The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1912-11-01

Farming on a business basis elm
mates small mules just as II displaces
small horses.
A lamb that is large and strong
will stand weaving better. and also
winter better.
Many practical hog raisers are now
using artificial wallows, built OF either
cement or lumber.
For aphis on sweet peas, use insect
powder or tobacco dust. applying
with small bellows.
Five or six pounds Of corn are usu.
ally required TO produce pound OF
pork in dry-lot feeding.
II pigs are we'll fed they will usual.
ly wean themselves At the proper
time, without any trouble.
The key to the bee business Is bee
forage and the best bee forage known
at present is sweet clover.
II man cannot feed hogs as well
as they should be fed, he ought TO
sell them TO a man that will
Sheep are a persistent agency OF
improvement to the soil OF the
farms on which they are kept
The levelness with which a horse
walks is one OF the best evidences
that his legs work in harmony
To thoroughly clean milk utensils
they first should be rinsed with cold
water TO remove all particles OF milk,
Gather up the dead branches and
burn them. as they are apt 10 harbor
bark beetles, one OF the worst orchard
pests.
Move the colony houses and brood
coops on fresh ground every day
or two. and the chicks will grow
faster.
A chicken takes naturally to having
feed handed It, but the turkey is al.
most self-supporting until cold
weather.
Turkeys always find a ready sale
and are almost clear profit There is
always a demand. The market is
never glutted.
The little chicks do best on corn
bread made OF sour milk. soda and
cracked corn. They should be fed on
something clean.
The eggs from the matured hen will
hatch better and produce stronger
chicks than the eggs OF pullets. They
are usually larger. too.
Unlike other poultry. the turkey
never has been thoroughly domesti-
Gated, but has remained practically
wild bird In its requirements.
The meat Of yarded poultry is al.
ways more tender than that OF
fowls having free range. due to the
extreme muscular development OF
the latter.
Never let young chickens perch un.
III their breast bone can endure the
strain, as q crooked breast bone de.
creases a fowls market value. as well
as breeding value.
A yield OF IL tons of silage may
easily be obtained from one acre OF
corn. Allowing 80 pounds OF silage AZ
n daily ration, one acre Of corn will
furnish four cows with silage for zoo
days.
New England dairymen find II prof.
stable to feed grain TO dairy cows even
when they are on June pasture. Can
not we AFFORD some corn fodder for
our western cows now that pastures
are drying up.
Chickens should have good, sweet
fs-h TO make good eggs. the same as
a cow should have sweet grains to
make good sweet milk. How quick
dairyman moves his cows whea he
finds garlic In his pasture.
Breeding poultry may serve a good
purpose in the pot. but they should
not be permitted to propagate their
kind. Scrub hens should be mated
to pure bred males 90 that the breed
ing has an upward rather than down
ward tendency.
The COW that sucks herself IL In al.
most every case a good mixer. il
you have one OF this kind, try this be.
fore you sell her: Ring her as you
would bull and In this ring hang an
other. forming two links of q chain.