The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1912-05-31

| Give the chicken er1I
Kill out the peach borers.
Don't overfeed the little chicks.
Alfalfa makes an excellent rough.
age.
The rent in the clothes will not pay
| the rent on the farm.
The Babcock test is Just as accu-
rate as the man who uses It.
Don't keep eggs for Matching longer
than ten days OF two weeks at most.
Milk at 90 degrees is about the tenn
perature at which 1t separates best.
II rabbits have gnawed only the
outer bark, wrap the wound with
| cloth.
Barley and oats, as we'll as wheat,
are usually improved in quality on
fax land.
Working the soil when It Is wet
will make 1t parse and lumpy the
whole season.
As soon as your lettuce Is large
enough, feed it to those chickens you
ara f%attenin0.
There is no better way BY which
the corn crop can be used than
through the silo.
You can not make as good silage
from dry cornstalks as you can from
mature green corn.
Plant a row Of the large, tame I'M
flowers along the fence for hen feed at
moulting time next fall.
The strawberry Is n Of the small
fruits which apparently thrive better
in acid than in alkaline soils.
The fleece of the ran should be
dense, even in quality, and of a strong,
clear, white fiber throughout.
A pure-bred bull is often a poor
bred bull. Pedigree and performance
are not interchangeable words.
1t is to the poultryman's interest to
keep his stock to the best type,
healthy and vigorous all the time.
A half days work in the orchard
with the manure spreader will show
up when apples are ripe next sum
mer.
No profit in keeping old eve that
have lost their teeth. Better fatten
them the best you can and get rid
of them quickly.
You should know the working quail.
ties of your sows; watch them from
| the time they farrow and see how they
treat the little fellows.
The average cow ought to have four
to six weeks rest each year. A good
time to dry them off is just as they be-
gin to make an udder.
Coal oil will soften the old paint
brushes used last year. Place them
in a can of the oil and wash them
we'll in warm s%oapsuds.
Feather pulling may be checked by
dissolving powdered aloes in water
and washing the feathers of the birdA
that have been plucked.
To keep up a heavy milk flow a COW
must have all the water she can drink
for every 100 pounds of her milk on
tains 81 pounds of water.
Every garden for the home should
have grapes and many market gar
dens could be made more profitable
by growing this splendid fruit.
Many people have the idea that
brown shelled eggs are the richer but
the difference between white and
brown eggs is only in the color.
The best milking pail is the n so
constructed that it will reduce to a
minimum the amount of dirt falling
into the milk during the process of
milking.
One Of the most general methods
adopted for cooling milk Is to place
the cans in a vat containing water
which reaches a point slightly above
surface Of milk.
Cleanliness in handling, in straining
and in separating the milk is a thing
that cannot be too religiously adhered
to, for prevention is the key word to
quality In all dairy work.
The COW Is a fertilizer factory, a
butter factory and a skim milk fac
tory; yet many farmers feed her as
little grain as they dare in the winter
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