Mexico Missouri message., 1912-07-11
Cherries require very little pruning.

STUDY to be quiet" is a fine thing
in handling team anywhere.
Chan from the hay NOV floor
makes the best litter for chicks.
Too sudden a change Of diet for the
young calf ia bound TO start trouble.
Covered cream or milk cans on the
| way to town bespeak a careful dairy
man
There is every indication that grass
fat beef will bring a good price this
summer.
when the calf ia two weeks old
some skim.milk may be added to the
usual feeding,
A horse that Is watered two or
three times n day IS apt 10 drink too
much at ono time.
Fine corn meal for the skim.milk
calf is a good substitute for the moro
expensive oilmeal.
Clean the mud from the horses
limbs during seeding operations, and
prevent scratches and fever.
Quality in vegetables is the result
OF quick. unchecked growth, and this
means plenty of water at all times.
II Is not a difficult proposition 10
raise calves when the feeder uses
some precaution in their management.
After turkey chicks are six weeks
old they must be allowed to range
else they will be sadly stunted in
growth.
It is a mistake 10 try to fatten the
brood SOW. She should not be kept
with the hogs that are being prepared
for market.
While It requires ono sort Of edu-
cation to make a good riding or driv-
ing horse, II requires another to make
cart horse.
Hens that roost in a damp, close
/, house are apt TO give out In the leg
Joints with a trouble somewhat akin
to rheumatism.
II Is easy TO notice the effect o
= grass on the milk, but, with the cow
that have silage, the change will b.
less perceptible.
Fruit trees planted in the hog pas
. ture will supply shade and abundance
= of food in the fall when the tree
come into bearing.
Better dairying should be the ain
of every dairy farmer. It Is only al
he strives for better things that h
can approach his ideal.
! The man who makes a success a
T dairying OF any other line of worl
starts with the right aim and neve
changes or loses sight of 1t.
Q Tests at experiment stations hav,
s shown that 90 per cent Of the cream
II Is saved by the use of a separator a
compared with hand skimming.
g There Is no problem that is O
o greater importance today than cor
n servation of soil fertility. The dair
COW. the hog and the hen help solve 4
" Good care consists IN doing every
a. thing from milking and caring for tn
Il cows TO marketing the butter or crear
b. as II your whole life success depende
upon 1t.
IL Mix plaster OF Paris and turpentin,
c. mould In the shape OF eggs, and pu
t. one in each nest to kill ice an
1T mites Do not use with eggs that ar
Matching.
Id There are 20 silos within shol
III distance of this farm. Many farmer
as have been closely pressed in order
m End feed for their stock but none {
Die silo owners were.
as A city chicken man has found
us good way TO break a broody hen. +
lg puts an alarm clock in the nest an
o. when the clock goes off that hen go'
of too-and never comes back.
le The cost OF hauling over our cou
err try roads is now about % cents pr
I'll ton per mile. In European countri'
W. the cost "a below 10 cents. Our ba
roads are an expensive proposition
On Shallow cultivation OF corn is mo-
ee in favor with the experiment station
rp but much seems to depend upon cl
ne matte conditions. In dry climates yo
Id can safely cultivate deeper-threc
four inches.
Is There is nothing like pasture
en- make good gains on any kind OF stoc