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Show Timothy hay is a poor milk producer. pro-ducer. Short pasturing to save feed is nol economy. Are the apple trees safe against rab bit or mice girdling? It is poor management to neglect the colt after weaning. Rejected wheat turned into pork or beef brings top-grade price. An excellent plan for storing celery for winter use is to place it in pits. The open-front henhouse is gaining in popularity wherever introduced. Many of the modern stables are so constructed as to save very much, if not all, of the liquids. Denmark by law forbids the sale or exportation of butter containing more than 16 per cent, water. Beware of buying co.-n in the field. Usually it deceives one from five to fifteen bushels per acre. Just after the cow freshens she should have the same feeds she has been given previous to calving. The corn shock that falls down or twists around until It is practically down soon spoils in wet weather. Hens must have lean meat and bonp. or they must have skim milk and grit in winter or they cannot make eggs. If you intend to 'allow that second crop of clover to be plowed under, it will not hurt to pasture it from this on. j Young chicks seemingly never do I so well as when they have free range on the grass and are fed a variety of food. Handling the c--"s legs while it is ! young lessens the danger of kicking and makes its first shoeing more eas-; eas-; lly accomplished. I If any of the chickens are roosting ; around in trees or on the fences ; "shoo" them off and make them roost j where they belong. |