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The Holbrook news., 1910-09-30
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The surplus cockerels are beginning to eat their heads of. Sell them.
 Change the house of the ducks and SOW the unused premises with rye or barley.
 Never sprinkle wood ashes on the floor of the chicken house as 1t causes foot trouble.
 Plenty of fine dust in the roads now. Better lay in two or three bar rels for winter use.
 To fatten ducks do not allow them to have access to a swimming pool as the exercise of swimming keeps them down.
 Do not let the old hen run with the chicks all summer Take her away as soon as they are old enough to rustic for themselves.
 Tn spring chicken should have a separate place to roost and the cock rels as soon as they can be distin- guished should be separated from the bullets.
 For very small youngsters good drinking fountain can be made by filling a teacup with water, placing saucer over it and then turning it up side down.
 Water fountains for the young chicks are all right if they are kept perfectly clean. Too many people neglect them and they become foul and cause disease.
 Did your young chicks die of indi- gestion during the first few days? You probably fed them too early after matching. Next time feed them noth- ing for 36 hours.
 One of the secrets of success in rais- ing chicks is to keep their feet dry till they are several weeks old. They may run on the ground if the ground be dry, but never when it is wet.
 The state of Illinois spends about s30O,OOO annually for the maintain ance of the state game farm. Many thousands of game birds are raised and distributed all over the state.
The Holbrook news., 1910-09-30
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Ground Plan of Piaaery.

An unfinished, stunted hog weighing 150 pounds will dress about 65 per cent Bacon from such hogs sells at wholesale for one-half that from fin ished hogs. The bacon from the un- finished. light hogs, when cooked, con sists of skin and fabby, soft meat, and the consumer is dissatisfied.
 The flesh on the live, unfinished hog is soft and flabby to the touch. and the hair has a dead appearance. The meat from an unthrifty hog is always soft and that from thin hogs is usually soft.
 Special attention should be paid to housing the swine. Hogs are more disturbed by wind than any other farm animal and their shelter should thoroughly protect them from wind and from draughtS.
 The piggery shown here is a satis- factory building where a permanent one is wanted. The partitions be- tween the pens are movable in case 1t is desired to use the building for fattening hogs. The doors leading to the yards are raised from the central alley by means of ropes and pulleys.
 A shute across the ends of one set of yards makes it an easy matter to dip hogs regularly. It Is 6 feet to the caves and 16 feet to the ridge above the pens Additions to this house can be made when desired and the building remain just as convenient.
The Holbrook news., 1910-09-30
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RAISING CALF ON SKIN MILK
Much of Success Depends Upon Care of Little AnimaI-Proper Shel-
 ter Is Essential.
(By F. A. BOARMAN.)

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 In case of the stere calf which will growthy, he should be kept reasona- ply fat. He is the calf which should nave the corn and should have the fat-making foods.
 He should be reared in just the op- posite direction, as compared with the 1 heifer calf. It will not hurt the steer calf even to have his drink or skim milk when he is six or seven months old, if there is a surplus but skim milk cannot be utilized to as good advantage as in the case of the heifer.
 The best skim milk calves are those which are born in the fall of the year. Their young life is spent in a more favorable season. The milk they get IS rule will be in better condition than the milk which the spring calf will get.
 If you select dairy blood for your herd, one of the things which should attract your attention when you make your final decision is the vitality of the breed you select
 This shows up particularly strong in the calf during the first few months of his life. Dairy breeds, as you know, are not all equal in vitality. My ex- perience in raising calves on skim milk has been confined principally to the rearing of Holstein calves.
 I want to say in this connection in our own herd a calf never sucked it's mother and in this way, after ten or twelve years of breeding, the suck ing instinct was largely bred out of the calves. These calves were easily taught to drink.
 Not all of the success of rearing skim milk calves depends upon the feed or upon the breed. Very much indeed depends upon the care of the calf. and feed without proper shel- ter will avail but little.
 The calf must be made comfortable in warm as we'll as cold weather. If he is not failure will result. Let your feeding arrangement be such that each calf get his share.
 Do not, as 1 have seen on many farms, pour the milk into a tub or a trough and let the calf fight for  his share. There is no chance for disagreement on this point. This is not feding.
 It will be found advisable, summer or winter, to arrange that each calf can get his individual share of the food, in a yard in the summer time. or in pen in the winter.
 If you have plenty of time it will be found advisable to tie each calf at each feeding. Tie around each calf's neck ring two inches in di- ameter with a light rope.
 Give each calf a place at post and staple to the post two feet above the ground rope not more than eight or ten inches long with a swivel snap in the end.
 Have these ropes far enough apart to prevent the calves from reaching each other and you will have no trou- ble from the calves sucking one an others noses or ears. Keep the calves tied until the milk is licked from their chops and noses.
 If the calves be of about equal size they may be turned loose to a trough in which is the grain food.
The Holbrook news., 1910-09-30

