Mt. Pleasant Pyramid | 1912-08-16 | Page 7 | General Farm Notes

GENERAL The supply of good 1,500 to 1,800 pound work horses Is always behind the demand. For horses doing a considerable amount of road work there Is no grain equal to oats. A properly trained horse will slop as soon as anything goes wrong with the harness or his shoes. A cow producing average testing milk should yield from 7,000 to 8,000 pounds of milk In a year. Deal gently with the cow of nervous ner-vous temperament. She usually is one of. the best in your herd. Gentleness and patience with the heifer that has calved for the first time will win out every time. The weeder is a most effective too! in that it takes every small weed in its path as well as to pulverize many small clods. The pig is merely a meat-producing machine, and the more he is fed with good judgment, of course the more meat he will turn over. Ewes lhat are broad and long will make good mothers and produce vigorous vig-orous offspring. In this way lambs of a better type will be produced. The ducks are easily confined with a low fence; they rarely fly over a fence, though they will crawl under a very small opening. They need clean, dry straw to sleep on.