The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1908-07-18
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Breed the sows this month fog
September pigs.
Too heavy feeding OF the sows may
lead TO the sickness of her pigs.
Shoulder or back sores on a horse
animal
Now is the time to plan for succu,
lent food for the time when the pas
turage will become poor.
Many weedy field is the product
of the farmers indifference to the
value of cleaned and pure seed.
little care is all that is necessary
to keep the collar and harness from
chatting the horse and developing
sores.
Provide a breeding plot where you
can grow your corn under special OBJ
servation and provide improved SEED
for use next year.
Proper orchard cultivation can only
be determined by understanding char
acter of the soil, slope of the land
age of the trees, and the varieties.
Look out for bloat in the sheep
when turning out to pasture. Break
them in slowly. Turn them on the
grass after giving the customary
feed.
Don't let the warm weather catch
you without having cleaned and
whitewashed the poultry house. Il
is easier to keep the lice pests down
if you start early.
Look out for red rust in the black
berry patch. When seed promptly dig
up and burn the infected plant, being
careful not to scatter the fungus dust
over healthy bushes.
Don't yank and pull the horses
around and shout at them. This is
the surest way OF not getting them to
do what you want done The horse
is an intelligent animal, if you are
not.
A farmer of ready wit saved his
horse from bleeding to death from a
cut artery by binding upon the wound
a mixture of equal parts of wheat
-four and salt He used about three
pints of the mixture and left it on for
several days until it worked off.
Learn to be patient. Don't fret over
the weather God has been sending
the seasons around one after the other
for millions upon millions of years and
He knows what He is about. You can
much as you think you could, some
times.
There is only one way to keep bac.
terra out of milk and that is by way
of cleanliness. The mixer needs to
be clean, the COWS need to be wiped
off, the milking needs to be done
through sterilized cheese cloth, the
milk removed from barn at once and
cooled and then set where it will not
be affected by dust or odors.
Here is a point to remember in car
ing for your stock next winter. Some
recent tests have shown the value
of good quarters and plenty of bed
ding for fattening animals. 1t was
shown that when steer is standing
up he uses from 80 to SO per cent
more food for making body heat than
he does when he is lying down. Pro-
vide plenty Of bedding and get the
most growth.
Now do consider the matter OF
sending your boy to your state agri-
cultural college. He ought to be bet
ter farmer than you, no matter how
successful you have been, and the
way to make him SO is to put him in
q position where he can learn the lat
est and most scientific agricultural
methods He can get the theoretical
knowledge at school and you can keep
him evenly balanced by supplying the
practical knowledge.
Fight the weeds with the sprayer.
Prof. H. L. Bolley Of North Dakota
has shown by experiment that certain
cheap chemicals like copperas. also
sadt. can be used as a spray on the
young weeds so as to kill or retard
them effectively without injury to the
growing crop. The method is cheap
enough to be employed in grain fields
where other methods of control are
difficult to apply. The tests with this
process have been extensive enough
to show that it is likely to become
a permanent method in the grain
growing states. The experiment sta
tions score again and prove once more
the wisdom and value OF spending pub
lie faAas IA maintaining Shea. I