The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1909-08-18
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Name the farm.
Tidy up the place and then keep i.
/: tidy.
Improve the rainy days. Keep the
boys interested by letting them own
something of their own.
Less acres better farmed would put
many farmer on the profit side OF
the ledger.
The waste land on your farm is
worse than a dead loss to you. Get
it to work.
Wool should be stored in closely
tied packs so that it will not become
dusty or soiled. The wool buyer pays
more for clean than for dirty wool.
How is the wood lot? Have you
availed yourself of the excellent in
formation which the government for.
estry department is ready to furnish
you and which if followed will make
your timber lots more valuable?
Just one more cultivation on the
corn than you think is necessary and
then another one for good measure.
The corn will feel better by several
h,,SholS moro nor acre
1t is a good practice to feed the
calves in stanchions. 1t is easy to
break them to that method of tying.
Have the feed ready for them in the
troughs and they will soon learn to put
their heads through and will get into
the right places. Be patient with
them.
An abused COW will not return a
profit. 1t is loss every time she is
frightened. To run a COW to pasture
is like throwing money away. A COW
in any way worried will not do her
best. The COW that is made a pet of
will make money for its owner. The
milk of a frightened or abused COW
is poisonous.
The average American market pre-
fers a brown egg. while New York
city is ready to pay premium for
white-Shelled eggs. The brOwn-egg
buyers in particular claim that the
eggs are of richer flavor. All this is
imaginary, when We come to under
stand that it is food and not color
that flavors the egg. Is it reasonable
to suppose the brown egg of the Brah-
ma fed on onions could be as sweet
as the white egg of the Leghorn fed
on clover?
Why not a national pure feed law
to protect live stock. In some states
such laws have been enacted and are
enforced. while in others they have
been enacted but are not enforced,
and still others have no laws regulat-
ing the sale of feed. In some states
all sorts of stuff is sold for feed, and
the farmer has no means OF knowing
what he gets for his money. When
he buys wheat bran, he often gets
ground cOrnstalkS, straw and oat
hulls: middlings or shorts are largely
bran ground fine. and some of the pre-
pared stock feeds have very little
feeding value. What is needed is a
national pure feed law which will be
enforced the same as the pure food
law
The practice of following wheat
with wheat. while exceptionally IA
vOrable to the increase of the Hessian
fly. is so general in our large wheat
growing counties that the steps" in
fly control have been selected and
tested in accordance with this prac-
tice. Those desiring to use rotation
as means of controlling the fly and
straw worm would de well to consult
a more extended treatment of these
insects. Disking.-The disk should
follow the binder or header just as
soon as possible. This will throw out
a large percentage of the fiaxseeds
that would otherwise be protected by
lying in the stubble below the sur
face. SO that their parasitic enemies
can attack them. The disking will
conserve the soil moisture, render the
blowing easier. and start the vOlun-
teer wheat and the weeds.
Could the aggregate annual damage
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known the latter would be appalled, at
the figures. Do all you can to lessen
their number. Here are nine ways in
which you can accomplish this: l. Pro-
lection of our native hawks, owls and
smaller predatory mammals-the ma
tural enemies of rats. 2. Greater
cleanliness about stables, markets, gro
Gerry stores. warehouses. courts, alleys
and vacant lots in cities and villages.
and like care on farms and suburban
premises. This includes the storage
waste and garbage in tightly covered
vessels and the prompt disposal of it
each day. 3. Care in the construction
of buildings and drains so as not to
provide entrance and retreats for rats.
and the permanent closing of all rat
holes in old houses and cellars. 4. The
early threshing and marketing of
grains On farms. so that stacks and
mows shall not furnish harborage and
food for rats. 5. Removal of OUTLYING
straw stacks and piles of trash or lum-
Der that harbor rats in the fields. 6.
Rat-roofing of warehouses, markets,
cribs. stables and granaries for storage
of provisions, seed grain and feed: