Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1910-04-06

AoohS anu eyes come Mandy around
the farm. Try box of such in the
shop.
Remember yourself when building
poultry-houses, and plan them SO that
you may take care of them with the
least amount of trouble.
Many mares are unable to supply
their colts with sufficient milk, partic-
ularly when hard worked. In such
cases they should be helped out.
Hens prefer seclusion when they are
laying, and they are not likely to
break eggs and get into the habit Of
eating them If the nests are kept dark.
No smoking or chewing of tobacco
should be permitted while the milking
is being done. The odor of the weed
is quickly absorbed by the sensitive
milk
Can you spare some of the barnyard
manure for the orchard? Draw it out
now, mulch the trees well and see If
you do not get a good crop of fruit
next fall.
Make every square rod on your farm
yield its quota of profit. Some use
can be found for even the poor strips
Study out how you can best use all
your, land.
The old orchard that has trees 10 to
Is years old and older, and already
in bearing, will be benefited by heavy
applications of stable litter or other
fertilizer.
Skim milk, which is whole milk,
minus part of its fat. and which costs
only half as much as whole milk, fur
nishes protein about four times as
cheaply as beef
The farmer can become his own
builder as soon as he understands the
mixing of concrete and the making Of
forms to mold it in. Its use is un-
Limited on the farm.
Common sense is better than the
best dairy instruction of the day, but
1t clearly shows a lack of common
sense when dairyman discards all
recent investigations.
The active hen is the happy. con-
tented hen and the hen that helps to
keep the egg basket filled. Keep your
hens busy if you want them to he
productive and profitable.
Prepare the nests and place the nest
eggs in them, SO the pullets will learn
to occupy them. 1t is important that
the pullets be early taught to lay in
the nests provided for them.
With good milking COWS, we'll fed
and well kept, milk can be produced at
a cost Of IS cents per hundred and
butter fat for 16 cents pound. This
Is an average for the year round.
Give plenty of green food while the
4 ground Is frozen. Cabbages, onions,
steamed clover. boiled potatoes. and
|turnips, with warm meal mash, are
excellent for pullets and hens ready
to lay
Most farmers raise chickens by the
natural process, and that is all right
30 long as you do not care to raise
more than, say, 100 chickens; but when
you get up into large numbers incu-
bators are necessary
The best preventive for roup and
other infectious diseases is perfect
cleanliness about the poultry-house
and ground No medicine can success
fully combat filth. darkness and damp
/ ness. 5s
| Farming is business requiring not
only some capital and great deal Of
hard work, but large measure Of
know how" as many people, tired Of
city life, have found when they tried
to farm without previous experience.
Every stockman knows how incon-
venient stiff new rope halter can be-
New rope may be made as pliable as
Did, it is claimed. by simply boiling
| 1t for two hours in water. Then hang
1t in warm room and let 1t dry out
thoroughly.
PROFIT In sheep.
Sheep not only pay their own way,
but make up for losses caused by
scrub COWS and other derelicts on the
farm.
Fattcning Ducks.
There is no need of the "cramming
system being used in fattening ducks.