The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1909-02-03
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| Feed corn as the evening meal.
Like the bean a man needs snap
to be worth anything.
The long. steady stroke is best in
milking the COW.
1t is nearly time to think about
| getting the hot bed started.
In all your management of the
! flock let it be with the aim to improve
your stock.
A little millet scattered in the straw
| will set flock of hens to work as
perhaps nothing else.
Weak harnesses are a peril on the
most tractable horse. They invite dis
| aster. Don't trust yourself with one.
Never was a saying more true that
an ounce of prevention l. better than
| a pound of cure than in the poultry
business.
It's little trouble to put the tools
back in place after using. but it saves
lots of time when next they are
wanted.
None too early 10 begin the cam
paign against the lice and mites Be-
gin now and avoid the rush-that is,
the thrush of the pest during the sum-
mer time.
Well-flled is not always well-fed.
The hen will crowd its crop full of
corn, and will put on fat, but will lay
few eggs. To be well-fed means more
than just plenty Of it. 1t means those
kinds of food which will go to make
eggs.
The farmer may get along without
keeping diary, but he ought not to
try to run the farm without keeping
some kind of accounts. as to outgo |
and income. Too many farmers are do |
ing business by guesswork and not
by facts.
The hen cackles because she has |
something to advertise. and when she |
has properly announced the arrival of |
the new invoice of goods, she gets |
busy to do another days business for |
the farmer. What would the farm be !
without the business hen?
Do you know which crops net:ed |
you profit last year and how much? |
Do you know what animals you fed |
and made money on? OF course you |
don't if you kept no accounts or rec
ords. Quit such reckless methods Do |
your farming as the business man |!
conducts his business.
Some pOultrymen say: Don't allow |
the flock to go out when there is snow |
on the ground" This is mistake. |
Let the hens be the judge as TO when |
they will go out and take the air. Open |
up the slide every bright day that is |
not too cold or windy, and the hens |
will go out en- the snow and will go |
back in when comfort demands it.
The young man who goes counting |
and spends the long evening by the |
warm freside in the delightful COM
pany of his inamCrata while his horse |
is hitched to the cold side of a wire |
fence with little or no blanketing is |
more than apt to show similar
thoughtless disregard for his wife aft |
Or the glamour of the honeymoon is
over.
II would be first-rate plan during
the leisure of the winter days to make |
an inventory of all you have on the |
farm-buildings. equipment, machin-
cry and stock. Know what You have
Plan how best to work the farm. and |
use the machinery, and ycu will find
that there will be a larger margin
between expenditures and receipts
than ever before
pennsylvania must have some aw-
fully good and awfully poor cows, for
the average annual production per
COW of the state. according to the
dairy officials of the state experiment
station, is 160 pounds of butter fat |
worth $4S. These figures mean that
while there are good cows which are
returning a profit. there are also very
many very poor ones which are be-
ing maintained at an absolute loss.
Try growing Gala lilies this way.
Place thick layer of charcoal in the
bottom of box Is inches square and
fill with leaf mold and a little sand.
Plant Gala in each corner. and in
the center sink six-inch f1ower-pot |
with the drainage hole stuffed with
moss, and with a layer of charcoal
above the moss. Water carefully till
growth is we'll started. then fill the
six-inch pot once day with water.
If the lilies drink so quickly that the
pot is empty before night. refill. Wash
and shower the leaves weekly.
Winter is the best season for dairy
ing when the handling of the milk and
cream is considered. Then there is
an abundance of cold water and cold
air, both of which are very necessary
in the keeping of dairy products. After
the snow comes it can be used in the
water in which the milk cans are sub