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Show HOTBS eaa. MBMKMBROOK mj- FARM Dulld a scratching shed. ... Please your egg customer. ... Give tho cMcks tho sour milk. ... Constant vigilance Is the price of clean swine herd. . Do ' not waste by feeding mora than the animal can digest. ... Milk that is kept clean and properly cooled needs no preservative. Equal parts of corn and oata are bard to excel as a grain feed for sheep. Paint ail the wounds made in pruning prun-ing with pure white lead and pure linseed lin-seed oil. It Is cheaper to remove the causa of disease than to doctor the chickens chick-ens afterward.. ' The young calf should have an abundanco of good clean clear water before It at all times. The moisture going in with the silage sil-age should bo kept in. This koeps the sllago from "dry-firing." ... It pays to grade all Bmall fruit. It demoralizes prices to have small, bad berries mixed In with large ones. ... Spraying with whltowash once a month will go a long way toward keeping down vermin In the poultry house. ' It nover pays to market stock that is not fat Plenty of good yellow corn will make any healthy bird fat in two weeks. Experiments show that chickens with strong vitality and plenty of masculine characteristics make the largest gains. If you hare any chickens roosting In the orchard trees, you bad better let tfeam know what the ben doom . waa baflt for. Doat allow year horses to driak a large atnovat of water on ooealag lata the stable, very wans. Allow tbea to cool off a Mt first. The profit In plg feeding depends upon the cast of the feed given them. Therefore anything that cheapens the feed Increases the profit e e Bitter rot aad blotch are two of the most dlfflcwU diseases of the apple so control. Late spraying with bordeaux bor-deaux mixture Is most effective. I ' ' No matter how healthy and strong the chick may be when hatch' the strength will soon disappear w not given the proper feed and ttentloa. Hnmus Is the name applied to the partially decomposed organic (animal and vegetable) matter of tho soil. It is the principal source of nitrogen in tho soil. The farm mortgage that has outlived out-lived overy other line of activity very frequently succumbs to the dairy cow and tho milk check which she brings in every week. The profit In a cow consists of 'the money the milk or butter will sell for over and abovo tho cost for feed. This cost will not be materially different between be-tween tho cows kept on tho average farm. Tho object of sanitation In the hog yards and houses Is to secure tho greatest degrees of bodily health and vigor, because the animal will develop de-velop bettor and bo less suscoptiblo to disease. ... Many orchards aro not fruitful for tho reason that thoro Is not enough nutrltlvo properties In tho soil to supply tho roquhslto amount of nourishment to onablo tho trees to properly mature fruit. ... A few dollars spent In Improving fonces, especially along tho roadsldo, I will bo money well usod, for It will not only help tho appearanco of the farm nnd make n moro ready sale If such is desired, but it will also ndd to the self rospoct of tho farmor and tho farmor's boys, all of which has a real yaluo. |