formed that it proved much more than expected. so far as getting rid of the old stumps were concerned, says Homestead. The cost to make this stump burner was S1.25 and 1t was made as follows: The steel jacket from an old abandoned food cooker was used for the lower part, and the square part for the top was bought from local timer, it and the joint of pipe costing S1.25. They are both a little heavier than ordinary sheet iron. In operation, the device Is placed over the stump and a fire built around same with anything that may be handy for fuel. In some cases chips were used; in others. old rails, and in still others. pieces were split from the stumps themselves. Not only did the burner consume the entire stump in a short time, but in many cases the roots were burned out far down in the ground. similar burner mighG be constructed from many things that are every year thrown in the scrap heap. and if the necessary material could not be found in the scrap heap, any timer would build one for a small sum and your stumps would be burning while you were do- ing something else. The boys would simply love to operate one of these burners at least until the novelty wore off, and possibly the promise of small sum of money when the last stump was burned out would prolong the novelty for sufficient time to do the business
The Holbrook news., 1910-09-30
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A Good Poultry House.

planked up solid except the windows, as shown in A. A. A,-D. D, D. the nest boxes under the dropping board N.
 There are two rows of nests-one facing the scratching shed, the other facing the right-hand room. A trap nest may be arranged very convent ently here.
 E Is a drop curtain in front of the roosts in the winter department, which is to be let down at night. F is the roasting poles in the winter quarters.
 G is the roasting poles in the sum- mer roasting quarters.
 H, H. the doors of poultry netting.
 I. the little door that leads from the scratching shed to the end room.
 J, cut straw scattered on the floor of the scratching shed in which to scat ter wheat, rye, oats and corn.
 K, the dust box.
 L, the drinking fountain.
 M, M, M. the floor, which should be of sand and gravel.
 N, the dropping board in winter roasting department.
 A house of these dimensions should be nine feet in front and seven feet tall in the rear. It may be made of any stuff at hand, or to suit the builder.
 It can be made a very costly affair, or it may be gotten up very reason ably.
The Holbrook news., 1910-09-30
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GOOD HOUSE FOR CHICKENS
Detailed Instructions and Illustration Showing How Building May
 Be Built.

The ground plan of substantial poultry house, shown in the illustra- tiOn, is 12 feet by 30 feet, and is di- vided into parts each 12 feet by 10 feet
 The compartment on the right Is used as winter roasting and laying place.
 The center as a scratching shed in the winter and a shelter from rain and sun during the summer.
 The room at the left is used during the winter as a place of exercise and in which to feed mashes and to water the fowl. This room also contains the dust boxes and where the feed is stored
 A, A, A, in the dotted squares rep resent the windows or their location in the front of the house. B, B, is sided up solid to the line running from B to B 11s feet high.
 The line running from c to c is the top of four-foot high poultry net ting which runs the entire length of the house.
 There is drop curtain arranged in each room to come down next to this wire in stormy weather or cold nights hrom c, c to top of the house is
The Holbrook news., 1910-09-30

