Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1913-01-09

Exercise produces warmth.
There Is no better place to fit colt
for market than on the farm
Leaves mixed with straw make an
excellent cover for strawberries.
Promptly gather up and burn all
brush and rubbish in the orchard
The coming of the silo is developing
some new high records for high-priced
beef.
Increase the COW feed little morn
ing and night as the weather grows
colder.
IL is as an egg producer that the In
dian Runner duck has gained the
most fame.
Poultry balance their own rations II
they are given wide variety OF feeds
TO select from.
Eggs that cost rs cents per dozen
will bring 81 to IS when Matched and
sold as broilers.
All young stock on hand now that
you do not intend to keep through the
coming winter should be marketed.
Bran is very good feed for cows
10 Ifwk all k-I
eral matter, especially phosphorus.
set of scales will guess good
deal better than you can as to the
weight of the milk each COW gives.
II is usually mere guesswork to tell
the age OF hen by her appearance
after she has passed the pullet stage.
A hen over two years old is At
only for the pot and to mother chick.
ems, She Is past her profitable laying
days.
1t is well to remember that there
are ten buyers for horses worth 5000
and upwards to one that Is worth 500
or less.
Goose eggs require from twenty.
eight to thirty-one days to hatch. ac-
cording to variety and method Of
Matching.
1t Is q we'll known fact that the
COW that makes the largest profit is
given the best care and most comfort
able shelter.
When the farmer makes a selling
or his crops with as much O business
as does the buyer he will find farm
ing profitable.
or almost. II not quite, as much i'm.
portance as their food is plenty of
exercise. Exercise and sunshine are
great sheep tonics.
II you live where stones are plenty
land they are found in most sections)
never wade through winter mud in
going between house and barn.
1t pleases the COW to be MIXED
quickly, and gets her in the habit of
giving down promptly. It is often the
slow mixers that make the strippers.
II you plan to take the horns of
your cows, better do it early in the
spring. II is a trying ordeal at
best. BE as humane about 1t as you
Acan
N Vitality is very important char
Scteristic In the dairy cows or any
other farm animal " weak along
this line the best returns cannot be |
expected
Next TO using a Babcock machine q |
pretty good test of milk may be made |
by putting samples in tumblers and |
noting the thickness OF the cream sew.
erai hours later.
sugar beet growing means more |
man the mere profits from growing |.
'he beets. II induces higher type OF |
agriculture and the crops raised in
rotation are better
Whatever ration one may be able |
10 provide for the flock of hens one
condition should be kept in mind
namely they should be compelled to
scratch for most of the grain they
receive. This means exercise and ex-
A ercise means health.
. rev OF us realize how important
"eeS are to our farm. garden and or.
chard crops II the bees were termi.
uated this year there would be a fail
ure OF the clover seed crop; the same
Nouid De true of many vegetables and
rul.s' Many flowers must be cross
ieruilzed' and it often requires some
insect to DO this, The apiary may
mus serve a double purpose; furnish
we family with sweets and Increase