The Columbus journal., 1909-02-10

| allure.
| The dust bath for the hens. Place
the box in the sunny exposure In the
hen house. My. how they will enjoy 1t
on bright days.
A pig that is in constant fear Of the
boss of the herd will not be thrifty.
See to it that there is not too much
bullying among the herd.
A dry bran sack makes q poor thing
to brush the cows udder of with. 1t
raises the dust and doesn't clean the
udder. Use a damp cloth.
The fellow who is always doping
chickens to prevent their getting sick
is pretty apt to have sick chickens
that sure do need medicine.
No methods are SO perfect as to
| need no readjustments or changes.
Are you sure you are managing your
| flock to the best advantage?
Corn gets monOtOnOus as steady
diet. and hogs will become unthrifty
| where the ration is not varied. Try
some of the silage for the hogs. If you
have it.
1t is a good thing to separate the
pigs into lots of six or seven accord
ing to size and strength. They will
be easier to feed and will thrive bet
ter for so doing.
| A circular piece of tin strung
through its center on each end of the
line from which the seed corn. bag
of nuts or dried fruit is hung in the
attic will keep rats or mice from
reaching them.
Where too many pigs are kept In
one pen they are apt to pile one upon
the other, causing the under ones to
become overheated. This leads them
to get to the outside to cool of, which
causes colds.
Last thing at night after the hens
have gone to roost throw some wheat
into the litter SO that madam hen
will get busy first thing in the morn
ing before you have time to get
around to feed them. and will warm
up over the search for the tempting
morsels.
If the plants have been in the house
wirdow-box long enough to fill it with
roots. fertilizer must be applied either
in the form Of bone-meal or rOtted
manure, or preferably, by the addition
of weak liquid manure. This should
only be applied when the plants indi-
cate their need by a check in growth.
Such a plan should afford satisfaction.
Scours in calves fed on skim milk
Is caused by indigestion brought on.
as a rule by overlooking. but also by
feeding skim-milk in poor condition and
from dirty pals. Every feeder of
skim-milk to calves must sooner or
later learn this lesson. He must learn
feeder is not doing his work right. In
the case of scours. reform your system
of feeding instead Of purchasing the
many remedies advertised. and in
dairy farming one of the important
qualifications is the learning not only
Of making but saving money.
Wrap the young trees with building |
paper or with wood veneer if you
would provide the most effective pro-
lection against mice and rabbits. Vari- |
Gus paints and washes have been rec !
commended to prevent such attacks |
but the majority of them are without |
merit. and some of them are even |
liable to kill young trees. Some of |
the washes require renewal after every !
hard rain. In experiments with a |
wash of whale-Oil soap, crude carbOlic |
acid and water, for apple trees. it |
was found that in about 4S hours the |
carbolic acid had so far eyaporated |
that mice renewed their work upon |
give immunity from rabbit attacks. |
would invite the attacks OF field mice.
The discussion as to the merits of
the low-headed fruit tree over the |
fruit tree that is trimmed to grow |
high still continues. 1t would seem. |
however, that the low-headed tree has |
the advantage over the high-headed |
one in that it is easier to prune. spray. |
graft or bud, gather fruit from and |
is about as easy to cultivate. 1t |
would seem as though nurserymen |
ought to take the lead in advocating |
low-headed trees. and those who prop |
agate. advertise and push the sale of |
such trees will reap the reward. A |
nursery tree should have only those |
limbs within one foot of the ground re- |
moved, instead of being mutilated and |
bean poled" four feet from the
ground. If the tree remains in the |
nursery the second year the leader"
should be topped at about two and
one-half feet and the side branches |
be cut back to perhaps four inches;
this is the proper way to form founda-
ton branches for apple. pear, and
plum trees. With peach trees which
are always dug when one year old or
less. the side branches should never |
be taken off in the nursery. They !!
should be left for the fruit grower to
develop into low-headed trees.
Rich Forests of Asia Minor.