Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1912-11-28


Keep the garden clean.
Raise the best dairy calves
The hest cows are never CHEAP.
cs, the COWS started right for win
.er.
bushel of seed corn VIII plant
siy 10 eight acres of land
A rog cannot sleep comfortably In
Ar. 4 or wind; he catches cold very
easily
proportion 10 his size, hog
,eeds twice the air space that COW
,r horse does.
frozen alfalfa will kill hog as
mckly as It does cow or a horse.
It's usually indigestible.
A bunch of ripe grapes will hang in
hite OF bees until 1t dries up and
he bees will not touch II.
Chrn meal meat and potatoes are
hrle OF the most valuable ingredients
II he fattening bill Of fare
There is only one way OF positively
diagnosing hog cholera, and that is by
most .mortem examination.
After pigs are weaned, one Of the
most common causes of runts is the
eeding Of straight corn diet.
There are many troubles OF swine
that are called hog cholera and yet
they have very little resemblance to
hat disease.
The CapoDs when mature will aver
age to weigh between and II pounds.
! depending, of course. on the variety of
fowls caponized.
II a hog misses a feed. watch him;
he misses the second feed, remove
him from the herd and thoroughly dis
infect where he has been.
Prepare warm, dry, but ventilated
quarters for the brood sows, and do
4 now. Cold storms will be here be
fore we are ready for them.
Breeding stock should never be
saved from the litter of n vicious old
brood SOW, which Is always restless
aud chasing about the pasture.
Composted or well-decayed ma
nures serve their best purpose when
applied to the surface OF the garden
and thoroughly disked into the soil
Fowls in confinement must have
light feed and plenty Of grit, oyster
shell, and little bone cut green. A
little chopped onion is fine about
once day.
Corn silage is an excellent feed
for steers on account of its succu-
lence and palatability, and because
Of its comparative richness In carbo-
hydrates and fat.
Baby beef is term applied to
steers or heifers from fifteen to twer
ty.two months Of age that show sufIi-
Client thickness of flesh and quality to
be used as block beef.
Eastern farmers owning rough pas
ture lands valued at SIS to $40 per
acre, are stocking them with sheep
and the mutton industry in that sec
ton Is being rapidly revived
Hogs that are allowed considerable
amount OF room for exercise. given
plenty of water and good sleeping
quarters in a well-drained area are
not very liable to develop disease.
Besides keeping more and better
animals, more attention should be
paid by farmers to such crops as
restore the fertility of the soil. The
chief among these are clover and
alfalfa.
Lice are frequent causes OF un.
lhrlttlness with fall pigs. Whenever
nlts or lice are seen the pigs should
De dipped at ten-day intervals or else
given one coating of crude oil applied
with broom.
oats is one of the best dairy feeds
which we have, Bran is also a very
good dairy feet. Cottonseed meal is
also high in protein. Glover hay,
which we can raise directly on our
farm, is very good.
NO time should be lost in fattening
me light shearers and disposing of
tlem to the best advantage. The
longer a sheep is kept that will not
cup a quantity of clean bright wool
ABOVE the average the poorer the
owner will be.
some farmers seem to imagine that
Just because n sheep has a fleece TO
protect It that shelter from cold and