The Columbus journal., 1911-06-07

Get ready the lamb creep so they
can get good start.
Wood charcoal should always be
kept in the hog pen
A small threshing outfit or the av-
erage farm will not pay.
Let the grass get a good start be-
fore turning the stock on it.
The last CT May is plenty early
enough to turn the calf out on grass.
Working out buttermilk and work
ing in salt is where the overworking
is done.
The borer is the most common and
It is the most troublesome eneiny OF
the peach.
1t is a good plan to have the horses
and COWS clean up their managers aft
er each feed.
Have grass paddock for the calves
so they can Craze at will and have the
exercise they need.
A farm raised COW is much superior
in most every respect to the one
bought at the cattle yards.
Don't forget the little ducks In case
of shower, for if you do one will
be apt to have dead ducks.
Belgian Or yellow carrots are hardy,
make large root growth and are the
best roots for horses and colts.
The most inhuman measures are
often employed for "breaking up hens
that nature prompts to set when their
owners don't want them to.
Grading of cream is receiving more
attention by the dairy press and dairy
men than it possibly ever has in the
history of the dairy business.
In squads the flesh is whitiSh. as
seen through the skin. bu: in a year
old bird it takes on a light purple
shade and grows darker with age.
Trim the young tree in the orchard
right from the start. Lowheaded
trees are best: therefore. prune from
the top down and not from the bottom
Cp.
It has been shown repeatedly OF
demonstration farms that disking be
fore plowing is one OF the most paying
operations in the preparation OF &
seed bed.
When the calf is two weeks old
mix one teaspoonfU! of linseed meal
and one teaspoonful of -four mid
dlings, which should be thoroughly
scalded in each feed.
Seeds OF caulifower. cabbage. let
tuce. celery and tomatoes. sown in the
cold frame about the middle of this
month will furnish good. stocky plants
for the principal early summer crop.
The litters of a gilt, which is the
first litter of sow, are usually
smaller and slower in growth thar
when the dam is Of more mature age
hence much profit must not be ex
pected.
Cold frame plants are often bette,
than plants raised in the hotbed. as
they are stouter. thick stemmed an
have more fine fibrous roots and are
less liable to wilt when set out IL
the open ground.
Where prices are too low to feet
young pigs for porkers. it is better t.
sell them for sucking pigs. although
this plan is seldom resorted to owinl
to the better prices which are obtain
able for the former.
August Is none too early to decide
which plants shall re taken into the
window garden and their treatment
from the time of the decision should
be such as will At them to make fine
display during the winter. rather thar
get the finest present showing.
Pigs like and need a variety. espe
cially Of mineral feeds. During thu
summer on pasture they secure this
but in the winter the mineral matter
must be supplied in the form o
coal. charcoal. ashes and salt. Tht
young animals must have plenty Of ex
ercise in cold weather.
That one egg is as good as another
is mistaken idea. and if you do moi
think so try for while the work o.
selling strictly choice eggs to a Gus
tomer-eggs from hens that have
been we'll kept and eggs laid by q
roorIv fed or diseased hen and see
If the customer does not complain
Difficult as is the lesson. II is never
theless true that profit in raising
broilers or irst-class roasters come:
only 10 him who uses pure-bred males
broad, deep, full-chested birds. vel
low in skin and legs. The scraggy
little barnyard hen. with monsre
male as the sire Of her chicks is in
capable of producing a chick that
will reach three pounds weight lone
before it is matured. at which period
Of existence ii ceases to be a "broil