Sweep down the cobwebs-they are neither ornamental or useful
 Why not use the space between trees in the orchard for fall vegetables for home use?
 Don't get overloaded and then drink lot of cold water. Sip little and wait until cooled off.
 Bonemeal is excellent for vines and fruit trees, and three or four ounces may be applied to the square yard.
 We have no sympathy for the man blistering days Winter was the time for that job.
 Corn Is a good crop. In spite of large crops, 1t has been very high for the past two years. It Is likely to be as high, or higher. next year.
 For pitching bundles of grain up high in the barn or on the stack. nothing beats a long-poled fork with short tines. You can have one made that way for this express purpose.
 Flow ground for late summer seed ing of alfalfa as soon as the corn is in and there is time. Let the ground lie for a few weeks and then work 1t down frequently to kill young weeds.
 Now is the best time of the year to see to 1t that no pools of water are allowed to form and stagnate around the premises. Fight the flies and the mosquitoes and thus keep down typhoid and malaria.
 The day of the old grain cradle as a farm tool has almost gone by, and yet a good cradle is handy thing to have. Take it in cradling around a piece of grain 1t works first rate, even today. Some of the modern cradles are very easy to swing. -+nn
The Holbrook news., 1910-09-30
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Building and Yards.

each, will supply cured hams weigh ing 16 to IS pounds, and sides of weighing 10 to 12 pounds each. These weights command a premium of 75 cents per hundred pounds above lighter hams and sides.
 Well finished hogs, only. are want. ed. The hog should be well fattened and rounded out, the flesh coming well down on the hooks, and the fat on the sides should be from 1 to 1 F inches thick. In a finished hog the flesh will be firm and hard to the touch and the hair will be smooth and Jus. trous. The flesh should be firm. the fat pure white and the best consumers want a good proportion of lean.
 Many farmers neglect their hogs through the summer, stunting them, and stunted hogs do not finish well.
The Holbrook news., 1910-09-30
LIVESTOCK, G5NOTES g

Shear the sheep before their wool gets to be burden.
 Keep the sheep pens clean. Dirt and foul odors affect sheep quickly.
 Never feed the young pigs on the ground, especially if it is dusty or muddy.
 No sheep has yet been developed which excels in both mutton and wool production.
 Sheep must be grown rapidly while young if they are expected to attain large size.
 A horse that is afraid of the elec- tric cars can never be taught what they are by whipping.
 Sell your wool on rising market. Nine times out of ten you will miss 1t if you try to keep 1t for something better.
 If a good lamb comes from a good eve, save 1t for your own flock Don't let any butcher talk you into selling it.
 The boar pigs should be castrated at two to eight weeks old, so they will recover from the effects before weaning time.
 There is little money in poor sheep. They will just about eat a man out of house and home. Good ones or the motto for us all
 Sufficient care is not exercised by many in weaning out the ewes that breed irregularly, and because of this the uniformity in the size of the lamb crop is reduced
The Holbrook news., 1910-09-30
Rearing the Lamb.

If necessary to rear a lamb by hand, New York state farmer says he finds the lamb the best judge of amount of milk required and feeds at first nearly all 1t will drink, which is almost one-quarter of pint every three hours. the last feed coming at 2 D. m. After the grass starts the leeds are gradually reduced to one half pint three times a day. The milk fed in this way will yield larger profit than if sold to the cheese fac tory.
The Holbrook news., 1910-09-30
Brooder for Chicks.

enough for them and the breeders are not ventilated sufficiently at all times. Chicks are fed too soon and too much at a time, and do not have enough ex- ercise. If a chick is matched strong and vigorous it does not matter how 1t Is matched. If 1t Is kept warm and dry 1t does not matter how 1t is done. If 1t is fed right and the right kind of feed it does not matter where it is. or how 1t is, done.
The Holbrook news., 1910-09-30

is suspended provided with a perfo- rated bottom, while a diaphragm is stretched across the upper face of the drum. The diaphragm carries weight which. owing to it's inertia, causes the diaphragm to fex in rhythm to the movement of the horses head while trotting or walking. This causes the air in the drum to be alternately ex- pelled and drawn in, thus producing ! circulation within the bonnet.
The Holbrook news., 1910-09-30
AND THE MEADOW
Careful Study of Subject Will Show Variety of Grasses Better Than
 Only One Kind.
Ry s. NJ. MILLER.)

