The Columbus journal., 1911-07-12

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Dogs and sheep don't mix.
Keep your chicks on dry ground
Fodder corn should not be neg
lected.
Roots should always be part CT the
rations OF dairy cows.
Awet yard is an abomination in the
sight Of a well-bred hen
Use the shepherds crook as little
rs possible at or before lambing.
The pigs should have clean, pure
water always at hand, day and night
Providing a man knows his business
the brood mare is the most profitable
farm worker
Baby beef is not more common be-
cause stock raisers generally are not
stock breeders.
From the dairy standpoint. the best
time in the year for a COW TO freshen
is the month OF September.
Just one setting Of thoroughbred
eggs may he the means OF working a
revolution in your poultry business.
II neifer is to make the best dairy
COW, she should freshen when she is
from two years 10 thirty months old.
Newly Matched ducklings can be
brocded without heat in a box coop at
this season. and II well fed will grow
/ rapidly.
The scalper shovel is best for
corn cultivation, as the deep running
old-style shovel Injuries the feeding
roots.
Dairy butter should be packed IN
fve-pound jars and ten and twenty
pound tubs to sell to the best ad-
vantage.
If eve aborts, remove Ter at once
from the Landing shed: burn all litter.
bedding, etc, and thoroughly disin-
feet the pen
No extensive grower OF potatoes can
AFFORD to Go without q breeding patch
from which TO secure seed stock for
his own planting.
Orchard grass should be cut Just as
soon as the blossoms fall. and crimson
/. clover when about twothirds OF the
blossoms turn brown.
All sprays after the first should be
very fine and so applied as to lightly
cover the entire surface Of the fruit
and foliage with the liquid.
The subject OF cutting back young
trees when planting is an old one.
and the ideal one in favor. Of which
much has been said and written
II IS commonly believed that q warm
horse should not be given water to
drink, which is correct If the animal
is to be allowed all that he will drink
Some turkey growers who cater to
special hotel and club house demands,
seek to improve the favor of the flesh
by Introducing wild blood into their
sccks.
The l.4oo-pourd mule is becoming
a popular draft animal. He is tough.
eats less than a horse of the same
weight. and If sound will sell for $500
or better
Alfalfa sown in the fall is almost in
variably helped by Gisking the follow.
ing spring. with the disks set quite
straight. so as not to cut the crowns.
but 10 split them.
Corn and corn meal are carbona-
cecus matter. similar in composition
to that OF cream. and there is no feed
that O calf likes SO well as shelled
corn or corn meal.
! Potatoes should be either put over
an inch and three-Quarters screen or
assorted so as not TO have anything
under an inch and three-quarters in
! the stock sent TO market.
The best way to teach young pigs
! to eat is TO provide run or creep"
into an adjoining pen. to which the
SOW cannot obtain access. or to feed
! them while she is turned out to get
some exercise
/ Examine the udder Of each eve and
where necessary cut away all locks of
] wool, so that the lamb may have free
and unobstructed access TO the teats ::
| otherwise the lamb is liable to suck
and swallow some wool. which forms
into q ball in the stomach. eventually
causing death when the lamb is three