The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1912-01-26
Rape Is popular with hogs.

constitute a great army.
Put kerosene on the roosts frequent
~ to keep down chicken lice.
Teach the colt to eat a mixture Of
oats. wheat bran and iinseed meal.
There Ia something In the FIRST milk
that the calf needs, and should have.
Remember to treat your COW with
consideration In these days and nights.
The demands on the foafs diges-
tive system for nourishment lie very
great.
A flock of ewes rightly handled
should produce 1875 per cent. OF
lambs.
1t IL the income from each sheep
that should determine the value OF
the flock.
Every progressive keeper separates
the l~ight-colored honey from the dark
fall honey.
Unless the bird is extremely yalu-
able the AK is the best remedy for q
sick chicken.
The cow that Ia allowed to fall on
in her milk flow is seldom made to re-
gain II at a profit.
Skimp your sheep on good pasture
and they win skimp you on mutton.
Works both ways.
Rabbits do great damage to young
trees during winter, especially when
snow covers the ground.
The use of fruit is a great help
toward keeping In good health, and
more Of 1t should be grown.
It's a mistake to expect the miracu.
lous or abnormal from your 10Y Bet
ter make them work naturally.
If sows are expected to raise a fall
litter, 1t is best to wean the spring
pigs at from 5 to 10 weeks old.
When there is good stuff in the feed
box the heifer soon learns to be a
good barn COW when night
rE .tIgE
Do not try to winter the COWS with
out grain. Wheat bran, corn-meal
and oil-meal will be found valuable.
Sheep are comfort lovers and the
mar who neglects to provide them
with good, dry shelter makes a costly
error.
~Irregularity In feeding--that IL, a
good ration one day and a poor one
the next, will play havoc with the best
OF cows.
Peach trees can be planted any time
between last and first frost; the
earlier II the winter they are planted
the better. :""
A queen bee lives from two to five
years, workers from forty-five days to
six months, and drones seldom more
than Ave weeks.
Some breeders claim that six or
seven weeks is long enough for the
pigs to remain with the SOW. but
this, l think, is extreme.
The pig is merely a meat.producing
machine and the more he Is fed
with good Judgment, Of course--the
more meat he will turn over.
All living plants have definite needs
every day during their growth, and II
these needs are not supplied fully or
regularly bad results must follow.
, While the orchard is coming into
bearing try vegetable growing as a
: side line. This makes one Of the
: surest and best resources of income.
1t will pay to buy wheat bran to
mix with the barley or corn meal for
!. feeding cows. Bran and barley meal
half and half makes good meal for
/ milk.
The best ro~osting-place for young
turkeys is on branches Of trees. They
will not suffer from exposure, and
the open life will make them strong
3 and healthy.
Some mixers handle the teats as II
e they were made of rubber and devoid
OF all feeling; but, strange to say,
. there are nerves in the uddar which
Q are very sensitive.
Faxseed meal, also known under
the name Of linseed and oil meal, IS
one and the same thing. 1t is the resi-.
I due left after crushing and pressing
Q the oil out of faxseed.
We like to see the cows approach
1 their master in the yard to be
I scratched and petted, 1t shows that
they are used to kind treatment ana
[ are no. afraid OF him.
Marshy places along a stream fur
nish many beetles and shell fish and
r II the young ducks are allowed a run
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