Show SIP r v ri fi an 4 p 11 ae 7 IVA Z 0 11 1 aj improving a pasture Pia turc sprine the ordinary pastille spring Is likely co cc be a liole water totally unfit for the use of cattle aspeci especially 4 cows says the american agriculturist A plan is shown in the sketch for keeping a I 1 pasture epting pure for toy by its use neither droppings nor the feet of cattle can get into tile spring the front of the spring is laid up tip with rough stones and cement an iron pipe with an elbow ICID being laid under tile stones the he elbow con coining illig m up tit inside as high as the water Is to stand when tho the work Is completed the pipe is carried away from the spring a sufficient distance to secure dry rooting footing around the watering caterin place it may lie found necessary to I 1 line the lie sides and back of the t ae tf ga a IJ Z improved IMP HOVEn nOVED PASTURE PAST fItE SPRINO spring with a 1 I thin coat of cement to prevent leaking aling le but this c can ili easily be done in fact it would be well to line the whole interior of the reservoir except the opened where the water enters practical form writers it Is to lie bo regretted that many of our farmers ind and stockmen stoc kmen who are best fitted to do their brethren good through the farm papers are arc so backward about putting their pens to paper we know many men whose long expel experience edee and careful intelligent observation have hare made their judgment on certain matters of great interest and value yet they could not be induced to write au an article for the paper says national stockman and we know others who have hare no farms never dever had find and never will have unless as a gift who are arc willing and think they are arc able to instruct practical farmers through the press at so much per line or per column every farm paper has too many one Is too many of the latter and too few of the former on its list of contributors the obstacles in the way of the average practical man who ii ho thinks of writing for the paper are more imaginary than real ile he is apt to distrust his bis ability to S just ri right lit or to spell just right or he be Is likely to con can felder bider that it Is too cicat an undertaking in for him this Is a mistake there Is no no danger that the man who knows what he is talking about will in make ake any serious blunders when nihon lie be writes lahe if he can tell a thing to his neighbor across the fence lie ho can toll tell it to a man across the continent all that is necessary is to write a plain simple account never mind about the spelling dont let the punctuation scare you out the editor can attend to these have something to say and say it as simply clearly and briefly as possible this Is the sum total of a good article convenient barn truck the accompanying illustration shows nn an easily made and convenient truck tor for the feeding floor of the barn vow four wheels can ca a be sawed front from a hardwood hard wood plank and mounted as suggested there Is a cha chance pee to put on sides and HANDY HADY TRUCK TrU CIt ends to the he platform thus forming a box bos upon tile truck in which mixed ferd fet d can be wheeled about to the mangers and shoveled out to the individual animals or the sides can be omitted emitted and a box bos placed oil the platform when needed such a truck will bo be fount found a laborsaving labor saving device in feeding the stock especially it if a large number of animals Is kept iron trucks can lie be procured very cheaply at a hardware store and will prove much more serviceable if one does not care to cut out wooden wheels N beals orange judd farmer stick to the ilo HO during the hinted of acol pork part went begging for buyers and pigs of 80 60 to 90 00 pounds glutted the market two 4 years later pork rose up to the highest point in tile the iaru stock market why because the corn colbs c lbs of the west were empty will they always remain K full now dow and hereafter it if you have f good pigs leep keep them well if you do to not have good ones c ge get so borne me while K they are czerp cheap and breed better ones pi take care of your skim milk a and ud but F and whey as if it were worth SO 0 cents a hundred pounds feed it to p the best advantage and get the pig up w to IGO pounds in prime condition the market wants him Is crying for him at prices a little over the ast cost of 01 pro duct lou sell the corn at 25 23 cents a Z bushel in his bis carcass and save the manure lure to pay for labor ind make tho the old farm smile and above nil all dont be sold out these days when the croze craze for lean pigs Is ou on leek deck neep keep a full supply to replace those that are gone so that not a pound at 0 byproduct by product will go to waste and iny your plans for winter inter and spring breeding whitewash almost iana to point paint the government whitewash whiteway ii is made as follows take lahe half hair a bushel of un slaked lime slake it with bellid boiling water cover during the process to keep in steam sloam strain the liquid through a 1 I une fine sieve or oi strainer and add to it a peek of salt previously dissolved in warm water three pounds ground rice boiled to a