The Nevada County picayune. (Prescott, Ark.) 190?-current, 1910-09-09
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VI FARM
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The sire is half of the flock.
No butcher should tease you into
selling your best lambs.
The best method of weed destruc-
ton Genes through rotation of crops.
Slow, steady churning will get more
fat out of the milk than rapid churn-
ing
Fowls in confinement have a ten
dency when moulting to pick feathers
off each other.
After pigs are six weeks old there
is no better feed for them than skim
milk and shorts.
Why not screens on every door and
window of the COW stables and par
kept?
Diseased wood on a tree can never
be made good again. Cut it off and
allow another shoot to grow in its
place.
The best remedy for pear and ap-
pie blight is to cut out and burn
every affected twig as soon as they
are seen.
Undoubtedly one cause of much
trouble with milk in summer is al
lowing cows to have access to foul,
stagnant water.
No farmer should use a wagon with
out good springs, and especially are
they valuable in hauling live stock
and perishable vegetables and fruits
Many small pigs are stunted in
their early growth because they can
not hold their own against their
larger and more quarrelsome broth
ers.
The best skim milk is that which is
fresh from the separator and still
warm. Experiments show that it is
only one-fourth as expensive to raise
calf on skim milk as whole milk.
Bran. oats and oil meal fed in equal
parts hy weight make a better ration
and is more satisfactory to supply the
needs of growth and development for
breeding purposes, than most anything
else
At the present time the world S
championship for the production of
butterfat for - consecutive months
Is held by the Holstcin-Friesian COW,
Colantha fourths Johanna with a to-
tai of 99S26 pounds of fat.
Thirty-siX pounds of sheep manure is
equal as fertilizer to 100 pounds of
ordinary farm yard manure, being rich
err in heterogeneous substances than that
of the COW or horse, and ranking in
ammonia and richer in the phosphates
than the droppings of fowl.
A good hand separator takes most
of the valuable butter fat out of the
milk; indeed, perfect machine should
take practically all of the butter fat
from the milk; but it leaves most of
the protein, which is the most yalu-
able food element in the skinned
milk
The best time to water plants is
late in the evening Stir the soil
thoroughly and draw away from
around the stem of the plants, pour
on the water needed let settle and
then draw the earth back again; in
this way the moisture will be re-
tanned better.
In selecting breeding stock 1t Is
highly important that the reputation
of the breeder from whom the pur.
chases are made, is well and favor.
ably known. a man who is noted for
square and honest dealing; and this
Is especially true If the selection is TO
be made by the breeder himself
Forest Henry, one of the farmers
institute workers in Minnesota, and
successful farmer, says that his ex-
periences teaches that the time to
wean the colt, even If not more than
three months old. is before going into
the harvest field with the mare He
teaches his colts to drink skim-milk
and TO eat oats with the mare before
weaving
If there ever were a time when oat
straw is worth saving 1t will be this
year Hay is scarce and the price
will be In accordance with the light
ness of the crop. The farm that has
an abundance of hay can turn a pref
ty penny by using a substitute for hay
as much as practical and selling the
hay that can be spared. The city
trade will want 1t ALL at good, stiff
price. before the winter season is