Mexico Missouri message., 1912-05-16

Groom your cows.
The silo is a time saver.
attend to the horses feet
Grow strawberries for home use.
70, the Young calves have plenty of
sunlight.
vc cannot longer raise paying APP
rlo rrops unless we spray.
Seed grain of all kinds is scarce
and L.gh priced again this spring.
Tro rleanly dairyman keep the dirt
ont or the milk rather than strains 1t
out
Whale oil soap may be used to de
s,roy lice, scale, insects and mealy-
bugs.
Glover and grass seed always do
hest when they can be started to early
growth.
pr,Gtable beef production in the fu-
turo means that better gains must
be made.
In a gallon of 80 per cent. cream
there are two and one-half pounds of
butter fat.
When butter refuses to gather" the
cream may be too sour or the temper
AZURE 100 low.
Lack Of thorough cleansing OF the
separator is one cause of flavor in
butter being of
It is a good plan to give a COW
bucket of scalded bran as the first
feed after calving.
The shoe should fit the foot. Don't
let the blacksmith cut bars or frogs
10 make the horses foot fit the shoe.
Field mice been at the young trees?
II the bark is knawed to the wood the
trees may be saved by bridge graft
] Ing
Satisfactory results were obtained
last year at the Kansas Agricultural
college from the use of Kaffir as 81.
lage.
Potash, as a constituent OF fertillz-
ers. exists in number of forms. but
chiefly as chloride or muriate and as
sulphate.
After starting to shed their hair In
spring COWS are very sensitive to sud-
den cold snaps. That is when stabling
pays at night
Glover and grass seed may be
grown and good stand secured, on
oat ground during the last of April
and the first of May.
Narrow doors in the sheep barns
are mighty poor thing. Broken
down hips and early dropped lambs
are some of the results.
colt wants to be kept eating and
growing and exercising. and anything
but fattening, as long as he has
time assigned him by nature to grow.
Any kind OF fruit tree will die
when planted in ground that Is all
the time saturated with water. The
Tile ditch is necessity In some
places
Early peas may be followed by cell
cry or cabbage or potatoes, followed
uy la'e beans or corn, thereby get
ing several crops from the same
. ground each year.
A morse must have feet and legs be-
SIDE weight to be any good at heavy
work Flat bone in the cannons and
large, round feet should be looked for
In picking horses.
Just now Is the time to get the start
Of the lice and a good first move is to
thoroughly clean out the hen house
'Hen squirt some kerosene around
pretty lively over the walls, roosts,
and nest boxes.
loung mares will sometimes refuse
10 allow their foals to nurse at first
ne mare may be tied In the stall and
,"e colt helped to milk. AS soon as it
u'S sucked each teat the mother will
usually allow it to continue.
good liniment for all kinds Of
evenings on dairy cows, as well as on
al other farm animals is made by
|.@''E equal parts of turpentine.
a"eet OIL and spirits OF camphor. AID.
pE literally and frequently to the
swollen parts.
your stable floor is OF plank and
~ ~ need Of repairing, the laying of a
4 ,''" coat OF cement over the old and
,"en putting new layer OF planks on
III VIII serve make the floor water