thin paste and stirred if in 1 while N bite hot half a pound ot of spanish whited whiting and oue one pound clean glue previously dissolved by soaking in cold water find then hanging overa over a slow tire lire in ili a small pot hung bull in a larger one filled with water add five gallons hot water t to 0 tile the mixture stir ai well ell and let it stand a few days covered from dirt it should be applied hot for which purpose it can be kept in a kettle or portable furnace the cast end of the presidents dents house at washington Is embellished by this brilliant whitewash it Is used by the government to lo whitewash lighthouses A plot pint of this wash mixture if properly applied will cover one squire square yard and will be almost serviceable as paint for wood brick or stone and is much cheaper than the cheapest paint coloring matter may lie be added as desired for cream color add yellow ocher peari or lead fidd add lamp or ivory black fawn add proportionately four pounds of umber to one pound of indian red and 11 I 1 d one common coi common ninon stone color add proportionately four pounds raw umber to two pounds lampblack oats oate for feeding Fc Fe eline edina there Is reason for the fact that in proportion to their weight oats sell higher than any other grain they are i v orth more pound for pound thin i o oni om ni not only because they are more nitrogenous enous than corn arid and their nutriment is therefore more easily dige digested ted but because also the liula huh of the oat gently excites the lining or at the hie stomach arid and thus aids digestion of all food in t when both prot elds arid and carbon go a into the stomach the carbon is better digested because the system gets OS tile the nutrition it needs and an all parts opera operate ze more vigorously with oats oil meal and cottonseed cotton seed meal and wheat brin bran or much straw can be fed and give good returns try to feed straw alone and most anlin animals als will slowly starve because they cannot digest 1 I enough of it to keep up tip animal heat and repair the waste of fats which existence implies in all lining creatures beets grown front from nuda lvery every one who his has hin handle illel nature n iture beets knows that near the croxie ire are swill knots with a leaf attached T thi lae are buds which if the beet is planted in the spring will boar bear ind and produce abundant seed but it if detached from the root these buds will each gi grow ow into a beet and quicker iiii acker thai the same beet can be grown from seed this however Is no very important advantage as on a large lare scale caily beets can bo be cheaper grown in a corner cordor of the greenhouse the gain Is mainly in keeping tile the variety true to itself when a strain of sugar beets corta containing ining more saccharine matter laa been produced the budded beet continues the same characteristics just as tup the potato grown front from buds does jut but tle the beet from seed reproduces itself deiy nearly and there Is by growing from seed a constant chance to Ine increase cease its sweetness the pie pen neep keep size and growth foremost in your calculations all you can get good quality have a separate sleeping and living g department in your pig house arid and have the bed higher if possible than the floor when you start in to fatten hogs dont craw cram the corn into them all at once all they will eat but begin small and gradually increase the ohp quantity american breeders bleeders bre eders have developed hog bog breeding wonderfully the science of breeding and feeding has given us a model hog that matures in eight months and concerts our cheap grain crops late into the best pork in the world worms are not infrequently the cause of losses preventing hogs from making the gains they otherwise would it given free access to salt bait and aslies ashes at all times they will have but little trouble aiom this source charcoal Is a cloirec tive for the digestive organs boic roots grass arid and green food and less corn in growing our pigs will develop more vigor and produce better meat every farm should produce turnips carrots parsnips par snips potatoes oes and beets for the stock and give the pigs a good supply in winter and early fall along g with the corn dairy ilota large cows must have more feed thin than small ones the cow that gives a good return for the food consumed Is the cow for profit leaves not only make a splendid bedding din for the dairy cows but they add to the value of the manure A poor process of manufacture will spoil the product of the finest cream creain over ever collected from milk if you are not getting the full average amount of butter from the cows ascertain what Is tile the matter the first month of milking will deade tile the question of whether the heifer should be kept in the dairy or in turned to the butcher s block A michigan cheese factory his has sent out tile the following pol pointers aters to its patrons arons filth cannot be strained from milk milk will catch aud and hold bold bad odors from stable wood house aud and filthy yards the best milk it if chut into a can tightly when warm will spoil spell inside of three hours |