The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1912-09-13
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ne unframed COS is Il DulSdEC0.
The use of hooded pals meal
cleaner milk.
The horse should be given food
free from dust.
The Importance of the sorghums is
often overlooked.
Line fences well kept up help to
make good n%eighbors.
Alfalfa should ordinarily he cut
when it is coming into blossom.
There is no grass that will stand
flooding for any considerable time.
A crop of potatoes should be spray
ed at least twice with Bordeaux mix
ture.
Hogs should he fed as near as pos
sible at the same hours, morning and
evening.
n OF the cheapest root crops to
grow for stock is turnips. Plant early
this month.
No animal that gets only feed
enough to support life can make a
gain or profit.
Sometimes a weeks chill rains or
cold weather will set the pigs back a
month in their growth.
In selecting the brood SOW remem-
Der that the size of the litter is an
important factor in her profit.
Father and the hoys appreciate the
garden at meal time during the yege-
table season, IL at no other time.
When building that dairy barn be
sure to make it large enough to &C
commoGate the growth Of your busi-
ness.
1t is the amount Of food over and
above the quantity required to sus-
tain the life of the animal that counts
for profit.
It is just as important that every
horse should have his own collar all
the time as that the man should wear
his own shoes.
Where young orchards are kept per-
fectly clean by cultivation. there is
seldom much injury sustained from
mice during the winter.
Young hens should not be set after
their first laying of eggs. BY the time
they want to set the second time they
will make good mothers.
The greatest crop the farmers Of
the world have raised has been Lib
erty and Freedom. The oppressed far
mer is never a good farmer.
With a good corr crop almost ready
to crib and plenty Of other feed ev-
"a IN suOulu RtCDdIc W ldlSC
and fatten a few hogs this year.
If you have had a crop fail for you
two or three times It will pay to look
deeper than mere climatic conditions.
Probably there are other causes which
you can remove
"Jr fSn cbndn ~ thn 0vI orn1a troov
Is a mighty good place to spend a few
minutes at noon these hot days. A
little rest at oon gives speed to the
work of the afternoon.
1t costs just as much in soil fertility
to raise a weed as to raise a wheat or
oat stalk. Land is not resting If It is
raising weeds. Even they ought to be
plowed down for fertility.
Now is the time to swat the mites,
end be sure that 1t is a mighty swat,
because the pesky mite is a mighty
mean mite Of an insect that is the
bugaboo of egg production.
~ WuOie " Vi ldIlIleTS WOulu Det
ter sell their COWS and buy their milk
and butter. II would be cheaper than
the price they are now paying, al.
though they do not realize IL.
Constant care is one OF the secrets
Of success in the breeding or feeding
Of stock Of all kinds. 1t is only the
man who likes such work that will
measur up to the greatest success.
Some crops have root systems which
go much deeper han the soil IS
plowed or broken up. It takes strength
to send down the roots which might
be used in sending up stalk. Deep
blowing pays.
Beet growing is beginning to be.
come a very profitable as we'll az a
popular crop In many sections. The
general price is $500 per ton and the
general yield in many sections runs up
to 20 tons and better.
A we'll seedsman ctotec that