Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1913-02-27
Hens like vegetables.

Hens like vegetables
water heater is handy.
Keep the colts in box stalls.
1t is wise to raise your own breed
ing sows.
During inclement weather fowls are
better indoors than out.
Winter or summer a crowded poul-
try house is bad for the flocks health
Soil for soy beans should receive
as thorough preparation as land for
corn
At present prices for seed, the soy
bean is one OF the most valuable farm
crops.
AS money crop broom corn is
one Of the most satisfactory that can
be grown.
The stallion that is worked regu-
larly every day will get the most and
best colts.
Rye makes a fair grade of silage
and should be cut when the seeds are
in the milk.
Any man who will strike horse
in the head should never be allowed
to touch one again.
A water heater will cost much less
| than the loss OF flesh occasioned by
cattle drinking ice water.
| The levelness with which a horse
walks is one of the best evidences
that his legs are in harmony.
No farmer who has to pump water
for half a dozen head OF stock can
afford to be without wind mill.
After a days work clean the work
horses thoroughly, wash their legs
from the knees down and rub dry.
Life is too short and too strenuous
to make new breeds or to dairy with
cows not of the dairy form and tenn
| permanent.
The careful dairyman has good
supply Of roughage in or near the barn
so as to be beforehand In case Of
sudden storm.
Farm horses that are not to be used
through the winter should have a
roomy paddock In which to exercise
every fair day.
See to 1t that the colt does not be-
come constipated. A small dose Of
castor oil is a good thing to get the
bowels started.
Early cut clover or alfalfa, cured
under caps and grown as thick on the
ground as possible, makes the best
hay for dairy cattle.
The breeding bull should not only
be the son Of COW with large milk
record. but the son of the COW possess
ing the true dairy form.
The man who tempts his hogs with
weak fences has only himself to
blame II they cause trouble by break
ing into the cultivated fields.
White of the egg is recommended
in cases of fracture in chickens, for
soaking the bandages, thus binding
them together and stiffening.
Many dairymen feed their chop or
meal with silage or pulped roots. BY
so doing they claim the ground grain
is made better use Of and less is lost.
A nice. big, fat hen will support In
luxurious comfort several hundred
lice for awhile, but she counldn't be
expected to lay any eggs while do
ing 1t.
| Drop the point of your plow so that
IL will bring up an inch or two Of soil
that has not been cropped to death
1t will add greatly to your crops and
do it speedily.
| The value Of roots as a feed for
| live stock is well known to every
| farmer, and many of the most expert
| stockmen grow an area of roots for
| this purpose each year.
| Stud-books may be guarantees Of
good breeding, but they are not al
ways guarantees OF individual merit,
and horse that has not combina
ton of both these essential features
should not be kept as a breeder.
Feeds for the hog should be select.
ed primarily with he end in view OF
| furnishing the proper quantity of. di.
| gestible nutrients in n palatable form,