__ SPH Ee" OMINECA “HERALD, _FRIDAY,/ DECEMBER’ 1915

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FARMING HINTS .

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Poultry in December a
Go over the poultry. house and

B® make sure that it is ready for the
@ cold weather: see that the eracks
me are all stopped, especially on. the

turkeys miix with the hens.

north side; provide for plenty of

ventilation without draughts.

1 The month of December should

be a@ continuation, of the work
started and ‘carried: on'in Novem-
ber. Don’t let water foul and
Itis
only necessary to. shelter them

- rom the storm,

ee,

* Beet Cattle
Don’t winter serub cattle: fin-

Sesh them off now and loose as lit-

mle money as possible,

Seepecef calves.

Mepeef early and thoroughly.

: Prices
arrant the raising.of all good
Why lose money in
earing three and four year old

Bsteers when baby beeves and well

nished two- year-olds. are ‘com-
manding the top prices. Finish
Win-

meer well the calves and yearlings.

Don’t lose gains from last sum-
er’s pasture, but keep the young

tock growing and: ‘thirstv;: ‘gue-
. ulent feed is necessary for this
Bpurpose,
mcarce; use and keep. only the
Dest.

Good beef bulls’ are

- Raising Hogs With. ‘No o Batty .

Farmer No. 2 keeps eight sows
a Duroe-Jersey, Chester White
ind Tamworth: breeding, on 120

_s res ‘of Jand. Marchand’ ‘Sép-

ember are the farrowing months
aecnd the litters are weaned around

might weeks of age. Spring lit-

arly as there is pasture. The

ars go out with their mothers as].

a niall brovortion” of ehopped |
oats is added: and ‘an: occasional

earof corn given. :'The grain
ration: is increased froni’ week:'to |

week as: seers” ‘appropriate. “The on i

hogs are finished’ at about eight)
months of . a

Fall. litters * are’ fed-in’a- ‘very
economic: iway! ‘from’. tthe: stand-|
point of labor. “The. hogs” of. all
ages have .the run-of-a, yard with
access to a pen, and are fed corn
on the. stalk. and-.alfalfa hay.
‘After. the hogs have. taken. what

‘they want of this the -eattle are
__-|allowed to consume what is left.
‘ In. addition the hogs get: mangols

onece.a. day, This. is continued,
until pastute arrives, when. the
hogs are turned out and: finished
on corn in.the. ear and a mixture
of wheat. and barley in equal
parts, finely . ground. Portable
pens. provide most of the shelter
in the. yard i in the winter and. in

‘pasture - fields. in the summer.

Fall litters are usually from 9 to
10 months old when finished, A
small acreage ‘of early corn is
usually grown each year, and as
soon as this is fit.to use the: hogs
are turned into ‘it and have; ac-
cess ‘to alfalfa pasture. ‘Pigs
weighing 175 pounds each fed in
this way gained about 3 pounds

ac) day until finished at. from 220
to 240 pounds,
{corn fields ‘sufficient: corn .is ‘left

‘On the main crop

on the stalk to provide food for
the hogs of the farm until winter
compels housing, | _ About 110. hogs.

‘a year-aré fed: ‘off, for. which: wad:

purchased five tons of: shorts and
two tons of bran.

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4 Gor wo. GERMAN.

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Sobmatie and Airship of the Enemy| f

Find a Salt Water Grave at?
~ Hands of Allies. : voit

“London; Nov. 30— ~The: admit

ment to-night:—On the 29th

Flight sub- Lieut.;Venay accom-'.

panied by 2 ‘French officer, Lieut.
Deiseay,. while patrolling off the
Belgian coast,-dropped a bomb on
a German submarine which was
‘observed to have: had- its. back
broken; ©
utes, During thesame.day Flight
‘Lieut. Ferrand with air-mechanic
Oldife i in ‘a: ‘seaplane shot. down a
German Albatross seaplance off
Ostend. - ~The Albatross | dived

headfirst into the Bea and: sank,

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