Putnam patriot., 1913-04-25
Practical Poultry Advice

Unfertile eggs keep best
 Use care in selecting a sire.
 Turkeys are always in demand
 Pumpkins may be kept all winter
 if desired Not one COW barn in hundred has
 windows enough. When you begin to handle the coitA
 keep it up every day. If the hogs squeal. find out whx. Comfortable hogs never squeaL
 The hog that Is kept growing Is al
 ways finished for market most costly.
 The Babeock tester tells definitely and does not guess the cows worth In dairy-made butter the individual tastes of each customer can be sup piled.
 Two weeks of milk and corn meal feeding will add to the profits of mar ket stock Feed is an important factor in sue
 eessful dairy work but it Is not the
 only thing.
 Cows. sheep. goats and hogs are ' rfd
 man as well. Plan the feeding of the brood sows in such way that they must walk to get their feed. Symmetry of outline, or balancing
 of parts, Is very important point in
 selecting steers. When two horses become accustom- ed to working together keep them working that way.
 Every grocer will tell you that there
 is demand for good dairy butter far beyond the supply.
 
 cellar pick out the best and pack in slightly moist sand. In handling the milk at home the conditions and equipment must be of the best and up to date. The production of green ducks is coming to be a large business, espe- l cially in the eastern states. The feeding value of the skim-milk and buttermilk will alone pay for the | extra work of making butter at home. If sheep are in a good, thrifty con dition at the start, two months of ! good feeding will properly fatten for l market.
 December is a good month to cut
 scions for grating. Bury in we'll drained soil on the north side of building.
 Good breeding and good feeding are so closely related that they must go together; one is useless without the other Another abbreviated blessing adopt ed by farmers, along with the horse less wagon and blow, Is the barbless fence wire The richer the soil in the asparagus
 patch the better the crop will be. A rich soil also makes asparagus start earlier In spring An account should be kept with every COW. The way to determine her value is by using the scales and | the Babcock test With the advent Of horseless car riages there is noted an almost entire | absence of tailless horses in our parks and city driveways A coat of cheap paint will do much
 to improve the appearance of the wire fence and also to increase it's period Of usefulness No use to plant bush fruit in poor ground It should be plowed deeply, thoroughly worked up with good stable manure before the bushes are set out
 Pork making osght to be profitable side line for the dafryman this winter. Forty-cent corn, cheat skim uifk and
 good hog market Is money making ombination.
 Pick sire with a good disposition. Never raise a colt from a naturally vicious tempered mare Peculiari- ties of disposition are almost inva- riably transmitted The vices of feather-pulling and egg-eating are always more common in overcrowded focks than in quar- ters where there is plenty of space for the fowls to exercise.
 By keeping a variety of stock on the farm a larger number may be kept and the best use can be made of all food by giving what Is best suitable to each class of animals
 If possible plan for dry box stalls with dirt floors in which to winter the colts. If this Is impossible keep the stalls well bedded and clean to acy1ortu tror, .Hrc1r-