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Show FARM NOTES. Fat fowls are only fit for cooking. They are poor layers and uncertain breeders. You will find some men who find fault with the way the Panama canal is dug, while their own farms are un-dralned un-dralned or ditched. It is easier to criticise a large thing than to do a small one. Rural New Yorker. Horses watered before feeding retain re-tain their weight better than when watered after feeding grain. Highest monthly egg production, in some tests at the West Virginia experiment ex-periment station, was noted in March, averaging 16 2-3 eggs per hen. When the farmer considers that a ton of well cured alfalfa hay is worth about as much as a ton of wheat bran, he ought to see that it is profitable profit-able to protect it from the rain and the dew. He would scarcely .hesitate lo provide suitable covering if he had several tons of bran in the field exposed ex-posed to the elements. Hay, caps will spoil pay for themselves by the finer quality of the hay they assure, aside from the larger quantity of the best grade that their protection guarantees. F. D. Coburn. |