The Columbus journal., 1909-01-06
III FARM
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Grade your flock carefully. Keep
only the best.
A good mule sells for higher price
than q horse. Raise mules.
Do . good turn for your neighbor
and you will find that 1t will do you
good. too.
The sheep need plenty Of yard room
into which they can be turned on
pleasant days.
A little oil meal for the sheep oc-
casionally viii prevent constipation
and win keep them in thrifty condi-
ton.
The farmer Is not looking for pro-
lection or charity. but he does want
his rights, and he has q right to ex-
pect that he will get them.
The calls first winter may make
or mar the future cow If she Is only
half fed and insuficiently sheltered
you cannot expect she will develop.
Many horse has been permanently
injured by slipping on the frozen road
because smooth shod See that his
shoes are changed to correspond with
the season.
Do something worth doing and do
1t well and then feel proud of your
achievement, but don't get chesty and
big-headed over the big things you
propose to do. 80
Stretches" In sheep are caused by
too much dry feed. When the sheep
are seen to spread their legs out and
stretch give a bran mash and an
ounce of raw linseed oil.
Red ants. it is said. can be easily
trapped by means of sponges soaked
in sweetened water. And then, when
the ants collect thereon. the sponges
can be occasionally dropped into boil
ing water.
ROupy conditions in the poultry
must not be dallied with Either en-
ter upon vigorous course of treat
ment or kill the affected birds at once
The disease is contagious, SO that the
sick fowls should be separated from
the rest of the flock at once.
There are profitable and improbable
cows. Have you any of the latter class
on your farm. and can you pick them
out? According to Massachusetts
dairy experts a cow to be profitable
should produce 5000 pounds 1880
Quarts) of 3.5-4 per cent. milk yearly,
without being forced. A COW ought to
produce 500 pounds of butter yearly.
If she does not do it she is not helping.
The Michigan experiment station
after tests found that when whole
corn was fed to cows % per cent. was
unmasticated. when fed to heifers ten
per cent, when fed to calves six per
cent. Chemical analysis showed NO
change in composition of the unrlas-
ticated parts, so it is safe aSsump- |
ton that the animal derives NO bene- |
fit from grain that passes through the |
digestive tract unaltered.
Use the wagon for tightening the |
fence wire by the following method. |
One of the rear wheels is raised from
the ground and the wire is passed |
once around the hub and fastened to
a spoke of the wheel. The wagon is |
then braced by any suitable means.
and the wheel turned in the manner of |
the mariners wheel. In this way |
pull of 100 pounds on the tire will ex-
ert force of 400 or 500 pounds on
the WIRE
The cattle to he healthy must have |
exercise. Turn them out into lot or |
pasture every day which is not blus- |
terry or stormy. No animal can remain
perfectly healthy and stand or lie in
one place all the time without change.
A COW constantly confined in a stall
may be able to give good flow Of
milk for long time, but the confine-
ment is bound by natural laws. to
weaken her physically and to reduce
the vitality of the calves to which she
gives birth.
Do you know how much It costs you
to raise a calf? Prof. r. 8. Shaw of
Michigan kept track Of the first years
expenses Of . Holstein calf Here is
the record: The amounts of feeds used
in that time were 3S1 pounds whole
milk, 2,56S pounds skim milk, 1852
pounds silage. 219 pounds beet pulp.
1 1854 pounds hay. 1,247 pounds grain,
147 pounds roots. II pounds alfalfa
meal and so pounds green corn. At
the end of the year the calf weighed
800 pounds at cost of $2S.55 for feed.
According to story in the eastern
press the experiments in fighting
chinch bugs and some other insect
pests by injecting them with parasitic
diseases have been so encouraging
that the agricultural department mas
under consideration the establishment
Of a station somewhere in the west
for the purpose of growing and propa-
eating the natural enemies of insect
pests. The work will probably be
done along the line followed by the
Kansas station in fighting chinch
bugs. When the pest appears the
farmer gathers UP a can OF healthy