The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1912-08-09


Keep the hoe going.
Feed the hogs a variety.
The best feed Is cheapest
Turkeys devour many insects.
Separating cold milk means a loss
OF cream.
This season of the year Is trying on
COWS and dairymen.
Get a die and stamp your initials on
the cream or milk cans. Paint will rub
of in time.
The COW that can hold up well in
milk production In August is q valu-
able animal.
Selling all the hay and grain raised
on the farm Is a surf method OF sell
ing the farm.
From 10 to so per cent. Of cream ID
lost by setting milk In pans, say the
sxperimenters.
With the exception of the plow, the
harrow Is perhaps the Oldest of till
age instruments.
Less Kafir corn In the feed as the
weather gets warmer will keep hens
from getting fat and lazy.
Don't fail to divide the buttermilk
between Biddy and the pigs She rel
ishes 1t as much as they.
All fowls, chicks, ducks and duck.
lings that are kept in yards should
have plenty Of green food every day.
A chicken takes naturally to having
feed handed him, but the turkey is al
most self-supporting until cold wealth
er. -.
Don't allow the hen-mother to drag
around all day with her brood, as
many chicks succumb through exhaus.
ton.
One advantage in keeping feed al
ways before poultry is that they do
not have to hurry so to get their
meals.
In building a wire fence for hogs
put n barbed wire at the bottom and
the worst rooter in the pasture won't
root out.
One mite on the back Of a fellows
neck makes him just about wild.
What must 1t be to have a million
crawling?
There Is still time to put out a crop
of roots for COW feed hex winter.
Rich light soil is the best place
for them.
Turkeys always find a ready sale
and are almost clear profit. There is
always a demand. The market is new
er glutted.
Neat, clean crates and boxes help to
sell fruit even though it may not be
quite up to standard of excellence set
by the grower.
If the season is dry, haul a few bar
rels Of water to those lite planted
trees. Don't let them suffer for water
during a dry spell.
If hogs are lousy, set a small post,
wrapped tight with an old rope, in the
ground and soak the rope with coal oil.
The hog will do the rest,
Don't imagine a chicken does not
need a change of diet because 1t is a
chicken. They need a change of food
quite as much as q human biped.
II you use the litter in the house
keep 1t dry and clean. Musty and
moldy litter Is particularly liable to
cause trouble at this season of the
year. |
Plymouth Rocks have been made to
weigh seven pounds, dressed, at
Thanksgiving time, by j%udicious feed
ing for growth and development while
on range.
Don't expect the hired man to
work in hay and harvest till dark, and
then milk a dozen COWS after dark,
and be very gentle about it. He isn't
built that way.
Land plaster has a very small per.
centage OF limei lump lima has the
largest percentage and hydrated lime
next. Mari is usually a little richer in
lime than ground limestone.
The peanut is becoming more impor-
tant as a feed for stock, especially in
the southern states. The vines with
the nuts attached are often cured and
they make a palatable hay for all
kinds Of farm stock.
Where n finds a bird with a con.
gested crop, they can cut into the crop
and remove the ingredients, after
which they should thoroughly cleanse
the interior Of the crop with a solution
of warm watetr and boracic acid. Aft