The Columbus journal., 1910-01-05

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Trap nests are invaluable.
An eggs an egg-white or brown.
A permanent water supply is a good
thing. "
While dust bath is a necessity be
sure to have a good one.
Sow some seeds In pots to ornament
your windows this winter. fas--
SQUAD breeding for market is but
little over seven years old.
More half grown turkeys die from
lice than from any other one cause.
The most profitable hen Is the one
that has the most style as a general
rule.
1t stands a man In hand to be q bit
economical in the feeding of 60-cent
corn.
1t is all right to have a pet calf OF
4 pc. COW. but a pet bull is like a pet
stick Of dynamite.
Save one load of beets for your milk
cow for the winter. 1t will help keep
her in condition. - -,
It will pay to fatten the poultry be-
fore selling. Good fat poultry is al.
ways in demand.
Butter stocks in storage are much
less than one year ago. This will help
to make prices higher.
The lambs should be dipped at the
same time; for when the ewes. are
shorn. the ticks flock en- the lambs.
Eight feet apart is the proper dis.
tance to set grapes. II they are
mulched see that they are kept
mulched every year
To prevent the clutches on collar
pads from rusting of. keep them
painted. taking care to work the paint
well into the hinges.
No good. capable man likes the idea
OF finding new place to work every
fall. and for this reason many dairy
men lose good hands.
A good way to improve your stock
is to pick out dozen or so of your
best hens, mate them with the best
rooster you have or can get, and raise
chickens from them.
Never, under any conditions confine
breeding bull to a stall in the barn.
He positively must have exercise and
running with the cows is far better
than close confinement
Early In the spring. before the pas
lures are ready. turn the sheep out on
the rye fields. The soil around the
roots will be firmed by the feet of the
sheep. thus overcoming the heaving by
frost
Pork prices are not yet low, but
have been going downward so rapidly
of late that farmers are holding OF
on the purchase of the new male.
After awhile they may wish they had
bought sooner.
The demand for honey is increasing
every year. as people realize its food
value. and happy is the man who each
year so looks after his little pets that
he invariably has a handsome surplus
of honey, which means money in the
bank.
Never scald ducks or geese before
they have been roughed. roughing a
fowl is removing its coarse feathers.
II geese and ducks are dry picked the
feathers are in much better condition
for drying out than when scalded.
and, it is claimed. last much longer.
There is nothing in this universe
that will continually give big profits
without attention to details on the
part of the owner. but there is moth
ing else on the farm that will con.
tinually give as big net profits as a
flock of sheep when properly bred
and cared for.
The grains are harvested and the
barns filed with hay. clover and other
roughage. 1t is now left for the care
full farmer to look after his stock.
Chief among these is the brood sow.
Her value is too often underestimate
ed and considering the present short
age of hogs it will pay us to give her
mere attention.
A box of salt and ashes should be
accessible to the sow-want of these
often causes the SOW to eat her young
when farrowing When records show
farrowing to be due give very little
feed of any kind, but have on hand
plenty of fresh water. BY observing