Mexico Missouri message., 1912-12-05

Paint beauties the farm house.
Paint puts the profit.making touch
onto the buildings
Cabbage which is to be stored
should be handled with care.
II there were fewer whips in the
world there would be fewer ugly
horses
/ 1t is just as necessary to fit a col.
lar to a horse as it is to fit a shoe to
the foot
/ The young calf should be trained
/ to lead. This habit will be decidedly
appreciated in later years.
A man cannot work on boiled tur-
nips alone; neither can horse work
on a diet OF straw and fodder.
Alfalfa is injured by pasturing, and
can not be recommended II the fields
are to be kept for meadow purposes.
1t is entirely possible that you may
be able to double the income from
your cows by selling half the COWS.
Well.managed poultry is preferable
to farm crops. I'm that poultry will
produce an income at all times of the
year.
II costs a good deal OF money TO buy
satisfactory team. In most cases
this can be avoided by the farmer
raising his own.
When a bird becomes i'll, separate It
from the rest OF the flock BY doing
so the spread OF an infectious disease
may be averted.
in n barn when you go to town. Ii
is much cheaper than having to buy
a new harness and wagon.
The horse that is all the time being
tapped with the whip never knows
what his master means by Il, and
comes to think he means Just nothing.
Indigestion is the cause OF more
than half the diseases OF the horse.
and largely caused by improper food
and working horses on a full stomach
II is more profitable TO have the
hens in laying condition for the period
when prices are high than 1t Is to at
tempt to 'pre2erve" eggs until that
time.
All implements that are not needed
further this summer should be taken
to the Toulouse and protected from
the sun. a dollar saved is equal to
a dollar made.
By raising standard bred poultry
one will be able to sell stock and eggs
for breeding purposes and get mucG
better prices than when selling egg9
and fowls for food only.
The San Jose scale is not capable
of living and thriving on all kinds OF
plants. and 1t is extremely important
that the grower should know which
ones are most liable to attack
The COW gets up on her hind feet
first, her head down. For this reason
the manger should be low and the
COW allowed enough freedom in her
stall so that she can rise with ease.
Men who are inexperienced in al.
falfa growing should have forced on
their attention the important lesson
that it pays well to put little labor
on the surface after removing each
crop.
Present indications are that hog
prices will make another flight with
in the next fve or six months. This
ought to be n good time to get a
bunch Of shoats together and feed
them skim-milk.
Keep a sharp lookout for footrot.
and at the very first signs OF lame |
ness cut out all the affected parts OF
the hoof and force the entire flock
to walk through shallow trough con. |
tanning dlsinfectant.
The manure spreader should be the !
generally used tool on the farm. but |
this is no reason why it should be |
left unprotected in the storms and |
wintered In the snow bank. A shed |
for the spreader would be best econ.
Omy
To produce milk economically we
should use the roughage of our
farms wherever 1t is possible, for by
so doing We not only save the labor
OF hauling bulky material, but It will
also build up the fertility OF our
land. II we must buy feed let It be
concentrates and such material that
ts high in nitrogen and carbohy.