The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1909-07-14
Keep the drains and cutters clean.

Keen the drains and cutters clean.
time t. get the fruit boxes ready
for the orchard picking.
The dry spell iS the time to keep
the cult;yator going in the corn.
Grass is essential to the diet of the
hens, but something else is needed as
food.
1t is a short-sighted policy for the
farmer to work his soil for present
gain without thought as to its future
fertility.
The value of cream depends upon
its flavor and palatableness. Be care
flu, that it does not become contami-
mated in any way.
In order to make a balanced ration
with alfalfa ground corn and barley
should be fed, together with a little
wheat bran and linseed meal.
The high priced grain calls for the
economical COW, which is always and
ever the COW which gives a yield OF
milk inrichness and quantity sufficient
to warrant keeping her on the farm.
Feed just enough so that 1t will be
eaten up clean. Left over food calls
rats around the coops and you know
what that means where there are lit.
tie chicks.
Feed as much of the produce of the
farm to your own stock as you can.
In this way you turn back to the soil
the fertility and keep improving its
condition.
Experienced dairymen who have fed
silage would as soon think of dairy
ing without hay crop as going with
out silage. Hay and silage are both
needed. Alfalfa hay makes an ideal
feed in conjunction with corn silage,
as it supplies the protein necessary for
the balanced ration.
Hot water applications will give re-
lief from the pain caused by contact
with poison ivy. After the hot appli-
cations wet the poisoned portions over
with a strong solution of sulphite of
soda. adding some glycerine to keep 1t
from turning white when dry. Re
peat the operation when necessary.
The successful dairyman must be q
student Of the task before him. He
must know his cows. know how to
care for them. know how to handle
their product. and know how to breed
for better stock. This of course he
cannot do unless he has the pure bred
bull to breed from. This is one Of the
prime requisites of the profitable
dairy farm.
It is argued by those who feed all
the corn the cattle will consume.
swine following st the same time in
the pastures, that the hogs will take
care of all that is not digested. It is
true that swine will gather all the
corn in the weddings. but it is also
true that cattle when fed very heavily
will consume and digest more food
than can be assimilated by the sys.
TEN. SO that neither the animal to
which the grain is fed nor the swine
will get the full benefit of the same.
The grubs which often trouble the
COW are the larvae of the OK MARBLE
fly thypodermis lineata). and should
be squeezed out and destroyed: other
wise on entering the ground they will
emerge after time in the shape Of
flies to carry on their pestiferous
work. By applying fly extruders to the
backs of cattle in fly time and spong-
ing the back of each animal with
strong salt water or solution of coal
tar dip in late fall and early winter
much of the trouble can be prevented.
Hogs pastured on rape do well. It
will pay farmers to investigate the
matter. The Wisconsin experiment
station has recently finished series
of experiments and finds much to in.
dictate the value of rape as hog
feed. The conclusions are, that with
pigs from four to ten months old, rep
resenting the various breeds of swine.
an acre of rape. when properly grown,
has a feeding value, when combined
with a ration of corn and shorts,
equivalent to 2,436 pounds of mix
ture of these grain feeds and money
value of $19.40 per acre. That rape
is a better green feed for growing
Digs than good clover pasture. the pigs
fed upon the rape having made on the
average 100 pounds of gain on 1875
pounds less grain than was required
by the pigs fed upon clover pasture.
That pigs are more thrifty, have bet
ter appetite and make corresponding
~ greater gains when supplied with
rape pasture in conjunction with
their grain feed than when fed on
grain alone. That a plat of Dwarf
Essex forage rape when planted in
drills 30 inches apart. early in May.
in Wisconsin, will yield three good
crops of pasture forage In favorable
season. That rape is the most salts
factory and cheapest green feed for
swine that we have fed. That every
feeder of hogs in Wisconsin should
plant each spring q small field of rape