The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1912-12-06

The best cows are never cheap.
Get the cows started right for win
tar
A bushel OF seed corn win plant
six to eight acres OF land.
A hog cannot sleep comfortably IN
draft or wind: he catches cold very
easily.
In proportion 10 his size. hog
needs twice the air space that COW
or horse does.
Frozen alfalfa will kill n hog as
quickly as II does COW or a horse.
II is usually indigestible.
A bunch Of ripe grapes will hang in
a hive OF bees until It dries up and
the bees will not touch II.
Corn meal. meat and potatoes are
three Of the most valuable ingredients
OF the fattening bill Of fare.
There is only one way OF positively
diagnosing hog cholera, and that is by
a postmortem examination.
After pigs are weaned, one OF the
most common causes Of runts IL the
feeding OF a straight corn diet.
There are many troubles OF swine
that are called hog cholera and yet
they have very little resemblance TO
that disease.
The capons when mature will aver
depending. OF course, on the variety OF
fowls caponized.
II a hog misses a feed. watch him;
tf he misses the second feed, remove
him from the herd and thoroughly dis
infect where he has been
Prepare warm. dry, but ventilated
quarters for the brood sows. and do
Il now. Cold storms will be here be-
fore We are ready for them.
Breeding stock should never be
saved from the litter OF vicious old
brood SOW, which is always restless
and chasing about the pasture.
Composted or well-decayed ma
nures serve their best purpose when
applied to the surface OF the garden
and thoroughly d!sked into the soil.
Fowls In confinement must have
hight feed and plenty OF grit, oyster
shell, and a little bone cut green. A
little chopped onion is fine about
once day.
Corn silage Is an excellent feed
for steers on account OF its succu-
lence and palatability. and because
OF Its comparative richness In carbo-
hydrates and fat.
Baby beef is term applied TO
steers or heifers from fifteen TO TWEEN
lty-two months OF age that show suff-
Client thickness OF flesh and quality to
be used as block beef.
Eastern farmers owning rough pas
lture lands valued at SIS to $50 per
acre, are stocking them with sheep
and the mutton industry in that sec
.tion is being rapidly revived.
Hogs that are allowed considerable
amount OF room for exercise. given
plenty OF water and good sleeping
quarters In a well-drained area are
not very liable to develop disease.
Besides keeping moro and better
animals, more attention should be
paid by farmers to such crops as
restore the fertility OF the soil. The
chief among these are clover and
alfalfa.
Lice are frequent causes OF un-
thriftiness with fall pigs. whenever
nits or lice are seen the pigs should
be dipped at ten-day intervals or else
given one coating OF crude oil applied
with q broom.
Oats IL one OF the best dairy feeds
which we have. Bran is also q very
good dairy feet. Cottonseed meal Is
also high In protein. Glover hay.
which we can raise directly on our
farm. Ia very good
No time should be lost in fattening
the light shearers and disposing OF
them to the best advantage. The
longer q sheep Ii kept that viii not
clip a quantity OF clean bright wool
above the average the poorer the
ewner will be.
Some farmers seem to imagine that
lust because q sheep has q fleece TO
protect Il that shelter from cold and
storms 10 not necessary, but they
should know that sheep are more sus-
beptible to cold and dampness than
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