Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1909-12-30
Low-down Wagons are not good

salt SnOulQ De kept III the managers,
1t is purifier and mild tonic.
Truly speaking, the turkey is the
only true American bird we have.
Get around to a new hen house this
fall if you can. 1t will pay you to do it.
No owner of work animals can af-
ford to let their shoulders get sore.
When softshelled eggs are laid you
are feeding a ration too rich In pro
/ TEN.
The hog having clean place to
wallow is rarely troubled with lice or
mango.
he old-timers of the range are rap.
idly thinning, but we still have quito
few left.
Good, substantial shelter not only
adds comfort to the sheep. but money
to the purse.
HARD wood ashes are valuable to
spread around the grape vines and in
the strawberry patch
In Norway and Iceland fish meat is
used as a cattle food. Such a diet
gives the milk fishy taste.
In marketing, eggs should be grad
ed before they are offered for sale.
Put them in boxes according to size
| and color.
Because hogs utilize grain products
so efficiently and economically, the
mistake of feeding grain exclusively
is too often made.
The subsistence ration is an expen-
| sive one; plenty of wholesome food
is necessary to farm animals well-be-
ing and good service.
Many farmers never attribute the
| failure of their orchards to produce
good fruit to lack of plant food in the
soil but just let their trees drift along
until they die.
! Where there is still plenty of native
burr oak timber growing the farmers
| do not know what the fence post
problem is, but the prairie farmer is
not so fortunate.
The greatest menace to hog raising
/ has always been disease, but now the
Missouri experiment station has found
real cure for cholera there will be
/ little loss in the business.
The feeding of late corn fodder to
dairy cows should be continued just
as long as the corn is at all green. Il
is a splendid supplementary feed with
/ the short autumn pasture grass.
Wrapping of timber is caused by the
movement o. it's fibers in adjusting
/ themselves to the moisture within
/ the wood and in tho atmosphere"
/ based upon the external conditions.
A New York man who has an or
chard of 1000 trees planted 20 feet
apart each way. plants currant bushes
/ five feet apart each way except in
every other space running in the long
est way of the field,
When one has purchased bull OF
! the conformation and breeding de-
sired the main idea will be to SC use
and care for him that he will be a
sure breeder and viii reproduce in his
offspring the desirable characteristics
/ possessed by himself.
The difference between aged sows
and gifts seems to be that a SOW two
years old or more is fully matured and
easily kept in good flesh, usually far
rowing much larger pigs than gilt
She is a much better sucker and
gives so much more milk that the pigs
get a better start earlier in life and
thus grow very rapidly, making gains
younger in life.
Good sanitation is more and more
coming into practice IN modern dairy
ing Build sanitary barn II you can,
and If you cannot, then remodel the
COW stalls and make them as com
Portable and sanitary as possible.
Floors that can be kept dry and clean,
and walls and ceilings that do not
catch dirt, or are easily cleaned, and
plenty OF l!ght and ventilation are
essentials for good dairy stable sani-
tation. The work may be done a little
at time.
There are all sorts Of arguments
brought forward TO prove that inbreed-
ing is sane breeding. Some point to
wild fowl; others TO the Jersey breed
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