The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1908-08-29
| For THE HOT DAYS

Never let the surface of the ground
crust over
Pure water for the COW If you want
pure milk from the COW.
Look for lice on the little chickens
which do not seem to be thriving.
Sour milk is good for the little
chicks. Good for the laying hens also.
Spray the currant and gooseberry
bushes with white helebore to kill the
worms.
Feed the lambs a mixture of oats,
wheat bran and oil meal il you want
them to make specially rapid growth.
Sow some rape for the pigs. 1t can
be drilled in or broadcasted. 1t will
be ready for pasturing in about five
weeks.
If weeds gets up before the corn
run a weeder through the field. 1t
will knock the weeds out and will
bring up the corn faster.
The farmer who tests his seed corn
is the farmer who is saved the dis
appointment of planting a whole field
and not having any of 1t come up.
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the start which proves the most profit
able animal to raise. See that condi-
tons are right to produce the best re-
suits.
Too much stock on the pasture is a
mistake. 1t provides insufficient food
for the stock and causes them to Craze
1t down so close as to permanently in
jure 1t.
Il takes generous feeding to build
up the muscle cells broken down by
the hard work of the busy season. You
cannot do this by feeding corn to your
horses. Feed oats.
A bulls bull to some farmers, no
matter OF what breed. or color, or die
position. But never was greater mis-
take made by a farmer than this. The
bull II more than half OF the herd.
The farmer who puts on securing
his seed corn until the last thing and
then plants anything he can get ready
quickly deserves no sympathy when
his cornfelds prove a disappointment.
There is such q thing as false econ
omy in feeding. II third more eI-
pense in feeding gives you three times
the profit, you can easily figure out
the wisdom Of generous rations. Feed
wisely, but not niggardly.
On the first rainy day now get the
haying tools in shape. Haying will
be upon US almost before we realize
It. This promises to be a good hay
ing year. Prices may be lower. but
the larger crops will bring the profits
up to fully what they were last year.
Wet wood is an aggravation, and
there Is q temptation to use coal oil
to hurry matters. But don't do It.
Many q person has tried it and been
injured or fatally burned. But why
wet wood at all? Why not have the
wood supply under shelter and so far
ahead that 1t will have good time to
season.
Encysted worms in sheep cannot Be
reached by drugs. Treatment must
be preventive. The mature worms
must be expelled from the bowels by
the administration of q vermifugO,
surface waters must be avoided and
pastures known to be infected should
be pastured by other stock for . year
or two.
Theory and then practice. Put
some OF the new ideas you have
gained from reading during the winter
and from the discussions at the farm
Ors' Institutes you attended to work
for you There is chance for improve
ment in the methods on almost every
farm. There is an easier or better
way of doing things than has been In
practice. Get next to the new ways,
save ali the labor you can without
danger of jeopardizing the crop.
A good scoop can be made out or
quart or two quart tin vegetable can
by melting or cutting on the top and
beginning at this open end. Sitting
back to within an inch of the bottom.
On the opposite side OF the can make
. similar slit and then cut out the
tin between these two Sits on one
side. Round OF the corners at the
open end. Take piece Of broom han
die and drive a nail through the bot
tom of the center-of the can and into
the center of the broom handle and
there you are. The scoop Is complete.
Perhaps not quite as strong a. .
boughten one but very serViceabl0