The Winchester news. [volume] (Winchester, Ky.) 1908-19??, 1909-02-22
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N.Y. FARM
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Feed corn as the evening meal.
Like the bean a man needs snap
to be worth anything.
1t is nearly time to think about
getting the hot bed started.
In all your management of the
flock let 1t be with the aim to improve
your stock
A little millet scattered in the straw
will set a flock of hens to work as
perhaps nothing else.
Never was a saying more true that
an ounce of prevention is better than
pound Of cure than in the poultry
business.
It's little trouble to put the tools
back in place after using, but it saves
lots Of time when next they are
wanted.
None too early to begin the cam
paign against the lice and mites. Be
gin now and avoid the rush-that is,
the thrush Of the pest during the sum-
mer time.
Well-f1lled is not always well-fed.
The hen will crowd its crop full Of
corn, and will put on fat, but will lay
few eggs. To be well-fed means more
than just plenty of It, 1t means those
kinds Of food which will go to make
eggs.
The farmer may get along without
keeping a diary, but he ought not to
try to run the farm without keeping
some kind of accounts, as to outgo
and income. Too many farmers are do
Ing business by guesswork and not
by facts.
The hen cackles because she has
something to advertise, and when she
has properly announced the arrival of
the new invoice of goods, she gets
busy to do another days business for
the farmer. What would the farm be
without the business hen?
Do you know which crops netted
you a profit last year and how much?
Do you know what animals you fed
and made money on? OF course you
don't If you kept no accounts or rec
ords. Quit such reckless methods. Do
your farming as the business man
conducts his business.
Some poultrymen say: Don't allow
the flock to go out when there is snow
on the ground" This Is a mistake.
Let the hens be the Judge as to when
they will go out and take the air. Open
up the slide every bright day that is
not too cold or windy, and the hens
will go out on the snow and will go
back In when comfort demands it.
1t would be first-rate plan during
the leisure Of the winter days to make
an inventory Of all you have on the
farm-buildings equipment. machin-
cry and stock. Know what YOU have.
Plan how best to work the farm. and
use the machinery, and you will find
that there will be a larger margin
between expenditures and receipts
than ever before.
pennsylvania must have some aw-
fully good and awfully poor cows. for
the average annual production per
COW Of the state, according to the
dairy officials of the state experiment
station, is 160 pounds of butter fat
worth $48. These figures mean that
while there are good cows which are
returning profit, there are also very
many very poor ones which are be-
Ing maintained at an absolute loss.
Try growing Gala lilies this way.
Place a thick layer Of charcoal in the
bottom of box Is inches square and
fill with leaf mold and a little sand
Plant a Gala in each corner. and In
the center sink a six-inch flower-not
with the drainage hole stuffed with
moss, and with layer Of charcoal
above the moss. Water carefully till
growth is well started, then fill the
six-ineh pot once a day with water
II the lilies drink SO quickly that the
pot is empty before night, refill. Wash
and shower the leaves weekly.
Winter Is the best season for dairv-
ing when the handling of the milk and
cream Is considered. Then there 10
an abundance OF, cold water and cold
air, both Of which are very necessary
IN the keeping Of dairy products. After
the snow comes 1t can be used in the
water in which the milk cans are sinh
merged. The milk should be quickly
and thoroughly cooled to get the best
results with the raising of the cream
and the keeping of the dairy products
Many make the mistake Of cooling the
milk to about so, when 1t could lust
as well be cooled to 20 and lheicv,