The Columbus journal., 1909-09-29
M FARM
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Keep the feed yards clean.
Pure water for the animals must
be the rule.
A dull sythe is poor encouragement
to rapid work.
Breeding from the best is the surest
way of having the best.
Clean up the hen house and then
keep it clean by regular attention.
When pastures are short give the
sheep a small grain ration. 1t will
pay you.
The time to harvest the onion crop
is when the tops wither and turn yell
low and fall over.
Sponge the back of the horse after
removing the saddle and you will
have no swellings or sore spots.
One pound of tobacco stepped in
two gallons of vinegar is said to be
a most excellent remedy for lice on
cattle.
Scatter the fertilizer we'll away
from the trunk of the trees, for it is
there that the feed roots will be
found.
A balky horse may offer good op-
portunity for the cultivation of pa
thence, but that is about all. 1t won't
pay to keep him.
The early frosts are the foretaste Of
| the weather which will soon be upon
us. Take look ahead and be sure
that you are ready for winter.
Next the fair, then the fall plow-
ing and sowing and finishing up upon
the harvesting and then the winter
time of reading. studying and plan
ming for the next years work.
What you put into your farm rather
than what you take out determines
how good a farmer you are. Ex-GOv.
Hoard of Wisconsin put it about right
in a recent speech when he said:
''The way we look at farming is all
wrong. Our philosophy is false. We
do not see that We must build up
rather than destroy if We hope to add
to our fortune in the end. I must do
two things on my farm and do them
constantly: 1. Build up my soil; spend
money, time and labor on it. 2. Build
up the efficiency and productiveness
of my herd by wise breeding, feeding
| and care"
Average milk of good quality should
contain about 81 per cent. of water
and 13 per cent. solids. Milk con-
tains bacteria of many kinds and in
varying numbers. They cause the
souring of milk as well as the ripen-
ing of cream and cheese and produce
many other changes in the appear
ance and flavor. The number pres
ent in freshly drawn milk varies enor-
mously with the conditions of milk
ing, and, as they are greatly in
creased with dirty and careless hand
ling, cleanliness in all matters per-
tanning to the milking and marketing
of milk and keeping it in the home
cannot be too strongly insisted on
Disease germs. notably those of IT,
phoid. diphtheria. scarlet fever and
tuberculosis, may also be carried in
milk. so that the purity of the sup
ply is of vital Importance to every
family and community.
Early and late blight on potatoes
are common in most sections Effec-
tive treatment is preventive rather
than curative and must be begun
early. If your fields have suffered
this year either from early or late
blight study the conditions carefully
and then plan another season to
| spray thoroughly. The vines should
be sprayed every two or three weeks,
or oftener If rains have come and
washed the coating of Bordeaux off,
Late potato blight is often respon.
| sible for wet rot of tubers in the bin.
| Its progress on stored potatoes is
checked by busting them with air.
| slaked lime. The cost Of spraying
potatoes is about 81 per acre and the
gain from five to six sprayings
amounts to an average of about $25
DER acre. When potatoes are thor
oughly sprayed they not only pro-
duce much more of superior tubers
but the tubers are less liable to rot
and future infection of the potato soil
is reduced.
The lousy hog will not fatten up.
| It is little use to clean up the hogs
! without cleaning up the sleeping
| quarters also. The manure and bed.
ding material should be burned. If
one dislikes to do this. it is all right
| to haul it onto land some distance
from the hog pens and plow it under
Immediately. The pens must then be
disinfected by scrubbing them with
lime milk. Any other disinfectant
would do, of course. AS lime milk
is cheap, the disinfecting should be
repeated once or twice. The hogs
must not have access to the pens in