The searchlight. [volume] (Culbertson, Mont.) 1902-current, 1911-03-03

Plan for an orchard this year. IL you
haven't got one.
The COW is the final Judge as to
The real worth of silage.
Rye straw is of very little use on
the farm except for bedding.
A COW should be dried off for a few
weeks before the calving period.
Keeping records of the cows is oft.
During the summer months poultry
consume a large amount of green for
age.
Chickens are always considered
more or less OF a side line on the
arm.
Plenty of outdoor exercise and
fresh air will insure a crop of vigor-
Gus lambs.
Regularity in milking helps the flow
turing the present and all subsequent
actation periods,
Good drainage to COW stable is alb.
,olutely necessary. and a cement floor
serves this end to good advantage.
Keep your chicks on dry ground,
where they can get no red worms,
and they are not likely to have gapes.
Except when pigs are small. two
'eedings of warm. sloppy feed per
lay. morning and evening. is suffi-
cient.
The trap nest picks out the layers.
The best breeders, the drones and the
Improbable hens as well as the egg
eaters.
The season has arrived when farm.
srs and gardeners should begin testing
seeds to determine their power of ger
mination.
There will be no danger of white
specks, or black specks either. in the
butter II the cream is strained into
he churn.
The sooner anyone gets rid of Gull"
srock the better. and when a favorable
opportunity comes II is well to take
advantage of IT,
A COW that is run down or hide.
bound, the result OF faulty digestion
and assimilation. needs a tonic to
Guild up her blood.
Many of the troubles experienced at
iambing time are are result of rough
handling and treatment during the
period OF pregnancy.
The farmers family Is fortunate In
having an abundance of good food at
all seasons OF the year. but this is
especially true in the winter.
Every farmer can have plenty of
eggs and chickens for himself and for
market II he will only turn a little of
his energy toward the hen house.
Are there not some places about the
farm where evergreens ought to be
planted" They make a splendid wind.
break about the barns and yards.
In hauling manure, ice, wood or 9TH
er slow work about the farm where a
team stands good share of the time
the use of blankets is. to be recon-
mended.
You must keep track of your hens
and know what they are doing il you
are going to keep them at all. and
then you can have as large a flock as
you can manage.
There Is no danger OF cattle chok-
fne on shredded fodder. They chew
II the same as hay before they at
tempt to swallow IL and II goes down
theh tnIodts as easily.
Some one who has not been asleep
all the time during recent years has
said: Cement and alfalfa are going
to make western farmers the most
Independent people on earth"
Before the appearance Of blossoms
and foliage. spray for soft scale and
like insects with the lime-sulphur
wash or kerosene emulsion. No fruit
grower can expect to have clean.
healthy trees unless he uses sprays
and washes.
Given plenty Of good roughage and
a light grain ration OF wholesome
farm feed supplemented with a little
oil and some root crops or corn en-
silage for succulence the ewes should
then be In ideal flesh condition at
Landing tiEae.