Mexico Missouri message., 1913-04-03


Fit the young colts with cotton col
lars
Lead the COW instead of letting her
lead you.
Drainage is a necessary foundation
for a good road
Variety keeps the cows appetite In
the best condition.
Pure water is essential to pure but
ter and profitable beef.
Duck raisers pack forty dressed
ducklings in barrel for shipment
Unfertilized eggs keep best, and salt
is the bast material to pack them in.
The man who goes into dairying for
year or two had better stay out
OF it.
All the dead limbs from trees in the
orchard should go into the brush heap
or woodshed
A breeding pen of chickens is usu-
ally made up of from six to fourteen
females and a male.
A male bird less than year old
is known az a cockerel. When over
year old it is cock.
To prevent rabbits from gnawing
the bark and limbs from small apple
trees spray with soapsuds.
The mule from high strung dam
is much more likely to be kicker
than one from draft mare.
When the hogs have free access to
salt there is little danger of their eat
ing enough to injure themselves.
Cramming is system of forcing
feed into young fowls. either by hand
or machine, SO as to put on extra
flesh.
Mustard planted between the cab
bage plants attracts the harlequin
bugs and they can then be captured
and killed.
There are about a dozen different
breeds of dairy COWS, and the best is
the kind that should suit you the
best of all
good way to salt the COW is to
keep plentiful supply before her
and trust to her judgment In using
what she needs.
Light framed birds that mature
quickly, such as Leghorns and Minor
cas-, should not be kept with those OF
the heavier fowls.
disinfectant should be used In the
barn from time to time. Remember
mat cleaning the stables means more
now than it used to.
few gallons of paint would not
be expensive, but IL 1t we're rightly
applied 1t would add a great deal to
the value OF the place.
The first cutting OF alfalfa is the
coarsest and contains, so far as data
indicates, less digestible nutrients than
any oil the following cuttings,
IRVING a wedge with the back of
uhe ak has spoiled many a good tool.
i"he maui or beetle TO do that work
ana save the ak for it's own work.
me caves should be fed regularly
anu 'ney should have good clean pure
ecu IN clean pals and boxes. Ignor-
ing these points will account for much
calf mortality.
II Is estimated that laying Pekin
uucNs require from two.thirds to
,nree,lourths OF a quart of food per
uay Tor each duck, or from 6s 10 75
quarts per 100 ducks.
Keep over few of the hest ewes
ot your own breeding each wear even
though they are not so good as Won
might buy. It will make your aock
more uniform all the time.
the cream does not come after
iohg chnrning. give 1t thoroupb
heating It up to mora than
NE right churnirg temperature. Then
set 1t away to cool. and when Il reach
IS the right point try IT again.
Miliet seed is an excellent egg nro.
uucing grain Beans being highly nj.
uogenous are equally beneficial sor.
shum and broomcorn seeds viii AZ
20 add variety to the bill of fare. par,
,ty Is about of the same merit pom
eora contains more nitrogen and pbos.
phate than does regular Indian corn
nuekwheat is an egg producing food
out must be fed snarineIy - 4. a.