The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-09-10
N'~ FARM
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Overfeed may be bad, but under
feed is still worse.
Keep thu young animals growing
Little chance of overfeeding
Stick to your job. The farmer Is
the most independent of any class of
workmen.
Hogs thrive best when allowed to
Craze. 1t is economy to provide suit.
ably fenced fields.
A bit of woodland fenced in with
the pasture provides the ideal condi-
ton for the stock.
In sections too far north for Grim
son clover, barley and Canada peas
make good cover crop.
Borax and sugar dissolved in boil
ing water and placed where ants are
troublesome will drive them away.
To keep water in a common jug cool
out in the field try placing it in q
pail and covering with a coat or
blanket
The sow with young nogs should
never be pastured with other large
hogs. It means trouble with prob
able loss.
1t is better to spread lime over the
field to be so treated week or two
before putting in the wheat or rye.
The drill can be used in spreading
lime.
Tobacco waste and salt mixed in
proportions of about one part tobac-
co to five of salt should be kept before
the sheep at all times so they can
help themselves. Where this is done
there is no trouble from stomach
worms.
Renew the meadows on the hill
slopes in the following manner and
the loss by washing will be almost if
not entirely stopped: Break the
meadow sod in alternate strips with
the slope Of the hill so that any ero-
sion from the cultivated strips will
be caught by those left in meadow.
These cultivated strips are then sown
to grass and the other alternate
strips broken and planted to cult
waited crop. In this way all of the
eroded soil will be caught and held
on the plowed meadow strips and
none will be permanently lost.
DR.. L. L. Lewis, of Oklahoma, points
out that great many farmers when
they obtain a remedy for hog cholera
dispense with all precautionary meas
ures and rely upon the cure for their
protection. DR.. Lewis points out that
this method is folly and that strenu-
GUS precautionary measures should be
kept up during any course of treat
ment. He says: Hog cholera Is an
infectious disease and may be carried
in a number of ways from infected
pens to hogs that are healthy. Run
ming water is very active means of
spreading the disease. Pens contain
ing diseased hogs and located along
streams make the water dangerous
for all other hogs below them. Out
breaks of cholera can often be fol-
lowed considerable distances along
water courses. The infection may al
so be carried by the clothing, wagons,
crates, or, in fact, by almost all means
of communication between farms"
The handling of the pigs intended
for breeders should be entirely differ
ent from those intended for market.
They should be pushed for rapid
growth, but must be fed for a growth
of frame and bone; not fattened on
corn, but expanded by a feed rich in
protein. At six, eight or ten months
of age, they should show more length
if body and more scale than market
hogs, and be smooth and well covered,
but not so fat as for market. This can
be very easily done by feeding mixed
grain ration, with ten per cent. of
tankage or ten per cent. of oil meal.
Use corn, barley and oats ground to-
gether, mixed thickly with water, and
fed at once while sweet. 1t is much
better to mix three pounds of milk to
one pound of grain. If one has no milk
the next best feed is ten per cent. of
tankage. If one has the corn and does
not want to buy the mill feeds, he can
use 80 per cent. of corn and 20 per
cent. Of tankage and have a well-bal-
anced ration.
Plants are really miniature pump
ing stations and are constantly busy
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