Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1912-08-29
Milk the cows clean.
very farm needs a silo.

Give all farm animals pure water.
Stunted calves don't make good
cows.
II you can raise a good steer why
raise poor one?
The pig eating SOW is usually the
result OF bad feeding.
Learn to handle harnes fast, on and
off, It saves so much time.
The world keeps finding new uses
for corn and corn products.
A roadside filled with tall weeds is
q great harboring place for fiies.
Handling and petting the heifer calf
will mean a gentle COW after awhile.
Get the old hens started for market
as soon as they have laid their litter
out.
The most eloquent friends the silo
silage
One good thing about the incuba-
tor, It never leaves the nest before the
Job is done.
A little salt daily for the cows is
better than the weekly sailing on Sun
day morning.
The breeding boar should not only
be good individual, but be backed by
good ancestors.
Sunshine is natures best disinfect-
ant and the pens and houses cannot
have too much OF It.
Glover is an exceptionally good
cattle roughage, but at present prices
it's use is quite prohibitve.
BOOSTERS Of all breeds should be
separated from hens when they mott.
It takes them longer than hens.
Pigs allowed to make their beds on
manure piles soon become scuffy and
affected with a dry hacking cough.
! II the heifer doesn't show up web
with her first calf and give promise Of
being profitable COW better get rid
of her
: There is no question but what the
thin blanket keeps the flies off, but
however thin it may be It makes the
horse warm.
II one OF your hogs gets grudge
against another, put them In sep
D arate pens. They will do better and
9 grow faster.
Removing stumps certainly pays
g They not only occupy space which Is
r valuable but they also cause all sorts
of trouble and inconvenience.
p In punching, alfalfa should be
3 handled by hand, as punching with a
r rake loses many of the leaves. Rain
is very injurious to the cut hay.
I Provide shade and shelter for calves
D Keep salt and fresh water before
8 them all the time. Dehorn before fly
time. Halter break every calf while
young.
Q There are two crops which cannot
7 as rule be grown in the same par
ish. sheep and dogs. Sheep are mos
profitable but dogs are the favoritt
r with too many farmers.
n When one growth of alfalfa is re
moved, another one comes on i'm
mediately But If the first growth re
e mains while the second one starts
Il then the second suffers.
When the pigs are taken out o
the pasture this fall they. should not b,
If turned suddenly into the cornfields o
4 fed all the new corn they can eat
t Make the change gradually,
When strawberries are through
fruiting, remove the mulch ana CIV
10 cultivation. II the plants have mad
W a rank growth, NOW off the tops q
is the plants with the mower.
II is the very poorest sort of polio
to store potatoes intended for seed /
IL basement in which there is a fu
ly mace as it usually results in lowe
ing OF the vitality of the seed.
To in any way skrimp the food {
a growing animal, chicken, pig, lam
to calf or colt is to invite sure loss
Id thrifty, growing young animal
ur kept thrifty and growing, is always
at money maker.
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Never introduce a new bird into tn
regular yard until It has been dull
es guaranteed. Keep 1t alone for a wee