The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1912-05-17


Groom your cows.
The silo is a time saver
Attend to the horses feet.
Grow strawberries for home use.
Let the young calves have plenty of
sunlight.
w cannot longer raise paying ap-
ple crops unless we spray.
Seed grain of all kinds is scarce
and high priced again this spring.
The clearly dairyman keep the dirt
out Of the milk rather than strains 1t
out.
Whale oil soap may be used to de-
stroy lice, scale, insects and mealy-
bugs.
Glover and grass seed always do
best when they can be started to early
growth.
Profitable beef production in the fu-
ture means that better gains must
be made,
In a gallon OF 80 per cent. cream
there are two and one-half pounds of
butter fat.
When butter refuses to gather the
cream may be too sour or the temper
ature too low,
Lack Of thorough cleansing Of the
separator is one cause of flavor in
butter being off.
1t is a good plan to give a COW a
bucket Of scalded bran as the first
feed after calving.
The man who said it is all bosh to
curry COWS was either lazy or crazy.
Get out your curry comb.
The shoe should fit the foot. Don't
let the blacksmith cut bars or frogs
to make the horses foot fit the shoe.
Field mice been at the young trees?
If the bark Is knawed to the wood the
trees may be saved by bridge graft
ing.
Satisfactory results were obtained
last year at the Kansas Agricultural
college from the use of Kafir as ST.
Iage,
Potash, as a constituent of fertiliz-
ers, exists In a number of forms, but
chiefly as chloride or muriate and as
~sulphate.
After starting to shed their hair in
spring COWS are very sensitive to sud-
den cold snaps. That is when stabling
pays at night.
Clover and grass seed may be
grown and a good stand secured, on
oat ground during the last of April
and the first Of May.
Narrow doors in the sheep barns
are a mighty poor thing. Broken
down hips and early dropped lambs
are some Of the results.
A colt wants to be kept eating and
growing and exercising, and anything
but fattening, as long as he has a
time assigned him by nature to grow.
Any kind of fruit tree will die
when planted in ground that Is all
the time saturated with water. The
tile ditch is a necessity in some
places.
Early peas may be followed by eel
cry or cabbage or potatoes, followed
by late beans or corn, thereby get
ting several crops from the sam
ground each year.
A horse must have feet and legs be-
side weight to be any good at heavy
work, Flat bone In the cannons and
large, round feet should be looked for
In picking horses.
Just now Is the time to get the start
OF the lice and a good first move Is to
thoroughly clean out the hen house
then squirt some kerosene around
pretty lively we the walls, roosts,
and nest boxes.
Young mares will sometimes refuse
10 allow their foals to nurse at first.
me mare may be tied In the stall and
the colt helped to milk. AS soon as 1t
mas sucked each teat the mother will
usually allow 1t to continue.
IL Is a great mistake to breed a
i'oV0-pound mare to an 1~,S00-pound
stallion. Sometimes the animals have
Inc legs Of a draft horse and the body
Oh a roadster. We have seen these
freaks with heads OF a draft horse
ana bodies Of a light roadster.
IN Eelecting a walking pillow turn
II upside down and examine the frog
1he first thing you do. The frog is
me foundation OF the entire pillow. the
moId2oard, share and landslide all
being holted to the frog. Some frogs
are cast iron and others are forged.
II should be we'll made, of ample size
and made IN "a