The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1910-02-18
Buy meat bones for the hens.


confinement are alike injurious to the
colts.
To keep off lice sprinkle the nests
OF sitting turkeys each week with
snuff
Some sloppy food is responsible for
great deal of mortality among
small chicks
Except during the breeding season.
keep males away from the flock, hens
lay better If left alone.
The amount of feed required to pro-
duce a pound of gain increases as the
chicks approach maturity.
The farmer who has not time to
fuss with a young colt would better
go into some other business.
The tobacco acreage in the United
States for 1909 was l1S0,000 as
against $4,000 acres in 1908.
The little red chicken mite and
erstwhile the louise thrive these days
Whitewash and kerosene for them,
Raising young squads TO supply the
city markets Is always profitable if
they are given careful management
Every owner of dairy must figure
on receiving more in the milk pail
than he puts into the feed trough.
An experiment by an Ohio company
of curing tobacco by heat from nat
ural gas stoves has proved successful.
Provide a shelter for pigs running
on winter pasture. 1t need not be ex-
pensive, but one that is well ventilat-
ed
To make fall pigs do well they must
be provided with warm sleeping quar-
ters at night and filled with sunshine
during the day.
1t is an advantage to raise turkeys,
not only for swelling your bank ac-
count, but also for the many injurious
insects they destroy
When the old turkey hens are set
take the same method with them as
with the hen mother and brood, and
take care to provide a large coop.
Do not pick out the poorest soil you
have for the orchard. The best is
none too good slope to the south
makes a good location for most fruits
See that the poultry houses are
properly ventilated at night. To com
pei fowls to rOOst in a close, filthy
place is a good way to have unhealthy
stock
In the last fiscal year experts of the
department of agriculture inspected
before slaughterng 53,544,255 animals
at S76 establishments in 24O cities and
towns
Never wait until milk becomes CO.
agulated before skimming and when
adding fresh skimming to the cream
already collected stir well, so all may
ripen evenly.
In purchasing new male birds, Sc
haf hou oil In y oyx or
them in the line of good ancestors
The males are worth considering, for
they are half the flock
Feed fall pigs during winter a mod
crate ration of corn and supplement
genous feeds as you have on hand
TO give variety to the ration.
The use of automobiles for deliver
ing milk from the farm to the ship
ping station saves much valuable time
and has been the means of widening
the territory where milk can be profit
ably raised.
If you have hens with little chicks
do not put the cOops near the ones
where there are little turkeys. as a
hen with chicks will kill little turkeys
A hen with turkeys will likewise kill
the chickens
Experiments made by the depart
ment of agriculture at Washington
have demonstrated that crown gall is
caused by bacterial parasite and
that 1t will affect a large number of
plants where infected.
Flockmasters all over the country
will complain In February and March
about their ewes disowning lambs.