Putnam patriot. [volume] (Putnam, Conn.) 1872-1962, 1913-06-06
Practical Poultry Advice

Practical poultry Advice
The dairy must be clean.
Keep the hen house light
Give the COW succu,ent feed.
Keep the breeding sows clean.
Save all the pumpkins and make us.
of them.
Give the hogs every day all the Glow.
er hay they win eat.
Ashes or dry earth scattered unae,
roosts make good absorbeuts
Mulching breaks the force of rains
and prevents compacting the soil.
Horses must be up-headed, have
spirit and finish, and be fast walkers.
Try to arrange to give each horse
on the farm three-weeks vacation
A good orchard requires as good
land and as thorough preparation az
corn.
Lack OF exercise Is one of the fac.
tors that cut into the profit in feeding
hogs.
Hogs, like men, degenerate unless
Cood caro md
kind of feed
Cabbage. sugar beets, oefz, clover
and potatoes have been found a good
fve-year rotation.
The pigs main aim in life is to grow
and get fat Give him plenty OF good
feed and some exercise.
Good milling wheat must be free
from all mustiness or bad odor and
should be sound and dry.
A rainy day is good time to repair
and oil up the extra harnesses used
during the harvest season.
The expense of putting the third 100
pounds on the hog makes the 200
pound limit most profitable.
Sweet clover and alfalfa feed heav-
lily on the lime, which accounts for
the larger growth of young stock.
Cows that do not possess the dairy
II +h1ar
geny with the dairy temperament.
Those old hens may be valuable as
"keepsakes.n but the young and vigor-
Gus ones will produce the most eggs.
If the poultry house is overcrowded,
kill off some of the older birds. Keep
stocked up with young, thrifty layers
The pig is a meat producing animal
and the more he is fed with good
Judgment the more meat he will pro-
duce.
Drop everything to help horse or
COW that ts in trouble, no matter
whether 1t Is your own or your neigh
bors.
Are you keeping a lot of horses for
which you have no special need? Let
the other fellow have them at pres
emit prices
At the present high prices Of feed
1t takes a good feeder to get ahead of
the game, even with hogs and cattle
selling high.
II the sows are expected to raise
two filters a year the pigs should De
weaned when they are from eight to
ten weeks old.
With the NOV full of hay and
silo full of corn, the farmer can sleep
on cold winter nights with heart
full of content
Grapes grown in a clayey soil are
darker on gravelly land; but the
sweetest and richest tasted grapes
are grown on gravelly soil
Green ducks are shipped to market
undrawn and with the heads on. They
are picked down one-half of the neck
and to the first wing joint.
The object of a horse stable is not
to get certain amount of air in the
stable and to keep the same Enclosed
in the stable all the winter.
1t is more profitable to have the
hens in laying condition for the per
iod when prices are high than it is
to attempt to preserve eggs until that
time.
Market prices of grain and feed are
pretty we'll down the scale this win
ter, but they still bring the same top
prices when marketed through the
cream can.
Sandy loan with a clay subsotl
| makes excellent orchard land, while
| hillsides, if properly treated, can be
turned from barren wastes into profit
able fruit crops.
The individuality OF the COW is the
| keynote of success in dairying.
man who understands how to cater to
each member of his herd is the man
who gets the largest returns.
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