The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1910-01-26
Hogs need to be fed often.

Manure spreaders are all right II
used enough.
Bees winter poorly on honey dew.
fruit juices or cider.
It's a sure sign that a horses teeth
need looking after il he voids whole
grain.
Incubator chicks are never infest-
ed with vermin when the are
Matched.
Slow decay is just what proves best
for a supply of potash. phosphorus
and lime for the trees.
"Limberneck." in chickens. Is
caused by the absorption of a poison
found in decayed animal food.
Sorghum. cut and cured when tho
heads are slightly brown and the
seed in dough. makes fair winter
feed.
AS to the best time to market young
stock. it is. as a general proposition.
| when they are in a finished market
condition.
A handful of oil meal given to the
horse once a day will keep him In
good condition and makes his coat
! soft and sleek.
Ten COWS that average 500 pounds
of butter fat per year produce as
much as 20 COWS that average only
$50 pounds per year.
Oil meal is being shipped by the cal
load to Europe. where 1t Is fed by
dairymen. 1t would be to our advan-
| tage if this were fed at home.
hand and he should know how to use
it in order TO get the milk out of the
udder and get it out rapidly.
Chopped onions are very good for all
kinds of poultry. Onions are not only
invigorating. but are excellent when
the fowls are subject to colds.
The precaution against possible
danger. where work is pressing and
farmers want to get their corn in
out of the way. is ventilation of the
crib.
Onions must be kept In a dry. clean
place. although protection from cold
is not SO necessary. In fact. freezing.
with moderate thawing out. makes the
flavor milder.
| A pail Of milk standing ten minutes
where IT is exposed to the scent of a
! strong-smelling stable. or any other
, offensive odor. will imbibe faint that
will not leave 1t.
Well fattened young stock always
sells at a good price. and 1t is general
ly better to let the condition of the
| animal rather than that of the market
determine the date of selling.
With good milking cows, well fed
and well kept. milk can be produced
| at a cost of IS cents per hundred and
butterfat for Is cents per pound. This
is an average for the year round.
If some of the brooder chicks are
not quite so thrifty as the others they
should be put by themselves If pos.
sible. where the stronger ones will not
run over them and rob them of their
feed.
| There is so much difference in the
composition of milk from different
COWS that many large butter and
cheese factories now test all the milk
they buy. and pay for it according TO
its butterfat content.
The automobile has not spoiled the
horse market nor has the incubator
| spoiled the demand for Biddy One
Nebraska firm alone reports the sale
| Ol .'S.uUU lHCuDitclS the past SekSOL,
yet hens are higher than ever
Sometimes a pullet wishes 70 lay
but cannot because her egg organs
| are weak. They need streng;ben ming.
Add little oil meal to the soft feed.
and give little chopped raw meat in
addition to the regular ration.
The legumes draw nitrogen from
the air and store it In the soil for the
succeeding crop. thus making good the
loss of this element through the pre.
| vious crop grown These means are
| at The command of every man who
cultivates the soil and if he will avail
himself of their good Offices he may
! view his crops with much pleasure
and great profit.
A tree, in order to 60 through our
usually dry winters. needs to have a
well developed root system. such as
takes at least one growing season to
produce. If young trees are planted
in autumn, they must endure the most
trying period of the year with little
or no root growth to take up in some
measure the moisture lost by evapora-
ton: hence winter-killing by drying
| out is the usual result.