__ 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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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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