Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1913-04-24


A poor halter, spoiled colt.
Keep plenty of pure water before the
chicks.
Start cucumber seeds in the house
or a cold frame.
Old hens make the best mothers,
but pullets are the best layers.
In fitting horses for hard work, In
crease the grain ration. but not the
hay.
If there we're fewer whips in the
world there would be fewer ugly
horses
AS the lambs grow and require
more milk, increase the grain with
Judgment.
Good seed corn is one of the most
important factors in producing
good yield.
No man can tell whether corn will
grow or not without making ger
mination test.
Eleven dozen eggs per year Is
fair average for hens and pullets
kept in large flocks.
To kill Canada thAtles in a field,
put the field in some cultivated crop
and keep the weeds down
When lambs are grown rapidly the
quality of the meat is far and away
ahead of that grown slowly.
Lighting, ventilation and cleanli-
ness must be practiced before best
results can be secured in the dairy.
To insure vigorous lambs, careful
attention must be given the ewes
while they are carrying the lambs.
Stop and think about the water sup
ply. 1t should be secured from a
source uncontaminated by impurities.
Hogs should not as rule be turned
into more corn at one time than they
can eat up clean In two or three
weeks.
Pasturing grass too soon or too hard
is an expensive way Of saving feed;
1t costs several times the amount of
feed saved.
It's all right for chickens to scratch
but they need little extra encourage
ment to make five-pound pullets by
Thanksgiving time.
Here's a chance to show your in
genuity: See If you cannot build the
new chicken coops so they will be q
little easier to clean.
You can rightfully expect more fer
tile eggs from hens that get plenty OF
green food than from those that lived
on dry grains all winter.
Did you ever think how much
ground good ear of corn will plant?
1t is just that much ground wasted
If you plant poor ear.
Give the COW an opportunity to dc
her best, then submit her to the Bah
cock test and milk scales before con
demning her performance.
II the butter does not come" al
the expiration of half an hour some
lhing Is wrong. Look first at the TEN
perature and then for other causes.
The horse that is all the time be
ing tapped with the whip never
knows what his master means of It
ana comes to think he means just
nothing.
With hogs 1t is not best to GROVE
the breeding stock to their full ca
pacity thrifty growth without toC
much fat is best for the stock intended
for breeders.
II the stable should be little toe
cold, or a cold snap" comes wher
the lambs are young, sew soft wool
Gu blankets on the little fellows. Suct
attention pays, and pays we'll
prof' f. b, Mumford says the silk
Will add from 20 to rs per cent. to tn,
prohts of the corn crop. Some Civ,
even higher estimates. In 1909 III
state of Kansas had only sixty.tw
silos, while now there are more thar
Two thousand and more in sight.
Feonies are beginning to rival tn,
rose The amateurs should by n,
means neglect them; for they ar,
Tree from pests, need little attention
ana bloom year after year with tn,
greatest freedom. But beware O
planting them too deeply which mis-