The Caldwell watchman. (Columbia, La.) 1885-1946, 1911-10-27

Do not be stingy IN the usa Oh
clean straw for bedding,
The sheep is more at home on tne
open prairie than among the FENCES.
Remove the seeds from the pump
kins before feeding them to the cat
tie
Where butter has not the natural
yellow color, it is well 10 use colorlng
matter.
The best time to cut the tails as
we'll as castrate Is when the lamp is
a week old
Gull out the hens carefully, and DO
not keep more than you have room
and feed for.
Sheep return to the soil 80 per cent.
of fertility of food eaten. Sheep ma
nure Is valuable.
A great deal more money Is usually
spent in wintering farm work horses
than is necessary.
Should maggots get In the animals
wounds, kill them by a light applica-
ton of chloroform.
Whole grain makes best feed for
sheep. Cleanliness, pure water and
salt are necessity.
Provide the hogs a wallow. Nothing
serves this purpose better than a
stream of running water.
If the pig is stinted In its food at
any stage of It's life. 1t can never be.
come a perfect pork-producer.
AS new oats come In, give the cows
some of them each morning and even
ing cut green as a soiling crop.
It pays to maintain a heavy flow OF
milk. even If expensive feeds must be
given the COWS at certain seasons.
Stock beets planted on rich soil in
drills and we'll cultivated often yield
from twenty to forty tons per acre.
Use clover and alfalfa hay, supple.
mented with roots or; ensilage for
succulence, If you want an excellent
ration.
Corn that yields we'll In one locality
will often make an entire failure In
another locality where conditions are
different
Probably the poultry plant on the
average farm is usually the poores,
equipped and poorest planned depart
ment on It.
| Remember when you plow In the
orchard that the roots are very neal
the surface Three inches is plenty
deep enough
J, Many an animal sold for a high pric,
because Of Its pedigree. should go t,
the butchers pen instead Of at tn,
head Of a herd
II ewes udder Is hard or show ten
dency to garget. use unsalted lard
give It vigorous rubbing and give ami
J NAL good dose of salts
The nature and conditions OF tn
soil in which tomatoes are grown ha
= much to do with the size OF the Gro
and health of the plants
|. Tankage, q by-produc. OF tn
slaughter houses. Is wholesom
feed for all kinds OF live stock. bu
It's greatest value Is for hogs
Patches OF roots should he annual
, grown for the winter food of swim,
1t will prove valuable aid In Or,
ducing good. fat winter porkers.
AS a silo will last many years 1t
not wise to use material In buildip
i that will soon decay or is apt to war
or shrink, and thus throw the silo O,
: Of shape.
Young colts that are put in the sta
, and given all the hay they will e,
q soon become pot-bellied. their ha
. grows longer and harsher and son
Of t stands the wrong way.
Usually It is not advisable to "a
4 ture new seeding. but often weeds ca
1 be destroyed by giving sheep the RI
Of the fields for few days witho
E material injury to the seeding
The turkey Is a native OF Amer,c
! and, like the Indian and buffalo
their wild state. cannot stand ciyiliz
q ton and in their domestic state "
0 only thrive under certain conditions
Where there Is an abundance
good well.cured alfalfa hay, It Is ,
most impossible to select a conce
|. trate to 60 with 1t that would q
make an acceptable ration to the co
The fall. after all Of the gard,
plants have been killed. is the be
D time to clesn up the trash in d
garden and burn It to prevent lnsec
from spending the winter In It Al
be ready to lay eggs next year.