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1 HOME AND FARM MAGAZINE SECTION Raising Sheep in the Cornfield THOSE who have handled ihoep on the general farm know that these animals e&n lire, grow and make mutton and wool oo much waste herb age that few other animals will eat Sheep are well known to be the great est weed and sprout exterminators in existence. The sheep farm is almost universally a clean farm. The caving that a medium sired flock of sheep will make every year in cleaning fence rows and ridding fence lines and fields of noxious weeds will practically, pay for their keeping, especially when they are given eredit for fertilizer scattered Ter the farm to make the grasses and other money crops grow better. Grassy fence rows almost invariably follow where sheep have trimmed the fence tows of weeds and sprouts. On every farm every year there is waste green herbage that ean not be utilized by eatUa, horses or hogs, owing to other crops growing in the same fields with the useless herbage. After the last cultivation of corn, for in stance, different kinds of Bummer grasses and many kinds of weeds spring up between the rows and around the aides of the cornfields. The only coin . mon way these weeds and summer grasses ean be destroyed is with the hoe, an expensive and laborious process. If cattle, horses or hogs were turned into the cornfield to eat the summer grasses, they would totally destroy tho corn, and no doubt in many eases in jure themselves by overeating of the new corn. But sheep will effectively clean a cornfield of summer grasses, and al most, if not all, of the weeds, and they will do it without injuring the stand ing corn. There is nothing sheep like better in the way of green forage than young foxtail and crabgrass, or cow's foot Other summer grasses they will at readily, as well as almost all weeds that grow in cornfields. Ragweeds are their favorite. When turned into a field of standing corn a few weeks after the last cultivation of the crop, about the time the corn begins to shoot and tassel, they will go up and down the rows nipping off the grass and weeds as they come to them, scarcely touching the blades of the standing corn. Later, when they have cleaned the field of weeds and grass, and the fence rows around the field, they will cat the lower blades of eorn, but they will not injure the ear eorn nor the upper part of the stalks in the least. In doing this work of cleaning and keeping clean the eornfield, they scat ter manure of the best kind between all the rows, which is one of the best fertilizations the field ean receive. On many farms, foxtail and crab grass are serious pests to the soil. In spite of care and elean cultivation they come up, grow and reseed the land every year. There seems to be no com mon way of eradicating them. But sheep will do it to a elean finish. .YThere a flock of sheep is turned into a cornfield shortly after the last cul tivation, before any of the summer grasses have blossomed and formed leed, they will elean ont the grasses and completely prevent seeding. Where this system is followed on the summer-grass-infosted farm, soon the farm will dj cleaned of the grasses, as the plants will be prevented from forming seed. BUCK LOSSES SORELY PREVENTED w "" pun. low grteed, rndt ndUMe: pitferrod b Vrmtom stockmen beetuns tsw ro. Ail V yttfc BImUh PHM AM I -. JP" ta)rtor. but Cutler's boat, . HIS UDanomr of cotter products la tfua to over 11 . InUt M Cutter's, If onnMatnaMe, order dhurt. TBI CUTTER BORATOftT, terksrsft Camerela, HI rtrea, wool, pelts, Era HTBBASD-8TEWAB1 00, SetttU, Wash. Write for Price List and Shipping Tags. (Plena portion this piper.) Cash Register Bargains Our prices about half other dealers. We pay highest pries for second-hand regis ters. We do expert repairing and guar antee our work. Will exchange to suit your requirements. SUNDWALL CO, 805 Cnd avenue, Seattle. Phone Main 1180. Tho same is true of many of the nox ious weeds. The sheep will eat them off and keep them caton down, so that weed seed formation is Impossible. Where the eornfield is to be sown to wheat, rye or timothy after the corn in tho fall, it is an excellent plan to pasture tho standing corn with sheep a few weeks previous to eorn harvest. Then, after the corn has been removed from tho field, the surface will be clean of foreign growth, the land will be evenly manured and the field will be in ideal condition for fall seeding by simply discing and harrowing tho ground. Harvesting the corn fodder will be easier where no grass or weeds bother, and where the corn is to be husked from tho stalks in the field the work will be easier for the same rea son. In every ease where corn Is grown for the grain only, to be hnsked in the field from the standing stalks, it will pay any farmer to pasture the corn field in lato summer and early fall with sheep. Cleaning the field of weeds and grass and the stalks of tho lower loaves will make husking of the corn easier, while the fertilizer added to the soil by the animals will be an impor tant gain. Even wheTe tho eorn is to bo cut and used for silage, tho loss of a few of the