The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1909-01-27

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Give the growing colts light grain
ration daily.
Have the salt where the horses can
get it. They will not then be troubled
with worms.
Do not neglect the farm orchard. 1t
should not only supply fruit for the
table the year round, but some to sell
as well.
The colt should have his first les
sons in leading when month old. The
task is easy then. Later it is more of
job.
The diseased trees should receive
prompt attention. Do not neglect
them until they are dead or dying. Try
to control the disease from the start
rather than let it kill the orchard.
Out of the IL international live
stock judging contests held in Amer
lea since 1898, Iowa students have
won grand championship honors nine
times and on two other occasions
won one of the two trophies offered.
During stormy weather the colts
must be given shelter. All stock is
better where they are not compelled
to brave the harsh weather Of winter.
Remember that it is poor economy Of
feed to compel the stock to keep
warm in the face of a cold north wind.
Prof n. E. Hansen of the South
Dakota experiment station. has found
in northern Siberia, an alfalfa suited
to the arid lands of the cold north
year ago, Prof. Hansen was badly
frozen and at one time his life was
despaired of.
Sometimes when one sends away
for eggs for setting some of them
may become cracked. Do not throw
them away for if not too badly
cracked they may be incubated by
cumming a thin strip of tough paper
to the shell. In case of an egg
cracked during incubation the results
would depend to some extent on the
crack being patched over soon after
the break occurred.
If you are planning to build house
or barn or other farm building take
sufficient forethought to thoroughly
understand what is involved in the un-
dertaking. Good buildings are always
good farm investments. They should
be convenient. sanitary, durable and
beautiful. If they are convenient. sani-
tary and durable they will be beautiful
because beauty and utility are one and
the same thing in the end.
During wet spells it is we'll to look
over your land and note the places
where the water stands. This is
especially true in the orchard or gar
den. Plan to tile-drain such places. 1t
will pay you. 1t is next to impossible
to garden successfully in wet soils,
and almost all fruit trees refuse to
thrive in them. After draining these
low places, apply barrel of lime to
sweeten the soil, which is likely to be
sour.
Getting a profit out of feed stuffs
depends upon the kind of cattle you
Put it into. Figured to a fine point,
says the farmer. isn't the PROPOSE
ton of full-feeding cattle some
thing like this: if you have good
steers, good profit will be made: If
you have scrubs. better save the corn
and let some one else try fattening
the steers. The cattle market is in a
bad way when it doesn't pay to feed
good steers. One cannot have good
steers without keeping a good class of
COWS and an extra good male. The
finger of experience points to pure
breds, or as nearly pure bred as you
can afford.
Even in the winter time the lice
should be fought. Be sure that by
cleanliness and generous use of lice
killing preparations both on the chick
ems and in the coop you get the upper
hand of the pests. Now is the time
to begin to fight them to extermina-
ton, so that by Matching time there
will be none to modest. Clean out the
henhouse as you would 4 room in the
dwelling house. Use coal oil freely.
painting all the roosts, nest boxes and
all parts where lice stay. Then give
everything a good withdrawing with
q lime wash containing some carbolic
acid. Give about three such treat
ments between now and next spring.
and the victory will be yours.
Deep blowing offers special advan-
for a condition of deep. humus-filled
soil. The United States agricultural
department enumerateS the following
points which are worthy of special
consideration: 1t provides more food,
because it increases chemical action
and multiplies bacterial life in a
larger body of soil. 1t stores more
moisture and it loses its moisture less
rapidly on account of its cooler lower
strata and the presence of more
humus. 1t increases the number of
roots that a plant will throw out. 1t
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