Charlevoix county herald., 1911-04-01

The COW never tires OF silage.
Don't put sick fowl In coop with
healthy ones.
= Sryaps from the table will help to
reduCye 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
silage and thrive on it as well as does
the dairy COW.
The milk from a COW in poor run
down condition Is certain to be cor
respondingly poor.
Every orchard ought to be planted
In checks to admit Of clean cultivation
with the smallest amount of hoeing.
IN@rme average farm, fifty hens
brih. big returns as the best COW
in the herd with less feed and care.
Mshy times. one hill will produce
ski eight-ounce potatoes; which is
at the rate of $40 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
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
20 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 a 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 it last season,
try to discover the weak spots and
set to work to remedy them.
IF 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.
II is estimated that 90 per cent OF
the poultry product of the country
come from the farm, and that the
value. of these is close to 100000, 600
yearlN
A few drops of tincture of iron in
the drinking water makes an excel
lent spring tonic for the poultry. II
{. tones up the system and makes rich
red blood.
While there is more or les preju
dice against the use of rye as fooC
for farm animals, it forms a valuable
addition TO oats and barley for live
stOcl kR Germany.
The matter of keeping records is i'm
portant The farmer should be able
to take account of stock at the be
ginning of every year, the same as
any merchant does.
II we neglect the hen houses this
spring till they are alive with lice and
mites, we deserve the consequences
II will take but few minutes to clean
It ON thoroughly and not much long
or to- soak roosts. boxes and every
thing else with kerosene. coat OF
whitewash can be put on almost as
quickly, and good dry clean earth
shoyeled in when the filthy floor has
been cleaned out. Follow this kero
sene business up every ten days OF
40 for n time and It Will be a pretty
tough louise or mite that stays around