The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1908-05-13

NAASSSS SuiOs WhCol S1lu tdOiC SCIdRs
make good feed for little chicks.
Five points to remember il yOr
would have a productive orchard
Fertilize. cultivate. spray. thin. prune.
The hair of the horse that has been
well fed from birth is as rule finer
and softer than that of the horse not
so fed.
After the breeding season is over
separate the ROSTERS from the hens
Better for both sexes and the eggs
will keep better.
A better living can be made by care
full. thorough cultivation of 20 acres
than from five times that amount Of
land poorly managed.
The best way to market your crops
in on the hoOf. Feed to your stock,
keep the fertility on the farm and
drive your stock to market.
Grow enough fruit for your own use
Not a bad idea to have some to sell.
These little extras from the farm can
be made to aggregate quite a sum.
After all the pig has more wisdom
than some people. He is content to
stay in the pig class while many a
human wastes life in trying to seem
what he is not.
No wonder the poultry business Is
growing each year. There ore more
than 5000 poultry shows held annual.
ly in the United States and Canada
Surely the hen is the American bird.
Here is the method of one dairy
man who believes in the economy of
arrangements. He has a small pas
ture handy to the dairy barn in which
the cows may be kept at night, where
they may feed and where they are
ready for milking in the morning.
The four points are made in favor
of the portable hog house as follows:
1t is easily and economically construct
ed: 1t can be easily moved and 10
Gated wherever desired: 1t is useful
both to the general farmer and 20
the breeder of pure bred stock. and of
all systems for housing swine it is
the most natural and sanitary.
The rule observed by a successful
hog raiser in selecting the brood sows
is to pick the long bodied ones that are
rather coarse and long legged. They
make the best breeders and have bet
ter constitutions than the small ones
By selecting male that has gcOC
quality you can get larger hams and
shoulders from the pigs of a large
SOW than from a small one.
Not now but soon the farmer wit
find it practicable to make his owa
alcohol. Secretary Wilson has taken
up the study of the problem in a
practical way and will set up small
plant in one of the buildings of the
department of agriculture and expert
ment on making alcohol out of de-
cayed fruit, corn, potatoes. etc. After
the department has worked this out
satisfactorily it would be a good plan
for the experiment stations in the diff
ferent states to install similar plants.
1t will also be an excellent plan if the
department or some of the members
of the agricultural college faculties
would have such plant in practical
operation during the different short
courses held at the agricultural col
leges and at different points through
out the states, and at the various state
fairs.
AS the result of experiments, the
Massachusetts station has demon
strated that for some crops sulphate
of potash is the best sort, while for
others muriate of potash is superior.
The yield of asparagus where the mu-
rate was used was more than so per
cent. greater than on the sulphate, |
but with rhubarb the yield of sulphate /!
was so per cent greater the past year
than on muriate. For raspberries and |
the sulphate has invaria-
bly, given better results than the muri-
ate. Particularly noticeable has been
the difference in the degree of winter
killing. The canes from the plot on
which muriate of potash was applied
seem to have been less hardy than
hot r,coA C,,l-
phate Of potash also gave best results
with potatoes and with soy beans.
With hay, however. there was little
difference between the two forms, al
though sulphate seems to give the
best results where clover is used.
Three remedies for chicken cholera
which have been used successfully by
The first is burnt corn.
When any chicken shows the least
sign of the cholera, burn some corn
On the cob and leave where the chick
ems can have free access to IL at all
lines. The corn must not be burned
70 crisp, but scorched. Keep this
kind of feed before the flock until all
signs of cholera disappear. Second
Shut the sick fowls away from the rest
" the flock. Whitewash the hen house |
md nests with hot whitewash con-
aiming a liberal supply of carbolic
lcid. Put one teaspoonfu, of carbolic
lcid in two quarts of water and give
he fowls to drink. Give some kind |
IT good poultry food according to d.
'ectiOns IL fowls are too sick tn !