The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1908-07-22
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II you have not started those farm
accounts yet begin now.
Remember the COW must have food
to keep up her bodily visor as well as
to provide for the milk yield
Cut the burdock OF at the crown and
pour few drops of kerosene on each
stalk. Time will do the rest.
Calves should have access to good
clean hay at all times if the best re-
suits are TO be obtained from the
grain ration which is fed
A can with a hole punched in the
bottom of il the size of the seed to be
sown makes an excellent aid to SOW
ing OF seed in the garden.
Get the sunshine habit. You know
how sunshine makes the crop grow.
Sunshine in the home and about the
daily tasks is just as essential.
Il is folly TO sell of the stock just
because the prices seem to be low and
il looks as though it was Improbable
TO raise them. Be patient and wait
for prices 10 recover, as they will.
The small flock does better than the
large flock because the ration Of the
former is made up largely OF the table
scraps, which provide q more bal
anced ration than that provided by the
more exclusively grain diet
An old farmer who has tried II says
that common poke root boiled down to
q strong tea and added to the drinking
water in proportion of one cupful to a
railful of water will cure chicken
cholera, and hog cholera, too.
A farmer who fed his no IS the skim
milk warm from the separator, mixing
with corn meal at the ratio of one to
three. that is, one pound Of corn meal
to three Of milk. found that he secured
what amounted to 40 cents q 100
Owing TO the wet weather this
spring the weeds have given the farm
ers hard fight in most sections. But
X by extra effort the fields are kept
clean, the crops will show proportion
ately greater improvement as a result
OF the more thorough cultivation.
The farmers wife should be his help
meet in all things. but not his drudge.
She should help in planning the work
or the farm but she should not be
asked or expected to take the place
Of hired man and do rough chores
We think that she should not even be
asked to help do the milking.
Ever stop TO figure out how many
eggs your hens averaged for the year?
Perhpas you would be surprised to
know how low an average your flock
would show. 1t costs no more to feed
a -egg-a-year hen than the one that
only lays 100 eggs. Why not study the
individual merits of your flock and
breed for better layers?
Farmers in some sections are ex-
periencing trouble this year from clod-
dy ground due to the blowing having
been done when wet. There is not
much which can be done to relieve
such a condition. The only thing to
do is to watch and put the harrow on
the ground at the moment when the
clods appear to have their greatest
possible friability. due to their con- |
tanning a certain amount of moisture. |
Whitewasn may be put on with the |
spray pump provided the wash is thor |
oughly strained before pumping 9th |
erwise PARTICLES are apt to clog in the |
pump. II is fast way Of getting on |
the wash and good way. as the wash |
may be forced into hooks and corners |
where the brush cannot reach. Every |
farmer should have a spray pump. as |
II is not only handy about the poultry
house. but is frequently necessary In |
the orchard.
In hog feeding experiment by the
Oklahoma station in which Duroc-Jer-
seys and Poland Chinas were used, six
lots of five each were fed as follows:
Lot l, corn meal: lot .. seven parts
corn meal. one part meat meal;
lot 8, eleven parts corn meal.
one part meat meal: lot 4. four
parts corn meal. one part cotton
seed meal. alternated every other two
weeks by corn meal alone: lot 5. corn
meal, alfalfa hay; lot 6, corn meal.
Cowpea hay. In this test the cost Of
making 100 pounds of gain in each
case was as follows: Lot /. 1901: lot
.. s494; lot 3. s473; lot 4, s63s: lot 5,
S5.SS: lot 6, s6.67.
Self-pruning trees are the subject
OF an interesting article in the Journal
of the New York Botanical Garden BY
Mr. c. S. eager, who studied the
phenomenon in his garden In Oc-
tober the sapling poplars litter the
ground about them with branches,
most of which are two years old and
bear winter buds. The catalpa. the
ailantus. the rse-chestnut. the elm.
the lilac. the mulberry. the maple.
and II or Is other varieties of trees
have this habit of self-pruning. With
some. as the naples, ii occurs in
spring or early summer: with others.