The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1911-02-08
The puilet is the best layer.

It's hard to make a man believe he
owns a poor COW.
Alfalfa and clover are the best dry
feeds there are for the cow.
Use the milk pals and cans for no
other purpose than to hold milk.
Cover the rhubarb plants now with
plenty of coarse but rich stable ma
/ nure.
Oats, barley and peas form a good
ration for pregnant ewes during the
| winter.
Temperature has more to do with
your failure to get butter than any
enc cause.
Grating is one of the most inter
esting things on the farm and it is abb
surdly simple.
Timothy growing means exhaustion
of land, because it is now grown as a
commercial crop
When the fowls pick themselves
frequently you may be sure that they
are infested with lice.
There is little danger of draft in
the poultry house if there IS only
one opening in the building.
Soil that is poorly drained suffers
more i'm both dry and wet seasons
than that which is well drained.
The orcharGists should become more
familiar with the most approved
method of producing more and better
fruit.
daily cows form the only accurate
and safe basis for judging their
value.
There is no line OF general agricuL
ture in which well directed effort will
pay SO large profit as in dairy
| farming
AS n matter af fact, barnyard ma
nure commences to ferment and I'M
dergo changes the moment it is
dropped.
From twelve to twenty-four hours
before churning you should commence
10 ripen the cream, according to the
. time of the year.
Every owner Of live stock should
be prepared to treat the more common
ills TO which live stock of different
kinds are subject
Colds with poultry often lead to
roup and when once roup gets good
| start we are likely to have quite a
task to get rid of it.
The fertilizer problem is getting to
be a big one, and could be greatly re-
duced by keeping more stock and sell
| ing less hay and straw.
Many Of the orchard tracts of the
central as well as the extreme west
are owned and operated by women.
who are happy in their work
Have some way OF marking every
turkey. They may get with neigh
boris turkeys and you will want some
way of proving your property.
The dairy barnyard should have
good slope. such as Will insure good
surface drainage. and should have a
good top LAYER of gravel or cinders.
The purchaser OF a bull should Sc
,ect an ANNA! that IS a good individ
ual and whose dam and granddam on
his sire's side have good butterfat rec
ords.
Single purpose animals carry their
| functions with greater economy than
do so-called dual purpose animals.
! These facts belong TO the domain OF
breeding.
After the first week of sleeping and
resting the young cali should be al
lowed to exercise freely in the open
air. in order to develop muscles, lungs
and heart.
The Minnesota experiment station
has found bran 20 be an excellent
feed to combine with corn fodder and
timothy or wild hay, as a ration for
the mich COW.
let the newborn calf stay in the
stall or pasture with its mother for
several days. and she will let it feed
at times and in amounts best suited
| to its needs in life.
There is no longer certainty OF a
crop of fair fruit without spraying
with insecticides. nc matter how pro-
pitious the season otherwise or how
| fertile the orchard soil
| Proof piles up that there are scores
| and hundreds OF dairy COWS that are
not paying their way while many 9th
ers are making handsome profit for
the owner. Which kind do you keep?
Breeding animals that have weak
! constitutions and organic weaknesses