The Columbus journal., 1910-07-06
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N.Y. FARM
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49,
Never use poor seed.
Plant only potatoes that are sound
No horse can thrive on musty bran
oats or corn.
Cooked meat is much better to give
the very young turkeys.
Sweet clover is a good Indicator Of
soil that will grow alfalfa
Weeds reduce the physical condition
Of the soil to a poorer state.
hog has become q respected farm ami
NAL
Now that the chicks are Matched.
comes the difficult part of raising
them.
Make II a rule to caress the colt
after performing well what was re-
CURED of him.
Among the things by which time
can be saved by using larger ma
chinery the grain drill stands first.
Few annual flowers will grow so
easily and give the wealth of bloom
for SO long a season as the nsstur-
tiums.
Buy only the best and never sell
good stock. except when you have q
surplus or when the birds are too
old for profit.
Free range for hogs does not mean
that they should be allowed to run
in the highways and through the
neighbors fields.
Every Enclosure for the hog should
be perfectly tight. and with the ex-
cellent wire fences that are now man.
ufactured it is an easy matter.
The essentials OF q good summer
hog pasture are. first. q good hog
tight fence: next comes q good stand
bf grass. clover or other good forage
plants.
While the interest In good roads
seems to be general throughout the
country II is not active because con-
centration Of effort is necessary to
secure them.
1t is as impossible to tell by looking
at q COW the amount of milk she will
give in a year as 1t Is to tell the
amount of butter fat present In milk
by looking at 1t.
You can have pure bred flock Of
chickens just as well as not If you |
have not the hens to lay the eggs Sc
cure eggs from a pure breed and
hatch and raise the kind you like best |
Mangels are the most economical |
beet to grow for milk production: but /!
many breeders. in forcing cows for ex-
IRENE records. prefer table beets. be-
cause the COWS will eat a larger guam
tity.
With some varieties of apples. like
Ben Davis. Bordeaux cannot safely be
used just after the blossoms fall be-
cause of the russeting and disigure-
ment of the fruit which almost surely
When properly used millet Is one of
the most palatable forage crops of the
whole list, and furthermore when one
Dr. two simple precautions are taken
L Is as safe as any other kind OF hay
Or forage.
The period of Incubation for pleas
mt eggs does not differ greatly from
hat of common fowls. though 1t Ia
slightly longer. Is - compared with
Il days. The eggs are usually set
,nder a Cochin bantam hen.
The reason why hogs SO eagerly
ievour coal ashes, rotten wood and
such material. Is because they do not
have, while in close confinement.
he material their systems require.
At large they root 1t out Of the
ground.
After all. II Is hen fruit that Is the
most reliable crop. and 1t gets too
little attention on the majority Of
arms. The time IL coming soon when
Eggs and poultry will be one Of the
sources Of income to those
who own small or medium sized farms.
The time IL not far distant when
his country will be con- PEELED to make
AVAILABLE every form Of fertility that
will enrich the soil. The people of In.
liza, of China. and Of Egypt were long
40 compelled to make use Of the fer
ility which In this country is thrown
n,o the rivers. lakes and harbors
through town and city sewers. II
hose eastern people had not made
'uch use Of fertility starvation would