The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1912-09-27

Rotation Of crops is simple.
Feed green forage sparingly.
Ventilate all coops and buildings.

Make plenty Of new nests for the
hens this winter.
Every farmer should make a deter
mined war on weeds.
Get the binder in good shape before
you start harvesting.
You can't be too particular in pick
ing sires for your herds.
Well,bred, well-selected pigs, make
more profit on the food eaten.
More lime and more tile to nail
alfalfa to a rough, hard soil.
A hen always likes a nice new nest
in some dark, secluded corner.
A scar from a barbed wire cut re
1qces the value of a young horse i'm
meEaely.
The CLOSE, sultry nights demand
proper ventilation of all the coops and
buildings,
Corn silage has been shown to be
cheaper than hay or corn slower for
fattening steers.
Fruit for local market should get
about all its growth and its best color
before 1t Is picked.
Flies breed In manur and other
filth. So keep 1t cleaned up and
spread on the fields.
Among fruits the apple, pear, peach,
plum and cherry usually do best
where lime is abundant
Milk souring before the cream rises
will mean a poor quality Of butter,
and considerable cream lost.
As a single ration, alfalfa comes
nearest to filling all the requirements
Of a hog that Is trying to get fat.
The medium sized pig is the most
profitable to raise, because he can be
both thrifty and possess good quail
ity,
Give the cows a cool place screened
from the flies, where they can chew
their cuds and get ready for milking
time.
A good COW never dies in debt to
her owner, but without the Babcock
tester she may never get credit for her
performance.
With reasonably good seed and q
fairly well prepared seed bed about
twenty pounds of alfalfa seed are re-
CURED per acre,
A recommended cure for a found
cred COW Is to let her have all the
water she wants, but feed lightly un.
til she RECEIVERS.
If cream Ia hung close to the water
in a we'll that produces a real cold
drink 1t will In most cases be in just
the right shape for churning.
Consider the ~clovers. II often means
the difference between failure and
success. The clovers are almost In,
~dIspensable in the farm scheme.
Darkened stables or milking late
seem to be the only ways Of getting
around the fly problem. If you know
of any other good way, what Is it?
For several years we have bought
farm butter from the same farmer at
2 cents above retail market price ev.
cry month in the year and glad to
get II.
Milk fever is often caused by milk.
ing out the COW clean too soon after
calvlng. An authority recommends
letting the calf do the milking for
the first "a or So hours.
One valuable lesson the manure
spreader has taught is the use Of
small quantities applied frequently. It
makes possible what can be, but Is sell
dom done-light application.
Gull the eve flock and get them
up to a high standard, and Just as
much can be accomplished on the
flock as in the selection Of the ram.
except that the eve has but one or
two lambs a year and the ram a
great number,
When the hog seems to be losing
the use OF its limbs, feed less corn
and more bran and oats chop. II the
trouble is very bad, give eight or ten
drops Of i'll vomica in the feed
twice a day. An abundance of green
feed should also be given.
All fixtures, such as roosts, dron.
ping boards, and nests. should be
movable, so that they can be taken
out when the house Is white-wasbad
or sprayed, A stoplouse roost fasten.
err prevents mites travelling from tbe
walls of the house to the roosts
Lice and mites are two of the worst
foes OF poultry, and as the latter live
In the house, attacking the fowls
when on the roost or in the nest 81.
cry %precaution should be taken IN
building the house to provide as few
hiding places for them as pnssih,a