The Jasper news. [volume] (Jasper, Missouri) 1898-1924, 1908-06-11

II d ne early lamb ID the market
which catches the highest prico.
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You like your bath and the horse
likes TO be curried' Il does him good.
too. 4,
4 Manage the pasture as would a hay
Held. It 10 most important and
valuable part Of tho farm.
The COW that has been intelligently
wintered will now give good report Of
herself as she gets on full grass. y
As a rule 1t does not pay to doctor
poultry. Preventive measures are bet.
ter than all the remedies you can find.
Give the lawn clippings to the hens
and the little chicks, II they are CON
fined in yards They will make good
use OF them.
Exchange ideas with your neighborj
give him d helping hand occasionally,
speak the encouraging word. be really
and truly neighborly.
The second corn exposition IL
booked for Omaha next December
Go n-and try for some OF the many
prizes which will be offered.
Z. o,6d ooxr v,r,r1,y bent !. =, eo5o h
new master. a poor COW well kept lie
Improbable. and should be sent to
the butcher to make room for good
COW.
Pumpkins growing In the corn rob
the corn Of nothing which 1t needs.
and it gives the farmer an abundance
OF good feed for the cattle during the
winter.
Keep In touch with the young stock
during the summer. Visit them Mt
least once a week Take them some
salt. In this way you will keep them
from getting too wild.
Blue grass provides the most salts
factory pasturage AS 1t forms a firm
sod not injured by the tramping Of
the cattle. It is persistent grower.
and it Is rich in protein. x
"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 II worked on.
Get the habit! What habit? The
habit OF doing your farm work on time
and according to the most approved
methods. In other words get the habit
| OF getting out of the ruts and staying
out The farmer Isl the most prone to
get into habits that are bad and then
sticking to them. so that 1t is hard to be.
lieve sometimes that he has any sense
at all. Get the habit OF getting out OF
the old bad habits and getting into
good new habits.
Feed the; skim milk. don't make
cheese Cheese sold of the farm
takes more nitrogen with It than but
ter, the loss being about one dollars
worth OF nitrogen for every 1000
pounde OF milk used. If you sell but
ter you sell only the butter fat, which
has no particular fertilizing value II
you get your skim milk back and feed
| II TO pigs you save at least 10 per
cent. OF the fertilizing material In the
milk There can be no objection to
| making and selling cheese, however,
II the plan Of farming includes some
means OF restoring the nitrogen and
phosphates sent out In this way.
Ringbcne that has become firmly es-
tablished upon 9 horses leg Is hard
to treat, Firing seems the most sat
.isfactory method. but this shouia- be
done by q good veterinarian. In Its
early stages ringbone may sometimes
Ebe cured by proper shoeing which win
lstraighten the foot and, relieve the
strain which causes the trouble. Ring.
/ bone IL caused by injury to the ten
dons of the FOOT Or BY blows. sprains.
or ,overworking before the bones have
been fully formed and hardened. II Is
regarded as one OF the diseases which
may be transmitted by horedity, or.
rather. the tendency to II may be
transmitted. s
Pigs In the clover now mean dollars
I'm the pocket next fall The clover