Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1912-07-25

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q herd of .breachy stock.
More silos and less rotten corn
shocks will, increase profits.
Cut up dandelions and the tender
young shoots of grass for the chicks.
Exercise sweating In . horse indi.
Gates weakness.
The first essential in making good
butter Is good cream.
CamphoTated oil, is good for caked
udder or other Inflammation.
Frequent stirring while cream is
ripening will make better butter.
A hog can be starved to eat al.
most anything, but 1t is poor economy.
Above all things give the calves
clean. dry pens with plenty OF sun
shine.
In trimming raspberry and black
berry bushes. look out for the gall
beetle.
Faults in q herd can be eliminated
most quickly by careful breeding and
selection.
A hot sweat-collar is apt to soften
the shoulders Of horse, II you do
not look out.
A concrete tank will not spring q
leak and at the same time 1t Will al
ways be ready for use.
II possible keep the ewes with twin
lambs separate from other sheep for
a week or so at least.
Provided your COW 10 good one.
the more che Ia fed along right lines.
the more she will give.
It has been found advantageous to
wash the inside Of the silo with
q mixture OF cement and water.
Put bull ring In the nose OF the
chronic self-sucking COW and you have
a humane, effective remedy.
Dairy work Is just like any kind OF
work II 1t is going to be done profit
ably 1t requires .thought,and care.
.Silo., users assert that they have
found way to cut down the cost OF
handling COWS at least one.third.
Lack of charcoal, grit and green
food together with animal rations IN
insufficient quantities means failure.
The dairyman, II he will use the
means that are at hand, can build up
his soil better than any other far
mer.
There Is no animal on the farm
that turns a larger profit in proper.
ton Ito the money invested than .
sheep.
Old sheep sometimes make good
money for experienced sheepmen. but
young sheepmen should start with
young sheep.
Some cows begin to "go back"
~whensthey reach the age of eight but
many others are still profitable at
twelve to fifteen.
II Is no little labor to keep q stall
where several calves run clean and
dry. but there is no other way II you
want, to, raise god calves.
Don't expect the team to do hard
days work lin the field and then
trot a half dozen miles to town and
4 hack again after supper.
The profit in keeping cows comes
from the extra amount OF milk that
they give above the ordinary yield on
common pasture or coarse feed.
Hogs sshould have access to water
at all times. and running water is 20
be preferred, upless 1t flows through
farms where other hogs are kept.
It costs money to inclose the chick
en- yard. Of course. but 1t costs less
than the toll exacted by cats, dogs and
rats helping themselves to the young
chickens.
Growing chickens require much
meat. In ,eFder to produce the vigor
that will I'D them to resist all kinds
Of disease and even the attacks OF lice
and mites.
Good care consists in doing every.
thing from milking and caring for the
cows to marketing the butter or cream
as II your whole life success depend
ed upon 1t.
Hog cholera can be readily pre-
vented by keeping the source Of con-
termination away from the herd by
protecting the we'll animals from all
carriers Of the infection.
Nothing 10 more delicious than
sweet corn, and II planted at intervals,
perhaps by making two or three plant
ings Of It. q succession can be kept up
all summer and late in fall.
The size of the udder is not the
only point to be considered in Judging
an .udder. 1t should be soft and Pill