The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1909-12-29

Low-down wagons are not good.
A poor hen makes . poor mother.
Paint the ladders and store them
under cover.
A run in the pasture is . fine rem
edy for an ailing horse.
Cultivate the strawberry bed as long
the soil remains unfrozen.
Cement Is replacing lumber in many
forms of farm construction.
Salt should be kept in the managers.
1t is a purifier and a mid tonic.
Truly speaking. the turkey Is the
only true American bird we have.
Get around to a new hen house this
fall If you can. 1t will pay you to do 1t.
No owner of work animals can af.
ford to let their shoulders get sore.
When soft-shelled eggs are laid you
are feeding q ration too rich In pro-
TEN.
The hog having a clean place to
wsllow is rarely troubled with lice or
mango.
he old-timersof the range are rap
idly thinning. but We still have quite
a few left.
Good. substantial shelter not only
adds comfort to the sheep. but money
to the purse. .
HARD wood ashes are valuable to
spread around the grape vines and in
the strawberry patch.
In Norway and Iceland fish meat is
used as q cattle food. Such q diet
gives the milk a fishy taste.
In marketing. eggs should be grad.
ed before they are offered for sale.
Put them in boxes according to size
and color.
By having a dog-proof yard 1t will
save a great deal of trouble, for dogs
are great hindrances to successful
sheep raising.
Because hogs utilize grain products
so efficiently and economically. the
of feeding grain exclusively
is too often made.
The subsistence ration Is an expen.
sive one: plenty of wholesome food
is necessary to farm animals well-be.
ing and good service
The cattle will maintain a better
physical condition than when they are
forced to their utmost capacity on a
ration of heavy, concentrated dairy
foods.
Many farmers never attribute the
failure of their orchards to produce
good fruit to lack of plant food in the |
soil but just let their trees drift along
until they die.
Where there is still plenty of native
burr oak timber growing the farmers
do not know what the fence post
problem is. but the prairie farmer il
not so fortunate.
drag when the soil is moist, but |
not sticky" advises d. Ward King. !
whose efforts to introduce the road
drag in the middle west are bearing |
such splendid fruit.
The greatest menace to hog raising |
has always been disease. but now the |
Missouri experiment station has found !
! real cure for cholera there will be !
little loss in the business.
The feeding of late corn fodder to i
dairy COWS should be continued Just |
as long as the corn is at all green. It
is splendid supplementary feed with
the short autumn pasture grass.
Wrapping of timber is caused by the !
of its fibers in adjusting |
to the moisture within
the wood and in the atmosphere"
based upon the external conditions.
A New York man who has an or.
chard of 1000 trees planted 20 feet
apart each way. plants currant bushes
i've feet apart each way except In
every other space running in the long.
est way of the field
When one has purchased bull Of
he conformation and breeding de-
tired the main idea VIII be to so use
nd care for him that he will be .
'ure breeder and will reproduce in his
Inspiring the desirable characteristics
by himself.
The difference between aged sows
md gifts seems to be that a SOW two
,ears old or more is fully matured and
EASILY kept in good flesh, usually far
owing much larger pigs than gilt
She is a much better sucker and
r;r,e en- much moro ,n1lA that tho nt1s