The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1909-12-15
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The COW must be clean.

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The COW must be clean.
The well fed pullet 10 an early layer
Between two iields-keep the fence
clean.
The dirty egg il q sign OF ill-kep'
poultry yards and houses.
Good feed and good care at thi.
time makes the winter layers.
A horse suffers Just az much from
boiling his food a. does q man.
Plant q good bed Of iris next sprina
II you have not attended TO 1t thii
fall.
Pay more attention 70 the condition
OF your soil and spraying and less to
pruning.
II IL q hard matter to overfeed the
puilets at this time for the extra nu
triton Is put into eggs.
There is no stock on the farm yield
ing better returns In proportion to
the TODD consumed than hens.
1t does not pay to plant crops in the
leach orchard. Some people do it bu,
we believe it is q bad practice.
The farmer who turns OF q good
bunch of hogs each year can always
get credit at the bank if he wants 1t.
Your sheep may be suffering with
eye trouble without your knowing it
Keep the wool clipped away from the
eyes.
Present deeds are the best explana
tons of past deeds. Time spent II
explanations is generally time mis-
spent.
Good strong seed put into fine but
firm seed bed. with all weeds eiimin
ated. are the factors that insure good
yields.
Dust in the house of a thrifty, active
flock cannot be avoided, but there is
no reason for allowing the cobwebs to
E.
Small plant pots dry out rapidly. A
good way is to place them in boxes Of
moist sand. The pots should be sunh
to the rim.
If you have no sorgum seed of youl
own, make an effort to obtain a load
of some one who has grown patel
for molasses.
Be sure to obtain new plants each
fall of the Chinese primrose, as these
plant do not bloom so well in the
house the second year.
The dairy shcrld have the very best
equipment possible, but the first ap
pliance to pure milk production Is
common sense cleanliness.
Poultry may often with advantage
be kept in the orchard. This makes II
possible to engage in poultry keeping
on a considerable scale without any
cost for land.
Owing to the high prices of poul
try it looks as though 1t will be neces
sary to put a combination lock with
a shotgun attachment ON the her
house door this fall. ..f
Those who were anxious to get out
of hog raising a couple Of years age
are now knocking at the door to gel
in again. Hog raising, like everything
else, has its ups and downs.
Nature never made a greater mis-
take than when she deposited sand or
the surface of certain farms instead
of placing it down ten or Is feet &c
that it would be out of the way.
A load of sharp sand. or small grav
eli would be a good investment. and
should be obtained before too late: al
so a pile of crockery for grit. either
broken into bits now. or else stored to
be broken as needed.
Pure water is essential for the cows
health and for the purity of the milk
Filthy or stagnant water is filed with
disease germs destructive to the
health of the COW. About IS per cent
Of the milk is water. How necessary
then that the COW have good. clean
water in abundance.
Many farmers are Indifferent about
their seed corn. They think they are
but they have never studied
the subject thoroughly enough to get
right down to bottom principles. The
difference between an ordinary stand
of corn and the best possible stand Is
very great. There is no great dim.
Guilty In the way Of selecting good
seed corn. intelligence and care are
all that Is necessary.
A firm in Ohio has invented q new
kind Of ploW that win stir the soil to
Q depth Of II or Is inches without
using any more power than u 10
quired to run IN ordinary 1sinch plov
nix or seven inches deep. This frm