The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1912-01-26
Rape is popular with hogs.

AS ulleTS OI the SOIL, edTlu WOTlNS
constitute a great army.
q Put kerosene on the roosts frequent
ly to keep down chicken lice.
Teach the colt to eat a mixture Of
oats, wheat bran and linseed meal.
There is something in the first milk
that the calf needs, and should have.
Remember to treat your COW with
consideration in these days and nights.
The demands on the foal's diges-
tive system for nOurishment is very
great.
A flock Of ewes rightly handled
should produce 1875 per cent. OF
lambs.
1t is the income from each sheep
that should determine the value of
the flock.
Every progressive keeper separates
the light-colOred honey from the dark
fall honey
Unless the bird is extremely valu-
able the AK is the best remedy for a
sick chicken.
The COW that is allowed to fall off
in her milk flow is seldom made to re-
gain it at a profit.
Skimp your sheep on good pasture
and they will skimp you on mutton.
Works both ways.
Rabbits do great damage to young
trees during winter, especially when
snow covers the ground.
The use of fruit is a great help
toward keeping in good health, and
more of it should be grown.
lous or abnormal from your cows. Bet
ter make them work naturally.
If sows are expected to raise a fall
litter, it is best to wean the spring
pigs at from s to 10 weeks old.
When there is good stuff in the feed
box the heifer soon learns to be a
good barn cow when night comes.
Do not try to winter the COWS with
out grain. Wheat bran, corn-meal
and oil-meal will be found valuable.
Sheep are comfort lovers and the
man who neglects to provide them
with good, dry shelter makes a costly
| error.
I~rregularity in feeding-that is, a
good ration one day and a poo ore
OF cows.
Peach trees can be planted any time
between last and first frost; the
earlier in the winter they are planted
the better.
A queen bee lives from two to five
years, workers from fOrty-five days to
six months, and drones seldom more
than five weeks.
Some breeders claim that six or
seven weeks is long enough for the
pigs to remain with the SOW, but
this, l think, is extreme.
The pig is merely a meat-producing
machine and the more he is fed
with good judgment, Of course-the
more meat he will turn over.
All living plants have definite needs
every day during their growth, and if
these needs are not supplied fully or
regularly bad results must follow.
While the orchard is coming into
bearing try vegetable growing as a
side line. This makes one of the
surest and best resources of income.
It will pay 10 buy wheat bran to
mix with the barley or corn meal for
feeding COWS. Bran and barley meal
half and half makes good meal for
milk.
The best roosting-place for young
turkeys is on branches of trees. They
will not suffer from exposure, and
the open life will make them strong
and healthy.
Some mixers handle the teats as il
they were made Of rubber and devoid
of all feeling; but, strange to say,
there are nerves in the udder which
are very sensitive.
We like to see the cows approach
their master in the yard to be
scratched and petted. 1t shows that
they are used to kind treatment and
~ NOT afraid ~ him