The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1909-10-06

Care and food ere the requisites in
profitable stock raising.
No profitable winter dairying Is
possible without a silo.
When the tins begin to show rust
discard them from the dairy.
The weed which il allowed to 60 70
seed means a lot of extra trouble next
season.
Feeding experiments have proved
that silage is good in fattening cattle
it properly fed.
The root of q hog like the root of
tree helps it to grow. therefore give
the hog chance to root
Clean water for the hens should be
the rule. Have the water dish SO ar
ranged that the chickens cannot foul it.
Cold fall rains never helped put
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on the backs of steers. Provide proper
shelter.
Keep the ground stirred and the
weeds out of your strawberry patch.
You will reap the rewards of your la.
Dor next season
Even with the flock which has
range it is well to provide a box of
grits and charcoal SO that they can
easily help themselves.
Keep the machinery on the farm up
to date, but don't 60 to the foolish ex-
IRENE of thinking that every new ma
chine is better than the old and tried
one.
More dairymen are following the
practice of keeping individual records
of their cows and of also keeping
debit and credit account OF their en-
tire business.
Look over your fields carefully. con-
slider the varying conditions of your
soil and then consider If there is not
some other layout of fields and crops
which would improve the farm and
give greater profit.
An old dairyman declares that
farmers make mistake by looking
too much at the creamery. the price
they are to receive for their milk, and
not enough at the farm end-what
their milk is to cost them to pro-
duce It.
That piece of meadow which is get
ting thin but which is hardly ready
for the plow can be greatly improved
by a liberal scattering of seed follow
ed by light narrowing. II. this is done
just before a rain SO much the better
will the results be.
Don't let the long ladder stand
against the building after getting
through with it for the night. A strong
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wrecking of the ladder and damage Of
other things.
Pears are best ripened In doors.
The time to pick is determined. first.
by their known season of ripening,
and. second, by the ease with which
the stem parts from the branch when
the fruit is slightly lifted. Most pears
are marketed in green. but mature.
state.
Loco disease, which afflicts stock in
some sections of the west, has been
Investigated by the bureau of animal
industry and proved to result from
eating certain poisonous plants. known
as purple loco-weed and rattleweed.
which are common In dozen plains
states The best remedy is to destroy
the weeds and remove the stock from
access to them. Ordinarily the stock
will soon recover when SO removed
and fed upon alfalfa and other nutri-
tious grasses.
The square or oblong silo are OBJ
jectionable because it is difficult to
build the walls strong enough to
stand the pressure caused by the
great weight of the silage. and the
amount of silage lost in the corners
will amount. In a few years. to a con-
siderable value. The best shape Is
circular A silo should be more than
twice as high as wide. Do not build
q silo too large In diameter. as the
amount of silage spoiled from day to
day will more than pay the interest
on the cost Of an extra smaller one.
The main qualities of q silo are that
the walls be strong enough to with
stand the pressure and 1t shall be
alright. To get this the first step
Is to build q good. solid foundation.
commenced below the frost line.
Hogging down corn saves the labor |
of harvesting. The hogs become the |
harvesters and turn the corn into pork |
right ON the field At some of the ex- |
pertinent stations and on private
farms q certain definite acreage OF |
corn has been fenced OF and a num- |
Der Of hogs turned In to eat the corn. |
The hogs were weighed before they |
were turned in and again weighed
when they had cleaned up the corn |
of q definite area. This gave the ex-
act gains the hogs made on the corn. |
In most cases cash net gain has