The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1913-02-07

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Corn and alfalfa make a combina-
ton that IL hard to beat on the dairy
farm.
The hens need strenuous exercise
these days to keep them from becOm-
ing sluggish and inactive.
Cornlneai. wheat bran and ground
oats. equal parts. and a few handfuls
of beef scrap. mOistened with skim
milk. make a tine morning feed for
laying hens.
A small paddock for the horse to run
In is cheaper than veterinary bills and
Il good deal cheaper than losing the
horse by death through lack Of a place
IN which to exercise.
The dealers who had large quantities
Of eggs in cold storage can hardly be
said to have met the new year in q
cheerful frame of mind. 1t is apparent
that the worst IL yet to ZONE"
Rats and mice are such all round
%nuisances and SO destructive that traps
should he kept set for them all the
time. Only in this way can the TO
dents tie kept in anything like subjec-
ton.
In three Instances which have come
under the writer's notice lately little
children from II to two years Oil
have been scalded to death by falling
into pans Or tubs Of hot water left on
the tioor by busy mothers.
If the job has not been already done
the little orchard trees should be given
Il protective covering Of wood veneer.
wire screen or common newspaper.
Such protection will prevent damage
by both rabbits and field mice.
The hens of the United States laid
l,7OO.OOO.OOO dozen eggs in 1912. which
were worth i5O,OOO.OOO The value Of
fowls OF all kinds raised was $22O.OOU.-
OU. which brings the total value OF
poultry products up to $57O,OOO,OOO.
Analyses show sorghum seed to have
about three-fourths of the feeding val
ue of corn. Like corn. it should b.
balanced as Il ration with tankage or
oilmeal. Owing to the hardness of the
seed it gives best results in feeding
when ground.
put up in tin cans should be removed
to Il glass or earthenware vessel as
soon as the cans are opened. Most
cases OF ptOmaine poisoning are the
result Of allowing these products to re-
main for some time in their tin retain
ers.
That big turkey that a furnished
the White House family and whose
crop was given daily massaging t IA
cilitate the process of digestion prob
ably did taste a bit better than the fine
little eight pound hen turkeys that
graced the tables Of hundreds Of folks
all over the land.
1t Is really feed economy to blanket
the horse that has to stand in the open
during the cold weather. as blood is re-
uuired to furnish animal neat and feed
is required to make blood. However.
when the horses are standing idle in
the stable or roaming around in the
yard the blanket is a rather expensive
substitute for the currycomb aud
brush.
When Il boy gets to the age of fifteen
and thinks he is SO smart that he does
not need any more schooling and on
top of this becomes addicted to the
reading Of yellow back ten CEN yarns
(he usually gets to reading these be-
fore he decides to quit school he is
headed straight for hunanity's scrap
heap. n unless he is Jared to his
senses by something out of the usual
is pretty sure to land there.
Nine men and boys killed and some
thirty-three wounded more or less Sc
riously is the score in Ohio for the
thirty days open season for shooting
rabbits. This is about MS bad as the
showing during the open season on
deer in Maine and Michigan. What