The Greenfield Hustler (Greenfield, Okla.), Vol. 2, No. 41, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 10, 1914 Page: 2 of 9
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GREENFIELD, OKLA.. HUSTLER
NOTES GF SHEEPFOLD
Give the Young Lambs the Best
Possible Chance.
Much Depend* Upon Care and Man-
agement of Ewe After Breeding
Season la Over — Keep Nona
But the Beet Animals.
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The first two months of a lamb's
life mark or mar it for mutton. Give
them the best chance possible when
they are young and you will bo a win-
ner every time.
It takes feed to make a good animal
of any kind, but a sheep or a lamb
Prize Winning Oxford Down Ram.
will come nearest to making some-
thing out of nothing, of anything with
which we are acquainted.
The ram should be full of grit but
not dangerous. The ewe should be as
near like him as possible In charac-
teristics.
After the breeding season is over
much depends upon the care and man-
agement of the ewe. She should not
be unduly excited; fed regularly, and
have plenty of pure water and salt
Give ewes a run In fields in good
weather.
Do not let ewes and lambs run on
o'.d pastures, so full of parasites which
will prove very destructive to young
lambs.
Do not keep ewes as breeders after
they are five years old.
Weed out the flock every year.
Don't keep too many sheep and keep
none but the best.
One of the most prominent fea-
tures of sucessful sheep-raising today,
and the great aim of all breeders, is
early maturity, combined with devel-
opment of size and rapid fattening.
The earlier ft is possible to get lambs
to market the greater, proportionate-
ly, are the profits. To obtain this ear-
ly maturity requires careful attention
to selection of both ewes and rams.
The number of strong, healthy
lambs the breeder is able to rear has
n important bearing upon the value
and success of the flock. The ques-
tion of prolificacy is therefore of the
greatest Importance.
If you will sprinkle a little salt on
the Canada thistles in the pasture the
sheep will quickly exterminate them
Cleanliness is an essential factor in
successful sheep-feeding.
If you want the nicest and cleanest
meat in the world dress a fine lamb
and you have it.
Variety of food is desirable and ear-
ly rye pastures for the sheep cannot
be recommended too highly.
The sheep is the best manure
spreader and one that modern inven-
tors have not Improved upon except
by breeding.
It is folly to expect profits from
Isunbs that are off condition.
Betterment of Horses.
Doston and New York have success-
ful work horse parades that are doing
good for the better care and treatment
of draft horses and all of the work
horses that participate. The drivers
are aroused to greater Interest In the
good work with Increased pride and
ambition for the best caro of the
horses In their charge.
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RIGHT PASTURE FOR SWINE
Very Rank Growth bf Crop Will Supply
Feed for Twenty-Five Head to
Acre, 8ays Mumford.
(By DEAN MUMFORD. Missouri Ex-
periment Station.)
A good growth of -ape will supply
pasture for ten to twenty hogs to the
acre. A very rank growth may supply
feed for 25 head. Where the feeding
is to extend from ten to fourteen
weeks it is advlaable to pasture rape
at the rate of ten to twelve head to
the acre.
The favorable time for seeding rape
is in the spring, as soon as danger of
hard freezing is past It will furnish
pasture from the middle of May until
the third week in August Rape will
withstand light frosts, but not hard
freezing. The bes* results are obtained
when oats and clover are sown with it.
Sow from five to seven pounds of rape
ahead of the drill and then drill in one-
half bushel of oats and six to ten
pounds of clover seed to the acre. The
rape and oats will serve as a cover
crop for the clover and usually a good
stand of clover will be obtained that
may be pastured with hogs the fol-
lowing year.
If rape is not grazed too closely In
June and July, so that the stain of the
plant is eaten off, it may grow up and
make fall pasture. It should never be
pastured so closely as to destroy all
leaves on the stalk, and stock should
not be turned on until the plants are
from fourteen to eighteen inches high
Complaint is sometimes made by
feeders that scabs and cores form on
the ears and backs of the hogs on
rape. The remedy is to move the hogs
to another pasture for a short time,
and then dip them or apply sulphur
and lard to the sores.
LITTLE INSECT IS MIGHTY
Mite Causes More Trouble Than Any
Other Parasite or Disease Known
to Poultry Industry.
The little insect shown in the pic-
ture causes more trouble than any
other parasite or disease known to
poultry. It Is so small as to be bare-
ly visible to the naked eye, but it
multiplies in such numbers that they
become so numerous as to hang in
festoons about the sides of nest boxes.
They will drive a sitting hen from
the nest and often cause great annoy-
Mighty Little Mite.
ance to horses, cows and other ani-
mals in the vicinity of the poultry
house.
The tiny Jaws of the mite are
formed for sucking blood, and that is
the way they sap the life from their
victims.
