in the patch.
pull up the cabbages and stand close
ly together, heads down. Cover with
soil from five to six inches, thinly at
first, so they will not heat, covering
only enough to prevent freezing as