(By s. NJ. MILLER)
 It sometimes seems as if one-half of the farmers were doing everything possible to fight nature and when we make a study of the various grasses and their peculiar needs we wonder that we have been succeeding as well as we have in growing good crops of hay. careful study of the English system of maintaining a permanent meadow and pasture would essentially aid us in the management of our grass lands. There We may find from ten to twenty kinds of grass growing on one sod and all thriving and pro drcing hay and forage.
 We go on our meadows when the proper times come, cut the grass. cure 1t into hay and haul it to the stack or barns and think no more about the whole matter until the next year comes and then we go out and go through the same motions only get a smaller crop and keep this up until the yield is so small that we feel it is necessary to blow up the field and reseed it to clover and timothy again. We don't go to the trouble of top dressing or fertil- izing the meadow or tile drain to prevent the water from drowning it out during the wet season nor do we plan to leave a stubble to protect it from the hot summer sun.
 Animals will often walk from one end of a large pasture to another to get a nibble of some variety of grass that is different from that in the other end of the pasture.
 Pastures that contain the greatest number of varieties of grass are in- variably the ones that will support the most stock.
 It is one of the greatest evils of our system of farming to blow up a good pasture for it requires a num- Der of years to get good turf es- tablished.
 In selecting grass seed for perma- nent pasture select kinds that will bloom in succession from early sum- mer until late in the fall so that when one kind is not growing there will be another to occupy the soil and prevent weeds from growing in where the soil is not occupied.
 In selecting grasses for the meadow select varieties that flower about the same time so that they may be cured for hay at one cutting.
 Select those that furnish the most leaves and thus diminish the amount of woody indigestible matter in the hay.
 It is folly to try to skim off sec ond crop from the meadows. If the growth is too rank in the fall pas ture it off with young stock but do not pasture it close enough to in- jure it's chances of living through the winter.
 Nature provides for winter by pro- noting rapid fall growth. The old ideas of getting something for noth- ing have been exploded for a long time and if we cut three tons of hay from our meadows we must feed them accordingly and keep the bare spots covered with grass instead of weeds.
 If we supply better forage rations for our live stock they will come through the winter in better condi- tion and will require less grain to keep them in thrifty condition
 We, as a rule, are feeding too much grain to our animals and unless we devote more attention to providing nutritious forage rations we must ex- pect less hardy and vigorous animals
The Holbrook news., 1910-09-30
A Soil Compactor.

three two-inch blanks about three feet long and one foot wide. Nail or bolt the edges together like the side of a house and hitch the chain to each end. Load it with as many large stones as a team can draw and go over the sur face. It often does better work than a regular roller.
The Holbrook news., 1910-09-30
CARE OF INCUBATOR CHICKS
Not Always Fault of Eggs or Breed ing Stock That Little Ones
 Do Not Thrive.

It is not always the fault of the eggs or the breeding stock that the little chicks do not thrive, as the in- cubator men would have us believe. It is the fault of the matching. brood ing and feeding combined. The chicks do not have enough fresh, warm air at matching time, say the last five days. Too many are put in a bunch in the breeders and the air Is not warm
The Holbrook news., 1910-09-30
Bowel Diseases of Fowls.

All bowel diseases among fowls are not cholera A sad look, blue comb. a violent diorrhea, with droppings of a sulphur yellow, thirst, a gait un- steady, bumped back and half-closed eyes-that Is cholera. It has no cure; but ordinary troubles can be stopped by withholding food for a few times. Then give them dry grains. parched and cracked.
The Holbrook news., 1910-09-30
Water for Ducks.

Ducks kept entirely on land must have deep drinking vessels. so they can get their heads under water. Where shallow vessels or troughs are used, they gum up about the eyes. be- come listless. sit about. lose appetite, and eventually d.
The Holbrook news., 1910-09-30
Less Profit In Scrubs.

