The Fort Sumner review., 1909-07-31

Sheep thrive under good care, and
are a good source of profit.
The discarded broom may find
new life of service in the hen house.
Peas and oats grown together make
a splendid grazing ration for either
swine or sheep.
Plan for rest during the fair sea
son. Take wife with you and have
a good old-fashioned vacation.
Hogs like to root because it's the
nature of the beast. They're built
that way. Why not give them the
chance?
Use the washday soapy water on
the garden. Sprinkle on the plants
which have lice on them and it will
kill them.
Fresh, clean water is important
with every animal on the farm in the
summer time, but above all others
with the COWS.
Sheep kept continuously upon the
same pasture for several years are
more than apt to be troubled with
stomach worms.
Powdered soapstone sprinkled on
the hands before milking will make
the operation pleasanter for both the
cow and the mixer
Poor seed sown means CORE
spending poor yield. Too much care
cannot be taken in knowing the quail
ity of the seed to be sown.
Careful feeding is better for the
stock and better for the farmer, for it
makes a profit for him at both ends.
saving the food and bringing better
gains in the stock.
To keep the cloth wet which you
place over the milk or water bottle to
keep it cool when taking it to the
field set it in shallow dish Of water
and let the edge of the cloth dip into
the water.
No trees in the pasture? Then
make shade for the cows by putting
up some posts and throwing over
them a thatched roof 1t is shame
to keep the cows under the hot rays
of the sun all day
If you can give the weary work
horse a roomy box stall with plenty
of nice clean bedding, you will find
he will come out in the morning in
better temper and condition for work
than he otherwise would.
North Dakota is hot after the tuber-
cular COW. A new law compels the
branding of all cattle that react under
the tuberculin test A letter "T'' not
less than one inch in length must be
punched in the left ear of each animal
proven tubercular.
Two ways of curing clover hay is
first to let 1t get well wilted, cock it
up in small heaps, let it sweat over
night, stir it out in the sun next day,
then haul to the NOW before it gets
really dry so the leaves shatter off
The second way is to cut when the
dew is well Off follow with a tedder
and rake up and haul in the barn as
soon as dry enough SO it will rattle
when handled with the fork.
Extensive farming and dairying
don't go together. 1t takes small
farms and intensive dairying to make
good dairymen. Just as long then as
the average farmer wants to own all
the land that joins him, and under
takes to farm it all, he isn't going to
pay much attention or take much in
terest in dairying. Occasionally there
will be farmer who appreciates what
dairying means to his soil, to his fam
lily and to his posterity, and he will
be interested in dairying. He will be
a dairyman, and of all the farmers in
his community he will be the most
successful.
Prof. j. B. Reynolds points out the
troubles which arise from faulty juno
tions of drain laterals with the
mains leading to an interference with
the flow and resultant lodging of the
silt until it finally blocks the drain.
He says it is sometimes best, when
the lateral has plenty of fall, to make
the junction two inches above the
head of the main. In any event, the
junction should not be right angled,
but preferably at an angle of 80 de-
grses. The silt basin is a valuable de-
vice in draining; its use and impor-
tance cannot be too we'll understood
1t may be used at the junction of two
or more drains in line of drain,
where it is necessary to change the
grade from a sleeper to less steep
one. The purpose of the silt basin
is to collect silt or mud in a part of
the basin below the line of tile, and
thus prevent the silt from lodging in
the drain and finally blocking the
flow. In form the basin is a small
WELL IL to "a inches in diameter, ex-
tondjng from 10 inches below the line