lowest leaves of the corn plants will make no appreciable dif ference in the yield of silage. Some pasture their cornfields with sheep in Into summer evon whero the eorn is to bo cut and shocked in the field and the stover to bo used dry. Tho summer grasses aro what the sheep will eat first, and if there is enough other kinds of feeds the sheep will not eat "many corn loaves. Many farmers now are buying and foeding lambs during the late summer and fall Beasons. Whero lamb3 are to be fattened in the summer cornfield, eowpeas are drilled with the eorn to give the lambs a variety and more pro tein in their field ration. Cowpeas in the rows with tho corn grow up and vine to the eorn. The two crops thrive well together, tho corn making prac tically as good crop with as without tho peas, while the peas contribute nitrogen to the soil. Some are willing to invest in a ear load of lambs and drill cowpeas in their corn to be pas tured by the lambs simply for the ex tra fertility added to the land. This is claimed to be one of the cheapest and best ways to fertilize any land, while some direct money is usually made in handling the lambs as market animals. Where tho lambs are kept in the corn field for many weeks in lato summer and early fall, consuming the eowpeas in the corn, other herbage in the field, together with some concentrated sup plements, a l:.rgo quantity of manure will be distributed over the field. It is an economical way of applying manure to the land and it is a good way to feed market lambs. This summer by aecidont our flock of sheep got into a eornfield whero a large truck patch of beans, melons, peppers, tomatoes and potatoes were on one side. To our surprise, when the sheep were found in this field they had not injured the plants of tho truck patch in the least, but were eating fox tail and weeds only. W. F. 0. Milking Kicking Cow !N BRKAKING a heifor, or milking a kicking eow, I never strike, or kick her, or use any violence except to milk her in spite of all she ean do to prevent it. The principle is the same made use of by John S. Barey, Gloa son, and other noted horse trainers. In single-handed contests, the animal is made to exhaust its strength in a futile endeavor to become master, and will always yield when conquered by the superior power and Intelligence of man. To break a kicking heifer with her first calf, I put her into a stall and tio her head up short to the manger, so that sbo cannot back out, nor surge ahead, and give her some dry meal to cat in order to put her into an amiable state of mind. But this will not pre vent her from kicking if she don't want to bo milked. I in not place the pail directly under her bag. I put au old cap on my head, stand on my feet, bent over to milk, place my head in the heifer's groin, and take a firm hold of the hind teat on the heifer's right side, with my left hand, and tho front fore teat with my right. When sho tries to kick, I brace my feet, and stiffen my nock, and back, and hold on to the teats with a bull dog'B grip. The left hand is the one sho tries to get loose, as it is tho one that prevents her from hitting tho pail which seems to be her particular object of spite. Standing on my feet, I ean vary my position as she varies hers, and if my hold is main tained, sho can kick but little, and can not hit me nor the pail. I do not try to draw any milk whilo the struggle lasts. I only tighten my grip and main tain my hold. The length of the strugglo depends on the disposition of the heifor. Some, more stubborn than others, will make several fierce fights for the mastery at the first milking, and repeat them with less violence at the second. When she finds that I am master of the situ ation, and can "hold tho fort," that I don't want to hurt her, that I do want tho milk, and am determined to have it whether she is willing or not, sho gives up tho battle and thero is no moro trouble. I havo never known a heifer to injure her teats by my hold ing on to them whilo sho was kicking. Gentle old eows will sometimes kick when they have cracked teats that hurt when milked, and they must be milked forcibly. Our best, and gentlest cow cut one of her teats badly in gob ting over a barbed wire fonco, where a tree had been blown down across it. Ai she was in full flow of milk the teat had to be milked. It was very sore and she would not allow it to be touch ed, and when I took hold of it she kicked furiously. I had to milk that teat by force. She fought harder than hoifcrs, but when she gave up, and al lowed the teat to be squeezed, she trembled and quivered with pain and exhaustion. I never had a heifer, of eow, that I could not milk by force, and when broken they staid broken. VOU WANT THE BEST SPRAYErt Yon wul to an tract temper. IrouUt andtreea. You want to rao fruit bntujt the biihetc prices You want lo know all aba J out ipnyvr before you ba v-rsMr i rtere u more you ougran UilUH SUMMIT M. . " UiHifacttiitrs 182 Horriiw St, Portland, Of Profitable Trade A practical trade makes you index pendent. Takes only a few months ta learn. Positions guaranteed. 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