Putnam patriot., 1913-03-28

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 Hens like vegetables A water heater Is handy. l Keep the colts in box stalls.
 It Is wise to raise your own breed ing sows.
 During indictment weather fowls are | better indoors than out. Winter or summer, a crowded pouL try house is bad for the fiock's health. Soil for soy beans should receive as thorough preparation as land for corn.
 At present prices for seed. the soy bean is one of the most valuable farm crops.
 
 one of the most satisfactory that can be grown.
 The stallion that is worked regi. larly every day will get the most and best colts.
 Rye makes a fair grade of silage and should be cut when the seeds are in the milk.
 Any man who will strike horse in the head should never be allowed to touch one again.
 A water heater will cost much less than the loss of flesh occasioned by cattle drinking ice water.
 The .levelness with which horse walks is one of the best evidences that bis legs are in harmony.
 No farmer who has to pump water for half a dozen head of stock can afford to be without wind mill.
 After a days work clean the work horses thoroughly, wash their legs from the knees down and rub dry.
 Life Is too short and too strenuous to make new breeds or to dairy with COWS not of the dairy form and tenn perament
 
 The careful dairyman has a good supply of roughage in or near the barn so as to be beforehand In case of sudden storm.
 Farm horses that are not to be used through the winter should have roomy paddock in which to exercise every fair day.
 See to 1t that the colt does not be- come copstipated A small dose of castor oil Is a good thing to get the bowels started
 Early cut clover or alfalfa, cured under caps and grown as thick on the ground as possible. makes the best hay for dairy cattle.
 The breeding bull should not only be the son of COW with large milk record. but the son of the COW possess ing the true dairy form.
 The man who tempts his hogs with weak fences has only himself to blame if they cause trouble by break ing into the cultivated fields.
 White of the egg is recommended in cases of fracture in chickens, for soaking the bandages, thus binding them together and stiffening.
 Many dairymen feed their chop or meal with silage or pulped roots. By so doing they claim the ground grain is made better use of and less is lost
 nice. big. fat hen will support in luxurious comfort several hundred lice for awhile, but she counldnt be expected to lay any eggs while do ing 1t
 Drop the point of your blow So that it will bring up an inch or two of soil that has not been cropped to death. It will add greatly to your crops and do 1t speedily.
 The value of roots as a feed for live stock is we'll known to every farmer, and many of the most expert stockmen grow an area of roots for this purpose each year.
 Stud-books may be guarantees or good breeding, but they are not al- ways guarantees of individual merit and horse that has not combina' tion of both these essential features should not be kept as a breeder,
 Feeds for the hog should be select ed primarily with the end in view of furnishing the proper quantity of di- gestible nutrients in a palatable form' as follows; Water, protein, earbony- drates. ether extract, mineral matter and bulky matter. Homegrown feeus should be used where possible, put where these are not available comner- J. fial fpads may ha SuhStifufpS