The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1909-01-27
The kind a fowl kept depends upon
the taste of the person keeping them.

The price of corn seems to keep up
even though livestock are putting it
down.
A drafty barn is about the worst
thing you can winter any kind OF
stock in.
Oil meal or ground fax seed makes
a splendid ration to overcome q ten
dency to constipation in the horses.
Earth floors which xse well packed
and properly drained make ideal
floors for horses. being better than
concrete and even than planking.
Cows do not usually consume more
food than can be properly digested.
The ration. therefore, should be made
as palatable as possible. in order to
induce the cow to eat large quantities.
The young calf needs water. see that
she gets 1t. The calf that is to be-
come a future dairy COW must have
the inclination and capacity Of heavy
drinker. She cannot give large flow
of milk without drinking much water.
1t is a reproach to any man to let
his horses shoulders become score.
The trouble has either been caused by
the failure of the collar to fly properly
or it is due to the accumulation Of
sweat and dirt upon the collar which
has been allowed to chafe the shout.
der until it has caused an abrasion of
the skin.
One stale egg will do more to dis
courage egg consumption than any
thing else, not even high prices. The
farmer who knowingly gets rid of eggs
that are Old is working against his OWL
interests. for 1t does not take the pur-
chaser of his stock iC2g to learn that
the bad is mixed with the good. This
not only lowers the price which he is
able to get for his eggs. but it makes
1t increasingly hard to make sales.
Patch the thin places in your rub
Der boots yourself. To make the
cement needed take five cents worth
of rubber and dissolve it in benzine or
chloroform. Keep the bottle containing
the cement tightly corked. Wet first
with benzine for an inch or more
around the hole and scrape until clean
and a new surface exposed, then apply
the liquid rubber with a brush as
quickly as possible that it may not
harden.
In this day of efficient fire extin-
guishers. no farmhouse or barn should
be without such protection. If often
happens that a fire is easily extin-
guished when it is first discovered If
the means are at hand for doing the
work. Here is good formula which
will prove effective: Take ten pounds
of common salt and five pounds of
muriate of ammonia and dissolve in
four gallons of water. When dissolved
bottle it and keep for an emergency.
In case of a fire one or more bottles
should be thrown into the flames with
such force as to break them.
1t is a good rule after a colt has
been weaned to give it about all the
feed it will eat. Never let a colt get
poor and become stunted, or a small
and inferior horse will be the result.
Furnish it an abundance of rich feeds
at all times, even though some of the
feeds must be purchased away from
the farm. Give it plenty of oats, wheat
bran and clover hay, all of which con-
tain protein and mineral matter for
building muscle and bone. Allow it
plenty of free exercise so it will digest
and assimilate these heavy nitrogen
GUS feeds.
Don't pull on the halter and beat the
colt over the head in the effort to
teach it to lead. Try this plan: Put
L quarter-inch rope around the body
at the flank and run the free end
through slipping moose made at the
other end of the rope and forward he
tween the front legs up through the
halter ring. When ready to begin cp-
eration3 say come to the colt and pull!
; on the halter rope. If it vii! not come.
give short quick jerk to the rope
around the body. When this is repeat
ed a few times the colt will lead and
it will rapidly learn that obedience is
ali that is wanted.
It is unfortunately true that most
dairy farmers do not keep any record
by which they can intelligently judge
the merits of the individual member
OF the farm herd. The average dairy.
man does not know how much it costs
10 produce one pound of butter fat OR
100 pounds Of milk. Such records
have been shown TO be essential to
GOOD herd management where salts
factory profits are to be gained, and
in order to bring this fact fOrcibly to
the attention OF those who need 1t the
GARRY department of the Indiana ex-
pertinent station has been investigat-
ing dairy herd conditions in the
Hoosier state. The work was insti-
tu;ed two years ago, and the station
has just issued bulletin report COW
ering the performance of individual
cows il the herds studied. These rec
ords include a large number of herds
in our neighbor state. and because of
the natural reluctance of many dairy
men who refused to allow their herds