Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1912-03-14

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Give the chickens grit.
Lime your corn ground.
Whitewash the hen house.
Keep sheep out of draughts.
food.
When you feed grit, have it good
and sharp.
1t is not good for COWS to lie on the
bare, cold ground.
The fresher the eggs the better they
will be for Matching.
The silo lends itself admirably to
efforts at intensive farming.
Keep the young calves growing.
Give them a little grain every day.
Extra banking around the base out.
side will make the hen house warmer.
Plenty Of hay, oats and fresh air
relieves the horse of that skinny feel
| ing.
Reject all damaged feed. 1t will
pay you in good milk and excellent
butter.
Ground limestone will prove to be
| beneficial to an alfalfa field if the soil
Is sour.
The gospel of clean milk is not
strainer gospel, but gospel of pre-
vention.
| Currants and gooseberries need
very little, II any, protection through
| the winter
It is important, before trying to
prune, to know where and how the
| fruit is borne.
The White Leghorn Is the breed
| kept on 80 per cent of the egg farms
| Of the country.
1t is not a good plan to dehorn a
COW while in milk flow. Better wait
until she Is dry.
The warmer the milk the quicker
the bacteria multiply. and the quicker
the milk will sour.
Cows should have all the roughage
they will clean up well in addition to
their silage allowance.
Fall pigs often do not eat enough in
the winter-time unless special pains
are taken to make the feed palatable.
A broad patch Of sunlight on the in
side Of the house costs little but pays
big. Not too late yet to put In some
glass.
It Is impossible to milk a COW that
has a cake Of manure on her thigh
without getting some Of the filth into
the milk pail.
The quality of butter produced by
q dairyman depends very largely upon
the treatment of the cream previous
to churning.
Filthy conditions in the COW stable
and In the milk house are perhaps the
most common sources of bad favors
In milk or cream.
Corn slage may be fed out OF
doors, in hunks, In the stall, or, In
fact, any place where animals can eat
1t without waste.
Grain in the litter in the morning
mashes at noon, and another heavy
grain feed at night make good feed
program on cold day.
A pure-bred animal Is the finest pos
sible machine for making beef or
pork or milk but like other machines,
It needs both fuel and care.
Remember, the cream has to be at
least degrees warmer on cold days
II the butter Is to come promptly. Get
1t at about e. and you will have it
right.
1t Is a good plan to get all sorghum
hay and fodder fed up soon, especially
II they are out of doors. Freezing and
thawing when wet Injuries this kind Of
feed badly.
The colts system requires con-
siderable amount of bone and muscle
building material, and this can only
be had by feeding heterogeneous feeds,
such as oats, little bran. oil meal,
and, II obtainable, some clover hay.
A warm-day ration will not satisfy !
the hunger and appetite of hen on
cold days. She needs some food to
counterbalance the inroads of the In
tense cold on her SYSTEM besides the
usual allowance that should go to the
making of eggs.
II the fruit Is stored in the cellar
1t must be we'll ventilated and per-
fectly dry