The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1910-08-31

a pig can be raised by the hand
method as easily as a calf. if the same
pains are taken with it
Pounds Of meat or amount and quail
ity Of other products that an animal
will provide are what count.
If a SOW proves good breeder. there
is no reason why she should not be
kept as long as she produces strong
pigs.
To the intelligent corn grower
weedy field spells a shiftless farmer
who is fooling with his chances of sue
cess
Do not allow any fruit TO ripen on
berry plants set this season. Prena-
ture fruit-beariEg stunts the growth Of
the plants.
The man who raises pigs ought 10
have a field of peas into which they
can be turned just before the peas
become hard.
The richest color of the cream Is
when il first rises to the surface. and
if churned in that condition the butter
will be yellow.
You will have TO spray with kero
sene emulsion to reach the cabbage
lice Be sure to get it on the under
side of the leaves.
Corn has become good crop.
! whether hogs are high or low. but il is
not a good plan 10 plant more corn
than can be well tended.
Cocks should not be allowed to run
with the hens during moultins. SO that
as the number of hens not moulting
decreases they should be confined with
the cocks.
Go over the pastures and NOW the
spots Of grass the cattle have not
eaten 1t will make good bedding and
insure a continuous growth through
out the season.
The Minnesota station several years
ago found that on root-pruned corn
plats the average yield per acre was
| three bushels of cora and 500 pounds
of fodder less than Oh the unpruned
plats
During hot weather eggs should he
marketed two or three times 4 week
and they should be taken from the
| nest two or three times day. for eggs
under a setting hen soon begin TO
spoil
Anyone who will knowingly sell milk
| from a diseased COW Well deserves
the epithet of criminal. for his act is
nothing short OF crime. To sell filthy
milk or butter is scarcely less repre-
| henSible.
Corn silage Is an excellent calf feed
when fed in moderate amounts. Good
paSture is an essential after four 10
six months of age, aud if the calf is
turned out for only few hours each
day at first, scours wall be avoided
The trouble with a great many poul
try keepers is that they think they
can fly before they are really able to
walk. Take time TO learn the tusi
ness. sy and by the flying will come
easy enough.
| There is some difference in the cost
of corn whether it is .hogged down"
by sheep and lambs In the field. or
high priced help husks ii and hauls II
to the station. and high priced
r-ilroads ship it to feeding yards.
| The management Of the calf during
the first year has much to do with its
later usefulness. Plenty of water and
salt should be given in clean vessels
Avoid sudden changes of diet and prac
tise regularity in feeding.
As soon as the cockerels get old
enough to pay attention to the pull.
lets they begin fighting and the
weaker birds are crowded out and
don't get their share OF feed For
this reason the sexes should be sepa
rated SO as to allow full ana rapid
development
There is no better way to warm a
hen up in the morning than to scat
ter some warm wheat around in a
good clean layer of straw and let them
work hard for It, They will get right
down to business as soon as II Is fair
ly light and stick to it till they have
earned their breakfast. BY that time
they are as warm as a toast
II you do not cultivate soon after a
rain has hardened the surface your
task will be ever so much more diff
cult. The tendency of a hard baked
soil under cultivation Is to break up
into clods, especially if 1t has not been
we'll worked previously. This does not
produce the necessary mulch but rath,
er tends to dry out the soil further.
and, in fact. is frequently worse than
no cultivation at all
The average life Of worker bee
during the summer time is not over
three months and during the height OF
the clover bloom perhaps not over six
or eight weeks. Its life is probably
cut short during the summer months