The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1911-02-01
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Take care OF the tools.
All fowls require a bulky food.
The dry COW should never be neg.
lected.
A log drag will shorten up long.
bad road wonderfully.
The condition of the live stock re-
fleets the ability of the owner.
Work of all the old rough leg"
fowls. but first make them fat
| Many a man has been lured from a
good farm by some petty political po-
sition.
If We implant fear in the hearts of
our children. We may expect it to turn
to hate.
A nice easy mixer is a source Of
pleasure to the one who does the
milking.
II farm dairying pays under ordi-
nary conditions the better the method
the better the profit
Strong, healthy calves can never be
expected from COWS that are in q
poor or weak condition.
Never again, says the man who
started with dunghills. Get a good
strain to start with and be success
| full
Sunlight, crude oil. lime, carbolic
acid, pure air, clean houses and
yards, are cheaper than drugs and
dope.
More depends upon the right choice
of kinds of fruit to Sc: than upon any
other one factor as to profit in the or
chard.
The management of the eve lambs
throughout the winter months should
be directed to developing their con-
formation.
If you are in the poultry business
right, it is not too early to begin
planning for your breeding pens for
next season.
No one can breed up a fine flock of
chickens without culling closely. This
often seems difficult. but it is abso-
lutely necessary.
Strawberries need acid in the soil;
the lime in hen manure neutralizes
the acid; therefore. hen manure is
harmful to strawberries.
1t would be a good thing for the
chickens on many farm to move the
poultry yard and give the fowls new
clean ground to run over.
In an experiment made by a poul-
try keeper last winter, IS hens that
We're fed milk laid more eggs than
100 fed on cut bone and meat.
Pigs that are allowed to pile up
will come out in the morning sweat
ing, and be sure to be more or less
troubled with colds and snuffles.
Where hoed crops are intended to
be grown between young trees the
ground should be MANFRED freely or
the growing crop will ipjure the trees.
Neglected fruit trees are not worth
the ground they occupy: they are an
eyesore. and when pest-infested they
are a positive menace to the neigh
borhood.
Year old male birds may often be
purchased cheaper than cockerels.
Good roosters are better the second
year than the first and their chicks
are stronger.
lie sure to cool down each skim |
ming before putting it into the cream |
jar or storage receptacle. Then keep
1t cool ready to rpen with the pre-
pared starter.
With dry corn stalks and hay for |
roughage. one would want to feed |
pretty literally and would hardly ex-
pect to have the cows eat up this |
roughage very clean.
One of the great advantages that
come from getting a catch of clover
on the light soils. is that the clover
roots make humus. or decayipg veg
etable matter in the soil.
Make a small paper cover and place
over the mouthpiece Of your telephone
to keep out the dust which will gather
and is finally breathed into the lungs
of the person who is speaking.
There Is much feeding value in
bright straw. and instead of being
burned in the field where threshed. as
practiced by some farmers. should all
be used for fodder and bedding for
animals. thereby preserving the fertil-
ity OF the farm. obtaining a profitable
food. and a great comfort for the AMI
mails.
Horseradish Is not difficult plant
to kill out and exterminate If one
is persistent In the undertaking.
Where the pillow can be used a very ef-