The Elbert County tribune., 1908-03-12


hogs is a combination which has
caused the farmers some concern.
Dragging the roads when they are
the muddiest makes them the smooth
est and hardest when they are dry.
The food troughs and drinking foun-
tains should be kept clean and sweet.
Foulness here may result In sick
birds.
1t is a good idea to keep track of
the horse's s taeth. Sometimes 3ittle
bit of attention will save lots of fu-
ture trouble. 1
The farmer who watches the little
things is the farmer who does the
big things in the way of crops and
stock raising.
If you sre not breeding up, be sure
that indifference and neglect is re-
sulting in a lowering of the grade of
your live stock.
T.. De sure fool of man can make
tool of colt by injudicious han
ding. but ordinary petting never hurt
colt and never will.
Chickens will eat most anything. but
whatever the food it should be good
and wholesome. Moldy or rotten stuff
should never be fed them.
More men fail in the poultry bust
ness through over-enthusiasm and at
tempting too much at the beginning
than from any other one cause.
When horses teeth are defective
and no longer have that grinding pow
er which is necessary to the proper
mastication of its food it is well to
feed ground oats.
Some colts, of course, are more easi.
| ly spoiled than others, but if he early
ary horse" sense let the other fellow
have him at his first offer.
| A place for everything and every
thing in its place is a good motto for
the farmer. How man. minutes and
even hours it would save sometimes
when you are in need of some par
ticular tool.
Some agricultural expert has dis
covered that top dressing of ma
nure will prevent evaporation OF
moisture from the soil to the extent
of about ton of water to the acre
| Think of the value of such water to
Here is one mans method of crow
extinction which he claims is a grand
success In his 40-acre field he dug
apt and then covered it ever SO that
its presence could not be detected
After entering this pit, he initiates
the call of the crow until it attracts
the birds. When within shooting dis.
tance he uses his gun. When he kills
a number he fastens them about the
blind in a natural position and their
presence adds to the attractive pow
ers of the deception. He has already
killed more than a thousand of the
birds. bringing him in revenue in
bounties of over 800, and expects to
kill as many more during the remain.
der of the winter
What man when building a house
sitteth not down and counteth the cost
thereof2" And what farmer is there
who having sowing and growing
and harvesting season ahead of him sit
teth not down and planneth out the
work thereof? oh, there are lots of
them. The season is upon them be-
fore they have taken any thought as to
what they are going to plant, where
they are going to plant it. and how
they are going to prepare and cult
vate the ground, and the result is
that 1t is sort of blind farming which
begins nowhere and ends dangerously
near bankruptcy corner or next door
to the poor house. What follyl The
wise farmer sitteth himself down and
considereth carefully the work of the
coming season, he recalleth the mis-
takes of the past, and resolveth that
he will do better next time. This is
the reason he finds that farming pays.
Try the plan.
Surely the bee is entitled to his title
OF busy If the figures of an industrious
mathematician are correct. He says
that to make one pound of clover
honey. bees must deprive $4,000 clover
blossoms of their nectar. and to do
this requires 2,750,0O0 visits to the
blossoms by the bees. In other words.
one bee, to collect enough nectar to
make one pound of honey, must go
from hive to flower and back 2,75O. 900
times. Then when you think how
far these bees sometimes fly in search
of these clover fields. oftener than
not one or two miles from tho hive