The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1909-06-30
Three crops from sheep every year:
Wool, lambs and mutton.

A great many farmers like timothy
sown in combination with some Of the
varieties Of clover.
Salt mixed with tobacco waste will
encourage the sheep partakins of 1t.
The tobacco is good to give relief
from stomach worms.
The better breed CT COW the more
difficult it is to raise the calf. but see
what you have for your extra trouble
after she is raised.
A calf every year Is a heavy strain
on a COW. Two calves every three
years makes of her q better mixer
and brings stronger calves.
Regularity in feeding and only In
such quantity as will be eaten up
clean have important influence upon
the development of young pigs.
The cheapest and best means of re-
storing humus to the soil is by way Of
green crops-preferably peas. beans
or clover, turned under as manure.
It is quality of flavor in butter that
counts, and you must begin to put it
in from the time the milking is begun
until the cream Is ready for churning.
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the agricultural fairs to be held near
you this year? Better do SO. Plan
to go and take the wife. She will en-
Joy the few days of.
If your fields produce about fifty
bushels of corn to the acre you can
figure on its making ten tons of silage
when put in and about eight tons
when 1t Is taken out.
The campaign against the lice in
the hen house should have been begun
two months ago. but it is not too late
to do it now. for the longer you let
it 60 the worse the lice pest will be-
come.
Dairying is good for sections where
the soil is naturally poor or where 1t
has been run down BY careless cult
vation 1t helps build up the soil. But
don't make the mistake Of keeping
poor cows to build up the soil. for 1t
will prove q losing business.
It is a great mistake to sell whole
milk OF the farm, for where the skim
milk is not kept to feed to the stock
one of the richest elements for ma
nure making is lost. Keep the milk
home by means of separator. Sell
the cream, feed the skim milk to the
calves. hogs and hens.
Can fruit be grown cheaper than 1t
can be bought? is the query we are
often tempted to put to ourselves.
This depends, of course. largely on
the man, but certain 1t is that where
little fruit is raised there little Is
used and on farms where there is
plenty of fruit the season through
there you will find family better
contented and better nourished.
Stomach worms are spread In a
flock by the eggs and worms from
the droppings being eaten with the
foliage by the sheep. Lambs should
never be pastured on fields on which
sheep were kept the previous season.
If new sheep are introduced into the
flock it would be well to guard against
the spread of the trouble by pastur-
ing the new sheep apart from the
rest of the flock until you are certain
they are not afflicted with stomach
worms.
The appetite of pig is not an in
variably safe guide as to the amount
of feed that may be consumed to the
best advantage. Under five or six
months of age he will eat too much of
a concentrated food. and above that
age he will eat too little. These
tests show that pigs may be induced
to eet IA per cent more feed for the
six months, than pigs otherwise fed.
During the second month of a pigs
life 1t should have a thin slop so that
it will get enough water and not an
excess of nutrients. 1t was found that
maximum gains are produced at a
minimum cost by starting the pig on
approximately six pounds of digestible
crude protein per day per 100 pounds
live weight, increasing the quantity
to Z during the first seven weeks, de-
creasing to s the following four
weeks, and then feeding .65 pounds
during the last seven weeks of the
growing period. During the first four
weeks of the fattening stage this is
reduced to approximately .33 pound
which Is fed to the close.
Where prairie dogs are pest any
method of exterminating them is more
then welcome. The most effective
method seems to be by way OF roi-
sons, and Prof S. A. Johnson, of the
Colorado Experiment station, recon-
mends the following:
Strychnia sulphate. one ounce; potas-
stun cyanide, three-Quarter ounce:
syrup. one pint; wheat. one bushel.
oil of anise. one tablespoonful. Dis
solve the strycnnia sulphate in pint
of boiling water. Dissolve the potas-
stun cyanide in little hot water in a
separate vessel. Mix the syrup with
the potassium cyanide and add the
solution Of strychnine sulphate. stir.