Putnam patriot., 1914-02-20

Alfalfa contains more protein per ton than clover or corn.
 There is more profit in a grunting pig than in a squealing one.
 When common SCOUTS appear imme- diately reduce the feed one-half.
 Newfoundland has for several years steadily increased it's agricultural pro duction.
 second in the interest taken in the raising of bees.
 To insure vigorous lambs careful at- tention must be given the ewes while they are carrying the lambs. we'll bred steer calf, made into beef as quickly as possible yields fair profit on high priced land.
 
 Inbreeding of bees is as impractical as inbreeding of anima1s, but the diffi- culty is in controlling the drones.
 
 Farming is simply business propo- sition. To be successful the farmer must run his farm on business basis.
 The raising of couple of good horse or mule colts on the farm each year does not call for an increased investment
 Those who are feeding bundle corn to their cattle must make arrange ments to have hogs follow them or the waste will be too great. The farmer who marketed his corn in the hog yard and who is now mar keting the hogs. can look any man in the face and tel, him to go to any old place.
 A standard division of the work on any farm should be the growth of every crop which can help towards the sustenance of the stock or the | family.
 Keep the manure cleaned up well around the barn yard and carried to the fields, putting it on poor spots. You will note a big difference in crops another year. It is better to SOW alfalfa late rather than early in the spring On well-pre- pared land not more than six pounds of good seed properly sown will be called for per acre. Dairying is good division of agri- culture to provide a regular income on the farm and to convert coarse feeds into salable products where prof it's may be made. Autumn is the ideal season for hor- ticulture and as the farmer often has no time to prune, spray and mulch the trees in the spring, he is now due to get busy in the orchard. It pays to buy wellmade silo. A poor one is expensive at any price. Cement for this purpose is worthy of consideration. One cannot afford to make a mistake in silo building. A cream separator will not do its best work unless it runs smoothly and does not vibrate. That's where solid. concrete foundation comes in. Vt fn fnr hn a. chine.
 Winter feed must generate heat. and the colder the climate the more atten- ton must be paid to this detail Corn, barley, peas, buckwheat oil meal, po- tatoes and rye all come in the list of heat-producers.
 If plenty of bran is fed, the pigs will seldom become constipated. Much phosphorus is needed to grow a good frame, and bran supplies considerable of this, and the addition of bonemeal or ground phosphate rock will be bene- ficial.
 windmill with five widely sepa-
 
 rated vanes has been adopted for irri- gation purposes in Italy's new pos sessions in Africa as the only kind that will withstand high winds and at the same time work in light breezes.
 The pure-bred bull has done great deal to improve the dairy herds of the middle west All states, or at least the principal ones, are reporting an increased dairy production and the results may be traced to better cows, not more of them.
 Miser's Unsuspected Hoard.
 A dead miseris hoard was found se- creted in a wall in an old cottage at Pembroke Dock, South Wales, recent