Putnam patriot., 1913-01-31

Dig holes for trees in the fall
 Vetches make good sheep fosd.
 The scrub purebred is the gres. failure.
 Cattle scarcity Is still with us ,s will remain for the next two years
 Your horse may intend to plp, you. but does not understand p, wishes.
 tion that cannot be equaled on a, dairy farm.
 Whenever hogs are confined to u, feeding place feeding floor shOua be provided.
 A lump of sugar or bite of appa will do more in the training of col than whip.
 Farming on a business basis ejp mates small mules just as it displasa small horses. A lamb that Is large and strun will stand weaning better, and ak winter better.
 Many practical hog raisers are nov using artificial wallows, built of eitha cement or lumber. For aphis on sweet peas, use inses powder or tobacco dust, appElq with a small bellows.
 Five or six pounds of corn are uA ally required to produce pound pork in dry-lot feeding.
 If pigs are well fed they will usual l ly wean themselves at the prlpa time, without any trouble. nG hts io bhC OtV bdsiHSSS sNH w F forage and the best bee forage knOvl at present is sweet clover.
 If a man cannot feed hogs as well | as they should be fed, he ought la sell them to a man that will Sheep are a persistent agency a | improvement to the soil of taa | farms on which they are kept. The levelness with which horss walks is one of the best evideioa | that his legs work in harmony. To thoroughly clean milk utelsM | they first should be rinsed with cold l water to remove all particles of mix | Gather up the dead branches sud burn them. as they are apt to harba bark beetles, one of the worst orchard pests.
 Move the colony houses and brood | COOpS OA lIccn SlOunu tfCly un@ or two, and the chicks will grow faster.
 A chicken takes naturally to having feed handed it, but the turkey is d. most self-supporting until cold weather
 Turkeys always find ready sals and are almost clear profit. There always a demand. The market i never glutted.
 The little chicks do best on con bread made of sour milk, soda ant cracked corn. They should be fed oI something clean. The eggs from the matured hen VII hatch better and produce stronge chicks than the eggs of bullets. The are usually larger, too.
 Unlike other poultry, the turke never has been thoroughly domest eated, but has remained practically wild bird in it's requirements.
 The meat of yarded poultry is a ways more tender than that fowls having free range, due to tn extreme muscular development the latter
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 Never let young chickens perch ui til their breast bone can endure tn strain, as a crooked breast bone o creases a fowls market value, as we as breeding value
 A yield of 12 tons of silage ma easily be obtained from one acre corn. Allowing 30 pounds of silage a daily rationI one acre of corn VI furnish four cows with silage for ~ days
 New England dairymen find l; pro itable to feed grain to dairy cows eve when they are on June pasture Ca not we afford some corn fodder < our western COWS now that pasture are drying up. | Chickens should have good, sWe' feed to make good eggs, the same COW should have sweet grains make good sweet milk. How quick dairyman moves his COWS when finds garlic in his pasture. | Breeding poultry may serve go' purpose in the pot. but they shou not be permitted to propagate the kind. Scrub hens should be mat' to pure bred males so that the bree ing has an upward rather than a ooN