The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1913-01-03
Gull out the roosters.

Balance the hens ration.
Young pigs like vegetables.
The warm and busy hen is the best
winter layer.
Use few words with horse, but
have them understood
1t is as easy to teach a colt good
manners as faulty ones.
Desirable eggs are said TO weigh
about "a ounces 10 the dozen
If hens develop the feather-pulling
habit send them to market at once
Dairying is a cash business. The
good COW pays for her board every
day.
Alfalfa will grow on nearly ali good.
well-drained soils, but best on rich,
sandy loan.
The first big need Of the majority OF
the older corn belt soils is limestone
and legumes.
1t is better and more profitable to
have herd of five good COWS than
ten that are inferior
The green food problem in winter
isn't much of a problem if there is any
alfalfa hay on the place.
Muddy and unclean stable yards are
always sources Of loss because OF
their insantary condition.
There are but few horses that can
not be made gentle and quiet by the
| proper kind Of treatment
, The kind Of feed which the COWS
eat often has an effect upon the fla
vor of milk and its products.
| The farmer who makes an effort to
! fill the corn crib and smokehOuse
each year generally succeeds.
Swedish turnips grow well in the
northern states and provide a large
amount o. feed for the winter.
| The best stock pea for grazing in
| the field is the black. Everlasting,
Red and Red Ripper are also good.
! The farmer who is not raising le-
! gumes has his eyes closed to some Of
the biggest opportunities in farming.
Fruit growing and poultry raising
go we'll together. Anyone following
either will do well to consider the
other.
The sand vetch is smaller and more
recumbent than the common vetCh.
and has been tested but little in this
country.
Hens, when they cease laying, fat
ter very easily and a fat hen is a
thrifty candidate for all kinds of poul
try diseases.
Penning chickens is the best way
to get a fine flock for it means that
you are getting eggs from the best
hers you have.
hog fed on corn alone from the
time it is weaned from the SOW un-
til tutchered at IS months old, seldom
pays for his keep.
The COWS like the siIage in the wiz
ter Gust as we'll as they do the grass
in the summer and it is good at any
season Of the year.
Stout, livable chicks are obtained
only from sturdy parents, and pullets
that have been forced for winter eggs
are hardly in that class.
Don't blame anyone but yourself
| if your farm won't grow legumes.
They will grow for the man who
knows how to make them.
1t IS poor economy to feed spoiled
food TO the poultry. They may con
tract disease or become poisoned.
Burn all decomposed food stuff at
| once.
The day has forever passed when
the progressive dairyman allows his
cows to be brought, running or ex-
cited, into the barn, by dog or a boy
with q whip.
Sheep in the summer are gross
feeders, rapidly cleaning the land of
brush and weeds, but in the barn and
! in the feed lot they are extremely
dainty in their eating.
The best family horses. as a rule,
/ are raised and trained on the farm.
Their dispositions are then thor
oughly understood. and it is known
how far they can be trusted
| 1t pays to whitewash, ventilate and
| properly light the stables; to brush
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