The log cabin Democrat., 1909-09-20
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Keep the young animals growing. Little chance of overlooking.
 One good cultivation during a dry it.
 Stick to your job. The farmer is the most independent of any class of workmen.
 Hogs thrive best when allowed to graze. It is economy to provide suit ably fenced fields.
 A bit of woodland fenced in with the pasture provides the ideal condi- tion for the stock.
 In sections too far north for crim- son clover, barley and Canada peas make a good cover crop.
 Borax and sugar dissolved in boil ing water and placed where ants are troublesome will drive them away.
 The SOW with young hogs should never be paStured with other large hogs. It means trouble with prob able loss.
 It is better to spread lime over the field to be so treated week or two before putting in the wheat or rye. The drill can be used in spreading lime
 Tobacco waste and salt mixed in proportions of about one part tobac- co to five of salt should be kept before the sheep at all times so they can help themselves. Where this is done worms.
 Dr. L. L. Lewis, of Oklahoma, points out that great many farmers when they obtain remedy for hog cholera dispense with all precautionary meas ures and rely upon the cure for their protection. Dr. Lewis points out that this method is folly and that strenu- ous precautionary measures should be kept up during any course of treat ment. He says: Hog cholera is an infectious disease and may be carried in a number of ways from infected pens to hogs that are healthy. Run ming water is very active means of spreading the disease. Pens contain ing diseased hogs and located along streams make the water dangerous for all other hogs below them. Out breaks of cholera can often be fol- lowed considerable distances along water courses. The infection may al- so be carried by the clothing, wagons, crates, or, in fact, by almost all means of communication between farms"
 The handling of the pigs intended for breeders should be entirely differ ent from those intended for market. They should be pushed for rapid growth, but must be fed for growth of frame and bone; not fattened on corn, but expanded by feed rich in protein. At six, eight or ten months of age, they should show more length if body and more scale than market hogs, and be smooth and we'll covered, but not so fat as for market. This can be very easily done by feeding a mixed grain ration, with ten per cent of tankage or ten per cent. of oil meal Use corn, barley and oats ground to- gether, mixed thickly with water, and fed at once while sweet It is much better to mix three pounds of milk to one pound of grain. If one has no milk the next best feed is ten per cent. of tankage. If one has the corn and does not want to buy the mill feeds, he can use so per cent of corn and 20 per cent. of tankage and have well-bal- anced ration.
 Plants are really miniature pump ing stations and are constantly busy pumping the land dry of its moisture. They work through the power of cap Hilary attraction. This is the same power that draws oil up through the lamp wick and that makes the towel absorb water Every grass plant, ev- cry wild flower and weed. all shrubs, bushes and vines and all trees are steadily at work during the summer and more or less at other seasons pumping up the water-day and night-from the ground in which they grow. Some of this water is used by the plants themselves for their growing needs. yet much of 1t Is allowed to pour out of thousand little spouts from each plant. which instead of falling back upon the soil to be reabsorbed Is transformed into a very thin water vapor and floats away in the air to be pricipitated at some other time and in some other place Ali of this pumping is invis- lbIe to our gross vision. but the amount of water lifted by wild and cultivated plants over the area of . single county of . single state In one day amounts to thousands of tons of tiouN-