Mexico Missouri message., 1912-11-14

Mulch the strawberries.
Baled corn fodder is new.
Use a low wagon in the orchard.
Clean out the old nesting material
and burn it.
Milk to the last drop, for the last
milk is the best.
Sweet clover can be used as a sub
stitute for red clover
A single drop Of milk contains FIVE
million globules OF butter tat.
When corn husking time is at Land,
the corn ought to be fairly well dried
out
Hogs will husk corr for nothing.
The hired man wants four cents a
bushel
It is not what is eaten but what
Is digested that furnishes strength and
muscle.
/ Vitality is a very important charac-
/ teristic in the dairy COW or any other
| farm animal.
Hogging down corn looks like a
lazy mans way, but 1t is a money
maker. Try 1t.
! A hen can't be a very respectable
hen IL she is full of l!ce-help her by
cleaning up the roosts.
In the poultry quarters. be careful
to keep filth from accommodating and
keep fowls free from lice.
Give the ducks clean water every
time you feed them because a duck
always drinks while eating.
Don't let a frost scare you into
gathering the cabbages Leave them
out until freezing weather comes.
The seed of broom corn has con
siderable feeding value. 1t may b,
removed, dried or put in the silo.
II your sweet corn seed is mixed
with field corn, better feed it to tn,
chickens and buy new next spring.
The coming OF woven wire fence.
will help keep down the weeds alonl
the roadsides in a rather roundabout
way
Good shelter will make feed go far
Their and this is a good time to Sc,
that barns and sheds are made tigh
for the winter.
The beef supply cannot be much in
creased inside of two years. Thii
means high cattle prices for at leas
two years more.
Whether brood mare or gelding 4
is the healthy, well fed horse that ex
hibits the greatest endurance and no
bility in harness.
After corn passes the proper stag
, at which it. should be converted int
, silage or fodder. it deteriorates yer
rapidly in quality.
In the horse for active service tn
} breast should not be over medium
width and the forelegs should be req
, sonably close together.
, Both cane and kafir are not hur
/ much for feed if they are caught b
/ frost provided they are cut befor
much rain falls on them.
5 A square breasted, we'll muscled hors
will stand more work and more hare
ship than two lank, loosely jointed one!
3 and not require as much power as on
: of them.
l. When the calf is just learning I
e eat boil oatmeal or cornmeal into
4 thin mush, add quart of it to pa
4 Of skimmilk and the calves will sue
it up with great relish.
+ Nothing should be more gradu;
k than the development of the powe
y OF draft horse or the speed OF a tro
ting horse and in but few other way
r are horses more permanently injure
/. than in pushing their developmer
y too rapidly.
r II you have several kinds of roug
feed on hand it will be a good plan I
n mix them up In feeding. Stock like
, change OF feed as well as you do an
II their breakfast can be of one kin
d and their supper OF another, so niue
d the better.
One reason why some men do nc
4 find sheep profitable is because the
,. have those which would not do we
for anybody. Turn on every head {
- that sort and get some first-clas
sheep, and you will soon find yourse
making some good clean money trol
them.