Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1908-06-17
Proper care Of breeding stock In
sures healthy vigorous chicks.

Grow more silage corn and then get
/ into the silo so that 1t win keep
Stable manure reinforced BY hard
wood ashes makes the best orchard
fertilizer.
1t pays to s;oray is the declaration
Of those who have tried 1t. DO you
begin this year?
Give the horse his heaviest teeuihs
at night after The days work Is over
and when he has time to digest IT,
Where alfalfa is not grown cowpeas
make excellent substitute for fall
pasturage for sheep. Plan for such
crop.
There are a thousand and one ways
of waste on the farm. he on the
watch for them. Stop the lttIe
leaks
The farmer who is making the busi'
ness of hog raising matter FOR sclon'
tific study is the man who is max
ing certain of his profits
The dirt road becomes a good road
under the faithful application OF the
split.log drag. What kind Of road
have Won alongside of your place?
A COWS digestive system Is never
improved by drinking from the mud
puddles in the pasture Drain all
such places and provide clean pure
water.
Ideas, like seeds, are no good when
laid up on the shelf of the mind ana
not used. Sow your ideas in the soil
Of farm experience and reap the har-
vest of better things.
Crab grass which proves so trouble
some in the corn fields during the late
summer may be pastured of by the
sheen or rather the lambs, for the
latter are not likely to trouble the
corn.
In pasturing sheep or lambs on al
falfa care must be taken to prevent
bloat It is well to have adjoining
s.lsture of prairie grass and to moi
turn the lambs into the alfalfa until
after the dew is off.
The matter of first consideration II
planting an orchard is that of per
sonal taste. Plant what you ike
Other matters which must be consid
cred are soil and location. Selec
trees which will thrive under thu
conditions you can provide.
Instead of replacing the posts whicl
!, have rotted off at the ground surfac
with entirely new posts, try settin
short post and >piking the old pos
ia it. In this way the post may b
made to do double service, whic
means a big saving in money and IL
Dor.
Partial paralysis In pigs mSy b
successfully treated in some cases b
:, dosing with epson salts, one ounce
!, each animal, following this physic wit
: one dessertspoonful Of cod liver OF
ten grams phosphate of lime and tW
= drops nux-yomica given twice a da
for several weeks.
"a Like the gun that isn't loaded tt
n bull that isn't dangerous Is the or
,r that generally goes off and does dar
= age to some one. Don't trust too t;
~ the most docile appearing animal.
- an instant some time his temper ms
change and some one be killed or |
iured before he can escape, or Il
~ bull be conquered Take no chances.
g,
"a Matching muskmelon seeds under
ur sitting hen is the method OF NC
nj York market gardener in getting ear
II. melons, for says he 1T is all in getti
or the seed to sprout." He puts the Sc
to soak over night in a rag and t
next day puts them under the nc
m where the heat starts the seeds
A three or four days and they are rea
mr. to put in the ground in the cold fran
Sc
he The medium-sized hog at the pr
he ent time seems most in favor. Hc
DIS weighing from 300 to 800 pounds
nd more were once thought to. be ide
bit 1t became apparent to swine gre
egs that every day "a hog lived o.
or one year lit was losing money for
on owner. Now hogs are so manag
.pe aud fed that in eight or ten mon
Nv they are large enough to meet
SITS popular demand
J q
cut The margin between the cost OF
NV feeders and the price received
ian them when finished is one fac
which decides very largely whet
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