News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1912-02-28

Cows like pumpkins.'
Separate all indisposed turkeys.
Have a regular DAY for greasing the
wagon.
The COW is a vital part of the dairy
machine.
The olive trees date back to very
early times.
Few horses can digest perfectly
clear timothy hay.
There is no animal more unproft-
able than poor sheep.
Horses that have a light hay diet
are seldom affected with heaves.
1t does not make very much, if any,
difference when a COW is fed grain.
Good horse blankets are savers of
valuable horse flesh and high-priced
| feed
You can hardly push pigs too fast,
providing you use the right kind of
food.
Dirty collars are probably as re-
sponsible for sore shoulders as i'll
fitting ones.
You cannot fatten a brood SOW and
fatten hog alike and make the best
success of both.
From eight to ten hens to one tom
Is good mating with turkeys, and
should produce $50 poults.
A good COW ought to produce on an
average 25 pounds of four per cent.
milk daily for 300 days in the year.
Close housing and bad ventilation in
the COW stable are favorable condi-
tons for starting tuberculosis in a.
herd.
Besides dry nesting quarters, the
pigs should have a good-sized lot in i.
which they may get plenty of exer-
else.
As long as the breeding of SOW
is profitable she should be bred. 1t
is not advisable to sell off a good
brood animal.
Groom the horses well after hard
work. The skin is thus not only
cleaned, but safeguarded against para
cite diseases.
Brush the mud off the cows udder
and flank, then wipe off with damp
cloth. You can't strain mud out of
milk. Keep it out.
The COW your neighbor does not
want to sell is the one you want to
buy. Get around this dilemma by
raising that kind yourself
Three years of spraying, pruning
and cultivation will bring an orchard
that you are ashamed of into a condi-
ton that you will be proud Of
Scrape off loose, peeling bark from
he trunks of trees before spraying
hem, because this serves as an excel |
ent breeding place for insects.
To get the best eggs for Matching, |
he rations should be of good grains |
by milk or meat food and |
must include green food in some
orm.
High prices should not tempt the
wise dairyman to part with his good
,ows and heifers. Remember they
re just as valuable to you as to any
,ody else.
In yarding sheep, don't forget a
constant supply of good fresh water
nd rock-salt are a necessity; also,
'lenty of good fresh bedding, and al
Ways a dry lair.
After narrowing when the digestive
ystem of the SOW has reached a nor
nal condition her ration should be
radually increased until she is get
ing all she can eat.
Ewes will suffer less and have fewer
poiled udders If they are confined to
mall lots or Enclosures, with dry feed,
DR. a few days after they have been
obbed of sleir lambs.
Never buy horse, If you can avoid
with a narrow or shallow chest, or ,
hose forelegs are close together. !.
UGH an animal lacks room adequate ,
II the lung capacity to be long,
inded.
A piece of tarred paper or wire q
citing should be fastened around the :
EN- of all spring and fall planted
ees. Tie the tarred paper closely :"
the bottom and at the top. This 81
i'll prevent field mice and rabbits a
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