The Nevada County picayune., 1910-07-08
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Variety in the ration iS necessary for laying hens.
 The application of lime to cabbage soil is highly commended.
 Don't forget the daily water supply for the hens at this season.
 The sucking lambs always do bet ter after the mother is shorn.
 The lambs shoudd nibble at grain and hay before they are two weeks old
 It is sometimes said that good breeder always has his ideal animal in his mind.
 X male is no more prone to kick than a horse unless he is taught to do so by bad treatment
 Cabbage and all other plants of the cabbage family require very fertile and cool. moist soil for good growth.
 It is a significant fact that corn this year at this season is going down, instead of up, as is the usual custom in spring.
 What we want to do in working horse for the first time is to teach it to do things which it has never done before.
 When the butter is well drained 1t is ready to salt, and this is done in the ehurn when the butter is in granular form.
 Begin to cultivate musk melons as soon as the plants can be seen and continue cultivation till after the fruit begins to set.
 Never use milking tube if it can be possibly avoided as there is much danger of injecting the entire quarter by the use of the tube.
 It pays to pasture pigs, but If the pigs root up the pasture it will pay to ring them. Pasture sod is too valuable to be destroyed when it can easily be avoided.
 If an animal will eyer make profit able gains. it will make them in warm weather on green grass, supplemented with shade, cool water and some cen- centrated feeds.
 Goats, more perhaps than any other animal. have all exclusive affection for their keeper. and sometimes fight des= perateIy even at home against being milked by anyone else.
 Where possible one should make sure that the birds he selects for breeders have been bred from sound, healthy stock. SO that they may have d hereditary tendency to health.
 It is true that farmer can. by a careful selection and examination. change the constituents Of his corn, thus growing corn that is of higher feeding value for his farm animals.
 Don't forget that the temperature of the cream at churning should be 56 to 5S degrees Fahr. in summer and Go to @ degrees in winter. The best chulning results will be had at these respective temperatures.
 A good hen is expected to lay in q year about five times her weight in eggs. This means reproductive process on an average. at least every ttad day during the year, or perhaps, in rare instances, every other day
 When doing the tree plandug do not forget u pet few trees in q cor ner of the pasture fields. if there k such thing as fenced pasture en the farm Protect these for few years. and they win protect the stock Tor many more.
 The Minnesota experiment station says barley has the advantage ever flax for cleaning the land of weeds, be sides being often fed on the farm at a profit over the market price At pres ent prices, however. flax is in the lead and good flax land will undoubtedly return a good profit
 After the young turkeys are sixteen to twenty days old begin to feed light ly on cracked corn, wheat etc, and occasionally baked corumoal or john nycake. which is simply cornmeai mixed witb either sweet skimmiik or water and q very little salt. and thor oughly baked This is moistened slightly before feeding
 Seeding plants of all kinds should