Putnam patriot., 1910-03-11

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 With the poultry aand egg business -m the country aggfegating close to 3650.OOQ000 annoaiiy. it will have to be styled as . .Pretty good sized side issue.
 The Japs seem to have caught on to the benefits o.a country of the dairy business and are picking up some fine dairy animals. in this country for ship ment to the Flomery Kingdom.
 All too often a breachy. runaway team and an ancient. ,toggled up bar ness belong to the same man. Either one alone is bad enough but together they are calculated to make a fellow lose what little religion he may have
 
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 Many colt Is weak and wabbly at birth because it's dam has had little or no exercise during pregnancy. cou- pied with a diet in which corn has formed too large part. Moderate work will keep the mare in the best of health and this is also best for the colt
 The young thinrs--the lambs and l little pigs-wil be putting in appear ,anee within a few weeks now. and if suitable quarters. dry and clean. are not already provided for, lambing and farrowing they should be before the time arrives Much young stuff is an nually lost through neglect in this one particular.
 In localities where the winter weath .er is cold and the snow so deep as to | keep the fowls from having free range a scratching shed with south exposure should be provided adjoining the poui- try house. Here in the warmer hours of the day the hens will gather and should be made to scratch for their ] small grain ration.
 Where the manure cannot be spread 1 at once on accommodating 1t should be so handled that there will be the least | possible loss of its fertilixing. elements from rain and weather until the job | can be done. Careful tests which | have been made show that If left to l leach manure will lose half iof it's | value in the course of fear .sor five | months In several states dogs are considered | property and are given a ,Sominai waiue of a dollar simply to .ssaabiisn l their legal status. In these >states an l .ownes may recover r.damagesltf,A AAs dog 1 lis killed without good .exeuse sA0d is ,slso held responsible flor sda mage that | the dog may he responsible fer. ,Oe It killing shsep. eausing grxunaway ys - oth. | .er donm of rtssepssa.
 Az .a rule the ,tow. wet acres gre, the ! Hacheat in fertiliaing selerlnants 'asd .~dii be the most productive II iproperiy ! tiled. In the inauguration saf tthe .Gaere | intensive type 'Of agriculture 'whic0 | must ,supely come with steady iu- I enease in populati0G and cheap lands | aAent sail taken up. Ehis redemption oi tAe wet acres ought to receive ,an .svei tnoNeasing attention.
 lndlgidualitv iO cowa has .bee0 gwen | . thoreueh test .uf late at the Miscop- sin expenimelk station. At the end of | the testing lpamod. three years. II was found that the .psoeipts from .oue COW exceeded her cost of ksep by <1lO. while the combined profit .of five other cows for the same time was only $1lA. but a tri1le more NhaD the came return. and thar. too. with nearly i've times the amount of feed and wort bestowed on the one There ought to be sug gestion or two in rhese fgunas 70r the practical dairyman.
 A friend who has . wideawake boy .sept him to the state fair last fall. let
 
 him attend the agricultural shor' course at the county seat few s'eeks ago and says be is going to have him attend the international live stock show at Chicago Oexf December. h IS a fair assumption that this lad IS be ing impressed with the importance or agriculSpre as business py these means to such an extent that he will not .be iured from the farm by the gilt ter of electric lighted streets and the chance to wear q standup collar ana earn 1850 . week behind dry goods Ar clothing counter.
 rAe claim has been made within the nAx few weeks that the packer has ben Aolng the farmer . kindDess by baosttng the prices of live stock to sueh anasnai leveia- This is nothing the packtag interests deserve any par ticulas crsdk for. for the supply has been @ acaroe that higb prices have had to he 0GAned to suppIy the fresh meat trade IL is safe fo say thai when the sspk ssad 6le of feeders have cent stu6 Into ghich they hese oeep cfamming hikt pstced feeds to marke' the pricss wiN hase suffered disas- trous slump jndsiOg from hk past conduct. whse yOu 6nd the psckef doing anything Oe fhs benevolent or der for the stOek raiase the devh VII have turned sAipf
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