The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1914-07-30

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Cleanliness is essential in dairying.
Heavy pruning conduces to wood
growth.
Raise chickens with the simplest ra-
tions possible.
Properly managed, flock OF sheep
is always profitable.
Successful chick feeding is based on
carefulness in details.
II many sheep are kept, It is best to
divide them into small flocks
Hay should not be put in the barn
when damp with dew OF water.
Pasture that lasts all summer is
about as uncertain as taxes are sure.
Rare good judgment is required In
working mare that Is sucking
colt
Don't cut more hay than you can get
in in a day IL you are in rainy dis
trict.
The health OF the horse depends to
a great extent upon the cleanliness OF
his skin.
Watch for lice and leg scale on the
poultry and find time to kill them and
whitewash the coop.
fair hatch of strong, healthy
chicks is to be preferred to a greater
number of weak ones
The ewes should be judged very
much as a dairy cow-good mixers
grow their lambs most rapidly.
Silage is the best and cheapest form
In which a succuient feed can be pro-
vided for winter or summer use.
Soft shelled eggs indicate q lack OF
lime in reach of the hens. Provide
ground oyster shell or old broken NOR
tar.
Eggs from hens that have made a
fair showing in laying last winter will
be more fertile than those that did
heavy laying.
gradual change in feeding brought
about before the pig is weaned will
make the weaving period much less
trying on the pigs.
After the chicks are two weeks old
they can be gradually weaned to
cracked wheat and inely ground oats
with the hulls removed.
Dutch cheese Is an !deal food for
young turkeys. and how they do thrive
on Il; but chicks should never be fed
exclusively on the scalded curd.
Leg weakness Is common com
plant with young chicks and II al.
lowed 10 continue unchecked will
cause great slaughter among them.
II does a fatfooted horse lots OF
good TO have his shoes taken on and
be given a run OF two OF three weeks
in the pasture after the seasons work
is well along.
Cut the oats hay as soon as you
can see a general tinge OF yellow over
all the field. for tho grain Is then
doughy and the stalk and the blades
are flled with sap.
Can't expect the hired man TO be in
terested very much in some one else's
work. The man interested must be
there with both feet and busy brain to
watch tor the small leaks.
Some poultrymen feed cracked corn
20 both old and young fowls for the
reason that II Ia harder to find and
gives the birds more exercise in eat.
ing It than the whole kernels.
Here is an old neighbor's remedy 10
remove warts from a cows udder:
Take equal parts OF pine tar. sweet
oil and linseed oil. Heat and mix well.
When cool apply to warts once a day
after milking"
The careless man sometimes leaves
the door OF the corncrib open at night
but his carelessness is enforced ON
his mind yery strongly when he finds
that horse or COW is foundered from
eating too much grain during the
night
The COW raised on the same farm
where she was born will always do
better than anywhere else. Here she
feels contented-at home, II she has
good treatmept-and contentment has
a good deal 10 do with the thrift and
profits Of the dairy COW,