The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1912-12-11

w nile SMUT IN elI0ef corn or cane is
ugly to look at, it has been found to
be practically harmless for cattle to
eat, even in considerable quantities
The white or Irish potato is worth
feeding to the dairy COWS if it can be
got for % cents per bushel. Potatoes
make an excellent succulent ration, but
are not high in food elements.
1t is a pretty sensible idea for the
father Of the small boy to find out just
how thick the ice is and how deep the
water under it where the lad goes for
his first skate. 1t may save some ez-
penses for casket and flowers.
The Ohio Agricultural college reports
a S. c. White Leghorn pullet that be
gan laying at four months and four
teen days from the shell. If any OF
our readers have more precocious pull
lets than this they should report the
fact.
At the state university at Lawrence.
Kan, some of the girl students have
formed sock darning and shirt mend
ing bureau. This will relieve the boys
of a disagreeable bachelors job and
at the same time give the girls some
spending money.
The pulp from the cider mill may he
scattered thinly on orchard or meadow
as one would manure, but owing 70
its acidity it should be neutralized by
after it. The pulp contains some pOt
ash and little phosphorus.
The crop of apples of the Paci!ir
northwest, including Montana, Idaho.
Washington and Oregon, is put at 1S.-
600 carloads. The refrigerator cars in
which this fruit is carried hold CSC
boxes, and at an average price of ST..
per box this means that the crop is
worth in the neighbOrhood of $14.OGl.-
900.
a reader of this department who
lives near Ray, n. D., recently sent the
writer two potatoes Of the White
Mountain variety. One weighed 4
pound and three-quarters and the other
a pound and q half. The tract on
which they were grown produced 100
bushels nearly as large.
In selecting the breeding hogs for
next SeasOn-and this holds equally with
both males and females-it is highly
important to select only those of the
highest vigOr, which come from large
/ filters. Sometimes individual excel
lence in an animal tends to blind one
to the Importance of this rule, but il
ought not to.
/ The sulphur smudge made by sprin
king two or three pounds of flowers
/ of sulphur on pan OF live hardwood
Goals will put a good many lice an,!
/ mites out of business, but to be most
! effective the interior of the poultry
house should be given a spray of kero
sene and carbolic acid followed by 4
( thorough whitewashing.
As the colder weather comes on
when the family horse is likely to be
used much less for various trips, ar
rangement should be made so that i;
/ can have exercise in a yard near the
barn. 1t is positive cruelty to compel
a horse to stand in q narrow stall all
day. and, more than this, it is likely to
induce serious physical ills.
I Cabbages are plenty and cheap this
fall, and it will be the part of good
management to secure a couple dOZei
head, more or less, in order to provide
the flock of hens with needed and sue
culent green food during the wintel
months The cabbages should be hung
q little above the hens heads so thai
jumping for the treat will give then
exercise.
With prices of good horses ranging
as they do at present from $3.50 t.
! $500, depending upon breed and weight
it means that the farmer who is in the
horse raising business is getting be
tween Is and Is cents pound fol-
horsehesh at three years of age. This
is a good return and means hand
some revenue for the man who is fixed
and fenced for the business.
A friend who lives in Chicago has
solved the question of getting a tint
grade of creamery butter by ordering
direct from the creamery. He buys ;
sixty pound tub at a time. the express
on which is about a dollar. and ir
order that this supply may not be oil
hand too long he sells a portion of il
to nearby friends. The butter is strict
ly fresh and costs him from TO
cents a pound less than he would have
TO pay for staler butter Of poorel
quality at the nearest store.