The Columbus journal., 1909-09-15
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Delayed meals increase the house
wife's burdens.
Penned hogs will not be as profit
able as those on pasture.
Don't monkey with the runts in the
poultry yard. 1t don't pay.
Ashes for the pigs help to make
good strong bony framework.
Cleanliness is one of the essentials
of successful chicken raising
Market your own eggs and make
the profit the commission man would
get from you.
Beekeepers favor buckwheat as q
cover crop. as it not only provides
humus for the soil but good feeding
ground for the bees.
BE sure that the water used in rims.
ing the butter is absolutely pure. II
at all uncertain as to the quality of
your supply, boil the water you need
and cool before using.
How inconsistent to complain Of
conditions in your district and never
ray any attention to public affairs
or use your influence or take time to
vote to have things better.
Some potato raisers make the great
mistake of allowing the weeds to fill
their potato patch. This not only saps
the moisture. but the fertility which
should go into growing the tubers.
II the schools of your district are
not as good as they ought to be, in
terest yourself in the matter and try
to find out the reason why. It is
your business and your duty to do so.
The ideal soil condition for wheat
is when by cultivation it has been
pulverized and made compact. The
seeds Of wheat are small and it re-
quires fine and compact soil to settle
about them for proper termination
and the establishment of a good root
system to carry the plants success
fully over winter. There is little
danger Of making wheat ground soil
too fine or too compact. especially in
dry fall. Extra work in this mat
ter pays well. Young wheat growers
are apt to slight the work of prepar-
ing the wheat seeded. believing that
light working is enough. The older
and more experienced wheat grower
knows that the soil must be worked
well and that when it seems to be
worked down and in good condition
it should receive one or two more
borrowings or similar workings.
A combined ice house and milk
room make an ideal arrangement.
The milk room section should be we'll
lighted and we'll ventilated and of
convenient size. the size depending
upon the amount of milk and cream
to be handled. There should be room
for the separator. On one side of
the room there should be cooling
tank. high enough to permit nearly
the full depth of the can to be i'm
mersed in water and wide and long
enough to permit a number of cans
to stand beside one another sideways
as we'll as lengthwise in the tank.
This will prevent tipping and the
spilling of milk and cream will be
obviated. All of the water pumped |
for the stock should be made first to |
run through the milk cooling tank. |
The inlet of the water pipe should be |
at one end of the tank and the outlet |
ard cream should be put into this |
water in the winter as well as in the |
summer. This quickly coOls the milk
and prevents it from freezing. The |
can may be weighted down so that
the surface of the milk in the can is
Il few inches below the surface of the |
water in the tank. By stirring the
cream occasionally with a cream stir
rer, Quick cooling will be facilitated.
and the cream will be more uniform
in it's consistency.
In reference to eliminating the rat |
pest from the farm and preventing
the serious damage which they cause
yearly, government bulletin sug-
gests the following methods: I. Pro-
lection of our native hawks. owls, and
smaller predatory mammals-the nat
ural enemies of rats. 2. Greater clean
illness about stables, markets. gro
Gerry stores, warehouses, courts. al
leys. and vacant lots in cities and vii
lagos, and like care on farms and
suburban premises. This includes the
storage of waste and garbage in tight
" covered vessels and the prompt dis
posal of it each day. 3. Care in tie
of buildings and drains
so as not to provide entrance and re-
treats for rats. and the permanent
of all rat holes in old houses
and cellars. 4. The early thrashing
and marketing of grains on farms. so
that stacks and mows shall not fur
nish harborage and food for rats. 5.
Removal of outlying straw stacks an9
piles of trash or lumber that harbOr
rats in the fields. s. Rat prOofing Of
markets, cribs. stables
and granaries for storage of provi-
sions, seed grain and feedstuffs. Z.
Keeping effective rat dogs. especially