The Columbus journal., 1909-03-24

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Do not feed concentrated foods to
the SOW that has just farrowed.
Work the present farm well before
after the larger farm.
Danger of feeding too much hay to
the horse. Be careful on this point.
Do not clean the barn before milk
ing. It stirs up smells and dust which
injure the milk.
Good care Of the farm as well as
good care Of the stock gives the farm
er good return for his pains.
A handful of oil meal In the horses
feed once q day will act as good con-
dition powder and put his coat In sleek
condition.
Provide snug quarters for the ewes
with lamb, and see that there Is NO
place where the lamb can creep away
from its mother.
The too-large collar is about as bad
as the too.small collar. See that the
collar hts. The horses will pull bet
ter and there will be TO danger Of
sore shoulders.
Try putting q handful Of shelled corn
with the grain for the horse. 1t will
encourage better grinding of the feed
and the little corn will be good for
him.
Plan to grow your chicken to mar
ketable size as soon as possible. for
the amount of feed required to pro-
duce a pound of flesh increases as the
chicks approach maturity.
You can know without any one tell
ing you when the owner of a horse
has been in the habit of clubbing 1t
over the head. 1t will raise its head
high and try to back. Such actions
tell all the story.
The good road horse needs eooo
care. When he comes in tired, wet
and dirty, rub him down and blanket.
and use bandages on his legs. Then
after he has cooled on give him a
vigorous brushing and put him up for
the night.
Are your cows of poor grade: Don
get discouraged and quit. or turn
leaf ear to the arguments In favor OF
improvement. Start in by getting a
pure-bred SIRE If you can't do better
buy a calf and rear him yourself, and
as you get opportunity buy in better
cows and get rid Of the poor ones.
The farmer who prides himself or
his skill in bringing his cows through
the winter on the minimum amount Of
feed is generally the farmer who com
plains that the cows do not give
enough milk to pay for their keep. Il
such fellows would try the plan o.
generous feed rations they would be
agreeably surprised how the COW:
would more than balance the account
against them.
Observations at the New Mexico ag
ricultural experiment station indicate
the following ways in which excessive
cattle-grazing is injurious to land: Tit
kinds of plants preferred by the cattle
are eaten before they have time Il
seed, and SO die out, leaving less vaiu
able plants to occupy their place. Tn
soil becomes SO compacted. especiali!
near drinking places. that rain-wate
will not sink in. The paths made b!
the animals give direction to the nov
| of surface-water and lead to erosion
| of the soil.
| II troubled with reaches you Cal
keen the pests down il not get rid o
them entirely by use Of trap made
as follows: Take any deep vessel o
lar and place it where the reaches con
gregate. Fill 1t partly full Of sweet
ened LIQUID paste. Then take severa
thin. narrow pieces of wood. bend eacl
one into an inverted. Il. and hang then
on the jar-one end almost in tn
LIQUID. the other on the shelf or dooI
The idea is to make several "gan'
blanks" up which the reaches cal
crawl. with q sleeper gangway inside
down which they will slide into tn
liquid-never to return.
| Grain which is affected with stini
ing smut can be treated successful
according to the Oklahoma experiment
station in the following way: Tw
pounds of crystallized commercial col
per sulphate solution should be di:
solved in so gallons of water. Tn
gain is placed in this solution. an
should remain immersed for about l
hours. The seed should be stirred o,
casionally. After draining for a fe'
minutes the seed is again immersed !
lime solution, which is prepared b
shaking two pounds of good lime an
diluting the same with 20 gallons {
water. It has been noted that tn
omission of this treatment with tn
lime water results in q decreased pc
centage of termination.
In reference to the value Of manur
to the farmer Prof. E. B. Voorhees, d
clares it is worth in money on the far
lust as much as the farmer would hav
| to pay for their chemical constituent
In the fertilizer market For instance