The Columbus journal., 1909-07-28
Cut out the pear blight and burn.

are good source OF profit.
The discarded broom may find a
new life of service in the hen house.
Peas and oats grown together make
a splendid grazing ration for either
swine or sheep.
Plan for a rest during the fair sea-
son. Take wife with you and have
good old-fashiOned vacation.
Hogs like to root because it's the
nature of the beast. They're built
that way. Why not give them the
chance?
Use the washday soapy water on
the garden. Sprinkle on the plants
which have lice on them and it will
kill them.
Fresh. clean water is important
with every animal on the farm in the
summer time, but above all others
with the cows.
Sheep kept continuously upon the
same pasture for several years are
more than apt to be troubled with
stomach worms.
Powdered soapstOne sprinkled on
the hands before milking will make
the operation pleasanter for both the
COW and the mixer.
Poor seed sown means a CORE
spending poor yield. Too much care
cannot be taken in knowing the quail
ity of the seed to be sOwn.
Careful feeding is better for the
stock and better for the farmer, for 1t
makes a profit for him at both ends.
saving the food and bringing better
gains in the stock.
To keep the cloth wet which you
place over the milk or water bottle to
keep it cool when taking it to the
field set it in a shallow dish of water
and let the edge of the cloth dip into
the water.
No trees in the pasture? Then
make shade for the cows by putting
up some posts and throwing over
them a thatched roof 1t is a shame
to keep the cows under the hot rays
of the sun all day.
North Dakota is hot after the tuber
cular COW. A new law compels the
branding of all cattle that react under
the tuberculin test. A letter IT" not
less than one inch in length must be
punched in the left ear of each animal
proven tubercular. ,
Two ways of curing clover hay is
first to let it get well wilted. cock it
up in small heaps, let it sweat over
night, stir it out in the sun next day,
then haul to the NOW before it gets
really dry SO the leaves shatter of
The second way is to cut when the
dew is we'll of. follow with a tedder
and rake up and haul in the barn as
soon as dry enough SO it will rattle
when handled with the fork.
Extensive farming and dairying
don't 60 together. 1t takes small
fnr nd inf lot To Ln
good dairymen. Just as long then as
the average farmer wants to own all
the land that joins him, and under
takes to farm it all, he isn't going to
pay much attention or take much in.
terest in dairying. Occasionally there
will be farmer who appreciates what
dairying means to his soil, to his fam.
lily and to his posterity. and he will
be interested in dairying. He will be
a dairyman, and of all the farmers in
his community he will be the most
successful.
Perhaps it would be safe to say that
a majority of the farmers who keep
cows for milk production guess at
what their COWS cost them, and what
profit they return. Not SO the dairy.
men of Denmark. who follow pretty
closely the following scale of expense:
Cost of construction of stable. per
COW. $54OO: > per cent. interest and
~ per cent. wear and tear. 4.0l
Care per COW. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. S.64
Milking per cow 4Ol
Veterinarian, per cOw.................. O.S
70 per cent. interest and deterioration
i'm value of COW. $54O0.......... 1890
Peat bedding. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. $40
Total NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. SO. IS
The manure we'll cared for valued at
Sass: and the calf mt $2.70.........$l7..S &. ..S