The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1914-06-04

Eut some bneep on tne tartn-
Give the hens shellmaking material
Wheat bran In the ration is help
ful to digestion.
Plenty OF good pasture adds TO the
profits OF the hog business.
Keep tho old hen and her brood
away frorn all other fowls
The value OF good feed is wonder
fully increased by good care.
The hen that lays lots OF eggs needs
lots OF grit and oyster shell.
Generally It's mice and not moles
that get the seed corn at planting
time.
Five times a day is not too often 10
feed chicks during the first week of
their lives.
Converting the corn crop into silage
clears the land and leaves It ready for
another crop.
A great many farmers that are rails
ing poultry pay little attention to the
question OF rations.
Feeding moldy and musty grain TO
chickens often means losing both the
grain and the chickens.
The wise poultryman will not put
hen and chicks into coop this spring
without first disinfecting It.
Most eggs OF plant lice and other
insects hatch about the time the
buds are opening in the spring.
In mailing apple boxes or barrels,
what are known as cement coated"
nails hold much better than the ordin-
ary kind.
Water the horses as often as pos
sible; but let the horse that comes IN
hot drink a few swallows only. until
he is cool.
With the spring pigs, especially OF
the seven to nine month bs' required
10 send to market, ive q be spent
in the pasture fields.
The gasoline engine is Ahe ideal
power to run the separator Bl.~uae II
can be depended upon to maintain a
uniform rate of speed.
In buying seeds for spring planting
II is we'll to remember that poor seeds
are always dear seeds. and that the
best are by far the cheapest.
Very early Matched chicks or those
that have no grass range should have
sprouted oats. vegetable to peck at
or even some alfalfa or clover hay.
Put horses OF equal strength In the
same team, and II this cannot be
done. even up by giving the weaker
one the advantage in the long end OF
the double tree.
Good blood is essential to the pro-
ducing OF good horses, but not any
more so than the material that forms
the food for feeding the animal when
once started In life.
Plan to make the farm produce all
that II is capable OF producing and
then do not attempt TO keep more
stock than can readily be kept in a
good. thrifty condition
II is not we'll TO try TO mate over
two geese with one gander. He will
usually mate with two, but II more are
placed with him he is likely to select
one and pass the others by.
Some OF the fall-bearlng strawber-
ries are becoming OF value. A few va.
rieties bear well In autumn. especially
IL the flowers are kept picked in the
spring. forcing them to fruit in au.
tumn.
II stock Is kept for profit and to
make the greatest possible amount OF
money out OF It, then II is absolutely
necessary that regular system OF
feeding be adopted and adhered to
closely.
Take pains not to have any traps
about the hog yards where the hogs
may get caught and hurt in any way.
They are worth too much money, and
we ought to be toe good farmers TO /
permit any such thing.
As general rule the finer the
manure and the more evenly dis
tributed the more accessible It is to
the crops grown. II Is an item then