The Elbert County tribune., 1908-04-16
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Keep the stock off of soft pastures
Alfalfa is too valuable to pas
ture.
What do you think of sheep as
manure spreader?
Bells on the sheep will save you lots
OF time in looking for them.
The chicks that are crowded will
not make good, vigorous growth.
The sows appreciate clean drinking
water as much as any farm animal
chard will bring most profitable re-
turns.
Remember the best ground for the
garden. and make 1t better still by fer
{ilizing literally and cultivating assId-
uously
Look up but always have the wealth
er eye out for the stumbling block in
the road.
The good horse is his own best
salesman, and this is true of every
other farm animal.
A good road along the side of your
place makes a good impression on the
stranger as he drives by.
Set the first eggs the turkeys lay
under the chicken hen and thus en-
courage them to lay a second clutch.
Begin In small way and grow as
fast as you can is a safe rule in any
branch of farming or stock-raising.
Some breeders claim that chickens
fed sulphur are liable to rheumatism
in damp weather. What has been
your experience?
The land intended for alfalfa should
be plowed and narrowed. then disked
and narrowed again, and then it would
do no harm to harrow again.
The good idea is good to use not to
be slowed away and forgotten. For
this reason get busy after you have
read Meadowbrook Farm Notes.
Don't keep the kicking cow And at
the same time that you get rid of her
get rid of those methods of yours by
which the bad qualities in her were
developed.
The cry has gone forth that soon
famine of hickory will be upon the
land. Why not plant few such trees?
Young trees can be obtained from
many Of the nurseries.
No wonder you don't have good
roads In your township If politics is
mixed up in the business. Deal with
the road question strictly on bust.
ness basis. Cut the politics out.
One cannot always prevent being
crowded by the seasons work. but one
can keep from fretting over it. Fret
fulness of this kind leads to hurry and
hurry often entails much work that is
needless.
good tobacco dip for sheen ia
made by soaking 20 pounds of tobacco
In sufficient water to cover; boil for
an hour strain. and then dilute to 100
gallons. Twenty pounds of sulphur
VIII improve the dip
well-known fruit expert claims
that the cost of picking apples upon
very large. high trees Is 20 cents
barrel. while on low-headed trees the
cost does not exceed cents a barrel.
This is potent argument in favor of
low-headed trees.
III the cream does not rise readily
there may be two reasons for it. First.
the milk being produced in the last
of the period of lactation, and, second
improper feeding. 1t takes longer for
cream to rise upon milk of the co,v
who has been giving milk a long rime
Underfeed may save food but IT is
more than Offset by the unthrifty con-
dition of the animal. Overfeed wastes
the food and hampers the animal in
making the best growth Irregular
feeding causes nervous irritabiIity In
the animal which interferes with diges
tive processes. Improper feed OF
course must with animals as with man
produce unhealthy conditions.
Here is fox trap which will work.
says an experienced hunter: Find a
good-sized stump 21s feet or more
from the ground. Get set of small
sticks two feet long and nail them
around the stump one inch apart, let. |
ting them project above the stump IS |
Inches Put rooster in this coop and