Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1918-07-18
Farm, Home and Garden

Farm, Home and Garden
The calf is an important fac.
tor on the farm and should have
proper care and feed. They are
worthy Of good care and all they
can eat. Nearly all farmers feed
SKINNED milk and that is pretty
thin feed. The calf should have
all the shelled corn and good hay
or grass it will eat. There is not
much question but shelled corn
is the best grain for the calf and
let them do their own grinding.
1t will pay the farmer to grade
as high as possible in one of the
beef families that are fair milk
ers, but there is a great differ
ence in different animals of the
same breed. You want a broad,
heavy animal, heavy in flank for
a mixer and heavy in hind quar-.
ter for beef. We have too many
scrubs of all kinds; we can afford
to pay better prices for better
,sires and grade high and then by
keeping the best cows for our
own we can soon have choice
herds. We should think of the
fruit and garden for the family
for the year; yes, the whole year.
By proper attention to the gar
den and small fruit and summer
apples we may be pretty well
supplied with fruit the entire
year. 1t does not pay to be like
a man | bought a farm of once,
who had worked nearly 200 acres
of land through the summer and
when he came to empty his Gel.
lar in December he did not need
any top box to carry it's contents
on one wagon, potatoes and all.
Plant one acre of sweet corn for
each five cows you are going to
milk and, when the pasture be.
gins to fail in August, give your
cows all the corn fodder they
will eat after they come up at
night and they will hold their
flesh and give nearly twice as
much milk. l have sold several
COWS for the butchers block in
the fall that had been fed this
way and MIXED until they went
for beef. Don't forget to feed
your stock we'll and haye them
in thriving condition; if grass is
short give them corn fodder and
leave on some corn, it will pay in.
milk to feed your cows we'll, and
the good flesh will be clear gain.
Keep the young calves and colts
good through the cold fall rains
and give them shelter nights.
If you want a good early gar
den next year, pillow it this fall,
and give it a good top dressing
of we'll rotted manure; a good
garden is a large help to the ex-
pense account of the family, and
a good home is the best place we
will ever have in this world, and
will help prepare us for a good
home over there.
See if you have a fine lot Of
pullets for next year, and, if not,
some can be secured and a little
labor will fix suitable quarters
for them and they will help feed
you next year. Reasonable fore.
thought, some labor, and a small
outlay will in many ways add to
the comfort of the home.
l have sowed rape for hog pas.
ture, and have discarded it's use,
because it is no improvement ov.
err fodder corn for hogs or any
other stock, and it is not half as
good as a good grass pasture.
The reason is that, when you
want it most, you haven't got it.
l can raise sweet corn in as
short a time as rape. If you turn
hogs on rape before it is two
months old, you might about as
we'll throw the seed out in the
road or the river. The best way
to get the good of a rape hog
pasture is to SOW oats, barley
and rape together; then keep the
hogs or sheep of till the grain is
8 inches high and you will have a
good pasture, but, as the Indian
says, that is a heap big time to
wait" | don't know why men do
not have good hog pastures. l
wish l could make these words
ring in every farmers ears!