The record., 1911-10-26
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layers OF the duck family.
A good plowman can drive three
horses rs easily as he can two.
Nothing sets a COW Oft more and
better than finely shaped udder.
Young pigs must have an abundance
Of exercise. sunlight and fresh air.
All dairy utensils should be washed
AS soon as possible after being used.
Grit is to the fowl what teeth are
TO tho ruminating animal. neces-
sity.
II you grow squashes and have new
er seen the squash bug you are for
'tunate.
Old geese lay a greater number and
larger eggs and are more reliable than
young geese.
Grit can always be had from any
one who deals in poultry supplies and
is inexpensive.
The nangel is excellent for stock
feed, being greatly relished by milk
COWS in winter.
Keep the chicks free from lice
They cannot grow well and fghttlice
at the same time.
Weeds crowd the cultivated plants,
depriving them of light and space in
both soil and air.
The poultry house should be divided
into apartments that provide room for
about 20 or 25 fowls.
Clover and grass seed will nearly
always do best when they can be
started 10 early growth
Pruning may be done al ny time %
the year. The best time is just before
growth begins In the tree.
In starting a new asparagus lbed II
Is better TO buy two-year-old roots
than to use seed, for this season.
Thrush is mostly due to dirty stables,
horses standing in fermenting manure
or walking in mud and snow water.
A part OF the veterinarians sof the
country have gone tuberculin mad
and they have some able outsidslsup
port.
Young ducks, and She old ones also
must have shade. to protect them
from the direct rays Of the midsum
mer sun.
Dairy bred stock is scarce and II
will take many years to supply the
rapidly increasing demand for dairy
bred cattle.
OF the insects attacking sQuashes
melons. cucumbers. pumpkins, etc. the
common striped cucumber beetle !;
the most injurious.
After the sows wean their pigs the
sows are bred to have pigs in the fall
and that crop of pigs makes the sum
mer crop the next year.
Fresh air and sunshine,are the best
dislnfectants that the poultry raiser
has at his disposal and ought to b'
more often used in his work.
The well-hatched chicks in the csre
funy-cared-for breeder viii amount
to little unless the food is supplied in
proper amounts and at right intervals
There Is no doubt that If the guine;
hsn is properly carea for at all time
that it will prove almost as profitable
as any of the ordinary breeds Of chick
ems.
In milling and baking quality, th'
nurum wheats rank high. giving goo'
results in most respects. with the pos
sible exception OF the color of thu
flour.
No COW can do her best or ever
keep up normal flow of milk whGi
compelled TO stand out in the ho
midday sun Of JuS or August an,
fight the flies.
The Indian Runner ducks are no
very good sitters although they ar
often inclined to incubate. Their egg
are generally put into incubatcrs o
under hens for Matching.
II the dairy Is kept sanitar
throughout, and the butter is worke
well, and stored at a temperature {
about 40 degrees. It will keep froI
three to four times loE ger than butte
which IS made By a careless house
vief.
II ycR have a good breed of pic
take good care cf them; feed III
young growing stock all they viii Q;
of warm mill feed slop made fires
every day; afte- the slop is eatel
scatter one or two quarts Of whit
oats in the straE Of pen.