River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1921-11-03

November please be good Shake
off thy frown of blue gray skies and
scudding clowds and shivery winds,
and just be good. Give US warm sun
shine for the few short days before
the blanket white shuts from our
view the last faint vestige of sum-
mer bright.
| The Black Board for November
If you are a farmer you ought to
have board nailed up in plain sight
in the barn, and for November these
are some of the things that ought to
be chalked on that board SO you can
plan intelligently the work for the
month. The farmer who does not
have his work well planned wastes
| much valuable time. Of course the
things YOU write on this board might
be Greek to the man from the city,
but the boys will understand what is
to be done. Sometimes bill of fare
at fashionable eat shop is Greek.
Three of us went into restaurant in
Georgia and from the printed sheet
two of us ordered pork chops, the
third man fried egg turned over. The
waiter called to the cook, 1.-TWO
squeals and cackle slapped in the
face.) 1t does not matter so much
how we read the sign if the boys and
the cook understand.
But for the board. Cloudy days
stack corn. Finish blowing. Disk and
drag sod blowing. Clean yards, put
rotted manure on garden and top dress
plowed fields. See that all tools with
light surfaces are creased to prevent
rust. Rusty plows, cultivators, hoes
and shovels are time MASTERS.
Live Stock Culling Time
Now is the time to Gull all kinds Of
live stock. You can not afford to feed
inferior scrub stock through the long
winter. / know they are cheap but
your time and feed are worth some
thing and you will waste both on the
poor stock. / saw farmer driving
home a bunch of cattle a few days
ago that he had bought very cheap as
4lR thought at sale. ! would not
have taken them as gift and agreed
to winter them. There is temptation
to sell the big stretchey young sows
and keep the smaller ones for breed
ers. Don't do it. Select the very
best and do not get them fat on corn.
Keep three or four more than you
kept last year. Wisconsin farmers
must grow less grain to sell, and more
rigs to feed. Plan for hog pasture
next spring. Buy peas now and sow
early in spring. During the winter
get plans and make two or three more
self feeders, try them.
The Flock
Gull out the ones not true to type
and any eve lambs that are not big
and thrifty. Maybe there are some
old ewes with no teeth. put these culls
all together and feed all the grain
they will eat for five or six weeks and
sell them Examine the flock for
ticks and if you find any. dip them the
first warm day. Have the dip warm.
Kill them now. Winter seems to be
the breeding time for ticks.
Write on the board in letters big.
White wash the barn and pens. If
you lave few scrub cows that you
ought to sell. whitewash the barn, it
viii make them feel like thorough
breds, and maybe, well anyway, give
them chance to make good.
Pigs? Well ! don't know as thew
care so much for looks. Yet some of
those aristocrats that ] saw at the
fairs this fall would look better in a
.whitewashed zen than in one covered
with cobwebs.
The chicken house Put some strong
sheep dip in the whitewash and give
the roosts and nest boxes a good
spray of kerosene before whitewash-
ing. Gull the fock Did you attend
one of the culling demonstrations
given by Mr.. Hayes? Well you ought
to have seen him pick out the lazy old
biddies. Hens are just like cows or
men. Some waste most of the food,
others make good use of it. Our laws
prevent us from killing off the men
who are lazy and worthless, but the
chickens are NOT nrntected eat them