The Ely miner., 1911-07-14

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Dogs and sheep don't mix.
Keep your chicks on dry ground.
Fodder corn should not be neg
lected.
Roots should always be part of the
rations of dairy cows.
A wet yard is an abomination in the
sight Of well-bred hen.
Use the shepherds crook as little
ls possible at or before lambing.
The pigs should have clean, pure
water always at hand, day and night.
Providing a man knows his business
the brood mare is the most profitable
farm worker.
Baby beef Is not more common be-
cause stock raisers generally are not
stock breeders.
From the dairy standpoint, the best
time in the year for a cow to freshen
Is the month of September.
Just one setting of thoroughbred
eggs may be the means of working a
revolution in your poultry business.
II a neifer Is to make the best dairy
cow, she should freshen when she Is
from two years to thirty months old.
Newly hatched ducklings can be
brooded without heat in box coop at
this season, and if well fed will grow
rapidly.
The scalper shovel is best for
corn cultivation. as the deep running
old-style shovel Injuries the feeding
roots.
Dairy butter should bo packed in
ave-pound jars and ten and twenty
pound tubs to sell to the best ad-
vantage.
If eve aborts, remove her at once
from the lambing shed; burn all hitter,
bedding, etc., and thoroughly disin-
feet the pen.
No extensive grower of potatoes can
afford to do without breeding patch
from which to secure send stock for
his own planting.
Orchard grass should be cut just as
soon as the blossoms fall, and crimson
clover when about two-thirds Of the
blossoms turn brown.
All sprays after the first should be
very fine and so applied as to lightly
cover the entire surface of the fruit
and foliage with the liquid.
The subject of cutting back young
trees when planting is an old one,
and the ideal one in favor, of which
much has been said and written.
1t is commonly believed that warm
horse should not be given water to
drink, which Is correct If the animal
Is to be allowed all that he will drink.
Some turkey growers who cater to
special hotel and club house demands,
seek to improve the flavor of the flesh
by introducing wild blood into their
focks.
The 1,4OO-pound mule is becoming
a popular draft animal. Hr is tough,
eats less than horse OF the same
weight, and If sound will sell for 5000
or better.
Alfalfa sown in the fall is almost in
variably helped by disking the follow.
ing spring, with the disks set quite
straight, so as not to cut the crowns,
but to split them.
Corn and corn meal are carbona-
ceous matter, similar in composition
to that of cream, and there Is no feed
that a calf likes SO well as shelled
corn or corn meal.
Potatoes should be either put over
an inch and three-quarters screen or
assorted so as not to have anything
under an inch and three-quarters in
the stock sent to market.
The best way to teach young pigs
to eat is to provide run or creep"
into an adjoining pen, to which the
SOW cannot obtain access, or to feed
them while she is turned out to ret
some exercise.
Examine the uuder Of each eve and
where necessary cut away all locks of
wool, so that the lamb may have free
and unobstructed access to the teats:
otherwise the lamb is liable to suck
and swallow some wool, which forms
into a ball in the stomach, eventually
causing death when the lamb Is three
or four weeks old.
Let our farmers now take note of
the superior results which follow the