The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-09-17


A hog raiser who has running
stream and bluegrass pasture is in
deed fortunate.
The feeder who fails to study the
effects of roushness is not likely to
make much progress.
Some men seem To feed cattle for
the mere fun of the thing without
much regard TO the profit.
Bran is good hog feed from chemi-
cal standpoint. but mechanically 1t is
too coarse. Shorts are better.
Many young pigs are killed by lice
and the owners take 50 little lntereS
that they do not know what ails them.
Stock with inherent good qualities
will make money on the same feed and
care which with scrub will bring only
loss
See that the names, as well as the
collar, are properly adjusted. You may
thus have sore shoulders on your work
horses.
Good feeding is something more than
shovellng unhusked corn on the ground
ana allowing animals to dig il out OF
the mud.
IN
600 worth of farm property. His home
place, near Lincoln, Neb., is assessed
at $4,000.
Alfalfa or clover pasture is the best
for the hog. A good substitute for
either of these is rape, field peas or
COW peas sown in a pasture.
Factories of this country produce
S1O0,000000 worth of farm machinery
every year, of which about S6,0OO,OOO
worth is sent to foreign lands.
About $4,000 acres, or nearly 3S3
square miles of land, in Missouri, that
was formerly worthless has been
changed from marsh and boys TO fine
farms.
Never let the dead wood remain on
the fruit trees Ii not only provides
hiding places for insect pests, but 1t
opens the way for extending the de-
cay of the heart of the tree.
Dva cou-p I'm corn proun1 I'm SpDtpm-
Der makes fine pasture for late fall. If
clover is sown the next spring it will
make good pasture until the rye is ripe,
when the hogs will thrive upon the
grain.
Forty-fve thousand dollars is tidy
commission on land deal-a sum
which is said to have been paid on the
sale OF the Spur ranch In Dickens
county, Texas, TO an English syndi-
cate for S2,J0O,GO0.
To introduce new blood secure sew
eral good hens and mate them to youl
best male bird, provided he is good
one. If your flock Is not up to the
standard get the best male bird you cal
and breed up to him.
Good pasturage and plenty of water
Is all that breeding stock need, but
pigs which are TO be marketed at six
months must have plenty of grain to
bring them up to the best marketable
weight, about 200 pounds.
Daniel Freeman, of Brownville, Neb.
filed on the first free homestead pro
vided by the government on January
LIST, 1863. He is still in possession OF
this old patent, which is numbered /
and lives on his homestead.
1t is essential that we attend to the
comfort and bodily ease OF our COWS
1t would be well If some OF us would
ask ourselves how certain lines OF
treatment would suit us. All animals
man included, have much in common.
Again the Pennsylvania station, a.
great labor and cost, proves that steers
fed in sheds will make more gain thar
those fed In the open during a colo
winter. Did anybody ever suppose they
would not?
Professor +. c. Parker. OF the Min
nesota experiment station, has gone tC
China at the call of the government
of that country to organize and con
duct an experiment station and scho0
of agriculture at Mukden, In Man
churia.
The fenced farm is the only one OIL
which live stock can be kept and th'
rotation of crops followed, and as this
method of farming is the only profit
able one I'm the long run, 1t follow;
that the farm must be fenced to bt
handled properly.
DR.. o. Z. Bennett, of Macon, ILL.,, has
q bunch of artichokes planted In eacl
OF his poultry yards. These make {
dense shade during the summer, anC
spring up vigorously year after year
They require no cultivation and fros
does not injure them.
There is an objection to alsike by
some farmers, 1t Is claimed, for thu
reason that it's foliage has a slight!
bitter taste, and stock do not take t
1t as readily as they do to red clover
but they Will learn to eat 1t in shor
time If they are allowed no other grass
While attempting TO relieve a Gov
which had swallowed a turnip, Min
nesota farmer pushed a broom handl,
down her throat and broke off twent,
inches of 1t. Recently the stick wa
taken out of the cows back just be
hind the right shoulder and she is get
ting well.
In 1910 the first ship load OF Peru
Wan guano was sent to England to b.
applied as a land fertilizer. This wa
used for its ammonia. The Southern
rock phosphate mines were opened Il
1867, the Florida and Tennessee phos
phate mines later. The trade in nitrat