The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1911-04-26
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Keep your fowls hungry.
Pork is too high not to feed right
si!O building.
Examine the eggs with the egg-test-
er before setting them.
Whatever breed is chosen, pure
bred ram should be used.
In raising onions for commercial
purposes a large bulb is desirable.
In caring for pigeons one should 60
about quietly and never frfghten
them.
One OF the easiest ways of making
money on the farm is by rearing
sheep.
In planting a young orchard see
that the trees are properly pruned
before set.
Hot mashes on cold days are on the
feeding program of many successful
poultry raisers.
This is a good time to figure up &C
counts for the year and see what the
chicken business has done for US.
Sheep farming is a profitable branch
to follow where land can be had for
about fifteen to twenty-five dollars per
acre
Do not dispose OF too many early
pullets for fattening purposes-they
are your principal assets for another
season.
A hen is a good thing. but too much
of a good thing is bad thing. Two
hundred hens are enough for the
average farm.
The sow should be given warm
millfeed slop, made fresh for each
corn twice q day.
Cows approaching calving should be
placed in roomy box stalls. given a
good dry bed of leaves or straw and
not interfered with.
II the breeders are in poor condi-
ton you will get many eggs that do
not hatch well or that produce puny
or weakling chicks.
The right time to castrate pigs is a
week or so before they are weaned. II
healthy: if delicate. wait a week or so
until they are stronger.
Raw potatoes are greatly relished
by chicks and may be fed freely. Cut
them in good-sized chunks and let the
chicks have them to pick ct.
1t is very we'll to SOW a piece Of rye
early in the fall for the ewes that
have lambs TO pasture off in the
spring before grass is ready for them.
The SQUAD of the best breed is
ready for market when about four
weeks old At this age 1t is in prime
condition. 1t does not gain much
afterward.
Forage or salad crops for poultry
greens should preferably be grown
with stable manure. This applies to
clover, cabbage. lettuce. salad turnips.
mangels. etc.
tested out on the fifth to seventh days
can often be sold to bakers II sold for
lust what they are. They are good
for cooking purposes.
This is the time to give the boy a
Few acres to farm with team, and
seeds, and see what he will make OF
It II will make him feel like a man
and bind him to the farm.
II will not be long now till the first
having. Get all Of the haying ma
chinery and tools ready for the work
90 that there will be no delay when
the hay Is ready to harvest
Many farmers say there is no money
in raising ducks and geese. but F. 8
Iacoty, assistant in poultry husband
nv at the Kansas State Agricultural
College, says this is mistake.
Mr.. c. o. Garrett. Of Iowa. says:
"Lime-sulphur is the best stock-diE
have ever used. II is very much
superior to many dips now on the
market. being more effective and
more durable. and it is absolutely not
injurious"
Breeding birds which begin the
work of egg production near the time
the eggs are required for incubation
will ordinarily give stronger germs
and better chicks than can be oh
tanned from hens which have beer
laying for months.