The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1910-08-31
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least every other day.
few trees in the sheep pasture
will turn It into a paradise.
Cement or concrete silos. when well
SuiIt. are practically everlasting.
Allowing weeds TO go To seed now
means Increased labor next season.
The best method to determine if
your hens are good layers is the trap
nest
strong swarm of bees will furnish
a hundred pounds of honey aside from
what they themselves consume
If you grow late-maturing crops in
The orchard they will keep the wood
growing too late TO make them safe for
winter.
Cowpea vine hay has a feeding value
practically equal to that of wheat
bran. which is worth now more than
$50 per ton.
II is folly to raise hogs. feed them
high-priced feeds. get them in good
shape and then let them die on their
way TO market
Early potato blight is liable TO at
tack the potato crop at any time from
June until the crop is ripe. but Is
most seriously destructive in July and
August
Farmers must learn 10 feed the
colts better TO get the size and early
development of draft horses as the
French and English breeders do.
The calf should always have the
first or colostrum milk of the COW and
be allowed to nurse the cow until the
eighth or ninth milking. when the
milk is suitable for human food.
heifer becomes a COW after she
drops her first calf and begins Civ
ing milk-no matter at what age. and
she remains heifer until these ma
ternal obligations are assumed.
Spraying for early blight on late va
r!eties of the Rural New Yorker type
IF potatoes has proved profitable the
nast two years at the Minnesota sta
lion
,,ip hn tat- q
SOW at any time and fed by hand. yet
II is better TO allow them 10 remain
with the SOW IL possible for two or
three weeks.
Ia the care of the breeding ewes du-
ring the late summer and fall ii Is
very important la make provisions for
some kind of green fodder to supple
ment the pastures.
Keep up the cultivation as long as
possible. even though the corr. is tas-
selling. Shallow cultivation will still
found worth while should the
-. ouni surface harden up.
In dairying, there are special breeds
enough and reliable information
,.nough, so there is no excuse for a
man who goes it blind and blames
luck and the weather for his failure
With dairyinS, as with other lines
oi farming. the Gairyman should ia
niliarize himself as much as possible
with every fact which can be brought
30 bear upon the quality of his pro-
duct
Bacon is only the intermingling of
fat and lean meat, and II the meat is
grown along rapidly II will be more
tender and pala.able than If 1t is
pinched until the lean is dry and taste
less.
In all those portions of the coun
Try where dairying is a leading and
distinctive feature, and other grains
than corn are used as 4 growing and
,a.tening ration the bacon hogs can be
raised to advantage and profit.
AS the days wax warmer and wal M
OF ones efforts are apt 10 relax. but
he young fowls destined to take thei,
places in the show room must not be
neglected. They must have their feed
regularly, and water in abundance.
Cultivation as the plants develop re
Quires not only care and skill. bu,
!orethought also. If heavy rains have
beaten the soil into a hard mass and
il is water soaked it may be neces
sary TO so as deeply as possible with
out injuring the roots in order &c
aerate the ground properly
Once the calf is well started toward
an early and profitable marketable
maturity by liberal feeding and good
care at this season of the year, there
* little need of advising with regard
20 his future feeding care. as the
owners good sense will tell him tha,
II viii pay TO continue to feed and
care for him we'll
Fowls will lay occasionally in win
ter If they are not cared for other thar
having few scoopfuls of corn tossed
% them in a filthy house. but they vii
make a profit over AMI above the feeG
and housing If they are well sheltered
and fed a variety of clean and whole