The searchlight., 1912-11-29

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| ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Keep the garden clean.
Raise the best dairy calves
The best cows are never cheap
Get the cows started right for win,
ter
A bushel OF seed corn will plant
six to eight acres OF land.
A hog cannot sleep comfortably In
a draft or wind: he catches cold very
easily.
In proportion to his size. hog
needs twice the air space that a COW
or horse does.
Frozen alfalfa will kin hog as
quickly as II does = COW or a horse
/ II is usually indirestible.
A bunch OF ripe grapes viii hang In
hive ot bees until II dries up and
| the bees will not touch H.
Corn meal. meat and potatoes are
| three OF the most valuable ingredients
OF the fattening bill of fare.
There Is only one way OF positively
( diagnosing hog cholera. and that Is by
q postmortem examination.
After pigs are weaned. one OF the
| most common causes OF runts Is the
! feeding OF a straight corn diet
There are many troubles OF swine
that are called hog cholera and vel
! they have very little resemblance to
/ that disease.
The capons when mature will aver
( age to weigh between ; and is pounds
/ depending. of course. on the variety oi
/ fowls caponized.
N a hog misses feed. watch him
| n he misses the Second feed, remove
him from the herd and thoroughly dis
infect where he has been.
! Prepare warm, dry. but ventilated
/ quarters for the brood sows. and dc
/ II now. Cold storms will be here be
fore we are ready for them.
Breeding stock should never bt
| saved from the litter OF vicious old
brood SOW. which is always restles:
and chasing about the pasture.
Composted or well-decayed ma
nures serve their best purpose wher
applied to the surface OF the garder
and thoroughly disked into the soil.
| Fowls in confinement must hav'
fight feed and plenty OF grit, oystel
| shell. and a little bone cut green.
little chopped onion is fine abou
once a day.
Corn silage is an excellent feet
/ for steers on account OF It's succu
| lence and palatability. and becaus.
OF It's comparative richness In carbo
hydrates and fat.
steers or heifers from fifteen to TWEEN
ty-two months OF age that show sum
I cient thickness of flesh and quality Il
be used as block beef.
Eastern farmers owning rough pas
1 ture lands valued at SIS to $50 pc
acre, are stocking them with sheel
and the mutton industry In that sec
ton Is being rapidly revived.
| Hogs that are allowed considerable
| amount OF room for exercise, givel
plenty of water and good sleepinl
quarters In a well-drained area ar
not very liable to develop disease.
Besides keeping more and bette
animals, more attention should b.
paid by farmers to such crops a
restore the fertility of the soil. Tn
chief among these are clover an,
alfalfa.
Lice are frequent causes Of ur
thriftiness with fall pigs. Wheneye
nits or lice are seen the pigs shoul
be dipped at ten-day intervals or els
given one coating OF crude oil apple
with q broom.
Oats Is one OF the best dairy feed
which We have. Bran 10 also a YER
good dairy feet. Cottonseed meal
also high In protein. Clover ha,
which we can raise directly on ou
farm. Is very good.
No time should be lost In fattenin
the ligh, shearers and disposing q
them to the best advantage. Th
longer q sheep Ii kept that will nc