The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1885-06-05
ton depends upon feeding the trees

tlOn OeponuS upon 1oouiuS tne tIees
properly.
Pick your market chickens dry.
Note this from the Farnl-Jouanal:
I'VE know of no market wherc dry
picked poultry does not command two
or three cents moro per pound than
scalded stock, and yet farmers in
some sections continue the practice of
scalding, when dry picked is just as
easy and expeditions.
The removal of drone comb, says
Charles Dadant iH the Bee Journal
is worth many dollars to the bee keep
er, for thirty:two drone cells occupy
as much space as fifty worker cells.
and one whole comb, or $50 square
inches, would produce 5000 drones in.
stead of $500 workers. Hence he ar
gues in favor of drone traps.
Putting printers Ink around the
trees in tho orchard this month will
dc more to keep the canker-worm
moth frcln ascending them than IL
will later in the sesson. Especially is
it needed where they warc plenty last
year. as the ground may be we'll tillcd
with them. If there are any eggs Of
tho tent caterpillar in the twlgs, they
will be swollen enough now TO be
readily seen, and should be cut off
and the twigs burned.
A stone smoke house q few feet
square and chcaply covered by boards
is very convenient around farm
houses. Besides its use for smok-
ing meats, it is Il convenient recepta-
Gle for wood ashes, or when not re-
quired rs smoke house may be stored
with feed for pigs, to whose pen it
will naturally be adjacent. On farms
where stone is abuncaut the cost Of
such building, aside frolii roofing,
will be only lime, sand and labor.
Prof. l.. B. Arnold says dairy farm
costs ten per cent less to operate than
grain growing or mixed agriculture;
little more than other branches; third,
prices are nearer uniform and moro
reliable; fourth, dairying cxhausts tho
soil less; fifth, it is more secure against
changes i'll the season, since the dairy
ing does not suffer So much from the
wet and frost and varying scasons.and
he can. if prudent, provide against
drought.
An Indiata farmer writes about the
proper time to sow clover seed. He
says: "For four Successive years I
sowed in March, when the ground was
freezing and thawing, and failed in
getting u stand worth leaving. For
three successive years l have waited
until my wheat had grown up to about
eight to twelve inches high. BY that
time j. was firmly rooted in tho ground;
then dragged it with light sharp
tooth harrow or dragj then sowed
my seed while the ground was fresh.
1hen ] sowed about thirty pounds of
plaster per acre, rn,t for these success
sive years have had good stand of
clover and good crops Of wheat"
Orchard grass is robust grower
and very tenacious of life. 1t masses
Its roots so as to resist tho encroach-
mcnt of other grasses, covering much
of the ground with its large pendant
leaves that spring out near the base of
the plant to shade, nourish and
enrich the soil not occupied by tho
plant itself. This, perhaps, accounts
largely for its ability to endure cx-
cessivc drought. 1t will produce two
large crops of good hay on rich soil,
and submit tc more abuse than any
other forage plant, except blue grass,
which is Of little value in u very dry
season;
Spring operations will soon COM
lncnce, and with these Il camand for
good farm hands. The general r,ife that
IS followed in this country Is toput of
the hiring Of men to the last moment,
and trust to- chance for some one COM
ing along, and then probably some in
fcrior workman has To- be taken, or
none at all. Men who know their bus
mess on Il farm will not wait, and are
early picked ND in the neighborhood
in which they may reside. The trust
ing to men coming along just at tho
exact moment you are crowded is u
bad policy. There should always be
profitable employment for. g: man il
the early spring months before seeding
commences, and it will pay any far
mer to secure good farm hands early,
and pay them good wages.