Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 61, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 January 1909 — HINTS FOR FARMERS [ARTICLE]

HINTS FOR FARMERS

Ths Farmers’ Creed. I believe in the trinity of deep preparation, liberal fertilization and rapid cultivation of the soil. I believe in the making and saving of barnyard manure as the standard of all fertilizing material and as the surest means of enriching our soil so as to make paying crops. I believe In .the imperative necessity of adding humus to our soil. . I believe in the great value of rotation of crops and of the planting of the ’legumes to add fertility to our soil and Increase our yields. I believe in raising cattle upon our farms; that it is necessary for the proper development of the highest type of farmers as well as a necessary part of any balanced system in farm Ing I believe in growing home supplies that we may use our time and lands to best advantage and for the surest profit and least strain.—Southern Cultivator . .

Dipping Hogs. Abe Enochs of Stockdale. Kan., thinks that hogs suffer from two troubles which he believes cause about all of the so called hog cholera. "Lice and worms.” said Mr. Enochs, "cause more losses to farmers than anything else. Some time ago I invested in a dipping tank and keep well supplied with dip I do not dip my hogs at certain seasons, but very often and just ns often as 1 think they need it. Once a month is none too often to dip them In that way they are kept free from lice, which Is a great benefit to the hogs. Then the worms are the other pest? I feed worm remedies, which I find effective. Besides this. I salt my hogs. No person would think hogs cared much for salt. But 1 find that they like it and’ will cat it all the time If they can get at It. Since I commenced to handle my hogs this way 1 have never lost a single one.”— Drovers’ Telegram.

Sheep on Rough Land. Sheep do finely ‘on rough hill land whore little but grass can be grown, and . there is no kind of live stock that may be purchased at so small an original outlay as sheep and none that will increase so rapidly in bumbers and value. Neither is there any that may be Imnsed satisfactorily at so small an outlay for buildings and iione that will so surely and quickly subdue rough land by browsing on bushes, sprouts or weed growths. The old and often quoted saying. “The sheep bath a golden hoof.” may prove literally true to the man who owns a rough farm, too rough for the economical keeping of most other kinds of live stock, for while the flock will bo utilizing weeds and bushes in making wool and mutton they will at the same time be reclaiming the land, making It more fertile and of greater value. Shredded Fodder. Good shredded corn fodder is very palatable. It of course can be fed tv all kinds of farm stock except hogs It seems especially adapted to horses and sheep and is a decidedly high class feed for beef cattle and dairy cows It will be eaten tip much more completely than when the fodder is fed whole. Wbat is not eaten makes excellent bedding and Is readily dis tributed In the manure.—Orange Judd Farmer. Merely Tentative* “What is the baby’s name?’ “It’s Mary now. but 1 suppose it wP» be Mayrae br Mite or Marie as soon she gets old enough to notice it”—-Chi-cago Tribune.