The searchlight. [volume] (Culbertson, Mont.) 1902-current, 1910-01-28
Hogs need % be fed often.

Manure spreaders are all right Il
zsed enough.
Bees winter poorly on honey dew.
'ruit juices or cider.
It's a sure sign that horses teeth
need looking after If he voids Who'll
grain.
Incubator chicks are never infess
cd with yermin when the arc
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 the
heads are slightly brown and the
seed in dough, makes a fair winter
feed.
As to the best time to market young
stock, Il is, as a general proposition,
when they are in finished market
condition.
A handful OF oil meal given to the
horse once a day will keep him In
soft and sleek.
Ten cows that average 800 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 car
load to Europe, where 1t Is fed by
dairymen. 1t would be to our advan'
tage IL this were fed at home.
A man should have good strong
hand and he should know how to use
1t in order to get the milk out OF the
udder and get 1t out rapidly.
Chopped onions are very good for al
kinds of poultry. Onions are not ONLY
invigorating, but are excellent wheI
the fowls are subject to colds.
The precaution against possible
danger, where work is pressing ant
farmers want to get their corn IL
out of the way. is ventilation of thu
crib
Onions must be kept in dry, clea
place. although protection from col
is not SO necessary. In fact, freezing
with moderate thawing out, makes tn
flavor milder.
, A pail of milk standing ten minute
where 1t is exposed to the scent OF
strong. smelling stable, or any othe
q offensive odor. will imbibe faint Thu
r will not leave 1t.
o Well fattened young stock alwa,
sells at a good price. and 1t Is genera
ly better to let the condition OF Il
|. animal rather than that of the mark
9 determine the date of selling.
IS With good milking cows, we'll II
and we'll kept, milk can be produc'
at a cost of 65 cents per hundred al
h. butterfat for 16 cents per pound. I'll
o Is an average for the year round.
IL some of the brooder chicks a
not quite so thrifty as the others tn
should be put by themselves II p'
Id sible, where the stronger ones will
ID run over them and rob them OF tn
he feed.
There is SO much difference In I
composition of milk from differe
ed cows that many large butter a
in cheese factories now test all the m
le they buy. and pay for 1t according
,e- its butterfat content.
The automobile has not spoiled
Sc horse market nor has the incuba
tn spoiled the demand for Biddy. {
IF. Nebraska firm alone reports the S
II | OF 3S,OOO lnCuOatOTS inc past oo"o
is yet hens are higher than ever.
While our hardest varieties
ok roses may endure the evaporation
ed our trying winters. they will. h
it ever, come through stronger and
lid better results the coming season
ng they can receive a fair measure
protection during the winter.
las Scraping old apple trees to rem
d. loose bark is good practice W
AS combined with judicious pruning.
ex- makes the trees look better and
1t better and 1t reduces the number
insect hiding places. Once In ii
to five years is often enough to d.
rm Remember that the man who pl
, a up his birds, throws them into a c.
Il and ships them on to a show ra
ore gets a prize. It requires careful sc