Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1912-10-31
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Sheep need care and feed
Good fences are important
Lime may be applied to the soil at
any time
The best seed corn is that grown
on ones own farm.
Potatoes are as cheap this year as
they will ever be again.
The dairy COW should essentially be
large and rich mixer.
A coat Of whitewash in the poultry
house adds both beauty and profit
Hogs running in the corn field are
healthier than those shut in pen.
To have horses Of endurance give
the colts a chance to develop their
muscles.
Don't waste your time cutting corn
for fodder after one good frost
strikes It,
The only way to make sheep pay is
keep the best sheep and give them
he best care
Change OF pasture makes fat cattle,
they say Variety in feed also makes
cows better mixers.
The value OF a hog depends upon
his ability to make good pork This
Is equally true of all breeds.
Are you keeping the boys and girls
properly supplied with good tools"
to do their work in the schoolroom?
Your lambs ought to be big enough
now TO bring a good price. Let them
go and give the rest better GRANGE.
The hay stock without a good top
Is just about on a par with the corn
shock that has nearly twisted down.
Feeding the drop. apples TO the
stock will save much grain and act
as a good appetizer for the animals.
Because a COW Is a hearty eater is
no sign that she is profitable. but all
large and profitable cows are hearty
eaters.
Millet should be cut before the
seeds are ripe, in fact. after II is we'll
headed out it is a candidate for the
mower
Don't leave the sheep in a dry,
short pasture. Give them a chance
in a fresh pasture or give a good
grain ration.
Corn is ready to be cut for silage
when the grain is in the dent and
glazed but can still be broken with
the thumb nail
IL you produce your own seed grain
II ia important to select it early out
OF the best part OF the crop and take
good care OF It.
The fatality among pigs during the
abnormally heated spell was in many
cases increased, If not wholly caused,
by putrid swill barrels.
Lung troubles in swine are fire.
| queiftly the result OF dust and filth
snuffed through the nostrils while
feeding on the ground
! Pigs that have been properly grown
Up TO FIVE months with big strong
/ frames, can be rounded up quickly for
market with a ration consisting large
. y of corn.
/ II more sheep were kept by farmers
right along, instead of having them
/ when feed stuffs are high in price and
sheep vice versa, more money could
De realized.
/ Keep your eye open for a better ram
than you have been using. No use
z - bAAA6 N-AN 6ApAAu over year
after year. Get little farther along
the road to better things.
/ There Is no better balancer for
stock wintered on corn fodder than
| cowpeas They furnish Just the ele.
ments that are lacking in all feeds
like corn. cane or kafr fodder and
timothy hay.
Churning troubles appear as soon as
[ cold weather sets in. But not all the
/ Churniug troubles are due to cold
weather, the COW that has been Civ,
ing milk for a long time is apt TO
furnish cream that is slow to come "
Feed is plenty this fall and cheaper
than II has been for some time. This
does not mean that II will stay cheau
all winter for should It be a hard win,
ter the feed would lessen fast. The
time 70 buy feed. IL any is needed, &
In the fall.