Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 102, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 April 1912 — NOTES from MEADOWBROOK FARM [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

NOTES from MEADOWBROOK FARM

By William Pitt

Cows like pumpkins.

Separate all indisposed turkeys. Have a regular day for greasing the wagon. The cow is a vital part of the dairy machine. " The olive trees date back to very early times. Few horses can digest perfectly clear timothy hay. There is no animal more' unprofitable than a poor sheep. Horses that have a light hay diet are seldom affected with heaves. It does not make very much, if any, difference when a cow is fed grain. Good horse blankets are savers of valuable horse flesh and high-priced feed. 1 You can hardly push pigs too fast, providing you use the right kind of food. • • Dirty collars are probably as responsible for sore shoulders as illfitting ones. i You cannot fatten a brood sow anfi fatten a hog alike and make the best success of both. From eight to ten hens to one tom is good mating with turkeys, and should produce 150 poults.

A good cow ought to produce on an average 25 pounds of four per cent milk daily for 300 days in the year. ('lose housing and bad ventilation in the cow stable are favorable conditions for starting tuberculosis in a herd. Tu'sY' d r y nesting quarters, tbs pigs .- hi have a good-sized lot in which they may get plenty ‘of exercise. As long as the breeding of a sow is i-rofii tble she should be bred It i r tit. : •ivimble .to sell off a good brood animal. Crc .ai the horses well after hard work. The skin is thus not only cleaned, but safeguarded against parasite diseases. Brush the mud off the cow’s udder atd Hank, then wipe off with damp ! cloth. You can’t strain mud out of | milk. Keep it out. The cow your neighbor does not want to sell is tlio one you want to buy. Get around this dilemma by raising that kind yourself. Three years of spraying, pruning and cultivation will bring an orchard that you are ashamed of into a condition that you will be proud of. Scrape off loose, peeling bark from the trunks of trees before spraying them, because this serves as an„excellent breeding place for insects'! | To get the best eggs for hatching, ' the rations should "be' of good grains balanced by milk or meat food and must include green food in some form. High prices should not tempt the wkc dairyman to part with his good cows and heifers. Remember they are just as valuable to you as to anybody else.