The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1914-08-06

Rotation keeps out disease
Keep the chicks free from vsrmin-
Fertilizer Is an important problem
Never Ist the colt nurse Il the mare
10 heated
Don't shut the buli Up IN a dark.
lonesome place.
Oats are made more p4lAtable for
poultry By sprouting-
Thin out the hills OF corn Three
good stalks are enough
Only quiet. kind. fast mixers should
be allowed in the dairy barn.
All the clovers are very hard 20 cure.
a. the stems hold 10 much sap.
Don't fool with gsrgsi Begin treat.
ment as soon as It is discovered.
Uniformity OF type may be gotten In
herd By using bulls OF uniform
type.
With poultry as with other products.
II is a good rule to market as soon as
ready.
The first requirements OF the young
chick are grit TO aid IN digestion and
pure water.
A cows pedigree is all right to tie TO
tust so long as II tallies with profits
IN the milk pail
A number OF dairymen in the New
England states use bay caps for the
curing OF clover and timothy.
II would be impossible 10 foretell
definitely at just what date alfalfa
should be broken in any given locality.
II IL better TO thin the fruit than 20
prop the trees. II means better quail
ity OF fruit and Is not 80 hard on the
trees.
A bit of wheat bran or ground oats
viii put the fat on lambs fast. but give
II every day. Haphazard is no way TO
do anything.
Many a valuable horse has been
''hipped" starting in at the barn door
that was simply thrown back and not
propped open.
The hog has been called the mort.
gage LITTER" but Il is the hen that
keeps the family in groceries while
the hog is growing.
Never grease the hen that is set.
ting. as grease getting on the shells OF
the eggs will close the pores and
smother the chickens.
The closer you keep up In market
ing your eggs the less loss there will
be. II doesn't take long for eggs TO
spoil when the mercury 10 hot
Now and then we run across a farm
er who plants his corn before the
ground is rightly prepared II never
pays TO get In hurry and hog It in"
II is little less than cruelty 10 ami.
mails TO put sore-footed horse on the
road. Keep him on the farm II you
will. but never try TO make road
ster OF him.
The swine industry is profitable and
affords a market for waste products
and materials OF little or no value in
themselves. Swine 1t perfectly into q
diversified farm plan.
To start an alfalfa field where
the soil is deficient in lime and plant
food is sometimes quite a task, but
when once established II is like
bank account for years.
Take good care OF the work ami
mails. for much win depend upon their
efficiency during the busy season
when crops must be cultivated fire.
quently and perhaps hurriedly
Hog sheds need not be expensive.
but they should be dry tight enough
10 exclude rains and SHOWS, and also
capable OF being well ventilated IN
summer when the weather Is hot and
shade is needed
Barnyard manure is a very variable
substance. The more important con
ditions which determine its compost
tion and value are age and kind OF
animal, quantity and quality OF food.
proportion Of litter. and method OF
management and ago.
The difference between hen-oost-
which is more than mere feed--and
the product OF the average hen is not
enough 10 warrant one In kaantn., -