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

Don't overfeed the little chicks.
Alfalfa makes an excellent rough
age.
The rent in the clothes will not pay
the rent on the farm.
The Babcock test is Just as accu-
rate as the man who uses It.
Don't keep eggs for Matching longer
than ten days or two weeks at most.
MIX at 30 degrees is about the tenn
perature at which It separates best.
II rabbits have gnawed only the
outer bark, wrap the wound with
cloth.
Barley and oats, as well as wheat,
are usually improved in quality on
flax land.
Working the soil when Il is wet
will make It coarse and lumpy the
whole season.
As soon as your lettuce is large
enough, feed II to those chickens you
are fattening.
There is no better way by which
the corn crop can be used than
through the silo.
You can not make as good silage
from dry cornstalks as you can from
mature green corn.
Plant a row of the large, tame sun
flowers along the fence for hen feed at
moulting time next fan.
The strawberry is one OF the small
fruits which apparently thrive better
in acid than in alkaline soils.
dense, even in quality. and of a strong,
clear, white fiber throughout.
A purebred bull is often poor.
bred bull Pedigree and performance
are not interchangeable words.
II is to the poultryman's interest to
keep his stock to the best type,
healthy and vigorous all the time.
A half days work in the orchard
with the manure spreader will show
mp when apples are ripe next sum
mer.
No profit in keeping old ewes that
have lost their teeth. Better fatten
them the best you can and get rid
of them quickly.
You should know the working quail
ties of your sows; watch them from
the time they farrow and see how they
treat the little fellows.
The average COW ought to have four
to six weeks rest each year. A good
time to dry them off is just as they be.
gin to make an udder.
Coal oil will soften the old paint
brushes used last year. Place them
in can of the oil and wash them
well in warm soapsuds.
Feather pulling may be checked by
dissolving powdered aloes in water
and washing the feathers of the birds
that have been plucked.
To keep up heavy milk flow a COW
must have all the water she can drink
for every 100 pounds of her milk con.
tains 81 pounds of water.
Every garden for the home should
have grapes and many market gar
dens could be made more profitable
by growing this splendid fruit.
Many people have the idea that
brown shelled eggs are the richer but
the difference between white and
brown eggs is only in the color.
The best milking pail is the one so
constructed that it will reduce to a
minimum the amount of dirt falling
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milking.
One of the most general methods
adopted for cooling milk is to place
the cans in vat containing water
which reaches point slightly above
surface of milk.
| Cleanliness in handling, in straining
and in separating the milk is thing
that cannot be too religlously adhered
to, for prevention is the key word to
quality in all dairy work.
The COW is fertilizer factory, a
butter factory and a skim milk fac
tory; yet many farmers feed her as
little grain as they dare In the winter
and none at all In the summer
Plan to have a good, big patch OF
| strawberries for homo use, and Sc
cure your plants early in the season.
The big crop OF berries Is from vines