The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1908-01-16
FARM NOTES.

The overgrown horse is seldom I
durable one.
Eggs intended for Matching should
not be kept over four weeks. The,
must be turned every day or two.
1t will require seven pound of skin
milk to equal n pound of lean bee
for flesh-forming qualities.
One dollar per head is the average
cost Of keeping a fowl a year, and
the same amount is a fair estimate oil
the profits.
Hens will enjoy a change Of die'
and will do better in consequence.
To keep on kicking and grumblins
is easy enough. There will always
be something not quite right. But
what's the use Of spelling what Is
good by spreading the bad over 1t.
The hen, that lays three eggs a
week will pay double the profit OF
one that produces but two eggs.
A dairy COW is a machine that turns
feed into milk and cream.
Give your birds plenty of green
food in almost any form. They like
1t and will tell you SO by the egg
basket and flavor of eggs, also.
Most of us are very particular about
the source of our well and spring
water for our own drinking. How
about that consumed by the live
stock?
The community without a rural tele.
phone service is decidedly behind the
times. No investment pays better.
Grain the ewes twice a day; give
hay in the morning, shredded fodder
at noon, and feed-rack at night.
FEED CROPS FOR THE COWS.
The well-known dairy farmer, Mr..
W. F. McSparran, in a recent address
70 dairymen on growing feed crops
for cows said:
Theoretically, when I feed my cows
a full amount of good corn silage and
alfalfa hay my milk yield should be
satisfactory, but actually, l find that
my kind of cows will increase their
milk, giving If l add some r meal
to the bill of fare, and increase still
more II in addition / furnish about
two pounds per day Of oil meal per
cow. Hence while I am personally
very much in favor of the farmer
dairyman growing feed crops to the
fullest extent of proven profit, en-
deavoring to do SO myself, yet to all
I prow 7 povor hesitate IN hripu In
as supplementary by purchase any
feed needed and which my cows can
use at a profit to me.
AS there are wide differences in the
feeds of commerce so there are also
in our grains, hays and folders, and
1t is quite possible that the average
farmers first duty in the home pro-
duction of feed crops is to improve
his standard crops to their maximum
feed value before he makes extensive
attempts to experimentation with new
candidates for his favor. We may cut
u clover or timothy too soon or too
ate to secure its full or its best nu
tritive elements. The simple curing
of hay marks a very wide difference
In quality between very good and
very bad.
have no name OF doubt that a
ton of clover hay, being all one acre
could produce, is Of materially less
feeding worth than a ton from an
acre having grown a three ton crop,
all conditions Of cutting and curing
IN both cases being equal. l know
that when ! secure a crop of one
hundred bushels of corn per acre l
have more than twice as much feed
as have if l m so unfortunate as to
get but fifty bushels per acre.
For the production of crops that
carry their feeding elements in the
most perfect proportions and condi.
tons, a properly balanced soil ration
and soil condition are unquestionably
necessary.
Prominently the greatest feeding
crop of America and the one tina.
shall forever give us a commanding
position in the world in animal hus.
bandry, is our Incompatible corn. II
is almost as wholly Indigenous to ali
parts of the United States as weeds.
PEA FOWL.
Can you tell me anything of the
mating habits of peafowl? I have a
pair, bought last spring: the hen
has laid no eggs-at all events she
has Matched no brood. Is 1t possible
that my pair are not properly mated?
They are three years old at least.-A.
Lathrop. (Pea fowl are quite like
turkeys in their habits; If you have a
male and female, they will mate In
due time; they do not always pro-
luce a brood each season, some never
produce a brood. You must watch
them next spring and see where the
hen makes her nest. She will most
likely hide 1t away where II will be
''Hicult to find It. Keep an eve On
fnr: II the nest is located. let the
>~~s stav whore sNe laws them: n
-he 'a-s cver Is IN The nest fwht-h
IS unite rnHtelv. take soma Of thaml
wnv and nut und>- a chirten hon;
'ft the pea hen hatch the rest. When
she becomes broody. place food and
water every day close to her nest
so she can have plenty to eat when
she comes from the nest. Other than
this do not bother her. If no eggs
are laid, another season get another
hen; the one you have may not be a
producer .)-Country Gentleman.