The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1908-12-16

The pig pen has given place to the
pig pasture on farms where pigrais.
ing is conducted for profit.
To get the best out Of any soil Q
leguminous crop should be grown q
least once In four or five years.
Keeping up the milk flow IN the
problem which now faces the farmse.
You can't do 1t except you feed for Il
| The curtain front to the poultry
house provides fresh air without per
hitting a draft upon the chickens.
Try It,
Keep close eye on your flock q
chickens and mark the ones that are
the best layers for breeding purposes
next spring.
Lots Of dirt Is flirted into the milk
pail from the tail Be sure and do not
neglect to brush and clean 1t with the
rest of the animal.
Care must be taken in breaking the
colt that proper bit Is used. Many
horses mouth has been ruined by the
use of the wrong bit
Think of the folly of trying to build
up a good dairy herd with q scrub
bull. And yet that is what many q
farmer is trying to do.
Thing not only draws OF the sur
plus water from the land but 1t helps
to aerate and warm the soil. Crops
need air and warmth.
Winter the calves well. You viii
see the wisdom of it next spring when
you turn them out to pasture and see
the rapid gains they make.
It were almost better to turn the
stock out into the open air as to
make them stand in the draughty
stable. Close up the chinks.
The successful farmer ia the farmer
who knows what his land viii pro-
duce, who raises what he can most
readily market and who follows up
his work so that it is always well in
hand
When buying a separator never buy
the size that is only barely large
enough to handle your milk. There
is no economy in this. 1t always pays
to get a machine which has consider
able reserve capacity.
Feed green cut bone when you can.
There is nothing better to induce the
hens to lay. Skim milk is also fine.
But IL you haven't either of these two
get some beef scrap or beef meal and
feed a little each day.
Don't let your horses drop suddenly
from hard work into days of idleness.
The radical change will work to his
hurt. Bring into the slack season Of
winter gradually and let down ON the
full grain ration gradually also.
Cows that are trained to milk from
either side is Kansas idea. A farmer
from that state reports that his cows
are broken thus and that when one OF
his young folks gets through milking
and there are no more whole" cows
to be MIXED, they take 1t two to Q
COW, one on each side. Kansas al
ways was a strenuous state.
Farmers above all others are inter.
ested in the work of the conservation
commission. and scarcely a single
farmers organization meets but that
it adopts resolutions indorsing the
commission and urging cooperation in
the work. It's good thing. What are
you doing to carry out the idea Of con-
servatiOn upon your own farm?
1t is a mistake to think that any old
place is good enough for the hog. His
layer of fat may make 1t possible to
stand a deal of cold but II will not
help him to make good return for the
feed you are putting into him. Re-
member that the animal that 10 to
give a good account of itself must be
provided not only with good food and
plenty of it but with comfortable
quarters.
Cats in the orchard in the summer
time will tend to lessen the mice
there in the winter time. One farmer
who has a large orchard keeps .
dozen or two of cats, feeding them new
milk each morning in the center Of
the orchard. This keeps their activi-
ties centered in the orchard and the
farmer declares there are few mice,
squirrels, rabbits or rats on his farm.
We are a little afraid that the cats
would interfere with the birds though,
and drive them away. 1t is question
whether the mice would do as much
damage as the insects which the birds
failed to get.
Sappy corn is very difficult to store
over winter The excess Of water, or
sap, in green corn massed in the crib
with poor circulation of air for carry.
ing of moisture and promoting evap-
grafton will cause the corn to spoil.
Unless stored in a very narrow crib
with plenty of bottom, top, and side
it is almost sure to either
mold or rot, depending of course upon
the dryness of the weather. the condi-
l. Lob he