The Columbus journal., 1911-03-15
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Look out for mites.
Select seed corn early.
The COW never tires of silage.
Don't put a sick fowl in a coop with
healthy ones.
Scraps from the table will help to
reduce the feed bills.
Old corn is the best feed until the
new gets well cured out.
Every corn grower should test ev-
cry ear of seed corn this year.
In buying a cow the first thing to
do is to look we'll into the breed.
Green-cut bone must not be con.
founded with ground bone or bone
meal
A great deal of interest is being
manifested these days in the small
farm.
Horses. hogs. pigs and calves eat
silagc and thrive ON i; as well is does
the dairy COW.
The milk from COW in poor run
down condition is certain 20 be cor
respOndinSly poor.
Every orchard ought TO be planted
in checks 10 admit of clean cultivation
with the smallest amount of toeing.
On the average farm. fifty hens
bring as big returns as the best COW
in the herd with less feed and care.
Many times. one hill will produce
SIX eight-Ounce potatoes: which is
at the rate of $50 bushels per acre.
Collaborating sows are said to be
cured by tablespoonful Of baking
soda in slop three times a day for a
week.
The cream separator. the silo and
the manure spreader should find Il
place in the equipment of every dairy
farm.
The feeding of clover hay to poultry
Is a very simple matter and can be
successfully done by any farmer or
poultryman.
Scales are a good thing for a man
to have. They enable him to know
just what he has to sell and also
what he buys.
Ewes that go into their winter quar-
tiers in an unthrifty and low flesh con-
dition cannot bring good vigorous
lambs in the spring.
There Is often tendency on the
part of beginners to increase their
herds too rapidly. Better go slowly
and breed only the best.
A variety of crops certainly adds to
the pleasure of living. if he can have
on his table the early strawberries
and the late blackberries.
Go carefully over your farming
scheme as you worked 1t last season.
try to discover the weak spots and
set to work TO remedy them.
II you have plenty of pasture and
milk, that veal calf will make nice
baby beef this fall late. either for mar
ket or for the home meat supply.
It Is estimated that so per cent of
the poultry product Of the country
come from the farm. and that the
value Of these is close to $30O.O0O.O00
yearly.
4 few drops of tincture of iron in
the drinking water makes an excel
lent spring tonic for the poultry. 1t
tones I'D the system and makes rich.
red blood.
While there is more or les preju-
dice against the use of rye as food
for farm animals. 1t forms a valuable
addition to oats and barley for live
stock in Germany.
Dat straw contains from three to
four per cent. of aesh-forming princi
pies and about II per cent. of gum.
sugar and other fat-forminS matters.
Wheat and barley straw are not quite
SO valuable.
Get the very best seed You can find.
put the crop in good condition. This
season promises TO be very favorable
for planting and most farmers will be
able to plant much earlier and with a
better prepared seeded than usual.
Much corn is annually injured by ear
IL autumn frost because the crop vas
planted TOO late. In most sections
there will be little excuse for late
planting this year.
Horses should not be compelled to
wear their winter coats of lair any
longer than necessary. Farmers, as
we'll as horSemen. should have their