The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1909-11-12
Mail and Breeze Notes.

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time has a great deal to do with
success in farming. Sometimes we
hit it right without knowing, and
again we miss it after much medita-
tiun before acting, 1t is usually our
luck to sell off the biggest bunch OF
fat hogs just before the price advances,
1t also often happens that we plan on
holding for while, only to have the
price usually drop. We believe it is
easier to read the thermometer a
month ahead than the livestock
market.
1t is a pretty good plan to let stock
go when in shape to be sold. After
a hog is fat he is kept at risk. 1t is
also speculation to keep longer than,
since the gain from the corn that has
been fed is not great. Now and then
the market is such that it pays to
sell before hogs are in n/prime con-
dition, but usually this cannot be
told beforehand. One has to sort of
size up his corn pile and the price of
hogs and judge accordingly. This
year the corn pile Is going to cut con
siderable figure.
The best rustler is not always the
best layer, but is so usually. This
points to one thing-make the flock
! rustic for what it gets. A hen that
has only to move from the hen house
| to pile Of grain a few feet away be
Genes law hen. She gets all she
| wants without stirring out Of her
| tracks, and thus becomes millionaire
J in the poultry world and is subject to
the same ills as the human being of
leisure in our world. Scatter the
feed-make them work for 1t.
A warm mash is eagerly devoured
on cold morning but those who
should know as much about it as any
one are beginning to advise against
it. They say it leads to colds and
roup. Probably those who have ded
warm mashes for years, with fine re-
suits, will probably disagree with
this doctrine. Man feels better after
drinking a cup of hot coffee If he
must go ou6 in the cold, and yet
those who have tried it know very
we'll drink of cold water just before
taking ride in the cold is really
more comforting. Modern advice is
to cut out the warm mash.
We fiad the way to handle fowls,
excepting young, growing stock, is to
keep them conhned within large
parks, where we can attend to their
food needs. Corn is given oc-
casionally, but very seldom in summer.
During the winter months reason
able allowance of corn may be fed
proftaoly. In summer we feed Katir
corn and wheat and an allowance of
bran and shorts. Their parks are
we'll supplied with grass, and weeds
are cut and thrown over the fence
Some of the weeds ripen before being
cut and afford an agreeable change
Of diet. There is always a supply of
crushed bone, broken glass and
crockery, and we insist on the pigs
dividing the house slops with them.
The results have proven to us the
wisdom of the plan, and more and
larger parks will be added the
coming season to the nun Der now on
our farm.
A reader askes US how much corn
will shrink from fall TO spring. That
depends altogether on the corn. The
average corn is well matured now,
and a trifie light in weight, Some
of 1t is rather on the chaffy order and
has dried out nearly all 1t will. The
shrink 10 this kind of corn will not
be great. A small variety of corn,
too, will usually shrink less than a
large variety. Take corn which has
large crop and the shrink is in
variably more.
Not figuring the matter by the
pounds but by the cents per bushel,
we have always had netion that
man ought to have about 10 cents a
bushel for holding corn from hQsklnp
time until the next May or June
The shrink may not amount TO this
much, but to be safe, a man should
have his stored grain insured-this
is sUmething-and he should also
have something for interest on the
value represented in corn. Taxing
shrink, insurance and interest into
accoHnt and 1Ccents a bushel leaves
a man no more than when he started
in the fall befsre.
All the feed ia the world cannot
nroduca parfact resulfs durinQ the