News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1912-03-13
Rape is popular with hogs.
Very fat fowls are poor layers.

Rape is popular with hogs.
Very fat fowls are poor layers.
A horse suffering from collie should
be kept quiet
Asparagus may also be forced near
cellar furnaces.
AS tillers of the soil, earth worms
constitute a great army.
Put kerosene on the roosts frequent
ly to keep down chicken lice.
Teach the colt to eat Il mixture OF
oats, wheat bran and linseed meal
There is something in the first milk
that the calf needs, and should have.
Remember to treat your COW with
consideration in these daJ and nights
The demands on the foal's diges-
tive system for nourishment is very
great.
A flock of ewes rightly handled
should produce 1875 per cent. OF
lambs.
1t is the income from each sheep
{Io+ ol1
the flock.
Every progressive keeper separates
the light-colored honey from the dark
fall honey.
Unless the bird is extremely valu.
able the Ak is the pest remedy for a
sick chicken.
The COW that is allowed to fall off
gain it at profit.
Skimp your sheep on good pasture
and they will skimp you on mutton.
Works both ways
Rabbits do great damage to young
trees during winter, especially when
snow covers the ground
The use of fruit is great help
toward keeping in good health, and
more Of it should be grown.
It's a mistake to expect the miracu.
lous or abnormal from your COWS. Bet.
ter make them work naturally.
If sows are expected to raise a fall
litter, it is best to wean the spring
pigs al from 8 to 10 weeks old.
When there is good stuff in the feed
box the heirer soon learns to be
good barn COW when night comes.
Do not try 10 winter the cows with
out grim. Wheat bran, corn-meal
and o. neal will be found valuable.
Sheep are comfort lovers and the
man who neglects to provide them |
with good, dry shelter makes costly
error.
Irregularity in feeding-that is. a
good ration one day and a poor one
the next, will play havoc with the best
Of COWS.
Peach trees can be planted any time
between last and first frost: the
Earlier in the winter they are planted
The better.
A queen bee lives from two to five
years, workers from forty-five DAYS to
six months, and drones seldom more
han five weeks.
Some breeders claim that six or
seven weeks is long enough for the
pigs to remain with the SOW hut
his, l think, is extreme.
The pig is merely a meat-producing
hoNulu6 anu Ihe more ne is fed
With good judgment, of course-the
more meat he will turn over.
All living plants have definite needs ,,
very day during their growth. and IL !,
hese needs are rot supplied fully OF ,
egularly bad results must follow.
While the orchard is coming into .
caring try vegetable growing as /.
ide line. This makes one of the
urest and best resources of income.
1t will pay to guy wheat bran to
Xix with the barley or corn meal for
eeding cows. Bran and barley meal q
alf and half makes good meal for e
lilk. Il
The best roosthg-place for young b
lrkeys is on branches of trees. They "
ill not suffer from exposure, and Of
he open life win make them strong el
nd healthy. n
I'll
Some mixers haadle the teats as II az
ley were made Of rubber and devoid al
all feeling; bun, strange to say, st
ERE are nerves u the udder which as
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