Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1908-08-19
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Keep CHEEKY and half OF your
troubles viii disappear,
The runty pig is poor stock to raise
and should never be bred from.
Have you. ever been able to discover
Ahe economy Of the half-staryed calf?
The kind of crops man grows is
! pretty good index to the mans
character
A mash of two quarts of middlings
Eill put the pigs in condition for mar
Act next fall
The perfectly quiet bull like the
nloaded revolver is always the one
ihat does the damage.
In picking your breeder for next
years stock remember that the rooster
is more than half the flock.
Open up burlap bag at the seam
and throw over the COW when milking.
It will prove big protection from the
aies and will help keep her quiet.
Alcohol, tobacco, iced-drinks, stimu-
Batting food and strong tea and coffee
increase the effects of the hot
weather.
The shiftless farmer is half glad of
The break in the machine that takes
him to town where he can loaf and
gossip for half day.
The farmer who loves the soft side
OF his bed in the morning more than
he does a soft bed for his crops, is the
GARNER who never discovers that farm
Eng pays.
Clean out the horse stalls every day.
Shake out the bedding removing the
stained litter and putting the rest on
a rack to dry and air Then sweep
out the stall so it will get dry.
She Was a Hard Milker-Summer
Boarder--"How much milk does that
COW you are milking giye?" Perspir-
ing and Overworked MiIker-"She
cont give none. What yer get yer got
20 work hard fer.
Better to try, and in the trying make
mistakes than not to try at all. The
farmer that is not ready to expert
ment with new methods and new
crops even though his first attempts
are partial failure, is the farmer who
never improves.
Wire fences increase the danger to
stock from lightning, but this danger
fan be almost entirely overcome by
running wire which is in contact
with all the wires of the fence into the
ground. Such wires should be placed
at about every tenth to fifteenth post
Pigs in the clover is no joke, neith- (!
er is it a puzzle. The puzzle is that
any farmer should try to raise pigs
without giving them pasturage, and the
Joke, il joke there be, is on the fellow
whose hogs are not ready for market
when they should be- 1t pays to keep
ahe pigs growing, and good pasturage
with grain feed is the thing that will
do the turn.
The figures Of the experts that
81 900 worth of wheat sold off the
farm disposes of $24O worth of the
farms fertility; $1,000 worth of beef
sold off the farm takes $S5 worth of
fertility; in pork, $50; in horses, $35;
in milk, $40, while 81 900 worth of
butter sold off the farm robs it of only
1925 worth of fertility. No comment
is necessary. Those figures preach
their own sermon.
Dairy farmers will watch with much
interest the model dairy farm estab-
Hshed by tie Kansas Experiment sta
zion, where a series of yearly expert
ments will be carried on to ascertain
how many COWS can profitably be kept
on 40 acres. The dairy herd has been
reduced somewhat and Prof Kendall
wishes to build up the herd largely
with Guernsey and Ayrshire breeds, as
he deems them hardy and adapted to
Kansas conditions, and also excellent
dairy breeds. The entire AZ acres has
been in blue grass and 1851 acres have
been plowed and these plots will be
used as follows: Plot /, 6.6 acres for
corn silage; plot 2, 3.5 acres for corn
for soiling feeding as cut; plot 3,
three acres for cowpeas for hay; plot
4. five acres for later corn silage. 4
From ll6 acres he expects to have
enough silage to fill two S0-ton siIos
As he cuts the corn from plot 2 he will I
sow part to cowpeas sowing all Of this
PLOT to alfalfa in early September. A
part Of plot | or 4 will also be sowed
% alfalfa and next year five acres win
he taken from the "a acres Of pasture
md put in corn for Ssilage. The idea
X to HIATT the pasture area and add to
ihe acreage for soillng, ensilage and