The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1912-01-05

are dying mat the disease is COuld-
gious.
When pigs are given bad quarters
they can't be expected to return good
dollars.
Just now the heavy steer Is a much
sought after article in the live stock
markets.
All brooders and brood coops should
be thoroughly cleaned and put away
for the winter.
The prosperous and most successful
farmer is comfortable only when his
stock is comfortable.
A rainy day is a good time to repair
and oil up the extra harnesses used
during the harvest season.
Observe with care and note as q
first point that the COW should have
a large and ample-sized body.
Good roads are the reward of COM
mon sense applied to the local man
agement of town or county affairs.
A sheep grower can scarcely make
a graver mistake than that of grow
ing sheep without regard to their
f~leeces.
In dairying there is no excuse for
the man who goes at it blindly and
blames luck and the weather for his
failure.
Only we'll bred stock that is we'll
| fed and we'll taken care of can make
money on land worth 500 or more
an acre.
Farmers with heavy steady work
now generally try to secure drafty
horses even when farm work is the
sole object.
The strainer never was made that
would take foul matter out of milk.
None ever will be. You have got to
keep it out.
If all the chickens and full-grown
hens run together, the stronger chick
ems will get most of the feed and keep
the others poor.
It is ~self-robbery to take a dairy
-@-, Il.N,.1 1ha DitAr uyhAp che
gives milk only five or six months out
Of the whole year.
If the cows pedigree tallies with
the milk pail, then it is consistent,
and a good foundation, or a poor one
as the case may be.
Fancy points may be of no advan-
tage to the farmer, but pure-bred
fowls will naturally possess just as
great utility as the scrub.
Before laying a cement stable floor
care should be taken to have the
ground below properly drained and
the foundation well constructed.
Selection is absolutely necessary il
order to breed and build up a good
dairy herd. One must Gull closely here
as we'll as in all other lines of work.
Many good, careful farmers find il
practical to hog Off some of their
corn. 1t will pay you to look into
this question, if you have not already
done so.
All the diseases which afflict our
poultry are those of domestication
caused largely by unnatural environ
ment and carelessness on the part of
the owners
Many of the details in butter max
ing can only be looked after by ez-
perience. Much of it must be learned
by doing the work. No one can begin
where the other fellow left off.
Be careful about feeding beet tops
to the cattle. Heavy feeding of this
material is somewhat dangerous as il
tends to purge animals. Feed in linn
tied quantities and with other feeds.
Be sure to have your boar-pen fence
boar proof, for the more times he
breaks out the more difficult it will
be to control him thereafter. Heavy
woven wire fencing will hold him Sc,
curely.
Never allow breeding swine to fol
low steers or dairy cattle for this is
a sure method of developing tubercul-
osis in swine. This disease seldom
originates with swine, but is easily
contracted by them.
The calf born in fall does not have
to wage the ceaseless war against
flies that the spring calf does, while
the cooler temperatures prevailing
causes the milk to be In better condi.
ton. Scours as a rarity in fall or win
ter.
The fashion and Judgment Of our