The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1910-03-18
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W. FARM
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A we'll drained garden is an early
one.
Carelessness in handling pigs is a
bad habit to acquire.
Even on cold days hogs should have
plenty of good fresh air.
Keep the sheep pens clean. Dirt
and foul odors effect sheep quickly.
Health is natural. disease is unnat-
ural; health is contagious as we'll as
disease.
A good three-year well-bred colt is
worth from $50 to $500. Does he pay
his keep?
1t is a mistake to suppose that a
good COW of inferior breeding Is quail
fed to drop a good calf.
To make hogs profitable w must
provide plenty of range that we may
keep their yards clean and sanitary.
Where fowls have been kept in good
condition during summer and fall, the
problem of winter eggs is generally
solved.
The trap nest and the numbered
loo hand anohlQ q hr0pdpr IN Ennn an
accurate account of the performances
of his fowls.
Hogs lose the use of their hind
quarters from need Of laxative food.
A little cotton seed meal fed occasion
ally will remedy this.
There are over 1000 beekeepers in
this country, and product of their
hives last year was enough to fill a
train of cars over 400 miles long.
COw-peas make excellent hay which.
if properly handled, is equal to alfalfa
in nutritive value. although as a rule
stock do o eat cow-pea hay as read
lily as alfalfa.
Throw an extra lot of hay into the
poultry yards. The chickens will
scratch out every clover seed. There
is no better way to make them work
for their food.
A practical farmer tells the condi-
ton of any soil by treading upon it, as
unerringly as "A cattle breeder tells
the feeding quality of an animal by
feeling its skin.
Piano boxes make good colony
houses. a yard of netting should be
attached where fowls can have a
grassy run They should be given a
pile of sand TO scratch in.
1t is foolish economy to keep using
harness which is worn out. Many IA
tai accidents. both to the horses and
drivers. have occurred because some
thing gave way at the wrong time.
1t is just as well to have a we'll
bred chicken as a well-bred horse or
COW. Any amount of food will not
make a mongrel as profitable as a
pure-bred under the same conditions.
Good stock demands good care and
If they do not receive IT.. they are
sure to degenerate. The man who is
inclined to abuse his stock should
stick to the scrub or raise grain ex-
clusively.
on an Illinois farm where corn and
oats have been grown alternately
for 81 years the physical condition
of the ground is very bad. 1t washes
easily and runs together as the other
soil near it does not.
Wheat and oat crops says Prof.
Andrew Boss. are the ones which
bring in the money, and there is no
reason why the farmer should not get
from 20 to 80 bushels an acre with
the proper selection of seed alone
II is nara 10 tel HOW muCD freezing
bees can stand, but the better protect
ed they are the less honey they con
sumo. For it is a ~well-known fact
among beekeepers that the bees use
g great deal Of honey as fuel in order
TO keep comfortable in winter.
There is good cdr ION for the
farm boy in learning how to properly
run and care for the farm tools and
machinery. even If he dOes not live
on a farm afterwards. 1t is a disci-
pline for mind and muscle that will
be valuable in nearly all other VEGA
tons.
Ii is an interesting and very encour-
aaing thing TO note that while the
newer western states are steadily re-
ducing the average yields by poor
farming, the older states. seeing the
error Of their ways, are steadily in
creasing their average yields by bet
ter methods of farming.