The Elbert County tribune., 1908-04-16
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The right kind of COW expects the
right kind OF treatment and gets 1t.
Have a kind word always for your
horse. and he will prove your faithful
servant.
Increase the fertility of your land
by growing clover and then plowing
it under
Be easy on the horses while they
are hardening to the heavy work Of
the season.
Get the young pigs out on the
ground as soon as possible 10 prevent
their getting too fat
Finish up on the little odd jobs be-
fore the full rush of the spring work
makes you forget them.
The better the seed bed the better
the drop. Remember that when get.
ting the land in shape for the seed.
ihc WedhliHS laInD neeOS special
care and in most cases will repay
your efforts by growing into a strong
animal.
Charcoal. and grit, oyster shell and
granulated bone are essential to the
health of the chickens. Be sure your
flock is supplied.
The drill for planting grain crops
has the advantage of more even plant
Ing at the proper depth. thus ensuring
even start and uniform growth.
Don't let tho cattle run on the pas
ture when the ground is soft 1t will
cause more damage than the land will
be able to recover from for years.
The saleableness of a good grade of
butter may be spoiled by the way 1t is
placed on the market. Appearance
has much to do with the sale of an
article
When wife is troubled about that
sponge cake which has become dry
and which she is tempted to feed to
the chickens, tell her that 1t will make
fine toast for tea.
The horse that has been idle all or
most of the winter. needs careful han
ding to be Injured to hard work. In
crease the grain diet and exercise reg
ularly. increasing the tasks gradually.
Young chicks that have become
drenched by sudden shower and are
cramped with cold should be taken
into the kitchen and wrapped In hot
fiannels. Many a chick can be saved
In this way.
The low-grade fertilizer may not en-
tall so great an initial outlay, but 1t is
the dearest in the end, for no man ever
made dollar by buying the low-grade
fertilizer, while it does pay to put good
fertilizer on the land.
1t is well to look over machinery
to see If bolts and screws do not need
Tightening. but especially is this true
of new machinery. The nuts and
bolts work loose with the first use of
the machine. and 1t is the safest plan
to examine often.
Pea-fed pork is growing in favor in
some sections. Some raisers have
produced profitable hogs without feed.
ing single grain of corn. the feed
consisting almost exclusively of the
peas. But there is little question but
that the better ration Is a combination
OF peas and corn.
comfortable nest for the setting
hen Is made by putting fresh earth
into a box and covering with straw
hay is better for it will not gather
moisture = and sprinkling Stacked
lime and sulphur upon the straw In
such nest the hen will not be trou-
bled with lice and she will not break
her eggs.
Do not let the soft corn of last sea
son, which was abnormally backward.
lead you to make the mistake of
planting too early corn this year.
Plant the kind of corn which has given
the best results in former years.
There is no sort of likelihood that we
shall have another such season as last
year, at least not for another 25 years
anyway.
How do you raise your cream? 1t
has been estimated that the losses of
butter fat by the different methods
of skimming the milk of 20 cows In a
year amount to $120 by the shallow
pan setting, $50 by the deep setting
and SIS By the centrifugal separator
This is based on price of only 20
cents pound for butter fat and an