Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1912-11-16
Notes From Farm

Stock like cowpeas.
Pack all fruit carefully.
Geese are easy to raise.
Protect young fruit trees.
Take good a r of heifers.
A bone cutter Is essential.
Sell all the sr1perfluous cockerels.
Good fences help make good neigh
bors.
Give the weanling colts all the oats
they will eat.
The hen that fattens readily is usu-
ally not a good layer.
An ounce of salt to 4 pound of butter
is about the right average.
Gather your vegetables before heavy
1rosts and store in suitable places.
Somehow the poultry yard seems to
be the very last place that reforms IN
stock breeding take place.
The ideal time for picking apples is
a matter that must be settled to a
large degree by the individual.
A liberal banking of sheds on the
north side will prove a boon to the
COWS when the cold weather comes.
At this season of the year with the
coming of the fan rains, a dry shelter
should be provided for the sheep.
The value of livestock on the farm
for turning low-priced products into
good money has never been thorough
ly understood,
1t is said by observers that a hog
roots in the ground for alkali which
it finds in the soil and which aids him
in digestion.
Let the hogs husk their own corn.
Corn and soy beans, corn and rape, or
corn and pumpkins, will produce pork
for SO per cwt or less.
Fall il a better time to manure the
garden or potato patch than spring.
The richness has time to soak into
the soil during the winter.
Don't leave any rotten fruit lying
around in the orchard for the insect
pests to harbor in this winter and
hatch their young out next spring. !
One lesson that short hay crops have
taught us is that a crop of hay can be
raised along tie roadside where weeds
had their home before.
The dairyman who Is trying with dry
feed to compete with the man with a
silo might as we'll make up his mind
to get a silo next summer.
Rub the cows udder with a damp
cloth before milking. We would dis
charge a mixer whom we caught wet
ting the teats with milk drawn into
the hand
Fruit picking must De done carefully
as all bruised frlit quickly decays.
DO not leave any decayed fruit on the
trees or lying around on the ground.
Cattle uniformity Of ten same color
and general conformation make a
much better appearance in the pasture
fields or in the farm yard than those
OF a great variety of colors and gener-
al appearance.
1t Is always best to give slOp or
drink Of any kind to hogs before they
have had their feed of grain. When
cold weather sets in 1t is better yet il
the slop can be wormed. Ice cold slop
does not do hogs much good in very
cold weather. ,.....
Give the wethers extra grain and
send them to market before the pas
ture is dried and short.
II the pigs are thrifty and doing
we'll that is good evidence that they
are being pretty we'll fed.
II you are tired of making milk on
h%igh.priced mill feed why not try al
falfa,, clover or coWpeas next year?
Save the wood ashes during the
coming winter and you will have the
best kind of fertilizer for the orchard.
Many a new and valuable imple-
ment is lett out all winter more
through carelessness than anything
else.
Close housing and bad ventilation
in the COW stable are favorable con
ditions for starting tuberculosis in a
herd.
Good breeding and good feeding are
so closely related that they must go
together, one Is useless without the
other.
If sheep are in a good thrifty con-
dition at the start two months OF
good feeding will properly fatten for
market.
If alfalfa or clover will not thrive
in your climate or soil 1t is pretty
certain coWpeas will.
Hairy or winter vetch may be sown
in the fall, and will be q very useful
early spring forage.
II your garden is too wet at times
remember that fall is a good time to
put In the drains.