The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-10-28
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Breeders should not be overcrowded.
Young calves need whole milk for
the first few days.
A good hog pasture is money
saver as we'll as a money maker.
Corn will go twice as far in hog
feeding if the hogs are on pasture.
Potatoes are too plentiful and cheap
this year to take any chance on poor
seed.
For the first few days after the SOW
has narrowed a litter she should be fed
very sparingly.
The management of the calf during
the first year has much to do with
It's later usefulness
But with proper care and attention
Is per cent. of chicks Matched should
be raised to maturity.
There are but two satisfactory meth
DDS of treating animals with a dip
hand treating and immersion.
Many fail to appreciate the value of
bulk and succulence in feeding brood
sows during the period of pregnancy.
The sulky pillow and the gang when
properly adjusted make it easy to
guard against mistakes and careless
ness.
Running water is very easy means
of spreading cholera to all farms
along the stream below the infected
farms.
Sheep generally harbor one tape
worm, one fuke and several round
worms, especially If they are kept on
low. damp ground.
Don't turn the COWS out in the pas
ture too early. Let the grass get q
good start and there will be more feed
produced during the season.
When turned out to water, each COW
will not uniformly get a sufficient
quantity. One day she may not get
enough, the next she may overdrink.
A great deal more is possible with
the tomato than what is generally con
coded. AS money maker it has nc
equal In the vegetable line, under care.
full culture.
In preparing the coops for the young
chicks do not forget that they need
a supply Of good clean sand, sharp
grit and a little fine charcoal where
they can get it.
1t will not cost the farmer more
than ten cents an acre to select out
OF his wheat bin the plumpest and
heaviest kernels for seed. He will
then improve his crop and yield.
Plums that fall to the ground should
Immediately be raked up and de-
stroyed to prevent the caterpillar OF
the curculio coming out and going into
the ground to undergo further develop
ment.
Abundance of grass will make some
of the best ewes continue to secrete
milk, and some of them will "cake, u
every cake, however small, being q
source Of danger when the udde1
again springs.
When the chicks are about twenty.
four hours old they can be transferred
to the brooder, heated to about the
same temperature as the incubator
and care should be exercised that they
are not chilled in the transfer.
Some orchardists claim that spray
Ing alone Is not sufficient in localities
where the insects are numerous. In
addition to spraying many also knock
the beetles of the trees and catch
them on sheets spread out underneath
Every herd OF cows TO be profitable
at either milk or beef must be culled
annually, and the beef bred COW that
weighs 1900 to 1900 at five or si1
cents, counts better than the little Jer
sey that weighs 700 to 800 at three
cents.
With both raspberries and black
berries prune of the top of the youna
growing canes during the months Of
June and July when they are abou,
a foot and one-half to two feet high
This will check the growth and de
velop a harder wood. It will also in
crease the fruiting surface.
Three things are essential for sum
mer hog raising; hog-tight fence
an alfalfa or clover pasture and shade
The hog cannot stand excessive heat
and shade and water are necessary. Il
the fence is tight and the hog knows
it is tight he will not waste his ener
gies in trying to get through it, but
will attend to his proper business Of
making pork. Pasture is an important
element In helping him to do this.
No one breed combines all the re-
Quirements for eggs and meats. Il
one desires to raise the best fowls TO,
market. egg production should be q
secondary matter. II it is eggs we are