The Columbus journal., 1909-03-03
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Give the breeding mare exercise
every day.
Prune the vineyard at once if you
have not already done so.
Muslin fronts for the chicken houses
are winners. Try one.
Alfalfa or clover hay is good for the
brood sow. Give her all she will eat
up clean.
Sheep will feed together better and
fatten more evenly if they are uni
form in character
During the winter months be sure
that your poultry have all the grits
they need.
Guess-wOrk methods are the great
est curse to the farm. and explain
more failures than any one thing.
Better prices do not make better
butter, but better butter will always
tend to boost prices. Try it.
Spring is upon u.s. Get all the odd
jobs out of the way before the regular
spring rush begins.
Hens do not like to scratch in wet
litter. See that everything is dry
as a bone and snug as you can
rake it.
Put wheat bran and middiings in
box where the calf can get at it. She
will soon learn to eat it and it will
be better for her to get it in this way
than to give it to her in the milk.
The increase in the average yield of
corn per acre last year amounted to
only three-tenths Of bushel per acre,
but in the aggregate it meant an in
crease of hundreds of thousands of
dollars to the farmers.
Handle the cream and do your but |
ter making away from the odors of the |
Nothing absorbs the Odors |
so quickly as cream and butter, and |
the poorly favored butter does not |
sell well or bring good price.
Make a chicken roost out of the dis |
carded wagon wheel, after removing
the iron tire which would prove too
cold thing for the hens feet Such
a rOOst is economical of space 1t
can be suspended from the roof.
The squealing pig is entering pro-
test about something. Find out what
It is. If cold. provide better shelter
II hungry, increase the feed. The
squealing pig brings small profit to
It's grower.
Caustic potash rubbed well upon the
little knobs where the horns of the
,alf will grow will prevent develop
ment and will save dehorning later
The treatment must be given during
he first two weeks. however.
For some reason thick sour skim
milk seems to have greater value for
lens than sweet milk. This may be
lue TO the milk sugar not being digest
ID and assimilated by fowls. or, pos
IDLY. the Tactic acid which is present
n sour milk may have an especially
beneficial effect. More experimental
work is needed to clear up this
natter.
1t is q well-knOwn fact that a fruit
rec will set more fruit than it is ca
able of supporting and bringing to per-
ection. Prof Sandsten Of the Wis
onsin experiment station suggests
hat to aid nature in it's work grow
rs should take away the extra fruit.
The vitality of the tree Is used up
" the number of seeds it is permit
ed to ripen, not by the size of the
ruit. 1t is readily seen that by re-
lOving some Of the fruit We con-
erve the fertility of the land, as well
S aid the tree to properly mature the {
fruit. A tree that has thus l
cen thinned will bring forth more t
ruit in bushels than other trees: and,
esides this, the fruit from thinned
rees is superior in color, size and n
uality. Such thinning should not be {
one. however, until the natural drop S
the fruit is over b
The kind of tree to grow is coming o
, be an important subject for dis q
ussiOn and investigation. Ideas are p
hanging rapidly as to the values and u
ses of certain woods The longleaf II
inc is disappearing from the land. Il
nd there are few young trees to take u
he place of the old. Necessity for flu S
Ire wood material has resulted in 5
iany Investigations and experiments G
18th inferior kinds of wood. LoblOlly,
r old field pine, has been found to
g exceedingly durable when impreg- $
ated with creosote This has given
lie ola field pine a new value. and to-
ay thousands of railroad ties are cut K
ear the railroads and shipped to n
eating plants to be crcoSoted. Small fl
ortable mills are easily and cheaply a
cated, and many of these are now fl
lifting the best trees i'm these old C,
ED standS for lumber 20 be used To- il