Mexico Missouri message., 1913-04-10
Busy mems produce eggs.


Winter dairying will never be over
done.
Millet seed is a great egg dropping
grains.
Cherry trees are an ideal fruit for
home grounds.
good hog pasture.
Use horse manure for the hotbed;
rotted manure for the soil
Plenty of pure water is necessary to
the profits end of stock raising.
About GO per cent. Of the feed given
COW goes to maintain her body.
Unless wisely fed and cared for a
herd of fine hogs will degenerate rap
idly.
Keep the orchard clear Of all dried
brush. it being the harbor for injuri-
Gus insects.
The day is not far distant when the
scrub hog will be only a memory.
Hasten its coming.
The hens will be laying for you IL
you give them plenty of vegetable,
bone meal and grain.
If the cows or calves get lousy, try
| an application of strong brine thick
ened with strong soap.
The longer the calf is allowed to
suck the COW the harder it will be to
make it drink from the bucket.
1t is nearly always best to save
| some of the old sows, especially to
farrow the early spring filters.
More alfalfa means more home
grown feed and smaller feed bills. 1t
naturally leads to better profits.
Farm crops sold to COWS and shoats
bring top prices and the fertility of
the soil is kept on the place. too.
The man with five COWS and a sepa-
rator is better off than his neighbor
with eight cows and no machine.
No matter how well bred a COW
may be she cannot produce milk at
profit when given only a maintenance
ration.
Study your breed. You can't make
success by giving White Leghorns
and Plymouth Rocks the same kind of
| treatment.
Test the seed!-not the corn alone,
but samples of all the kinds of grain
you intend to SOW. The results may
surprise you.
The high cost of living on the farm
may be reduced in a measure at least
by producing more of the necessities
of life at home.
It's an exceptional COW that can get
enough inspiration from a straw pile
| and tank of ice water to give de-
cent mess of milk.
What are you going to do with
| your idle hours this winter? says one
paper. The man whose farm work is
| systematized has none
White of the egg is recommended
in cases of fracture in chickens, for
soaking the bandages, thus binding
them together and stiffening.
If hogs are lousy set a small post,
wrapped tight with an old rope, in
the ground, and soak the rope with
coal oil. The hog will do the rest.
Industrious fowls are the kind to
keep. 1t matters not what the breed
is, the lazy hen is Improbable. II is
the Industrious hen that produces
eggs.
! In figuring up the value of the dairy
COW, uO NOT utBleCL W Tame bhS CNiil
into consideration. This is one rea-
son why registered cattle are so de-
| sirable.
The best heifer calves may be made
| into fine veal in seven or eight weeks
by feeding them skim milk and oil
meal, but better far 1t Is to raise them
on the same foods,
In feeding the dairy COW it is a
recognized fact that a certain amount
of nourishment must be used to keep
up her body. What is given above
this, II it is the right kind, goes to
| produce milk.
While we are about 1t, we can just
as well have pure bred fowls on the
place They don't eat any more, they
are more dependable for laying. as