Mexico Missouri message., 1913-04-10

Keep poultry houses cream.
Clean out the feed troughs daily.
Sweet clover does well on any
soil.
vetch and rye will grow well to-
gether.
Foamy butter is a sign that the
cream is too sour.
Sharpen and repair the garden tools
for next seasons use.
Young peach trees are never as
sturdy as apple trees.
The little things on the farm often
represent the best profit.
It takes just little bad cream to
spoil the whole batch for butter
Watch your machinery for loose
bolts and nuts, and don't forget the
oil can.
Wherever dairy products are work
ed up on the farm the dairy thermom-
eter is essential.
Summer or winter a good dairy
thermometer pays its way wherever
dairy cows are kept
In setting the orchard stick to the
proven varieties. Let some one else
do the experimenting.
To double the amount of milk per
acre and cut the cost of milk produc-
ton in two-build a silo.
Build the roosts all one height. 1t
saves competition among the hens to
see which can roost the highest.
Two OF the best acreage-saving
moneymaking propositions up to the
farmers today are silage and alfalfa.
The manager of one of the largest
duck farms claims that an expert can
scald and dress duckling in ten min.
utes.
An open shed makes the best place
for the turkeys to roost, but 1t should
not be SO open as to furnish no pro-
lection.
Decay soon spreads In fruit or vege-
tables in the cellar To be on the safe
side they should be culled over fire.
Quently.
The incubator lamp should be filled
and cleaned every day at noon. This
will give ample time to regulate the
flame by night
Ventilation is essential to both man
and beast. Oftentimes the cattle are
better provided for along this line
than the children.
Pasturing grass too soon or too
hard is an expensive way of saving
feed; 1t costs several times the
amount Of feed saved.
A little careful feeding about ten
days before freshening time Is all
that is necessary to prevent milk fever
and other udder troubles.
Butter for market wrapped in pa
per will always get the edge in price,
and the expense is trillng. A quarter
buys q big batch Of butter paper.
In your order for nursery stock
don't fail to include a few Concord
grape vines. Quality and hardness
considered, you can't beat the Con-
cord out here
BY raising standard bred poultry,
one will be able to sell stock and eggs
for breeding purposes and get much
better prices than when selling eggs
and fowls for food only.
BY keeping little tab on the hens
that are laying best, now; then set
ting the eggs from these hens in early
spring, one is pretty sure to develop
flock of first-class winter layers.
Keeping the cold out OF the stables
by excluding all fresh air is endanger-
ihB tht Vi rTtSn dtTt
without cold drafts, is what is desired,
though 1t is some trouble to secure
such conditions,
II the buttermaker uses more than
the right proportion of salt, thinking
thereby to Increase the weight cheap
ly. he is lowering the quality OF his
product and increasing the weight but
little. Not more than one ounce to the
pound should be used.
Fresh air is important In successful
poultry culture. To house fowls in a
close, stuffy building, will result in
colds which lead on to roup. Since
the adven, Of the scratching shed
houses the value of fresh air has
proved its worth and there is less anx.