The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1909-08-27
Name the farm.


tidy.
Improve the rainy days. Keep the
boys interested by letting them own
something of their own
Less acres better farmed would put
many a farmer on the profit side OF
the ledger.
The waste land on your farm is
worse than dead loss to you. Get
1t to work.
Wool should be stored in closely
tied packs so that it viii not become
dusty or sOiled. The wool buyer pays
more for clean than for dirty wool.
Keep the poultry runs and houses
clean, as vermine breeds specially
fast during the hot weather. Plan to
whitewash the poultry buildings.
How is the wood lot? Have You
availed yourself of the excellent iu
formation which the government for
estry department is ready to furnish
you and which if followed will make
your timber lots more valuable?
Just one more cultivation on the
corn than you think is necessary and
then another one for good measure
The corn will feel better by several
bushels more per acre.
1t is a good practice to feed the
calves in stanchions. 1t is easy to
break them to that method of tying.
Have the feed ready for them in the
troughs and they will soon learn to put
their heads through and will get into
the right places. Be patient with
them.
If the animals are dehOrned in warm
weather, it is we'll to apply some pine
tar with a view to keeping flies from
the wound. Some operators do this
in nearly all cases, thinking that it
Facilitates healing The dehCrning OPP
Grafton should always, when possible,
be performed in cool weather. and up
on animals which have at least at
tanned the age Of two years.
The average American market pre-
fers a brown egg, while New York
city is ready 90 pay a premium for
white-shelled eggs. The broWn-egg
buyers in par ticular claim that the
eggs are of a richer flavor All this is
imaginary, when we come to under
stand that it is food and not color
that favors the egg. Is it reasonable
to suppose th.e brown egg of the Brah-
ma fed on O mons could be as sweet
as the white egg of the Leghorn fed
on clover?
Why not a national pure feed law
to protect live stock. In some states
such laws have been enacted and are
enforced. while in others they have
been enacted but are not enforced,
and still Others have no laws regulat-
ing the sa de of feed. In some states
all sorts Of stuff is sold for feed, and
the farmer has no means of knowing
what he gets for his money. When
he buys | wheat bran, he often gets
ground Scornstalks, straw and Oat
hulls; nhiddlings or shorts are largely
bran grjbund fine, and some of the pre-
pared s,stock feeds have very little
feedinet value. What is needed is
nation hl pure feed law which will be
enforofed the same as the pure food
law !
c jould the aggregate annual damage
knc ,wn the latter would be appalled, at
the figures Do all you can to lessen
thei r number. Here are nine ways in
viii, ch you can accomplish this: l. Pro
tect ION of our native hawks, owls AID
sma Her predatory mammals-the ma
tura Il enemies of rats. 2. Greater
clea lnliness about stables, markets, gro
Ger h stores, warehouses, courts, alleys
an, n vacant lots in cities and villages.
IN fd like care on farms and suburban
{remises. This includes the storage
waste and garbage in tightly covered
vessels and the prompt disposal of it
each day. 3. Care in the construction
of buildings and drains so as not to
provide entrance and retreats for rats.
and the permanent closing of all rat
holes in old houses and cellars. A. The
early threshing and marketing of
grains on farms. so that stacks and
mows shall not furnish harborage and
food for rats 3. Removal OF outlying
straw stacks and piles of trash or lum-
Der that harbor rats in the fields. g.
Rat-roofing OF warehouses, markets,
cribs, stables and granaries for storage
cf provisions seed grain and feed
stuffs 7. Keeping effective rat dogs,
especially in city warehouses. g. The
systematic destruction of rats, when
ever and wherever possible, by (a)
etrapping. (b) poisoning, aud 60 or
ganized hunts. 8. The organization OF
rat clubs" and other societies for sys-
temat1c warfare against rats.