Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1908-10-14

( I1eIu grass.
Kill sheep this fall and corn the
meat, 1t is delicious.
Never feed more to the animals than
they will eat up clean.
Often the pessimist needs a change
of diet as much as anything else.
Keep down the weeds in the fall.
1t will tighten the work in the spring.
Pig raising is most successful where
skim milk is large part of the feed
ration.
Machinery all housed? You cannot
afford to let the rust eat out the lining
of your pocketbook.
Irregular feeding is one contribu-
tory cause to horses acquiring the
habit of boiling their feed.
Ut VI 0LIdWy uldnulO
around the berry bushes and the grape
vines, but don't put on too early.
Your Rrst mistake is excusable, your
second, never; for no man has any
business making the same mistake
twice.
The dairyman's profits come in dur
ing all the year. That is one reason
why that type of farming is better
than, any other.
A good herd of cows of one breed
and in thrifty condition is the best
kind of an index to the character of
the farmer who owns them.
Colts will not raise themselves. Hit
and-miss methods never yet produced
the best horses. Remember that rails
ing colts pays if you give them intel
ligent care.
Careful feeding can keep up the
milk flow 1t does not pay to let it
run down, for once a smaller yield is
established it cannot be increased I'M
til after another calving.
The cold rains of the fall prove a
great drain upon the vitality of the
live stock. The farmer that does not
provide shelter for the animals is
working against his own interests.
Not only place the farm machinery
under cover but oil it up so that
atmospheric dampness will not rust
the exposed bright parts. A little
time now will save days of trouble
next spring.
A tidbit in the way of piece of
sugar or an apple will prove ideal in
winning the confidence of the colt.
Always have something for him, and
you will be proud and delighted at the
attention he will shower upon you.
Grade up your dairy cows by using
a pure bred bull 1t may take few
years to do it, but each year saving
the best of the heifer calves will give
you in time herd of sows that will
prove far more profitable than your
present herd.
Raise the best crops you can and
sell them at the best price you can,
but don't speculate. The farmer that
begins to deal on the grain market has
taken his first step to ruin, for moth
ing but failure and loss ever came to
the farmer who tried his hand at the
game.
An old swindle that is being tried
on the farmers again is that of selling
them new and wonderful kind of
wheat and binding them by contract
to return to the man (who thus places
them in way to get rich), certain
number of bushels of the grain next
year, Look out for It.
Sheep that have been long time
without salt are apt to make them
selves sick eating too much Of it
when the opportunity comes. Be
regular in feeding it to them, or, bet
ter still, provide a box to which the
flock can have access at all times.
They. viii help themselves, and will
eat only such as is good for them
Good vinegar can be made from
apple parings in the following way:
Take the parings and put them in a
six-gallon stone jar and lamp them
with potato masher till they are
pretty well bruised, then pour water
over them till covered. We continue
To put Earrings III til they have been
In week 81 more, then we strain out
the parings and pour the cider into
key and repeat the operation till
one keg is full We then lay an old
piece Of cotton cloth over the bung
and let nature do the rest In two
months we have a keg Of the finest