The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1914-02-26

In weaving time ewes should be put
on dryer pasture or fed for two or
three days.
See that the collars fit snugly, SO
as to admit of the hand being inserted
at the bottom
To milk COW requires time and
patience The milk should be drawn
slowly and steadily.
A good COW is naturally impatient.
With constant irritation, any COW will
fail in quantity of milk
That is good reason why every
sheep ought to have her own stall and
be fed separately from the rest.
There is not much gain in breeding
a heifer before she is eighteen months
old. but there is considerable risk.
Which do you prefer, to pay S2,500
to stallion peddler for $1,000 horse,
or keep the $500 in your own pocket?
Some COWS have very tender teats'
and if you want we'll disposed COW,
be gentle in your treatment towards
her.
The man with five COWS and
cream separator is better off than MS
neiehbor who has eight COWS and no
machine.
The actual cost to keep added to
the service fee of the sire, represents
the amount at which rses you raise
stand you.
Especially in summer, it is not econ
omy to load butter with water, for 1t
will not keep as well nor sell at as
high price.
Chickens of frying size in June and
July bring almost twice the money
when sold as the same weight brings
in September and October
The seed corn should be stored
where there will be little danger OF
frost. This is especially true un-
til the ears are entirely dried out
Don't overdo the soft mash plan OF
feeding. All good chickens have giz-
cards which can do lot of FOOD
grinding. One soft mash day IS
probably enough
When you buy dairy COWS you DO
not want beef animals, for they are
inclined to lay on flesh instead OF CIV,
ing value received for their 1eeo anu
care in the bucket.
In the early stages of bloat in catt'e
mixture of two ounces OF SODA anu
ginoer in a quart of water, can usuai-
" be depended upon to cure. Give
the mixture in drench-
It is poor economy to feed the poui-
trv on one kind of grain 1t is more
profitable in every way to give varl-
etv of which corn, wheat and oats
should be the leading feeds.
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r. there is any protection at all 'or
the noultry from the high winds, thsy
cbould he let out for few hours a.
Toast every day, when the weather
ia not so cold as to freeze the conp'
The manure spreader and the siio
are two things that point the farmer
towards better bank account, ana
II is not going to be SO very long be-
fore we will add to this the milking
machine.
The only certain way to find out
n,ba+ sort of COWS we have is to test
them. Sometimes the results are very
disappointing and we may wlsh we
had not done It, but in the end 1t IS
greatly to our advantage
To omit the first and second spray
ing from an apple orchard which IS
hearing partial crop, practically
means the loss of the crop for that
season no matter how thoroughly la
ter applications of poison are made
pear blight is an infectious disease
which affects pears, apples and
o,,;nces. 1t is caused by bacterium,
on organism which is similar in habit
to typhoid fever, and can be con-
tTol1ed only by cutting out the at
fected branches
The pure bred bull has done great
doa1 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
f1,ovvn