The Nevada County picayune., 1910-10-07

chickens and squabs should pc III senarable. With a large flock of hens producing winter eggs, and huniooi of sauabs at a time when young chickens are not obtainable, the pour tryman has practically no compeutloh' The supply, in most instances IS so limited and the demand so great Ihae the young squabs are sold at the heo'' people coming after them to De sui0 of getting them.
 Brood sows on the average larm may be almost entirely supported py waste products. And those same waste products form the best sort or pal anced ration. Skim milk, buttermllh' windfall apples, parings, run lh tue orchard, with shade, and after the filters are weaned and growing nice ly. run in the stubble to C an up every kernel of grain, and Ill the clover fields after hay has been cut.
 A hen that lays 1S0 eggs in year will earn for her owner certain net profit of one dollar and twenty-five cents. and if he is careful about mar keting his profit may be increased Dy an additional 50 cents, so that II He wants to increase his income by SZoo or $500 1t is only necessary for nm to keep 200 or 400 hens.
 If you can do no better by way 2l making troughs for the sheep to eat their grain out of, you can nall two boards together in the shape of V with a couple of short pieces across the ends to keep them right slde up This will save much grain, and gralh is money this year.
 Salting the cows is most important especially when they are on green grass About an ounce per day IS re- quired by each COW and this is better given regularly and in small quanu- ties than only occasionally and ln large lots.
 With hired help almost impossible to get at any price. 1t would seem that all farmers would hesitate about taking more land upon themselves Tor cultivation, for a poorly-cared for crop Is surely failure, but they plunge in regardless of consequences.
 Some breeders claim that sex can be selected from which males and females can be matched at will. Old hens mated with cockerels produce about 75 per cent bullets, while mat ing bullets with old cocks give greater per cent. of cockerels.
 Did your cows fall off in their milk while passing from summer to winter conditions? This Is a trying period and the COW that tides over 1t all right will, with normal conditions, be safe for a good flow till spring
 Sunfowers are usually grown for the seeds, and the stalks are allowed to go to waste. They contain so large a percentage of woody fiber when ma ture that they would be of no value for feeding purposes.
 It will pay to market old and use less hens now, rather than carry them through the mott which begins this month. Many of them will not lay again until spring and will not pay their keep.
 There are two great and common mistakes in landscape gardening One is to make a garden without any flow CTS in It. the other is to have a mess of plants assembled without any de- sign.
 If you wish to improve the quality of your flock without serious expense the best thing to do is to cull out pen of the choicest birds and hatch their eggs.
 Very often when the large farm has been obtained at the expense of the home, so much of fl goes to waste for the want of ultiyatlon-thorough cul. tiyation-that it is really improbable.
 Now that the matching season is over. all the male birds should be taken away from the hens. Your chances for fresher eggs and more of them will be increased
 Manure Is just what is needed to bring up the yields and to increase the water-holding capacity of our soil for without water no amount of fer. tility is of any avail
 Don't forget the supply of sharp gravel or grit even in the fall; fowls can not always pick up a suitable sun. ply even when on a range and the weather is good.
 If little rape seed Is sprinkled in | with the rye variety of feed will be provided and the hogs will do even | better than upon rye alone.