The Columbus journal., 1909-09-15

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fore stacking or it will be apt to
heat and spoil.
A good dairy thermometer IS quite
necessary where much cream is
handled. Test your cows.
Picnic lunch is fine. but don't for
get the horses that haul you to the
grove. Have feed for them, too
Alfalfa for seed should be cut when
the greater portion Of the seeds are
hard. but not sufficiently ripe to shell.
Lots of chance for leaks on the
farm Look out for them. Stop them
up as quickly as possible when found
Wet ground can be successfully put
down to red top and alsike clover.
The blowing and seeding can be done
during a very dry spell.
Feed the young chickens freely. Liz:
tie danger of overlooking. But feed
the old stock only what they will pick
up clean in a short time.
Know what your cows are doing for
You by using the scales in weighing
their milk and the BabcOck tester in
determining the quality of the milk.
Better farming means better crops.
and better crops mean more money
and more comforts on the farm. Why
not study to improve your methods?
The colt. like the boy. is easily
spoiled. and it it hard to undo mis-
management. But raised right. colts
and boys prove one Of the mast profit
able productions of the farms.
Warm and cold cream should never
be mixed. Cool the former to the
temperature of the latter before put
ting together. 1t is good plan not
to mix different days cream. whether
it is of the same temperature or not.
Alfalfa IL first cousin OF the clover
family. and a agriculture crop which
must be handled with especial care. 1t
should be cut when about one-tenth
in bloom. This gives a better chance
for subsequent cuttings in the season.
1t must be handled in such a way that
the leaves will not be lost, for if they
break OF. the part of the plant most |
rich in protein is lost. Each season
two or three cuttings of alfalfa may
be harvested If care is used at each |
time, and If the season is at all |
natural
The egg which matches the larva Of |
the peach tree borer is laid in Au- |
gust on the bark at the base OF the |
tree. says Prof. II. A. Surface, and |
after some days the larva. or grub. |
matches and commences to feed at the |
surface of the bark, finally eating it's |
way through and boring up and down ,
and across beneath the bark. often
cutting of the total sap supply and
causing the tree to wither After the
pests have passed beneath the bark,
they are concealed and can not easily
be reached with insecticides. They
should then be killed by cutting them
put. always cutting lengthwise rather
han crOsswise of the bark. or by
piercing them with pointed WIRE
Weeds often become a serious pest |
in agricultural communities because
them at the first discov-
cry. Such carelessness is intOlerable
because it is usually a comparatively
Easy matter to get rid of weeds in
heir incipient stage. Some of these
weeds are left to grow and spread be-
.ause the land owner does not realize
hat the new plant is damaging to
,rOps. until the pest is thoroughly es-
ablished. Perhaps in no other period
n American history has there been
20 much complaint among farmers on
recount of spread of noxious weeds as
low. This is due in large measure
o the impure seed that is fOisted upon
armers who depend upon the market
or their supply.
Swine feeding Is a science. The
illinois experiment station has found
hat pigs fed on ground corn and wa
er alone for a period of six months,
he fourth to the ninth months in
lusive, made gain OF only 20 pounds
er head during the entire period as
to $50 pounds gain made by
Their pigs fed mixed ration during
he same period. The gains in the
primer case required II pounds of
round corn per pound of gain. and
D the latter 4.6 pounds of feed per
ound of gain. II was further shown
hat ground corn, water and mineral
natter. such as salt wood ashes.
charcoal, etc. without 9TH
r feed. will give very good and prof
able results when fed during the last
ortion of the feeding period to pigs
nat have been properly fed up 10
tx months. BY giving pigs access to
clover pasture in addition to ground
Drn, water and mineral matter dur
lg the first three months of a six.
lonth feeding period. they. made %
mes as much gain in live weight as
as made by the pigs that had ground
orn. water and mineral matter. but
o clover BY feeding pigs bulky
alton during the early part of their
fe when their capacity for eating
ed is greater than their ability to
filize the digested material. the aD-