The Nevada County picayune. (Prescott, Ark.) 190?-current, 1910-10-21

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wagons and hand forks and where
there is large haying there should
| be a selfloader
| Ordinary farming as formerly and
even now generally carried on, and
scientific market gardening are so I'M
like that experience in the former
would help but little in a general
way. but would by no means fit one
for successful market gardener with
out long special training in that spe-
Cific kind of farming
When horses neck or back be-
comes sore. do not be content with
rubbing on a salve, but look for the
cause of the trouble in a wrongly ad.
| justed harness. Remove the cause
and this will help greatly to prevent
the result.
Alfalfa is making good in the east.
and farmers are realizing that 1t Is
comparatively easy to get a stand, by
the use of lime and plenty of stable
manure. This is ideal pasture for
swine and no harm will be done the
crop If pastured lightly
TO read about the care of fowls in
detail makes ii seem quite lot OF
work. but when once you get started
and give your poultry the same care
you do other stock there is nothing
on the fam that will pay as we'll for
the money invested
Ducks are nervous creatures and
will often loose much flesh on account
| of their nervousness at night. II one
| becomes frightened he soon starts the
entire pen into a stampede. Avoid
this by keeping a lantern burning at
night
If you have running water in the
house. and the garden is near. in
droughty seasons you can save your
self much Juggling of water by simply
connecting a few lead pipes in the
! garden with the house main.
A sow's condition should not be fat
| like that of hog fed for the butchers
market when she is due to farrow.
! but she should be smooth, sleek, we'll
! feet thrift and health.
OF the various shell making mate
| rails which those who live inland can
easily procure one of the best is old
mortar or plaster but any of these
things should not, on any account. be
mixed with the food
One of the most difficult and trying
problems which the poultry keeper
! has to meet is that of keeping his
poultry houses and stock reasonably
! free from lice, mites. and other eXter-
nal parasites
1t is Il significant fact that the finest
| hogs brought to the stock yards are
consigned by the dairymen. This
means something when hogs are
worth over eight dollar per hundred
weight.
There Is general unanimity OF
opinion amongst experienced poultry.
men that poultry do best upon some
form of green or succulent food dur
ing the winter months.
In keeping a poultry plant free from
lice there are two points of attack:
One. the birds themselves; the other.
the houses, nest boxes, roosting
boards, etc,
Brood sows Will nose through three
inches of snow TO get the green bite.
and will range about on their feet for
hours. which is in fact the main OBJ
ject
The drop apple from an average or
chard will maintain quite bunch OF
shoats. and will put them in market
condition at a minimum expense If the
orchard is so~n with rape.
In preserving eggs In water glass or
any other favorite method remember
that every egg so used must be strict
" fresh One spoiled egg will con-
taminate a whole batch.
The introduction of strange birds
into a flock often serves TO bring fresh
starts Of all kinds of vermin 10 per-
fectly clean flock.
The pigs soon learn to find trough
and will be found waiting there for
their feeds when feeding time comea
around.
Frequent change to fresh pasture Is
one of the best ways to stimulate
the growth of both the grass and the
pigs.
TURKEYS will do very well without
any other feed than that which they
pick up on the range, but they VIII
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