Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 June 1909 — HINTS FOR FARMERS [ARTICLE]

HINTS FOR FARMERS

Stomach Worm Disease. Medicinal treatment Is not success ful in stomach worm disease,. and farmers must depend on changing pasture to eradicate this pest. Pastures which cannot be cultivated can be freed by burning and abandoning for eighteen months if washing of material from Infested land is prevented. On premises where calves are lost in such large numbers each year and where all the pastures are undoubtedly Infested It would be advisable to build a small pasture on high ground that has-been under cultivation and unoccupied by stock for one or two seasons and through which no small streams flow. Calves when weaned can then be placed on this free pas ;ture and kept there until they are old enough to withstand attacks of the parasites, about one year or eighteen months.—South Carolina Experiment Station Bulletin.

Vigor In ths Flock. The period of usefulness of good sheep varies much with the breed as well as with Individuals of the same breed. Some become unprofitable at three or four years of age, others at ten or twelve or even older. Whenever a sheep begins to show 'signs of weakness, evidence of disease or lack of thrift and vigor It should be removed from the flock. “All Is lost that is poured into a crasked dish;” all Is lost that it put Into an unthrifty sheep—worse than lost often, for a diseased sheep may do great damage to the flock, and when one loses thrift it loses its natural power to resist disease. Nature I has marked such a one for destruction, and the shepherd should forestall nature by disposing of it.—Orange Judd Farmer. Ground Bone For Pigs. Experiments conducted at the Nebraska experiment station show a very marked increase in the strength of bone when tankage or ground bone Is fed to pigs in addition to corn. In determining the strength of bones the two principal bones in each leg of each animal were removed and broken in a machine. There were four pigs fed in each lot, making the figures given the average of the breaking of thirty-two bones in each lot. The average breaking strength per hundred pounds, live weight, of hogs after twenty-two weeks’ feeding was as follows: Lot 1, corn, 325 pounds; lot 2, corn and shorts, 390 pounds; lot 3, corn and skimmilk. 509 pounds; lot 4. corn and tankage. 580 pounds; lot 5, corn and ground bone, 681 pounds. 4

Stoppage of Milk Flow. A very common trouble in every dairy is to find an animal with the point of the teat closed, either due to a bruise of teat Itself or to Infection of the milk duct which causes a little scab to form, and unless this is properly bandied with care and cleanliness the infection is apt to cause a loss of the entire quarter. Thoroughly wash the part in an antiseptic solution; then dip a teat plug into a healing ointment and Insert it, allowing same to remain frftm one milking to another. In this manner closure can be overcome in a very simple and satisfactory way. A milking tube should not be used if it can possibly be avoided, as there is much danger of infecting the entire quarter by . Its use.—Denver Field and Farm. I Poultry Talk. • Chicks or ducklings will stand confinement during a spell of rainy weath;er better than turkeys will. ' Don’t wait until young poultry begin to droop and die before looking for lice. * '1 he home of the young turkeys should be roomy, 5 rat proof and well ventilated. Heavy; soil and wet weather are favorable to gapes. When a bard shower comes up* the (foolish young ducklings need attention. ! Don't blame the chickens for helping Igarden stuff to "come up.” The garden (fence should be chicken proof.— Farm Journal. Pickle For Curing Meats. Fourteen pounds salt, four ounces saltpeter, two ounces saleratus, five pounds brown sugar, tablespoonful of red pepper, twelve gallons of water, to be mixed in a cold state. The above quantity is sufficient for 400 pounds. If the pickle gets moldy, boll and cool and use again. For pickling beef, four gallons of water, one and a half pounds of brown.sugar, six pounds salt, two and a half ounces of saltpeter to a hundred pounds of beef.—Rural New Yorker. I ; War on Bad Baad. Good work in detecting adulterated I is being carried on by the -dejent of agriculture. Of 1,471 sam>f seeds taken last year 102 samwere found adulterated or misled. The department publishes esults of the test, together with tames of the firms that sold the It is claimed that since thll began the trade In adulterated has fallen off greatly. Foaling Timo. i No colt will be dropped during the &ve hours from 11 p. m. to 4 a. m. noria lly. The mare that shows no signa ,of parturition at 11 or even at 10 at might is safe until early morning. From 7 to 9 at evening, however, is |a favorite hour. From 4 to 5 in the morning is another. Perhaps one-third lof all colts are dropped during these hours.—Denver Field and Farm.