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Show Farm Note. Rye and barley sown together make an excellent green food for cattle. A hole in the shelter of 6tock wastes feed just as truly as docs a hole in the granary. Always avoid unnecessary expenditure expendi-ture of strength. You will wear out soon enough. Do not borrow money unless you can make it bring you a larger per cent than you pay. It is best to keep ono team well shod during tho winter to use on the road when slippery. Show your selfishness to your hired man and ho will show his selfishness to you. "Like begets like." Change the feed often enough to keep all sto.:k with good appetites. They will thrive better on less feed. An occasional sprinkling of the stalls with a solution made of a pound of copperas and four gallons of water will bo found beneficial. An experienced herder says that whenever a sheep goes off by itself its owner may be sure there is something radically wrong with it. There are men who consider it cheaper to raise the barn every few years than to draw" out the manure. They raise less crops each year. The best assimilated food is that which tho appetite craves. The best feeding keeps the animal in such health that it at all times has a brisk appetite. ap-petite. If some men get disgusted with farming and abandon it, so much the better for those who have faith in a business essential to human wants. Iowa Farmer. Young horses of a nervous temperament tempera-ment are easily frightened. The only way to prevent their "shying" is to make them acquainted with tho cars, robes, umbrellas, bridges, white stones or whatever frightens them in such a kind, gentlo manner that they will know they are not going to be hurt. Thoso who look upon farming as only an ordinary occupation are mistaken. mis-taken. As Frof. Wrighton remarks, agriculture is a born science. It is full of botany, zoology, geology and entomology. It is full of chemistry, from the soil to the growing plant, tho ripening seed and the animal life which is the outcome. |