The searchlight. [volume] (Culbertson, Mont.) 1902-current, 1910-06-24
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animal.
Steel cut oatmeal stands foremost
as tiny chick food.
Strawberry plants may be set out a.
late as the middle of summer.
Turkeys are perhaps the most prof.
table of poultry kind II properly han.
died.
Burnt wheat may be fed II fowls eat
1t readily-that is. good conditioned
fowls.
| Dried red blood. meat meal and hoof
meal contain from 10 to IA per cent.
OF nitrogen.
Horses very often lose their eyesight
| through dust and hay seed falling into
| their eyes from the loft above.
A new style In baby beef has been
| set The kind that Is going to market
at present is tho 800 to 500-pound
type.
It is easily possible almost every
whore to mako a hen produce three
dollars worth Of eggs year on $3.50
worth of feed.
| Soy beans require conditions and
cultivation similar to those required
By corn. Good preparation OF the soil
Is necessary.
For dry and cloddy corn fields.
either before or after the corn Is
planted. a heavy roller is better than
either the harrow or drag.
Barnyard manure adds quite a little
plant food to the soil besides contain
Ing considerable organic matter which
will go toward the formation OF HUI
mus.
To secure the greatest benefit from
green manuring crop care must be
taken In turning II under to have tho
soil narrowed and packed as fast as
| II Ia plowed.
A proper handling of tho milk ia
most essential. Too often II Is drawn
| from tho COW In stables In which tho
| air Ia filled with dust and put In un.
clean vessels.
Live stock needs water at all sea,
sons. but water during warm weather
fs more essential. PyepGre now for
good water supply for the animals
during tho summer months,
The color OF milk does not indicate
the richness OF II. Oftentimes milk
| which is rich Ia blue I'm color and
oftentimes milk which is yellow and
rich looking Is OF a rather poor quail
ity.
Cream, on the average. will weigh
about eight pounds to the gallon. but
II varies. according to the per cent. Of
butter fat which II contains. II II well
known that butter-fat IL lighter than
milk.
Success In poultry culture IL simply.
the result Of looking after all the little
details connected with the business.
Anyone can DO successful II he will
use a little diligence and common
sense.
Most of tho brood mares in tho
central west are dual purpose In char
acter. They not only raise colts but
most OF them put In eight or ten hours
OF strenuous labor every day after,
the colt IL ten days or two weeks old
Fertilizers too rich In nitrogen
should not be applied to the field In
tended for oats. because tho growth
will BIO too rank and the production OF
grain will be retarded. The same 10
true In very limited measure Of
corn.
II young hogs are kept In close con,
nnement and fed heavily on corn
alone. they will most likely develop
leg weakness. as they require nitro
genous foods In which skimmilk
should take q large part In order to
grow good. solid bones.
Not how much. but how well. II Q
good motto for folks who are In tho
chicken business. Better to hatch and
raise o small number Of fine. thrifty
early chickens than TO hatch q hun.
dred or two and lose or stunt them
for lack Of care or suitable accommo.
dations.
Plant lice are sucking insects which
damage trees and other plants By In.
jecting q poisonous saliva. and then
sucking out the sap. The leaves upon
which they live curl until they form
protecting homes within which the
pests are safe. and cannot be reached
by any spray liquids.