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Show ! FARM NOTES j i ? ; 1 Keep a little gas tar on hand and apply for scaly legs. Carry a pipewrench with you. It Is a general utility tool. Sunflower seed make better bait than cheese for the mousetrap. A little salt sprinkled with coal ashes is much relished by hogs. By the addition of pulverized mica concrete is made to imitate granite. If a cow has a habit of side-stepping while milking, examine your finger nails. Wash the horses' nocks frequently with salt and water; It will prevent them from getting sore. Put paper collars about tender-stemmed tender-stemmed plants to prevent the cutworms cut-worms from killing thorn. Wooden palls readily absorb milk particles, making It almost Impossible Impossi-ble to keep them sweet and clean. A cement feeding floor for the hogR can be built for close around G cents a square foot. It is worth the Investment. Invest-ment. If a little chalk be rubbed on a file before filing steel It will prevent chips sticking to the file to scratch the work. An Incubator will not run Itself any more than an automobile will. A human hu-man brain must stand back of the best machine Invented. The white cork that comes around grain: Is much better than hay for nse In making a flrelcss cooker. The cork may be bad at any fruit or grocery gro-cery store for the nsklng. If your stable floor is of plank and In need of repairing. Ihe laying of a t thin coat of cement over the old. and then pulling a new layer of plank on It will serve to make the floor watertight, water-tight, and at the same time to prevent dry rot. |