Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1912-05-23
Get a separator.


Don't forget to brace the end post
Of any fence or trellis.
Pigs that show signs Of thumps
should be forced to take exercise.
A little vaseline rubbed into cuts or
chapped teats will soon heal them up.
Commercial fertilizer, when prop
erly used, will increase the yield OF
crops.
The silo is a time saver when 1t
comes to feeding a large number OF
| animals.
The wheel hoe will save many a
backache and do the work of three
hand hoes.
Fruit trees should never be planted
on the lawn, as they cannot be profit
ably worked.
II more farmers were tied down by
dairies, fewer of them would be tied
down by debts.
Three-pail feeds a day for the young
calf are none too many. That is more
like Natures way.
Wheat bran has just the elements
in 1t that sheep and lambs need to
make good growth.
About % pounds of average milk
should furnish enough cream to make
a pound of butter.
Powdered charcoal in the feed is
good for bowel trouble and plenty of
grit has the same effect.
The best method of dehorning is to
rub little Caustic potash on the calf's
little knobs when a few days old.
After chicks are a week old whole
Kafir makes about as good a single
grain as can be fed to make weight.
Wood ashes are valuable to spread
around fruit trees for small fruits and
vegetables; they should not be wasted.
You will appreciate the difference
between low-headed and highheaded
trees when you are picking the crop.
1t is generally conceded that the
best time to sell chickens Is from the
first of January to the first Of Novem-
Der.
The garden can and should be made
the most productive and most profit
able plot of ground on the farm. 1t
should not be overlooked.
The sheep manure as a fertilizer
has no equal, and no manure spreader
has ever been invented that is as sat.
isfactory as the sheep itself.
The check rein has no place on the
harness of man who cares for his
horses. and desires for them COM
fort and freedom when at work.
Der to speak kindly to him whenever
you fasten the traces. The same rule
applies when he is only "hoss."
Corn silage and alfalfa make an ex-
cellent ration for dairy cows, and
good yields Of milk have been re-
ported where nothing else was fed.
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The old neglected orchard, with its
dead leaves and wormy apples, is
blot on the face of the earth. Trim,
spray, cultivate anc get big returns.
Nothing is so salable in the stock
line Just now as q good dairy COW. The
raising of purebred milk cows as an
industry should receive more atten-
ton.
The hand separator is good In the
DRY. but the majority of farmers do
not keep their cream as they should,
nor deliver 1t to the creamery often
enough.
The reason why so many OF our
| beautlful plants ana vines are de-
stroyed by bugs is because We are too
lazy or unqualified to fight them all
the time.
II will pay to buy wheat bran to mix
with the barley or corn meal for
feeding COWS. Bran and good barley
meal, half and half, makes good meal
for milk.
One reason why 1t is well to let the
new calf run with the mother a day
of two is because 1t is better able to
take the swelling from the udder than
the hand mixer is.
Burn the diseased branches so that
the other trees will not be contami-
ated. 1t will also be advisable to open
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