The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1912-06-21
Hogs like fresh water.


Too much sun is bad for chicks.
Do not allow too many pigs to run
together.
Let your horses take their time the
first hour.
Soft shelled eggs indicate q lack Of
lime in the feed.
Poor fences soon breed and train up
a herd Of breachy stock.
More silos and less rotten corn
shocks will increase profits.
Cut up dandelions and the tender
young shoots of grass for the chicks.
Above all things give the calves
clean, dry pens with plenty of sun
shine.
In trimming raspberry and black
berry bushes, look out for the gall
beetle.
Faults in a herd car be eliminated
most quickly by careful breeding and
selection.
A hot sweat-collar is apt to soften
the shoulders of a horse, If you do
not look out.
A concrete tank will not spring a
leak and at the same time it will al
ways be ready for use.
II possible keep the ewes with twin
lambs separate from other sheep for
a week or so at least.
Provided your COW is a good one,
the more she is fed along right lines,
the more she will give.
1t has been found advantageous to
wash the inside of the silo with
a mixture Of cement and water.
Put a bull ring in the nose OF the
chronic s%elf-sucking COW and you have
a humane, effective remedy.
Dairy wega is just like any kind OF
work. If 1t is going to be done profit
ably it requires thought and care.
Silo users assert that they have
found a way to cut down the cost Of
handling lows at least one-third.
Lack Of charcoal, grit and green
food together with animal rations in
insufficient quantities means failure.
The dairyman, If he will use the
means that are at hand, can build up
his soil better than any other far
mer.
There is no animal on the farm
that turns a larger profit in proper
ton to the money invested than a
sheep.
Old sheep sometimes make good
money for experienced sheepmen, but
young sheepmen should start with
young sheep.
Some cows begin to 'go back"
when they reach the age of eight but
many others are still profitable at
twelve to fifteen.
1t is no little labor to keep a stall
where several calves run clean and
dry, but there is no other way Ii you
want to raise god calves.
Don't expect the team to do a hard
days work in the field and then
trot a half dozen miles to town and
back again after supper.
The profit in keeping cows
from the extra amount OF milk that
they give above the ordinary yield on
common pasture or oarse feed.
Hogs should have access to water
at all times, and running water is to
be preferred, unless it flows through
farms where other hogs are kept.
1t costs money to inclose the chick
en- yard, of course, but it costs less
thar the toll exacted by cats, dogs and
rats helping themselves to the young
chickens.
Growing chickens require much
meat, in order to produce the vigor
that will aid them to resist all kinds
Of disease and ever the attacks of lice
and mites.
Good care consists in doing every
thing from milking and caring for the
cows to marketing the butter or cream
as if your whole life success depend
ed upon it.
Hog cholera can be readily pre-
vented by keeping the source of con.
tamination away from the herd by
protecting the we'll animals from all