News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1912-02-21

| bC SChllC VIII dill animals.
The farmer must have horse.
Examine the collars of your work
horses often.
With the better poultry is coming
better equipment
A heated chicken house is a bad
thing for poultry.
The proper time to spray fruit trees
Is during the dormant season.
| Well-bred, well-selected pigs. make
more profit on the food eaten.
| horse in order to keep in good
| condition should be well bedded every
| night.
A machine in the shed is worth Just
about two machines left in the fence
corner.
The brood sows should have all the
bright clover or alfalfa hay that they
will eat.
The cleaner the feed and feeding
places, the better the quality of the
pork in ALL
1t is conducive to health to feed
hogs when they can have the range
of the pasture field.
Those seeds, like the elm and soft
maple, which ripen in May or June,
belong to the sooner" class.
Never work team of colts togeth-
er until they are thoroughly broken,
as they will worry each other.
Filling up the neglected holes about
the drinking tank is now in order.
Fill them up now and avoid trouble
The man who calls improved stock
fancy stock" will have an account to
settle with his Maker on the judgment
day.
Carry your good care of the ewes
this fall as far as feeding plenty of
nice bright oats to keep them in con-
dition.
The old troughs will soon have to
may be burst fountain some cold
morning.
After the strawberry bed has been |
set and cared for through the sum- |
mer, it should be mulched through |
the winter.
The milk should be strained through |
one thickness of clean white flannel
and then should be quickly cooled
end well aired.
breed from the same tom more than
one year unless the same breeding
hens are retained.
No matter how highly bred and care
fully cultured colt may be if it is
not carefully trained and properly de-
veloped it loses it's value.
The first thing to do with the newly
born lamb is to get it full of the ewes
first milk, after which its chance for
living is equal to that of the calf's.
For general or common use, caus-
ic or burnt lime or ground limestone
re employed almost exclusively for
be correction of soil abnormalities.
Wetting the hoofs with a sponge
nd clean water every day, or simply
ipping each foot into a pail of wa
er, will keep the feet from becoming
ry. {
If there are two kinds of roughness
,r the COWS this winter it will be bet {
,r to feed of both at the same time ]
ltner than to feed out one then start I
n the other I
Look out for a collar that rubs a q
lp of flesh at every stride of the
orse 1t is liable to wear a gall on
Is neck, and much sooner sometimes n
ian suspected. a,
The neck and shoulders of horse ~
re points that must not be over VI
'oked when buying. A weak neck and u
narrow breast do not go with the pl
lost desirable horse. al
During the winter the dairy farm
has more time to figure out his
ans for improving his system OF d.
rming. The great question should M
to get better and more profta- "y
3 lot of cows. ye
It would be easier to keep good
en- on the farm if the dairy farmers
)uld keep better cows. A man ap- III
eciates the oppetunity of handling yo
cd stock, and ne realizes that some pr
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