Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1909-09-09
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Overfeed may be bad, but under
feed Is still worse.
Keep the young animals growing.
Little chance Of overlooking.
One good cultivation during dry
spell Is as effective as shower. Try
1t.
Stick to your job. The farmer is
the most independent OF any class OF
workmen.
Hogs thrive best when allowed to
Craze. 1t is economy to provide suit
ably fenced fields.
A bit of woodland fenced in with
the pasture provides the ideal condi-
ton for the stock.
In sections too far north for Grim
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. 1t means trouble with prob
able loss.
1t is better to spread lime over the
field to be so treated a 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
there is no trouble from stomach
worms.
DR.. L. L. Lewis, of Oklahoma, points
out that q 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-
GUS 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 number of ways from infected
pens to hogs that are healthy. Run
Aing water 10 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 a 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
II body and more scale than market
hogs, and be smooth and well covered,
but not SO fat as for market. This can
be very easily done by feeding 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. 1t is much
better to mix three pounds of milk to
one pound of grain. II one has no milk
the next best feed is ten per cent. of
tankage. II one has the corn and does
not want to buy the mill feeds, he can
use 80 per cent. of corn and 20 per
cent. OF tankage and have q well-bal-
anced ration.
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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 waterway and
night--from the ground in which
they grow. Some o. this water Il
used BY the plants themselves fol
their growing needs. yet much OF II
is allowed to pour out Of thousand
little spouts from each plant, which