The Yale expositor., 1914-02-26


Give the chickens green feed.
Treat the bull kindly, but never pet
him.
What the farmer wants from a milk
COW is results.
The tanning mill will pay for it.
self in one season.
While over-fat hens may, over-fed
hens Will not. lay eggs.
A lazy person has no business mix
ing up with the dairy business.
Keep up your feeding experiments,
and note down the results for your
own profit.
What makes a finer breakfast for
laying hens than wheat warmed in
the oven?
Egg production is not measured
so much by the quantity as by the
quality of the food.
AS a general rule, the larger the
number OF fowls kept the smaller the
expense in proportion.
The farmer who knows how to raise
a good draft colt always has buyer
ready when he wants to sell.
The chickens that get bone meal
and oyster shells in their feed will
have few cases of leg weakness.
The dust heap is very important
where fowls are confined. If free they
may find the dust bath for themselves.
Cow testing allows more discrim-
ination in feeding. apportiOning the
grain according to the yield of but
ter fat.
Coal tar cannot be beaten for keep
ing out the peach tree borer. but il
will not kill him once he has become
established.
II you have any arsenic on hand
feed it to rats and mice and not to
your swine. 1t causes temporary bloat,
not good flesh.
Hogs should always have yard of
their own away from the other stock,
for it is always found that returns are
better in the end
The beginner with sheep will do
well to invest a little money for a
good sheep book. One lost sheep will
pay for several books
Re sure that your horses and colts
are free from worms. A horse af-
flicted with worms is never thrifty,
and feed is only wasted.
Any feathers or down on the shanks
or toes of clean legged varieties of
poultry disqualifles the specimen and
the bird should be marketed
II is the fellow who burns the lam
tern that saves the early lambs. Be
ing right on the spot on the dot will
prevent great loss during lambing.
The agitation for laws protecting
sheep from dogs is getting broadly
scattered. From coast to coast the
one drawback to sheep raising is the
dog.
The better the sire you have at the
head of your herd, the better the off
spring will be and that means the
greater milk checks you will have in
later years.
Do not plant more apple trees un-
less you are taking good care of what
you have A few well cared for give
better returns than many given over
to insects and disease.
The majority of the bad habits I'm
dairy cows can be traced directly to
handling, or to abuses in handling,
that have been exercised in bringing
up the calf or developing the heifer.
The people of western cities are
paying 81 each for hens for eating,
80 cents and above for fresh eggs not
always fresh: and still they eat more
eggs and chickens than some farmers
families.
II is generally conceded that the
tendency to large egg production is
transmitted by the males, rather than
the females. If you are breeding for
a "bred-to-lay" strain, carefully keep
this I'm mind. Buy no males except
sons of large producers.
We don't think much OF any kind
of ashes on the floor of the hen
house. The hens are so apt to get
their feet wet and then walk in them.
You know what comes next-or is
apt to-sore feet. We would far
rather have good earth OF dust.