Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1913-03-27

Get sunlight into the dairy barn.
Grain raising depletes fertility of the
soil.
Never throw soft feed on the
ground
Sorghum makes a good material for
filling the silo.
Dirty pals cause much sickness
among the calves.
If you want your cows to 80 well
make them comfortable.
Bright clover or alfalfa hay should
be kept in convenient rack.
Remember that the swine family
are not protected by furry coats.
1t is generally estimated that broil-
ers shrink onehalf pound each when
dressed.
Are the mice or rabbits girdling the
trees? Remove rubbish and wrap the
trunks in paper
Get your spraying equipment in
good order several days before you
must begin spraying.
The cream separator should be
work is expected OF It.
The average yearly butter fat pro-
duction per COW in the United States
in 1900 was las pounds.
Salt the hogs as often as you do
the other stock. They will be health
Ter and digest their food better.
1t is almost impossible to crowd
the young pigs too fast, provided you
have the right kind of food and care
Some people have gone so far as to
claim that the corn stalks in the silo
are worth as much as the ears in the
crib.
Wash and dry the cows before milk
Ing and keep 81 per cent. of the dirt
out of the milk that usually gets in
otherwise.
The garden should be we'll fortified
In the fall or winter. This makes It
possible to work it more quickly when
spring comes.
The dairy farmer ought to have
pigs for market every year. This is
the best way to sell the by-products
at the top price.
One reason why pure bred sires
are so necessary ON the farm is be-
cause defects are Just as easily trans
mitted as good points.
The heifer that is to be retained in
the herd should be handled from her
early calfhood so that she will have
confidence in her keeper.
II is well TO order few catalogues
from the reliable seed and nursery
companies. They are educators even
II we are not intending to buy.
see that the hens have all the pure
water they can drink at all times. II
you have skim milk to spare, that also
can be placed before them constantly.
heeping any machine well oiled and
IN proper repair not only increases
eilciency, but decreases the amount
OF power required to run the machine.
Inc milk pail is always more nearly
lull when pasture is at its prime than
during any other season, and the silo
VIII produce the same conditions in
the winter.
Inc manure spreader and syste-
matte crop rotation form the two
strongest links in the chain for the
maintenance of soil fertility and
heavy crop production.
The ideal COW! Everybody's look.
ing for her, but few find her. though
she is the most valuable asset on the
farm, How many possible ideal cows
are done into veal in this country ev.
cry year nobody knows.
TOO much care cannot be exercised
oy breeders in sending out eggs for
Matching. A good way is to wrap each
egg In paper separately and place
them in basket. doubly lined with
newspaper and packed with excel.
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For poultry food, pea meal will he
found nutritious, rice easily digested,
nnseed meal cathartic. potato starch
digestible, barley nutritious but lax.
auVe' and oatmeal more nutritious
imam either wheat or barley. There
Is fuiiy 6h per cent. OF fat in oatmeal.
corn contains from to s per cent.
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