The Delta independent., 1909-07-02

brutal method5.
Kindness is a good investment TO
make in stock Costs no money, but
it gives a money return.
Don't crowd the CHICKS in the brood
er. From start to finish chickens
never do well when crowded.
A commodious tool shed is an equip
ment which every farm should have
out which in too many cases is ao-
sent.
Slick up around the place this year
and see If the neighbors don't eaten
he fever good example goes a
long ways.
In handling young chicks be careful
not to overfeed. There is as much
harm in this way, If not more, than by
under feeding.
Sheep keep the land looking trim
Have you never noticed how slick the
lawn pastures and roadsides look on
the farm where sheep are kept?
Remember that there is scarcely
spot on the farm but that can be
made to return a profit. Study its
characteristics. If not good for one
thing it may be good for another.
In the hog yard put a few short
posts. around which fasten some old
bagging securely. Saturate with kero-
sene and the hogs will do the rest to
any stray lice wandering over their
anatomy.
Raise your own timber. Plant trees
every year Put them in every avail
able place. They will not only provide
desirable shade If well placed. but
will grow timber which will prove
valuable in the years 10 come.
Do your work neatly. If it is
gressing the wagon. don't get the
grease all over the wheeds as well as
on the axle or on your clothes, eth
or. Some men think hurry means
sloppy methods. It's mistake
II YOU have not already provided
| serarator for the handling of your
milk 1T will be well for you TO con
slider the proposition. for II not only
makes the handling of the milk and
cream easier. but gives you sweet
milk to feed to the hogs.
Garden all planned for? Surely YOU
are not going 10 let another season
nass without that promised luxury. II
IS a little work, brit you wis b. more
than repaid next sumner when you
are enjoying the fresh things YOU can
grow on the little patch near the
house.
The surest method of killing all YER
mine and disease germs in the chicken
house is to fumigate by burning sui
nhur. No living ger-n or animal can
exist In the presence of sulphurous
acid gas. II finds its way into every
crack of the room and makes complete
destruction in its path. When fumi-
-ating. remove all of the fowls. make
he room perfectly tight. and burn the
rulrhur with live Goals or on redho'
shovel,
Treat the seed cats II there is any
danger of smut Get n half pound OF
-ormalin. add 80 gallons OF water.
-pread the oats out on the barn floor
md sprinkle the solution over them
19king the grain quite damp. Then
shovel together into n pile and cover
With sacking and leave for about two
eours. If not sowed at once, spread
ont and dry thoroughly. Thirty ga
onsof the solution will treat $50 bush
lis of oats.
Drilling in oats Is much to be pre-
terred TO broad casting. The seed is
much more evenly covered and more
evenly distributed throughout the
fields From one TO two pecks per
7cre may be saved in the amount of
seed needed At the Iowa station for
1907. with its cold. dry spring. the
results in favor of drilling over broad
casting We're very marked. An in
crease of over nine bushels per acre
was secured in favor of drilling. When
this is figured at the rate of S3 l-3
cents per bushel we find that less
than 35 acres of oats would have paid
for drill in that one season. In sea
sons more favorable for oats rfroduc-
ton. this difference is by no means as
marked. yet the drilling can be rec
commended as much more profitable
means of putting in oats than the
common system of broadcasting.
Simply because young SOW gets
with pig because allowed TO run with
the herd. and then kept as one of the
regular brood sows of the farm is the
reason that the grade of some farm
ers' hogs are running down. Such