The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1911-05-12
Give the hen wide range.

Cows should be kept comfortable at
all times.
Provide some succulent feed for
ewes In winter.
Weeds rob the soil of food elements
required by other plants.
Farm philosophers say this Is go
ing to be q very dry year.
The milch COW needs q shelter from
the summer storms and heat.
A pig that is fed grain all his Life
usually fails to pay expenses.
Potatoes require considerable nitro
gen and a large amount Of potash.
The pigs should have a clean, dry
yard to exercise In during the day.
A cheap and effective way of de-
horning calves Is with potash caustic.
BY judicious choice of varieties car
rots may be enjoyed for a long sea
son.
A daily record of work done will
cut out many of the wastes of the
farm.
The oat crop as a money maker on
the farm Is liable not to receive the
attention II deserves.
The soil on cultivated fields on billy
or rolling land will wash less IL
plowed wen and extra deep.
The gardener should try to grow the
carrot quickly In order to secure ten
der, sweet, uniform specimens.
One of the chief reasons for butter
becoming rancid at an early age is the
fact that 1t is not washed thoroughly.
One ton of average fresh manure
contains ten pounds OF nitrogen; n
ton of clover hay, 40 pounds OF nitro
gen.
Prune the trees In the early spring
lie possible, any month of the year II
necessary, but be sure to prune the
trees.
Glover and grass seed may be sown,
and a good stand secured, on oat
ground during the last Of April and
the first of May.
II the buttermilk is not washed out
1t will furnish abundant food for the
bacteria, since they thrive on the
casein In the milk.
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With a quiet, steady team a half
grown boy, with a sulky plow, can do
as good work as a man with the old
fashioned walking pillow.
There is no professional study that
requires closer work than does the de-
yelopment OF the corn plant-a COM
bination Of brain toll and nature.
pigs In the pasture require some
sort of crude shelter to protect them
from TIE sun and keep them from
blistering and sca.ding on hot days.
Growing geese require large guam
tities OF grass, which they will obtain
If allowed their range, and which will
cut down the feed bill at least one
half.
The picking of i've geese for the
live geese feathers, SO called. is prac-
ticed less and less. 1t Is a cruel prac-
tice, and ought to be entirely abol-
ished.
Ihe amount of feed that the pigs
should get cannot be definitely ad-
vfsed. That must be determined by
the feeder from the appetites Of the
assimilats food.
1t has been found that the seeds OF
many weeds will retain their vitality
for Is to 20 years, possibly longer.
and not all Of the given years seed
grows In any m year.
II is surprising how few farmers
have cement floors in their stables,
and as a rule they do not realize the
loss they sustain by having the earth
foor or a leaky. filthy plank floor.
Poorly-hatched and poorly-brooded
chicks furnished good grounds In the
rast for believing that artifciaIly-
Matched chicks were not as strong
ard vigorous as those hatched by the
hen. and they were not. But matters
have greatly changed Of late years.
There are now incubators and brood
oro that ara Reliable and safe.