Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1912-05-30

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Know your brood sows.
Clean the poultry houses
Chickens like sunhower seeds.
Kerosene emulsion is easily made.
A horse that Is trained without
blinds is usually the safer horse.
Young pigs are peculiarly subjected
to various kinds of intestinal worms.
II is better to give the orchard clean
cultivation than to try to raise crops
in it.
1t is better to have a dirty floor than
q dirty, dusty atmosphere during milk
ing time.
Leave a horse united when hooked
TO a vehicle and he will be likely to
be gone when you return for him.
Fine gravel is not the proper grit
for poultry They want a sharp ma
terial with which to grind their food.
Expert orchardists recommend seed
ing the orchard to crimson clover-or
rye TO be plowed down the following
spring.
In localities where aster, goldenrod
and other fall blooms abound 1t is
we'll to look for surplus even in Sep
TENDER.
An hours work with a sharp wire
at the foot of your peach trees killing
borers may mean an extra bushel of
fine peaches.
A tree can be bridge grated in less
than half an hour, and It is better to
take this time to do 1t than to let a
valuable tree die.
Go over the young apple trees and
| cut off every water sprout with a
| sharp knife close to the trunk. Do 1t
early, and they will heal this season.
To do we'll the cows should be turn
ed dry something like six weeks be-
fore freshening This is good for the
calf, rests the COW, and develops the
udder.
When It comes to growing pigs,
calves, poultry or cream, any farmer
with few acres of alfalfa on his farm
has a great advantage over his neigh
Dor without 1t.
The first milk OF the COW is OF a pc
culiar character-called colostrum-
acting as a purgative, and this puts
the bowels of the young calf in per-
feet working condition.
If you did not have enough good
seed for the farm crops, lose no time
in getting enough to plant your
crops. Get the best that can be had,
regardless Of the price.
A ration for dairy COW should full
fill the following requirements: 1t
should be balanced, palatable, home
grown as near as possible, and finally
| 1t should be economical
During the winter the dairy farm
err has more time to figure out his
plans for improving his system of
farming. The great question should
be to get better and more profitable
| lot of cows.
Sixty per cent. of all horses that go
unsound, go wrong in the hook joints,
according to the notes taken by one
breeder Too much attention cannot
be given the hooks in choosing stall
lions to which the mares are to be
mated.
Call veterinarian If a mare is hay.
ing trouble in dropping a colt and you
are In doubt of being able to assist
| her properly. A fee of IS or $40 TO
the veterinarian may save $500 mare
and bring a colt into the world that
will develop into a horse worth as
much more.
A little knowledge of the proper
! type Of animal to select is worth a lot
Of money to the buyer sometimes. At.
tend the short course schools when.
ever you get a chance and study the
types and breeds as we'll as the mar
kets. There Is a surprising difference
in animals when you know what to
| look for--as much as there is in peo-
pie.
When It is desired to spray the
poultry house it is important that
every square inch of space should
be given a fine spray, and while small
force pumps, rubber sprayers, bel
lows, etc, may be used, it is not SO