The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1912-02-03


q placing premiums on stock and
not explaining why. He thought they
ought to be required to explain the
points to the farmers and especially
the young farmers.
Make the hog comSortable when the
family Of little ones arrive. Sec to
(. that the quarters are warm, with
good dry bedding, clean the house
often and disinfect before rebedding.
The next thing Is to and get them
to weigh $50 pounds at six months. IL
can be done. Some are doing it. Be
gin to feed separately from mother at
al out two weeks of age. When eight
weeks old take mother away leave
the pigs i'm the home which he ex-
aimed made all the difference I'm
the world from taking the pigs away
from the mother, also put on full feed
at this age, a good feed 100 pounds
tankage, 100 pounds oil meal, 100
pounds shorts, clover hay and corn
also to finish off on.
Saturday Morning.
The Saturday morning session Of
the Waldo farmers institute opened
at 900 o'clock, with an orchestral Sc
lection. ID. ID. Harsh, state speaker of
the institute, then took up the discus
sion of how to raise horses for profit.
Mr.. Harsh began by talking of the
road. or driving horse.
Each farmer" he said. "should have
team of the best possible horses for
family use, regardless Of profit, for
good driving horse is a source of much
enjoyment to everyone. The horse
from which the greatest profit is real
lied, is the heavy horse A number of
fcrmers are not informed as to the
best points in choosing horses and
50 a great many of them are cheated
when buying. The bigger horse you
can raise. the better it is. Every one
hundred pounds weight added to a
horse, adds $25 i'm value. The real
reason why so few farmers realize
lnoney on horses, is that the colts are
not properly. cared for. Don't be stingy
Ia feeding your colts and he sure they
are kept clean. Teach the colt to
know you from the start, and in ten
or twelve days, YOU will be able to
halter IT without using force
Mr.. Harsh spoke of the kind of hap
uess young horses should wear. and
laid special stress on the care which
should be taken i'm selecting the col
lars, in order that they might not be
too large or too small. In showing
how to tell a good horse, he said they
have, large clear eyes, neck not too
short, short back, with the front
legs directly under the collar bone.
An open discussion Of the foregoing
address was then entered into by var
ious farmers present.
| Clifford Graham. of Waldo, who was
sent TO the state fair at Columbus. by
the institute board, then gave a short
talk on what | saw and heard at
the state fair" MIR Graham Is only
lG years Of age, and is probably one
OF the youngest men ever sent by any
board to the fair, and his paper was
exceptionally interesting. lie descrlb-
led the various attractions which are
of interest 70 agriculturists at the
Hair, and also told of the Hartman
stock farm at Columbus
As. Mr.. Marsh left the institute to-
day at noon, he gave the talk which
had been scheduled for the afternoon
lat the morning session instead His
lsubject was How to build up run.
down farm" Mr.. Harsh spoke OF
the tendency which farmers have tc
$50 out west and buy up land, when
they could get abandoned farms here
In Ohio. The farms were abandoned
because they We're rundown, but al
that Is necessary is a little time ant
work to build them up again. The
greatest need for Ohio land Is mois
ture. The way to get this Is by deer
Ip'owing in order to get TO the re-
seryoir of moisture. The soil alst
needs building up. and this may b,
done by studying the kind OF foo,
which It needs.
In the interest OF the grange or
ganization, w. II. Criswel, of Nor
rev county talked to the institute 70
about ten minutes. My CrlswelI spok
on the grange, showing the advantage
gained by it, both socially and com
r'ercially. His address was the clos
ing number Of the program.