The Winchester news. [volume] (Winchester, Ky.) 1908-19??, 1909-03-06
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NJ FARM
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Feed the pigs all they will eat up
clean three times day.
Insufficient feed and poor shelter
will ruin the most promising heifer.
The wise feeding of corn to the hogs
will give you better profits than if the
corn were sold.
Breeding ewes should be fed a ra-
ton which includes oats, wheat bran,
linseed meal, clover hay and roots.
In planting an orchard remember
that the soil should be as carefully
prepared as for any other important
crop.
Chest protectors on the work team
will prove a source of comfort to the
animals and will lengthen their work
days.
The neglected colt or calf will prove
profitless. To get your money out OF
either you must provide right condi-
tons and keep them growing.
The farmer who Is content to
guess" what his COWS are returning
him is generally the farmer who COM
plains that dairying doesn't pay
well.
horses during the idle season is grain
well-fed. Remember also that change
from heavy work feed ration to the
tighter ration of the dull season should
be made. gradually.
A 13-year-old Nebraska boy had an
exhibit at the Omaha corn show. Out
of corn and corn stalks he had made
a miniature house, two barns and a
windmill Ten to one that boy has
been anchored to the farm by the right
kind Of encouragement.
The feed and care of the colt Is al
most of as much Importance as the
breed. A pure bred colt can be
ruined by neglect and colt of fair
grade stock can be made a clipper
by the proper care. Care in other
words is needed in raising any kind of
a colt with profit.
Some chicken raisers ventilate their
coops through the chinks. Poor plan.
Stop up the cracks with good battens
or felt covering and provide ventila-
ton through windows or suitable open
ings. Chickens should have an abun-
dance of fresh air at night, but cold
draughts should not strike them. A
cloth drop curtain is good for zero
weather.
Most farms of good size can use a
gasoline engine to profit. Some still
hold the opinion that there is no use
for any kind Of power on the farm but
one operated by horses. Where a
small amount of grinding is done, this
Is probably the case, but the man who
feeds from one to three carloads of
cattle a season and makes a practice
of feeding his work teams chop, needs
a power he can use when the track is
muddy or even when it is storming
outside. A gasoline power outfit re-
quires only small roof space to cover
all.
"Roughing" horses through the win
ter is coming, kept through the
winter in this way horses should be
given a shed for shelter, preferably
one opening to the south AS a feed
it was found at the Utah experiment
station that alfalfa alone was suffi
cient for maintenance. Well-cured
clover hay with some corn fodder
(stalk and ears) may be used but
small amount of grain is advisable
Timothy hay, and corn slower is not
satisfactory ration for "roughing"
horses through the winter. They need
more protein. which may be supplied
in the form of some leguminous crop
Horses that have been treated in this
way should be given grain and exer,
else at least six weeks before being
put to work.
Some western farmers think that
i Secretary Wilson of the agricultural
department is altogether too much OF
an optimist. After paying a tribute
to the splendid service which he has
performed for the farmers of the
United States in his long service as
head of the government agricultural
department, one western farmer goes
on to say: Secretary Wilson's failing
runs in a queer vein for one of his age
He is given to optimism. His latest is
to the effect that western farmers
have more money than they know what
to do with, in. fact those were his very
words He also says that the farm
houses of the western farmer are
strictly modern In every respect and
are as good as need be made In fact
all through Secretary Wilson's inter.
view runs a vein of overlooking optim
ism. According to Secretary Wilson
! the western farmer really has no need
of further wealth OF of the things ir
life which wealth brings"