Mexico Missouri message., 1912-09-05
A farm shop is handy.

Prepare for hog marketing time.
1t is time to get the machinery un.
der cover.
A hog cannot help being dirty in
wet filthy pen.
Try to have the water tanks under
some sort of shade.
In milking It is the last few pulls
that produce the profits.
A dog that worries stock has no
business on the dairy farm.
A good shade goes long way
toward thrift in the hog pens.
To get the best results the COW
must be kept quiet and treated kindly
Oil is cheaper than harvesters.
Good oil is cheaper than thin cheap
stuff
A screen fly trap setting near the
back kitchen door rids the house of
many flies,
There is going to be lot of alfalfa
sown this fall How much of It will be
on your farm?
II nave 70 oct o,,t apd do nc rouch
work as possible in the early part
of these hot days.
One thing that keeps the hired man
on the farm is a neat, well-kept. and
we'll arranged farm.
A disk from an old pulverizer
makes a good anchor for holding the
end post of a wire fence
Milking the cows clean and care
fully has a tendency to develop a per-
sistent habit OF yielding milk.
1t doesn't cost any more to be clean
ly than otherwise. And there's more
profit and satisfaction in It too.
Silage Ia highly relished by both
cattle and sheep. and is fed with
profit to these classes of animals.
Our advertising columns are inter-
esting this month. Look them over
carefully. May find something you
want
Three tablespoonfuls OF formalin to
pint of half water and half milk is
an efficient poison to set where flies
congregate.
The silo should be placed where 1t
will not interfere with the sunlight en-
terlng the barn. or interfere with the
entrance or exits.
Supplement the short pastures with
those green crops you planted last
spring. Didn't do it? Too bad. Re-
member next time.
A little gunny sacking over that
poor cows or calls back, when 1t ia
picketed near swarms OF flies. will
help out the feed surprisingly.
Flies can't hatch without a manure
or dump pile to incubate In. Keep
everything clean and there will be a
few million less OF these flies.
Sheep and poultry go we'll to geth-
err, and when once the buildings and
fields are ready for them, how little
work, compared with other stock, It
takes to care for them
Many dairymen are giving their
and then complain because there is
no profit in dairying. Such dairying
don't deserve to succeed.
Don't neglect to cultivate the grape
vineyard up to fruiting time. The
surface of the soil in the vineyard
must be kept mellow throughout the
hot July and August days.
Skim the milk clean. The milk
containing quite a little butter fat
may be most excellent for the pigs
but butter fat at 20 to 2S cents q
pound is expensive pig feed.
We saved up some of our profits
from farming and invested In some
farm land a few years ago. The re
suit may surprise you, but we made
80 per cent on our investment.
The coal ash mulch is certainly
good for gooseberries and also for to
matoes. Tomatoes mulched with
sifted coal ashes will resist blight
and keep green and dourishing longer
than without 1t.
Linseed meal is made by grinding
flaxseed from which the oil has beer
more or less completely extracted
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