The Elbert County tribune., 1908-04-02

the men until she Is thoroughly
broody.
1t Is easier to raise good horse
than to pick one up when wanted.
Remember that.
Whey fed to excess may cause stifr
joints in the pigs. Its feeding value ID
about half that of milk.
The best breed of sheep for the
farmer is the one which combines
long fleece with a large carcass.
If you are keeping sheen plan on a
good generous turnip crop this year.
1t is almost necessity in successful
sheep raising.
An Iowa man at last accounts had
the corn husking record of the year.
having husked rs bushels in four
hours and eight minutes.
A course at your state agricultural
college will do more to interest your
boy in agriculture and tie him to the
farm than any other one thing.
Alsike clover is valuable on heavy
soil. 1t is lighter growing, finer
crop than the medium red. and is
shorter lived. but 1t will pay you to
try 1t.
Begin some kind of crop rotation
this year. Don't raise the same crop
year after year on the same piece of
ground. Give the ground variety of
work to do.
Don't let fine weather over heai
tempt you out into the field which is
still too wet to work. 1t is bad for the
soil. hard on the horses and disap-
pointing TO you.
Damp crib corn will prove a curse
to many farmer this year who deaf
to the advice TO select and care for
his seed corn just let matters drift
along in the same old way.
1t has been proved from expert
ments that unless linseed oilmeal can
be purchased at approximately as low
a price as corn per pound no profit
from its use with corn and clover hay
for fattening lambs is to be expected.
1t is the farmer who learns how to
do his work with the least number OF
moves-in other words systematizes
his work-who makes the best success
OF farming and who always has time
to take in the farmers Institutes
fairs, etc.
Secretary of Agriculture Wilson
says: I'D rather not impose on q
busy farmer the keeping of an elab
crate set of books, but some simple
form of accounts will be great aid
in successful farming" To which
sentiment we assent heartily.
The spoiled horse is generally the
one that has been improperly trained
Careful thorough breaking should so es.
tablish the good traits of horse as to
make the acquiring of bad habits al.
most impossible save where the gross
est kind of mismanagement was prac.
ticed
| 1t Is good practice in planting an
orchard to alternate the varieties. set
ting not over two or three rows of
one sort and then something clue.
This will insure heavier bearing
through cross-pollination of the bios.
SONS, some sorts not being able 10
| fertilize themselves.
Moving the field of young alfalfa
may check the weeds but it will also
check the alfalfa. The ground in
tended for alfalfa should be so thor
oughly prepared that weeds have no
chance to start until after the alfalfa
is well along and firmly rooted AL
| faifa that gets the right start will
prove very inhospitabls ground for
the weeds.
man must be friendly to have
friends. This was never more true
than in the country Try little friend
liness toward that neighbor whom you
have considered rather cold and dis
tant You will perhaps find he will
warm up TO you and the friendship
will work mutual good. Get his ideas.
and If you have anything good in that
line share it with him.
1t takes no more work or food to
feed a 700-pounds-butter-in- COW
than it does to feed the one which
produces but 200 pounds. Why not
weed out the poorer cows and get in
those which pay good profit? A COW
ought to produce at least 300 pounds
of butter fat year to make it worth
while keeping her. but many a farmer
is keeping COWS which will not pro-
I.