The state herald., 1909-06-04
The use OF wide tires helps to keep
a road In good condition.

has had sufficient growth turn the
hogs on it.
Salt, charcoal and ashes should be
kept where the hogs can help them.
selves.
1t is an easy thing to push the
horses so hard with the early work as
to put them out of condition. Such
methods do not pay.
When the horses come In all tired
out and covered with sweat don't let
them stand In the raw winds. They
will be sure to catch cold If you do
Did 1t ever occur to you that dirty,
foul-smelling troughs are the source
of many disorders among the animals
using them?
Be ready for the dry spell when 1t
comes this summer and have green
food for your cows by planting spe.
cial patch for them now.
There is this to say in encourage
ment of spraying for San Jose scale.
1t not only keeps the pest in check.
but destroys many other insects.
The only way to accurately Judge q
COW is by weighing and testing her
milk. Guess methods will prove most
unsatisfactory.
Plan to build silo this year and
plant the field with corn against the
time it will be ready to so into the silo
for winter use.
! Corn ground cob and all, together
with portion of oats, makes a good
feed, not only for cows, but the
horses as well.
Something from nothing never
works out in the dairy. You must put
the feed into the cows II you are going
to get the milk out of them.
The successful farmer is he who is
quick to observe, slow to run after in =
novations. and patient in following out
the practical lines of work on his
farm.
Scientific research has done great
things for agriculture. A striking H.
lustration Of this is found In the sugar
beet. whose sugar content has within
remarkably brief period of time been
increased from 1876 per cent. TO 1886
per cent.
A study OF the root growth OF corn
shows that the lateral roots run about
| four inches below the surface of the
soil between the rows. This shows
that the cultivation should not bo
deep after they have made good
/ growth.
Corn is poor feed for the young and
| growing pigs. Give them the flesh and
bone forming foods. Give them all
that they can utilize. Keep them
growing at the top notch. In this
way you will get your hogs into mar.
ketable condition quickly and will
realize more profit than will the farm
er who economies on feed but who
lengthens the feeding period.
In speaking OF the difference be.
tween the feeding value OF fresh skim
milk, warm from the separator. and
the same milk cooled and then re-
/ heated to the same temperature when
II was desired TO feed II. ID. IL. Otis
/ declares that there is practically no
/ difference. lie says; In test | have
fed two lots OF calves In comparison.
giving one fresh hand-separator skim
milk still containing the animal heat.
and feeding the other lot sterilized
creamery skinned cooled TO about
IS degrees F.. 10 keep IL sweet from
i2 TO II hours. Az good results wero
obtained with one as with the other.
Under ordinary farm conditions II Is
difiicult and often inconvenient to
keep skim milk sweet. and for this
reason better results are usually OBJ.
taincd with hand separator skim milk.
Sufficient heating will. however. pre-
vent the transmission OF tuberculosis.
which is quite frequently spread
through skim milk.
sows that have been fed nm almost
exclusive diet OF corn during prcg.
nancy, reach the farrowing period In n
highly fcycrlnh state, are irritable and
nervous and crave some ncshforming
food. They very likely kill one OF III.
pigs and eat II and having once tasted
flesh the chances are they will de-
YOUR the entire litter II left 10 them.
selves. Other troubles Mt farrowing
are also frequent whore sows have
been fed too much fnttcnlng food and
have had little exercise. The picgnan,
SOW Is u pig factory and the feed she
demands in that which viii make
bone, muscle and grisilc. for tina, ID
: what the pig consists OF. Feed her
whole oats. barley. shorts. n little oil