The searchlight. [volume] (Culbertson, Mont.) 1902-current, 1911-07-07

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Ducks eat many bugs.
Goslings must have free range.
The quickest returns are from baby
beef.
Exercise is essential to the best
growth of the foal
You have some things to learn after
you get an incubator.
The best time to cut the lambs tail
and castrate is at one week old.
Calves make more gain with a given
amount of food than does older stock.
Too much emphasis cannot be laid
upon the use of cover crops In our
orchards.
Giving water at irregular times is
Injurious not only to chicks. but to
old fowls.
II is seldom that the very early
varieties OF potatoes yield so well as
those a little later.
Mans object In fruit growing is the
production and improvement of the
edible portion of the fruit.
Good ventilation is essential: but II
should be so arranged that the cows
shall not be exposed to a draught
Everybody knows that in July
weather COWS give a larger amount of
milk than in cold and wintry weather
Build a good shed TO shelter the
tools; II Is doubtful II you can make
80 l-3 per cent. profit In any other
way.
There is a best temperature for
each individual lot Of cream, but this
can be determined only by expert
ence.
Are there any old apple trees In
your orchard bearing undesirable
fruit? Easy to graft good varieties
/ upon them.
/ Keep on good terms with the ewes
so that you can catch and handle
them without causing undue disturb
ance in the pens.
There is no phase OF the dairy busi-
ness that needs more study or more
careful management than does the
breeding of the COW.
As the time draws near for calying,
the COW should be put into a comfort
able box stall. having plenty Of bed
ding to keep her dry.
The open swill barrel standing by
the kitchen door is a direct invita-
ton to typhoid, diphtheria and like
DISEASES to enter the home.
/ When live stock prices drop II is al.
ways the man who knows how to
make meat at the least cost per pound
who realizes the largest profit.
When the fruit buds come very
thick most people take 1t as a sign
Of big yield. but when fruit grows
too thickly II must necessarily be very
small.
II the udder becomes hard or shows
tendency to garget. apply unsalted
lard and give II a vigorous rubbing;
after which give the eve a good dose
/ of salts.
! Skim milk, which is whole milk,
minus part of its fat. and which costs
only half as much as whole milk, fur.
nishes protein about four times as
cheaply as beef.
When the COW is comfortable and
contented, she responds with a flow of
milk far in excess OF that which she
gives when she has been uncomfort-
nDIe anu irritateu.
Cherry rot or brown rot affects all
stone fruits, including peach, apricots.
etc. II is by far the most serious and
battling Of cherry diseases to the com.
mercial cherry grower
Never feed hay. or sweep or In any
way stir up dust just previous to milk.
ing time, for this will contribute TO the
Introduction Of bacteria, which con-
teammates and Injuries the quality of
the milk.
In dipping pigs great care must
be exercised to cover every part of
his body from tail to snout. N
patch as big as a thumb nail is left nm.
touched it may contain the nucleus of
new crop.
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