The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1908-11-18
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M FARM
militia, III

49,
With eggs high in price it will pay
you to feed generously and to get the
eggs In return.
Provide plenty of litter for the
chickens to scratch in this winter
Leaves are excellent.
Don't forget to pick some of the best
Of the hickory sticks for AK handles.
You will need them.
Be regular in feeding the poultry.
This Is a good rule with regard to
livestock of all kinds.
A good way TO feed molasses to
horses Ia to put 1t ON the hay. This
ration will keep them thrifty.
Alfalfa pays il you get good stand.
but remember that a good stand
comes only with faithful preparation
Of soil.
About the only treatment which the
sheep-killing dog deserves is bullet
where 1t will put him out of business
for good and ALL
Give the hens a good dust bath. Put
the box in a sunshiny place in the hen
house. It will do your heart good to
watch them wallow In 1t.
Never get the conception that it is
clever scheming that brings success.
It's hard work that brings enduring
success. The genius of hard work is
the best asset in life.
The farmer who begrudges the time
necessary to feed and care for the
hogs is generally the farmer who on
market day is disappointed with the
return from the sales.
Before worrying over the fact that
your neighbor has more land than you
have, just study over the question
whether you are getting as much as
is possible out of the land you already
have.
The manure from a dairy COW will
amount to over ten tons a year with
a value of upwards of $50. But the
way the average farmer handles this !
much of the value is lost. |
Why not stop this leak by putting |
in cement cutters, make free use of
bedding and get the manure out on |
the land every day?
Get the boy a camera and get him /
interested in taking pictures of the
buildings and the stock. 1t will be /
one more link to bind him to the farm
and will be q step toward improve
ment in the appearance of the farm
and better farm animals. Pictures tell
and where the camera is on
the farm to bring their tell-tale mes
sases of neglect and disorder and
poor stock, you are apt to spruce up
q bi: and to want stock that will look
well in a picture.
The weather man by study and oS-
may be able to pretty accu-
rately predict what the weather is go
ing to be, but it is God who maketh
he sun to shine and the rain to fall,
he winds to blow and the crops to
grow. And it is we'll it is so, for he
znoweth best. Let us never be i'm
patient with what he sends. Always
make the best of the weather cOndi-
ions; order the farm work in har-
nony with the conditions God pro-
rides. and when it comes to taking
stock after the harvest is over you
will, as you do this year, have to ad-
nit that things turned out better than
vou had thought they would.
Remember that of all the manure
Produced on the farm that from the
poultry has the greatest value, and
ret with but few exceptions it is not
aiken care of as it should be. The
lew Hampshire experiment station
recommends that the weekly drop
,ings of a flock of % hens should be
mixed with about eight pounds of
,ainit or acid phosphate and half
,eck of sawdust. II one desires
,alanced fertilizer for corn and other
loed crops, a mixture of equal parts
# kainit and acid phosphate could be {
lsed instead of either alone. Good
lly meadow muck or peat would be
equally as good as sawdust, If not {
letter, to use as an absorbent. In the
mentioned more than half
4 the ammonia was lost in hen I
manure without chemicals when COM q
AIRED with that which had been mixed
Nth them.
In speaking Of the prosperity and
he conservatism of the American q
armer the National MAGAZINE has this I
0 say: mo other class of people a
ave kept their feet SO firmly since i
ast October 190O as the farmers a
ave done, and they have kept their
eads, too. They look out over the i
ountry and behold the symptoms !
ere and there of financial demorali- a
alton and depression, in the light c