The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1909-12-15

A dirty collar often makes sore
shoulder.
Dairy COWS require better shelter
than beef animals.
Keep busy-this must be the motto
in every poultry yard.
Three leaf or four leaf. the clover il
the farmers lucky plant.
Grain should not be fed to cows
oftener than twice day.
1t will cost no more per pound to
grow a colt than q calf.
4 ration of wheat and corn Is bene-
fetal to the fattening turkeys.
Every cellar should be thoroughly
whitewashed at least once q year.
Removing q diseased branch at once
when discovered will often save the
| tree.
The horse that shuns whole grain
ueually has something wrong with his
teeth.
II the cows are fed crimson clover
hay the cost Of the milk will be re-
duced.
Apply manure to currants. goose
Ferries. raspberries. etc. Now 70 .
good time.
The longer you keep sheep the more
fine. white clover you will have in
your pastures.
All animals love variety in their
feeding. a change being really equiva-
lent to a larger quantity.
Stables used exclusively for dairy
cows should be disinfected frequently
| by the use of whitewash.
Cattle winter well on a little ration
of whole cotton seed and plenty Of oat
straw or other r0ughage.
The hands and teats should be kept
dry during milking. Moistening the
hands with milk Is condemned.
Poultry manure, which has been
carefully preserved. commands good
prices from suburban gardeners.
An orphan lamb may often be given
| eve that has just lost lamb II the
dead lamb is rubbed over the strange
lamb.
Hogs are high priced, but so is
corn; therefore feeding should be
done with as little waste, as if hogs
were cheap.
The wool you want is that which is
thick and clean. Some sheep bear
hairy wool. That never is in favor
| with dealers.
Keep all your turkeys roosting at
home or some one else may feast on
the big gobbler you are fattening for
Thanksgiving.
The old-time pig sly should be ban
ished forever. 1t has given the hog his
reputation for filth-and has no place
now on the modern farm.
The roots of the cowpea penetrate
rather deeply into the subsoil and en-
ables the plant to feed upon the min.
eral food that is not readily extracted
by other crops.
The great problem of the age is to
instil into the minds of young men
that there are as good opportunities |
| on the farm for the man of talent as
there are elsewhere.
A COW in milk needs more salt than |
| a steer or a dry COW. because milk |
contains chlorine, one of the constit- |
uents of salt. She needs extra salt |
as a source of this chlorine.
There is much of value written
these days about work on the farm |
which will never benefit some farm. |
ers, because they have the notion |
that they are too busy to read.
In many sections rye is grown for |
the straw. During the past summer |
rye straw has brought as good price |
in the New York market as timothy |
hay. When grown for the straw q lib |
eral quantity of seed is sown. from |
two to two and one-half bushels.
No money invested in hog raising Is |
better spent than that used for port. |
able houses and pens. They make 1t |
possible to distribute the brood stock |
over the farm in clean. fresh quarters,
thereby utilizing grass and forage to
the largest degree and at the same |
time reducing the danger of disease to |
minimum.
Oats is a crop 1t pays to get in early.
and often one or two weeks time can
be saved by blowing in the fall Where
corn is put in with lister It is not |
necessary to harrow the ground in the
spring, as the lister will make the
soil fine around the seed. and as soon
az the corn is planted the cultivator