The breeder iu scrub fowls has the same trouble and often in greater de- gree, as the breeder of fancy fowls, yet his profits-if any at all-are less. In other words, this time and ex- pense given to scrub fowls seldom gives good profit. while thoroughbred birds and eggs from any good breed are always in great demand, and usually pay.
The Holbrook news., 1910-09-30
COMPOSITION OF A TOMATO
Nutriment Present in Largest Amounts Is Sugar, While Organic Acids
 Give Character.

The extensive use of tomatoes as an article of food has caused many in- quiries to be made as to their food value. The nutriment present in to- matoes in the largest amount is sugar, while the organic acids are the main substances which give Individuality or character. In tables of analysis toma- toes are given as containing from 92 D 95 per cent. water. 45 per cent ash,
The Holbrook news., 1910-09-30
H0RSE-BONNET IS IMPROVED
Does Not Limit Movement of Animals Ears and Causes Air to Cir
 culate.

MT. John M. Davies of Plattsburg. N. Y. has invented horse bonnet of smaller dimensions than heretofore. which will not limit the movement of the ears of the horse, says Scientific American Within the bonnet a drum
The Holbrook news., 1910-09-30
Make Poultry Special Branch.

It will pay every farmer to make his poultry a special branch of his farm ing and give 1t the same daily care and attention that he would his dairy cattle, horses or swine.
The Holbrook news., 1910-09-30
Poultry as scavenaers.

Poultry, like sheep that are kept merely as scavengers cannot make the profits that they would if they re- neived proper food and treatment.
The Holbrook news., 1910-09-30
BURNER TO DESTROY sTUMPs
Made From Steel of Old Abandoned Food Cooker and Joint of Pipe
 Cost SIPS.

The rather peculiar device shown in the illustration herewith was made by a Vernon county. Missouri. farmer for destroying stumps. and we are in-
The Holbrook news., 1910-09-30
SELF-FEEDER FOR CHICKENS
Device Is Shown in illustration and Excellent Laying Ration Given
 for Leghorns.

There are many rations which can be used successfully for feeding lay ing hens. Choice of grain will depend largely on price and locality, some
The Holbrook news., 1910-09-30
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Composition of Tomato.

30 to 100 protein. and 3.sO to 4.s0 per cent. of carbohydrates.
 When the tomato is used for food, care should be taken to retain all of the juice, as the nutrients are present largely in soluble form and any di- intuition of the amount of juice en- tails corresponding loss of nutrients. In its favorable influence upon the di- Sestibility of other foods. the tomato has considerable value.
The Holbrook news., 1910-09-30
MAKING CONTRACTOR OF SOIL
Excellent Method Of Constructing Inn pIement to Be Used in Place of
 Ordinary Roller.

To construct a good compactor of the soil to use in place of roller, use
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1910-07-28
Improving the Service.

That the management Of the Balti-
more and Ohio Railroad is making
every effort to merit the popular favor
Of the travelling public is evident by the
improvements recently inaugurated in
its passenger service. A short time
ago announcement was made that the
Baltimore and Ohio had placed large
orders for passenger equipment of the
most modern design, including electri-
cally lighted and vestibuled coaches and
powerful passenger engines built for
high speed express service. This equip
ment has been delivered and is being
used on the express trains, enabling
the use of better class coaches and en-
gines on other trains.
Following the purchase of the new
equipment inspectors were appointed to
look after the service and see that com
fort is provided for travellers at all
times. This inspection is conducted
through the office of the operating vice
president.
Another subject to which the Balti-
more and Ohio has devoted attention is
the general neatness of its station
properties and general appearance of
the track. Agents are furnished flow
ers and other plants to beautifY the
surroundings and they are asked to de-
vote their attention tC the neat appear
ance of stations by keeping the grass
and foliage trimmed. Much work has
also been done to improve the appear
ance Of the track. Banks have been
sloped and made even in many places
and grass seed planted where weeds
We're destroyed. Still further efforts
will be made to keep things orderly, as
shown by instructions recently given to
trackmen and Others to burn all waste
paper thrown from passing trains.
Porters on the trains are to collect
waste paper and deposit it in recepta-
Giles provided for this purpose at all
terminals.