The Elbert County tribune., 1908-01-16

ing against his own interests by neg
lecting the hogs.
The separator not only gets all the
butter cnt of the milk (that is, II
does II 1t is run right. but it saves
hauling the milk to the creamery
and back again.
Are you planning on putting in some
alfalfa next season? Be particular
about the seed you buy. Make sure
1t is of high quality and free from
dodder and other noxous seeds.
Keeping the boar away from the
herd is much more trouble than let
ting him run with the rest. but 1t is
the only way of knowing just what
you are about in raising hogs, and is
ths best in the long run.
II you cannot afford manure
spreader. why not join with three or
four of your neighbors and buy one?
The spreader will do the work for all
of you and the cost to each one will
be merely nominal.
The late colt can be permitted to
suck its dam all winter without harm.
Many well-meaning farmers injure
their mares by trying to dry them of
when they are giving a full flow of
milk. 1t is contrary to nature.
The clipped horse should be al
ways carefully blanketed when left
standing. There is no particular
objection to depriving the horse of
his natural coat if another is pro-
vided for him.
No horse was ever born balky, but
may be made so by the driver" is
what horseman says who has made
business of dealing in vicious ami
mails and then by patient effort re-
forming them.
The horse that starts off with a
jerk and breaks into a fast gait at
once is not the safest animal to
drive. Better train to start with a
walk. Many a serious accident is
caused by the quick starting of a
horse.
Diarrhea in horses, brought ON by
overfeeding or exposure to inclement
weather. is a common trouble and
should be checked at once. Parched
flour, rice meal cruel and boiled milk
are all excellent correctives for this
affment
Have all the roosts in the poultry
| house as nearly on a level as pos
sible and so prevent crowding of the
fowls on the upper perches. Instinc-
lively the hens will seek the highest
perches and hence suffer from over
crowding where the perches are not
all on the same level.
The secret of success in dairying is
to know what COW ought to do, and
then make her do it. is the way
Hoard's Dairyman puts it. And we
might add that the COW that won't do
it ought to make room for the COW
that will. Time is wasted on trying to
increase the yield Of some COWS.
On orchard soils only moderately
rich it is necessary to keep up the sup
ply of fertility. What the crop of fruit
takes off should go back each year
in the form either of barnyard manure
or of chemical fertilizers. so that the
roots of the trees need not seek in
vain for the material out of which to
make new products.
Never allow fax which is to be used
for seed to become wet, for the damp
ness causes disease spores to germin-
ate and the mold filaments grow into
the seed coats, and seed treatment
will fail to destroy this internal
fungus. The young plants from such
seeds must eventually sicken and die,
and will introduce the disease into the
soil wherever they fall.
The best means for protecting the
orchard trees from mice is to keep the
orchard free from weeds, particularly
at seeding time. A moving machine
will not do this. 1t takes cultivation
and a hoe. If space 21a or feet
about the tree is kept absolutely clean
of weeds little If any damage will be
done by mice. Remember this nex'
season.
In planting an orchard the soil fer.
tility should determine to some ex-
tent the distance between the trees,
the rule being that the stronger the
land the greater the distance between
trees as the trees will attain greater
growth than they would in poorer soil
Twenty-eight by thirty-two or 2Sx34 is
about right. Where desired filler of
sorae early variety can be planted IN
between the trees the wider way.