The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1912-11-15

Mulch the strawberries.
Baled corn fodder Ia new.
Use a low wagon In the orchard.
Clean out the old nesting materia
and burn 1t.
Milk to the last drop, for the las
milk is the best.
Sweet clover can be used as a sub
situte Tor red clover.
A single drop of milk contains five
million globules Of butter fat.
When corn husking time is at hand
the corn ought to be fairly well dried
out,
Hogs will husk corn for nothing
The hired man wants four cents a
bushel
It Ia not what is eaten but what
b digested that furnishes strength and
muscle.
Vitality is a very important charac-
teristic in the dairy COW or any other
Iarm animal.
Hogging down corn looks like a
lazy mans way, but 1t is a money
maker. Try it.
A hen can't be a very respectable
hen If she Is full of lice--help her by
cleaning up the roostS
In the poultry quarters, be careful
10 keep filth from accommodating and
Keep fowls free from lice.
Give the ducks clean water every
time you feed them because a duck
always drinks while eating.
Don't let a frost scare you into
gathering the cabbages. Leave them
out until freezing weather comes.
The seed Of broom corr has con.
siderable feeding value. 1t may be
removed, dried or put in the silo.
If your sweet corn seed is mixed
with field corn, better feed 1t to the
chickens and buy new next spring.
The coming Of woven wire fences
will help keep down the weeds along
the roadsides in q rather roundabout
way.
Good shelter will make feed go far
Their and this Is a good time to see
that barns and sheds are made tight
for the winter.
The beef supply cannot be much in
creased inside of two years. This
means high cattle prices for at least
two years more.
Whether brood mare or gelding 1t
Is the healthy, well fed horse that ex-
hibits the greatest endurance and no
bllity In harness.
After corn passes the proper stage
at which 1t should be converted into
silage or fodder, 1t deteriorates very
rapidly in quality.
In the horse for active service the
breast should not be over medium
width and the forelegs should be rea-
sonabl' close together.
Both cane and kafir are not hurt
much for feed II they are caught by
irost provided they are cut before
much rain falls on them.
Asquare breasted, well muscled horse
Will stand more work and more hard.
ship than two lank, co~sely-jointed ones,
and not require as much power as one
of them.
When the calf Is Just learning to
eat boil oatmeal or cornmeal into a
thin mush, add a quart of 1t to a pail
OF skimmilk and the calves will suck
1t up with great relish.
Nothing should be more gradual
thar the development of the power
OF a draft horse or the speed OF a trot-
ting horse and in but few other ways
are horses more permanently injured
than in pushing their development
too rapidly.
A spirit of friendliness toward all
young live stock will make you a bet
Ter man within and also increase the
milk yield, fatten the steer, gentle the
horse, subdue the calf and encourage
he colt.
A hog trough damned full OF crowd
ing, squealing hogs means that some
OF them will get cheated out of their
snare of the slop. which is but an
other way of saying that you also are
being cheated by such mismanage-
nent
II you have several kinds OF rough
ICED on hand 1t will be a good plan to
them up in feeding, Stock like a
ehange Of feed as well az you do and
u their breakfast can be OF one kind
and their supper Of another. 30 much
The better.
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