The searchlight., 1910-02-25

More fowls die from bad air than
from cold weather.
Even in the winter you can keep
the farm looking neat.
The corn grader helps the crop BY
culling out the weak kernels.
The manure shed is one Of the most
valuable buildings on the farm.
Milk Is a great poultry feed. That's
why the dairy hen Is such q profitable
one.
When fattening fowls In confne-
ment see that they have plenty OF
gravel.
Sixty-nine entirely new varieties OF
roses were shown at recent French
exhibition.
Examine your trees from the nur-
sery this coming spring and see that
they are free from crown gall.
It is OF Importance that the brood
SOW be kept in a vigorous. thrifty con-
dition. not too fat but full OF vitality.
II Is said there Ia only enough
broom-corn to furnish one broom to
each housewife In America this year.
The method OF feeding and kind
and quality OF the food determines
the flavor and nutritive value OF the
eggs.
The Chilean government has sew
eral engineering corps in the HELD
studying different methods and sys-
TENS OF irrigation.
BY skillful pruning peach trees may
be forced to spread out and to have
succession of bearing wood from
close to the ground up.
The cows udder should be well
washed and dried with coarse cloth
before milking. and the mixers hands
should be washed after every COW.
Turkeys are much more cleanly IN
their habits than chickens and their
surroundings should always be kept
free from decayed food or filth Of any
kind.
II is admitted that growing pigs
placed on rape at about 25 to the acre
will for two or three months require
only half as much grain as styled
animals.
Butter made from pasteurized sweet
cream has better keeping qualities
and remains free from Objectionable
fiayors a longer time than butter made
from sour cream.
Young trees may require stalking II
planted In windy, exposed places; but
see that the ties cannot chafe the
trunks. Bands OF cloth or leather can
be arranged to prevent this.
breeding which cannot be too strongly
insisted upon is that II It Is worth
while to breed at all 1t is worth while
to feed the young ones literally.
One reason why SO many beginners
fail In the sheep business IL that they
have been led to believe that sheep
can be kept with little trouble or care
and that profits nevertheless are surs
to accrue.
A good time now to haul out some
manure on to that raspberry patch. II
makes a good mulch for winter and
early spring. Later keeps down the
early weeds and above all adds fer
tility to the soil.
To the farmer who Is willing to use
q little pains and gumption there ID
good money In sheep. II is not neces
sarily easy money. but very satisfac
tory returns may be obtained with
lproper management.
| M0SI IOlkS Ueli6S6 tuht OuIOub aIs
not injured by freezing. but neyerthe
less severe freezing will surely spoi
them. Light freezing won't hurt then
u they are thawed out gradually and
not handled while frozen.
The Canada thistle is greater pes
In some sections than In others, 70
the reason that 1t Ia better adapted d
bome soils and climates than to 9th
bra. In the latitude Of Illinois It 4
PERSONALLY easy to control and
never . serious pest.
City poultrymen flnd It pays to bu,
bones ut the meat market In order I,
feed their hens green cut bone. Blu
the farmers usually slaughter enougl
meat in winter to make the purchas,
OF bones unnecessary. A good bon
cutter WIN chop up bones. sristlss an,