The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1909-12-24

Too constant sitting makes the hens
of bad disposition and difficult to man
age.
Molasses is highly recommended as
portion of the ration for draft
horses.
Many farmers are finding the use OF
hameless collars a remedy for shOul-
der gals.
Roots should not, generally speak
ing, be fed alone, as they carry too
much water
Some trees will bear planting quite
thick, while heavy foliaged trees must
be set far apart.
washed and thoroughly dried immedi.
ately before milking
Swine need more room, more free
dom, more grass and succulent feed
than they get on the average farm.
If an orchard is on low ground it
should be drained because air must
be admitted 20 the soil or the trees
will die.
Breeders should be in no hurry to
dispose of rams in service, as some
times lambs of little promise develop
into good sheep.
A two-year-old tree can be started
more easily than a three-year-Old.
With some varieties a one-year- old
tree is even better than a two-year-
old.
One cannot afford to pay for gain
on an animal then lose it. Making
stock live on scant pasture, when
there is plenty of feed in the field,
is poor economy.
The more than usual number of
wormy apples this season is a remind
er that we must spray the trees thor
oughly in the spring in order to have
clean fruit in the fall.
Since the farm is the source of our
wealth it behooves us to learn more
OF our property, and the methods to
keep it at its fullest producing capaci-
ty without impOveriShment.
If there is patch Of late corn cure
and store it away. When chopped
into sizeable pieces, it will be found
valuable feed when all green forage
is sealed up with snow and ice
Were the turkeys good judges of
human nature they would know that
the extra feed and kindness now be-
ing bestowed upon them are but the
beginning of a plot for their down all
Do not have pullets and hens in the
same pen, for if you do it will be i'm
possible to so feed that the pullets
will come to laying at the right time.
The house should be kept open and
the pullets allowed outdoor conditions
as nearly as possible.
When cabbage is to be stored over
winter, the heads should be examined
critically and diseased ones rejected
and kept by themselves. Black rot
may be detected by breaking off the
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If the fbers of the leaf stalk are
blackened the head should be de-
stroyed
The farmer is not dependent on the
prosperity of his neighbOr for success.
The husbandman is close to nature
and derives his wealth from her in
eXhaustible resources while other in
dustries depend on success in the ex-
ploitation of their fellow men. The
farmer looks to the soil for his sue
cess and becomes sponsible for his
own failures.
In grading the surplus poultry and
dividing it into lots for fattening, cfter
tne pldn suggested lew Weeks ago,
farmers having purebred flocks will
find an occasional cockerel which il
seems a pity to send TO the slaughter
ing pen. The owner instinctively feels
that more cash would be realized from
the sale OF such fellows as breeders
than in the form of market poultry,
and he Is tempted to remove them be-
fore the lot enters the fattening pen
The notion that any old kind of
wagon will do for the feed wagon is
all wrong 1t is true that when one
goes on the road away from home he
wants vehicle that will bring him
back without breakdown, but it is
not pleasant to get ton of fodder on
only few rods from the house, and
have wheel smash or an axle break
But wagon that could not be sold
for dollar with box on, sells for q
tan-dOllar hil ar q sale prcvidipo I,