Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1912-10-03

Range TOT the CHICKS Is best
Sheep must have some shelter.
Separate the pullets and cocker
els.
Good feed good care good breed.
good stock
Some cows are better bred than
their owners.
DO not put the colts in pasture
fenced by barbed wire.
Do you have lot of young roost-
ers? Sell them FOR frys.
It's mighty easy matter to over.
crowd the chick coops now.
1t may be wise to protect the colts
from the flies during the day
You cannot fatten your cattle while
ticks are sucking their blood
Hill culture produces earlier straw
berries than matted row culture.
Unless man has a great love for
a horse he should not handle colts.
a sheep or calf staked in the
front yard is a splendid lawn mower.
Warm skim milk for feeding pur-
poses soon pays the cost OF 4 farm
separator
Most OF the fly dopes are fairly good
but for results they have to be ap-
piled every day.
Sheep have just as important a
place upon the average farm as any
other live stock.
Drink is all right for the hogs. but
they need some grain and vegetables
to go with their milk.
There is plenty OF farm talk in the
air, but 1t is farm work that counts
in the bank balance.
good plan is to make the lots
long and narrow and SOW them 10 pas
ture. blowing up alternately.
Remember, chick coops are very
apt to become foul and unhealthy
while the weather is so sultry
1t will only take about half as much
grain and other feed to raise litter
of pigs If they be given pasture.
There is nothing about green fodder
that would have a depressing infiu-
ence upon the milk flow OF the COW.
There are about a dozen different
breeds of dairy cattle and the best of
them all is the kind that suits you
best
The best favored butter is obtained
by ripening or souring cream until !
from . TO per cent. of acid has been
developed.
Roughness cannot be made to en- |
tirely take the place OF grain. but a |
heavy crop of roughness is not to be |
despised
Ground limestone is preferable to |
burnt lime unless two tons of the for |
mer cost considerably more than one |
ton of the latter.
There are very few farms on which |
additional labor expended in prepar-
ing the seed bed would not yield |
handsome returns.
wide range and frequent ex.
change of pasture will reduce the |
ravages OF the stomach worm, that
fearful enemy of the sheep
An enterprising farmer living near
town OF 5000 or more can sell every
pound OF his butter at full retail prices
or little above the year round.
The man who is trying to raise hogs
without pasture and forage crops is
like a puppy chasing his tail. He gets
plenty of exercise, but nothing else.
Sore shoulders on horse are moth
ing less than shameful, and no man
should consider himself worthy who
permits them to appear upon his work
animals.
II horses are inclined to nab at
each other between the stalls, put I'D
some tight wire as a partition. They
can see through this all right and
still not reach each other
The first incubators used in the
United States were tested In 1875.
Now thousands are in use in every
state in the Union and wonderful
progress has been made. In fact.
without the use of incubators and
brooders, the big commercial plants
OF today would he imnnaaihIa