The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-02-13
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The curry comb should be used as
freely in dairy barns as in the horse
barn.
4 person who is sharp enough TO see
when he has been fooled will not stay
fooled very long.
Crisp corn fodder is a regular nam
Der ON the dairy stable eating program
these days, and it's quite acceptSlle,
too.
1t may not be new to many. but it's
just as timely, that it takes but Il few
minutes to make a bad impression and
years to outlive it.
BY making out a careful statement
of mis- assets and liabilities at the end
of each year q farmer can soon tell
whether he is headed toward easy
street or the poor house.
The Capitalization of country schools
seems TO be winning favor in some To-
calitIes, while in other places the little
red school house on the hill is easily
holding its own
How much we Zeal in conclusions.
When n comes to simmer down what
constitutes everyday gossip and coin-
nent. it will be found TO be mostly
worthless conclusions arrived at in a
jump.
Corn husking machines have quite
generally been satisfactory and from
present indications future generations
Of boys and girls Will miss the fun
Of discovering the red ear or fail to
find enjoyment in swapping tales o,
shocking stunts"
The old thlck-walled straw shed for
any kind of farm stock is about ideal,
after all that is said TO the contrary.
The thick walls keep out cold and pre-
vent drafts and still grant an ideal
ventilation. You never find any frosted
inside walls in the straw shed.
A good many city people with a rath-
er limited knowledge OF farming are
moving to the county. The plan is
splendid, but the ideas of many are just
about as crude as the law allows. One
Of the most abstract things a man can
tackle is to try TO tell a city-bred man
how to SOW and reap.
The cream raised from milk given
by cows that have o been fresh
for a long time. does not make
butter easily, but this difficulty car
sometimes be remedied by adding hall
a pail OF warm water to the cream
and then when the cream raises to the
top, draw of the water and 20 ahead
DIR. Edward Everett Hale tells of ar
old Scottish woman who wished t.
sell a hen 10 a neighbor. But tel
me- the neighbor said, is she a
thegither q guild bird? Has she got
nae faults, nae faults at all?' 'Aweel
Margot,' the other old woman admit
ted, she has got one faut. She will
lay on the Lords day"
The following treatment for Sal
Jose scale is recommended by the
North Carolina Experiment station
AS soon as the leaves fall, spray the
trees with scalecide Zone gallon di
luted with u or - gallons of water)
and then. in the early spring, give the
trees n thorough coating with the lime
sulphur mixture.
The story is told of one farmer II
Illinois who went 10 a county fair
This is not strange, but when TIT
judges came to the stall where he wa
J feeding his horse aE.i gave it a pre-
MUM he was surprised. He simply
put his horse up" in a stall for the
day and they supposed it was entered
in the competition. Must have been 4
pretty coed horse.
Breeding Dairy Cows.
In breeding dairy cows a man should
have q definite object in view. Toe
many shift from beef to dairy wEeI
dairy products are high and beef pro
ducts ere low, and then shift bach
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