The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1914-03-13
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are you heepluS !OdT COWS warm
and comfortable?
1t never pays to work a weak horse
beside a strong one.
During inclement weather fowls are
better indoors than cut.
Like the housewife, the poultry
mans work is never done.
There is a greater need for variety
Of food when fowls are confined.
Change the feed of the horse suf-
H~ciently often to have them relish it.
How about the ice supply? Are
you going to provide for ice this sea
son?
A pint Of kerosene in q gallon OF
WhiteWash makes an excellent in.
secticide.
iN-ll W pam lOI Il DtttGi SAAutu
mex year. It should include fruit.
flowers and vegetables.
Poultry and eggs form more than
10 per cent. of all the meat products
produced IN this country.
Keep pregnant ewes on the move.
That is, make them take exercise
but don't do it with a cur.
Nasal and throat troubles are often
caused by dusty sleeping quarters.
Bed heavily with clean straw.
A good poultryman is industrious
not easily discouraged, filed with
pluck and grit, and full of ambition.
Seventeen hens that weigh about
six pounds each ought to have not less
than five pounds of grain every day.
1t is pOOr economy to cut down the
hens feed because the egg yield is
small.
Be careful not to feed musty and
fermented food if you want your
horses to go thorough the winter with
profit.
Always get a written guarantee with
your trees and be sure that the people
behind it are able to make the guar
antee good.
Little pigs will seldom have the dis
ease of humps If 0 allow the
youngsters plenty of exercise and a
large range.
1t is the steady gated horse that
covers the greatest number of miles
in a day and does it with the least
injury to himself.
TO grow wool takes good feed and
regular feeding. A weak place is
made in the wool every time a sheep
is stinted a few days.
Cow testing demonstrates that 6
great many good COWS can be kept at
a smaller cost of feed. This is not,
stinginess, but economy.
The boar will worry the sows and
all times-keep him by himself after
the breeding is completed.
Poultry having access to a sandy
stream Of pure water usually keel
thrifty and free from disease. Blu
look out for polluted streams.
All breeds are good If used for the
purpose for which they were created
and bred along practical lines, to sat
isfy the demands Of the markets.
From now on o want to be max
ing peace with your eve. Get so ia
miliar with them that when lamb
ing time comes they will not feaI
o
In 100 parts of the yolk of an egg
80 per cent. is water, As per cent. il
oil and fat and one per cent. each o.
~albumenoids, coloring and minera
! matter.
Brood sOws that raise only twins
and chicken eating hogs are farm rob
bers to be desp;sed. 1t is only a shor
haul to market, and that is where
they both should go.
Proper care of the poultry is very
important as the weather grows
colder. Every possible thing should
be done for the comfort of the fowls
If winter eggs are to be obtained.
Year in and year out the hens neet
some grain. some green feed, some
good liquid food, milk If they can gel
=. and plenty of grit. Give them thai
and you will get eggs-provided they
are properly housed.
Never allow any food of any kind &c