Putnam patriot., 1914-06-12
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Buy a manure spreader.
Give the calf ground oats.
Sow alfalfa late in the spring.
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Run the cream separator smoothly
Litter should cover the feeding
floor.
Keep records and know where
you're at"
Light and pure air prevent disease
and promote productiyeness.
When you have chosen breed. work
for size and vigor by selection and
feeding.
The farmer that farms with HIS
mind as well as his hands is generally
a success.
The cellar is a good place to store
flower roots in winter, provided 1t is
dry one.
Winter eggs make poultry profitable.
Don't delay arranging for the comfort
of the hens.
BY putting a pinch of soda to ordi-
nary cream it Will whip as thick as
whipping cream.
A SO forge and an anvil. with few
other tools. will more than pay their
cost the first year.
The COW stable is a poor place for
hot air. especially the kind that arises
from an ill-kept temper.
Irrigation has been practiced in
Spain nearly century. the first canal
having been begun in 1914.
Don't try to sell a skinny horse.
Fat on horse brings a higher price
than on any other farm animal.
Hail may knock down the wheat
and chinch bugs take the corn, but
the cream check comes every month.
Get thoroughbred, butter-bred bull
calf now. II you have none, and grow
him well to begin to improve your
dairy.
Let the sunshine and fresh air
come into the hen house through the
windows instead of through cracks in
the siding
| Plenty of grit and plenty OF pure
water are just as essential to egg
production as good houses, and the
right kind of food.
The poultry raiser should have a
bone cutter. The cost price is reason
able and one will more than pay for
itself the first year.
Both sexes In geese are feathered
exactly alike. which makes 1t difficult
to distinguish ganders from geese
especially when young.
The seed corn should be stored
where there will be little danger o.
frost. This is especially true until
the ears are entirely dried out
II doesn't look as though the mar
kets could be overstocked with dairl
products Milk and butter prices are
staying up well. In the cities at least
The rich butter fat cows can b'
made more numerous only by carefu
breeding. II you mate ruch butter ia
stock only. the improvement viii b
rapid
Eggs at Is to 80 cents dozen MAKE
an expensive cure for scours in calves
The better plan is to keep quantity
OF dried blood meal on hand for THU
purpose.
Next to alfalfa there Is roughag'
grown on the farm that will compar'
with clover hay. OF course, tbs
brighter and cleaner # Is the bette
for the stock.
Milk Is a food, not beverage IL u
usually looked upon as drink only
but the truth Ia It is a food supplying
the need OF practically every form o
human necessity.
/ II any new males are 10 be bough
this season it is a good plan TO ge
them now while those who are selling
have more TO select from. AS rule
too, prices are low.
In drying of your COW don't dismiss
her finally till you find that she /;
truly dry. Any milk or thick. matterl
stun left in the udder Is likely TO pro
/ duce disease later on
The farmer who srrsnges his wors
so as to be busy all the year around
and TO keep his men busy all the veal
around is the man that gets the larg
est profit and has the least trouble
with help
Dafryfng compels farmer 20 dt
versify and 10 adopt a rotation IN
crops. and there Is nothing that the
average farm needs more, unless il Is
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