They can be eradicated b; spraying
with lime and sulphur, or kerosene.
This should be done every two weeks
and the hens must be given plenty of
dust all the time.
TIME FOR PACKING APPLES
Men Generally Most Successful Place
Fruit in Barrels on the Same
Day It la Picked.
The man who has his fruit packed
knows exactly how many barrels of
each grade he has. When the oppor-
tunity comes to make a sale It can be
made any time during the wiuter. and
where an adequate supply of labor Is
obtained, the men generally most sue
cessful are those who do picking and
packing the same day. Dumping ap
pies into barrels, allowing them tc
stand two or three weeks, then pour
Ing them on the table nnd letting
them drop Into barrels again certain
ly does not Improve them.
FOR SEVERE WEATHER
COSSACK COAT HAS CAUGHT
FANCY OF FASHION.
Has a Great Deal to Recommend It,
Both for Beauty and Real Comfort
That It Affords the
Wearer.
It Is rather remarkable when you
think of It that remote Russia has
(tad so much influence on the fashions
of the world. The Russian blouse and
dolman have so often been played upon
and made very popular that they have
come to be considered standards. Since
this very noticeable influence made it-
self felt in times of peace, It is no won-
der, then, that in present troublous
times, with that great nation under
the limelight, It Is felt Increasingly,
as evidenced in the great, full-skirted
and fur-bordered Cossack coats that
have recently made an appearance.
One such is depicted here, and very
modish it is, too, in tan, castor-colored
woolen velour, with collar, cuffs and
foot banding of otter fur.
In fact, it is double-breasted, with a
straight line of closing from neck to
hem, buttoned as far as the hip with a
close line of rather large cloth-covered
buttons. A belt strap from under-arm
seam to under-arm seam buttons across
the back, holding in a bit of fullness
at a slightly empire waist line.
Straight wide sleeves are set under
kimono shoulder extensions. The skirt
EVENING COAT
Huge "Cossack" Coats Show the Rus-
sian Influence.
portion measures almost four y~rds
around the lower edge.
What more can be asked so far as
style, warmth and comfort are con-
cerned In the way of a winter wrap?—
Washington Star.
Odd Combinations.
Green golflne, chiffon and monkey
fur are combined In this way: There
Is a foundation skirt of soft green silk
golflne. There is a long, gathered
tunic of green chiffon that leaves ex-
posed about fifteen inches of the
foundation skirt. The tunic is edged
with a fringe of monkey'fur. The long
chiffon sleeves are edged with monkey
and the bodice is composed of golflne
and chiffon.
8quare Train.
The square train is shown on some
of the new Importations. It is espe-
cially good when it Is used on a frock
with a square cut neck, back and front,
lust as the long, pointed train was
good with a frock In which the V-
•ihaped neck was used.
This evening coat is a New York de>
sign. It is of white velour and black
fox. Very narrow long waist line at
the back. The bottom is very full and
made in aquare scallop effect; wide
fox band at bottom. The fur on the
aleeves when brought together givee
the effect of a muff. High fur collar
scalloped.
MAKING AN EVEN SKIRT HEM
Not Hard Thing to Do if Instructions
Given Here Are Carefully
Followed.
Here is a helpful tip for girls who
do their own dressmaking. It is an
easy matter to turn up the hem of a
dress on one's self if the following
directions are followed:
Put on the slflrt; rest one end of a
yardstick on the floor, and, holding It
straight up and down, mark where tho
other end comes on the skirt with a
piece of chalk, going all around the
skirt in this way. This will make a
mark all around the hips one yard
from the floor.
Remove the skirt and, using the
yardstick as a measure, turn up the
skirt one yard from the mark. This
will be absolutely even. If you wish to
make the skirt shorter—say two or
four inches from the floor—turn it up
two or four inches less than a yard
from the mark. This plan has proved
Invaluable in actual experience.
Black Filets Smart.
Black filet veilings are perhaps the
foremost of the many types now la
favor. Plain black filets are a strong
feature. Black filets, with huge vel-
vet squares arranged in border design
or else sparsely scattered over the
mesh, are smart.
Hexagon and hairline novelties oo-
cupy a good position. There Is •
slightly Increased demand for tete de
negre brown, taupe and myrtle novel-
ties. New sand colored veilings are
shown for wear with sand colored
hats. White veilings are in moderate
demand for use with smart white hats.
Convenience for the Muff.
Sew inside your muff a small bone
Mng about three-fourths of an Inch In
Uir.ineter. such ns are used for fancy
vork, attached to a short piece of rib-
bon. A handkerchief may be drawn
through this ring. Oloves may be but-
toned Into It, and it will securely hold
one's veil or even a small parcel.
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