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Show GENERAL FARM NOTES. An ounce of doing is worth more than a pound of intending. White middlings contain more nutriment nut-riment than the brown kind. Be kind but firm with the colts and tie them with strong halters. Few farmers give the legs and feet of their horses sufficient care. Warm wheat for breakfast makes the biddies shell out the eggs. i Clean stables and good floors are a necessity to sound feet and legs. Give the calves plenty of good clean bedding and be sure there is sunlight in their quarters. The leafless tree that must answer as a machine shed is the implement dealer's best friend. Fresh air is all right for the hens, but not when it is sifted through knotholes knot-holes and cracks between the boards. The profit on the dairy farm depends de-pends upon the economy of production produc-tion and feeding. The latter does not mean stingy feeding. Often this Is most expensive. Do not put a handful of salt In the feed box. Put a brick or lump of rock salt in a convenient place where the horse may help himself to it when he wants it. A pure bred bull will bring a milking milk-ing strain of cows quicker than you would imagine.. It does not seem so long between the birth of a calf and its maturity once you start to breed. Plenty of bone all the time. If you haven't a cutter use an old ax or a hatchet, but break the bone in small pieces. . It's cheaper to burn fuel in the tank heater than to warm the water with high priced feeds after it enters the cow's system. Some folks are still housing their hens under the barn, where the wind sweeps through, fearfully cold. These are the folks who are sure hens don't pay. |