Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1909-10-08
W. FARM
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Experiment, but do not speculate.
A. good road brings the town nearer.
and market day more frequent.
Lousy pigs will not thrive Get rid
OF the lice by dipping.
Shade for the hogs, as well as other
farm animals.
The repair in season saves the un.
seasonable delay caused by an UNI
oked for breakdown.
First select the proper place for
thing and then see that II is put In
its proper place.
Turnlps or rutabagas may be sown
broadcast and make excellent fall
feed for the sheep and hogs.
More hawks and owls mean less
field mice and rats Which do you
prefer? Well, take the former.
With hogs as with all other stock.
no single breed can rightly claim to
possess the only good qualities,
Every farm should be a miniature
experiment station. Every farmer
should be investigating and testing
out some proposition which will i'm
prove conditions on his farm and
make II remunerative.
One farmer who has made a spe.
cialty of pears has found that the
Bartlett. Kieffer and Duchess respond
ed to cultivation and seemed to be
hardy They prove profitable for cold
storage keeping.
In caring for the sheep remember
that the feed lot must be dry, with
plenty OF clean. dry bedding; the ami
mails must have plenty OF clean, pure
water. and the feed troughs should be
kept clean These should be arranged
so that the sheep cannot foul them
with their feet. Another point is to
keep them from becoming excited or
frightened To this end IL is better
that one person feed them all the
time.
One-sided feeding isn't good for the
pocket book or the animals. Alfalfa
is a one sided feed In the other direc-
ton from corn, and should not be fed
exclusively any more than corn. Al
falfa cannot be balanced by feeding
bran. but can be balanced by feeding
corn or cornmeal. In roughage. tim
othy hay Is balancer to go along
with the alfalfa. One-sided foods are
good II they are properly combined
when being fed. The great number
of these foods make II imperatively
necessary that the feeder educate him
self on the constituents of the differ
ent kinds of plants and grains that
are used In stock feeding
II the farmer wishes to be his own
repair man. and he can do so in most
cases II he is at all handy. he viii find
that vice and set of taps and dies
will come in handy. Get sizes one.
quarter. five-sixteenths. three-eighths.
seven-sixteenths and one half-inch
bolts These sizes will cover almost
| everything common on a farm You
can buy blank nuts and you can cut
the rods any length you want with an
ordinary cold chisel You can put a
nut on each end OF the bolt This an
swers just as we'll as to have head
on the end and a nut on the other. A
great many farmers try to keep bolts
of different sizes, but Il is much bet.
ter to buy the round rods and make
your bolts as you want them.
Plums require the same generous
care, cultivation and fertility, as any
other fruit crop. None will respond
more quickly or give better returns
for the time aud money Invested than
plums. 1t is useless 10 try to grow
good plums without thorough cult.
/ walton. To conserve moisture. which
\ plums greatly need in their growing
season, cultivation should begin in the
spring as soon as the ground Is in
good working condition and continue
until July, when cover crops should
be sown. When conditions are suit
able we prefer clover. and have had
some very fine stands when sown
about the first of July. II not suitable
for clover. SOW peas. oats. barley or
rye. ! would rather have the ground
covered with big crop OF weeds thar.
nOthing az all.