Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1909-12-23
Sheer are ancient weed oilers.
The SOW should be large and roomy


1t is just as easy to grade your flock
up as 1t is to grade it down.
A brooder can easily be kept free
from vermin. Not so the hen.
Good management OF the poultry
plants allows no waste or leaks,
Wood ashes are good in their place,
but that place is not il the hen house.
Too constant sitting makes the hens
of bad disposition and difficult to man
age.
Molasses is highly recommended as
a portion of the ration for draft
horses.
Many farmers are finding the use OF
hameless collars a remedy for shout
der gals
Roots should not. generally speak
inS, be fed alone, as they carry Ntoo
much water
Some trees will bear planting quite
thick, while heavy foliaged trees must
be set far apart
The hands of mixers must be
washed and thoroughly dried immedi-
ately before milking.
Swine need more room, more free
DOM, more grass and succulent feed
than they get on the average farm.
II an orchard IS on low ground 1t
should be drained because air must
be admitted 70 the soil or the trees
will die.
Breeders should be in no hurry to
dispose OF rams in service, as some
times lambs of little promise develop
into good sheep.
A two.year-old tree can be started
more easily than a three-year-old.
With some varieties a one-year-old
tree is even better than a two-year-
Isold.
One cannot afford to pay for gain
on an animal, then lose it. Making
stock live on scant pasture, when
there is plenty of feed in the field,
is poor economy.
The more than usual number of
wormy apples this season is a remind
er that we must spray the trees. thor
oughly in the spring in order to have
clean fruit in the fall
Since the farm is the source of our
wealth it behooves us to learn more
of our property and the methods to
keep il at its fullest producing capaci-
ty without impoverishment.
If there is a patch of late corn, cure
and store it away. When chopped
into sizeable pieces, it will be found
valuable feed when all green forage
is sealed up with snow and ice.
Were the turkeys good judges of
human nature they would know that
the extra feed and kindness now be-
ing bestowed upon them are but the
beginning Of plot for their downfall.
Do not have pullets and hens in the
same pen, for if you DO it will be inn
possible to so feed that the pullets
will come to laying at the right time
The house should be kept open and
the pullets allowed outdoor conditions
as nearly as possible.
When cabbage is to be stored over
winter. the heads should be examined
critically and diseased ones rejected
and kept by themselves. Black rot
may be detected by breaking off the
lower leaves and examining the stalk
If the fibers Of the leaf stalk are
blackened the head should lie de-
stroyed.
The farmer is not dependent on the
prosperity of his neighbor for success.
The husbandman is close to nature
and derives his wealth from h.. in
exhaustible resources while other in
dustries depend on success In the ex-
ploitation Of their fellow men. The
farmer looks to the soil for his sue
cess and becomes responsible for his
own failures
In grading the surplus poultry and
dividing 1t into lots for fattening, otter
the plan suggested few weeks ago.
farmers having pure.bred fiocks viii
find an occasional cockerel which 1t
seems pity to send to the slaughter
ing pen. The owner instinctively feels
that more cash would be realized from
the sale of such fellows as breeders