The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1912-11-29

The best COWS are never cheap.
Get the COWS started right for win,
ter.
A bushel OF seed corr will plant
Six to eight acres of land.
A hog cannot sleep comfortably in
a draft or wind; he catches cold very
easily.
In proportion to his size, a hog
needs twice the air space that a COW
or horse does.
Frozen alfalfa will kill a hog as
quickly as it does a cow or a horse,
It Is usually ~indigestible.
A bunch Of ripe grapes will hang in
r. hive Of bees until It dries up and
the bees will not touch it.
Corn meal, meat and potatoes are
three OF the most valuable ingredients
Of the f~attening bill Of fare.
There is only n way of positively
diagnosing hog cholera, and that is by
a post-mortem examination,
After pigs are weaned, one Of the
most common causes of runts is the
Feeding CT a straight corn diet.
There are many troubles Of swine
that are called hog cholera and yet
they have very little resemblance 70
hat disease.
The capons when mature will aver.
age to weigh between 5 and II pounds.
depending. Of course, on the variety Of
fowls caponized.
II a hog misses a feed. watch him;
II he misses the second feed, remove
him from the herd and thoroughly dis.
infect where he has been.
Prepare warm, dry, but ventilated
quarters for the brood sows, and dc
l. now. Cold storms will be here be-
fore we are ready for them.
Breeding stock should never be
saved from the litter of a vicious old
brood SOW, which is always restless
and chasing about the pasture.
Composted or well.decayed ma
nures serve their best purpose when
applied to the surface Of the garden
and thoroughly disked into the soil.
Fowls in confinement must have
light feed and plenty Of grit, oyster
shell, and a little bone cut green. A
little chopped onion is fine about
once a day.
Corn silaga Is an excellent feed
for steers on account Of its succu.
lence and paIatabtlity, and because
Of It's comparative richness in carbo-
hydrates and fat.
Baby beef Is a term applied to
steers or heifers from fifteen to TWEEN
ty.two months Of age that show sufi-
cient thickness Of flesh and quality to
6e used as block beef.
Eastern farmers owning rough pas
ture lands valued at SIS to 500 per
acre, are stocking them with sheep
ard the mutton industry in that sec.
ZION is being rapidly revived.
Hogs that are allowed considerable
amount Of room for exercise, given
plenty Of water and good sleeping
quarters in a well-drained area are
not very Liable to develop disease.
Besides keeping more and better
animals, more attention should be
paid by farmers to such crops as
restore the fertility Of the soil. The
chief among these are clover and
alfalfa.
Lice are frequent causes OF IN
t~hriftiness with fall pigs. Whenever
nits or lice are seen the pigs should
be dipped at ten-day intervals or else
given n coating Of crude oil applied
with a broom.
No time should be lost in fatteninG
the light shearers and disposing of
them to the best advantage. The
longer a sheep is kept that will not
clip a quantity Of clean bright Voc!
above the average the poorer the
owner will be.
Oats is one of the best dairy feeds
which VIC have. Bran Is also a very
good dairy feet. Cottonseed meal is
also high In protein. Clover hay,
which we can raise directly on our
farm, Ia very good.
There is q great deal said about the
necessity of mating hens with cock
arels and cocks with pullets. The
best authorities and most practical
poultry raisers generally agree that
il makes little difference as to how
the mating is done.
Some farmers seem to imagine that |
tust because a sheep has a fleece to
protect II that shelter from cold and
storms ia not necessary. but they
should know that sheep are more sus
ceptible to cold and darnpness than
any other animal on the farm.
At the Per .,ylvania school OF hor.