The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-01-02

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Profit depends as much on the cost
OF production as on the selling price.
The good, square walk as a gait for
a farm horse is the most valuable OF
any.
Where the pungent smell of ammonia
is noticed escaping from the manure it
may be taken as an indication Of loss.
In nearly all cases the offspring of
immature, undeveloped animals is in
ferior 10 that of mature and full
grown parents.
Cold air will not injure sheep, but
a wet coat and a cold wind may prove
as dangerous as it would with any
other animal.
Sheep restore to the soil a larger |
proportion Of the elements than they |
take from it in grazing than do any
other stock.
Don't be discouraged II mistakes are
made; those who do things make many /!
Of them. but repeating the same mis- !
take spells disaster.
Don't hitch the COLI to load until he
has been thoroughly accustomed to
drawing a light wagon or sleigh, then |
hitch to a light load at first
In selecting tomatoes for seed, save |
the large, smooth fruit on the vines |
that produce the earliest; try to save |
the fruit with the most meat and the |
least seed.
A sure way to make an enemy of
what might have been friend is TO re-
count to him the number of times you /
have accommodated him in the past,
some time when you happen to be a
little "out"
Pumping poultry is done by dip
ping the fowls ten seconds in water
nearly OF quite boiling hot, and then
Immediately in cold water. Hang in a
cool place. until the animal heat is en-
tirely out of the body.
Never choose a dairy cow because
she Is fat, sleek and beauty.
Beauty is as beauty does" The fat
and sleek dairy cow doesn't do the
handsome thing. The scraggy, bony
cow does. Therefore, she Is the real
dairy beauty
Cultivate black walnut, as the supply
Is fast becoming exhausted, while the
demand for that kind OF wood for fur
niture and other purposes is very great.
Trees Of good size grow in ten TO
twelve years, and the lumber COM
mands a very high price.
1t Ii queer now the seasons can af-
feet the size Of some fields in all neigh
borhoods- In the spring a piece of
ground may be thirty acres in measur-
Ing the work done per day, but in the
fall the same piece may be only twenty
or twenty-five acres in measuring the
yield per acre.
To preserve the wheels Of vehicles
and also to prevent shrinkage of any
Gil into pan or other vessel and raise
the wheel so that the rim will pass
through the oil. Revoive the wheel
and let the felloes be well soaked for
about three minutes. and the wheel will
then be more durable.
For old orchards the trimming up
method is perhaps the best. Cut off the
bottom limbs to a point or feet
from the ground, then cut off the ends
of the most extending branches. Do
not prune too closely. Pruning may
be done any time this winter, or early
spring, but the wounds should be COW
cred at once with paint. An old tree
bleeds freely, and win suffer If there
are a large number of wounds on it.
Corn and Cob Meal for Cattle.
For a number of years it has been
the policy at the Iowa Experiment Sta
ton and Agricultural College," says
Professor Curtis, Ito use corn and cob
meal instead of cornmeal whenever the
conditions are such as to warrant grind
ing at all, and we have neveI. had any
Injurious results that could be attrib-
uted to the use of corn and cob meal
when properly ground and fed to Cat
tie.
Intensive Culture of Corn.
II an increase OF single grain OF
corn on each ear could be made the in
creased total profit to the country
would be S1,62O,OOO. Farmers gener-
ally have taken great interest in the in
formation furnished by the agricultural
schools concerning seeds, soils, fertili-
GERS and modes Of cultivation. The aim
should be to produce larger ears. more