The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1888-04-13
FARM AND HOME.
Brief Agricultural Points.

Good roads are the most obvious
marks of advanced civilization, and
ore essential to general prosperity.
The United States, on an average,
raises more bushels OF corn each year
than there are persons III the world.
Recently a special egg train OF TWEEN.
ty-four cars passed over the Grand
TrunS railroad to New York. The
total number OF eggs was owe" 3D..
100000.
Pinch the tops OF your raspberrics
and blackberries curly, and serve the
side shoots the same way early and
often to make u compact bush. Ii
you wait to head back later the
strength OF the vine, which has been
thrown into the top. is all wasted.
and you have fewer fruit spurs.
Senator Palmer has lake on his
Michigan farm stocked with carp, and
wishes he hadn't. He calls them the
"hog oil the sea-" because they wallow
aud burrow in the mud and keep the
water continually dirty. lie has tri-
I'd to seine them out, but he cannot
do SO.
lfyonr soil be light or sandy, SOW
rye rather than wheat. Properly pre-
pared, rye straw sells well, and there
is always demand for the grain.
Ground wood ashes, or mixture OF
finely ground bone and potash salts
have, it is said, proved the best OF fer.
tilizers for the rye crop. 1t is better
to SOW seed rye before the Goth of DC.
tober.
In looking into the qualifications of
an applicant for work on the farm,
one OF the first points for investiga-
tion-aiter his moral character in It's
relation to the children-is, "The Ma
tional Stockman" thinks, his expert
ence and trustworthiness in handling
the horses.
The disease called mango is the re-
suit OF filth, and having hogs sleep in
rotten. dirty straw. 1t is al insect,
very minute, which burrows under the
skin. TO cure it give the pigs first q
good washing i'll warm soalsuds, us.
ing carboIic acid soap, and selectn. IL
warm. dry day. Then grease tho skin
with lard, to which has been added Il
little coal oil, and clean out the pen
and quarters.
Mr.. w. ID. Hoard, referring to the
"Snde Creamery Business" proiita-
bly, conducted by persons who 80
around inducing farmers to subscribe
$4,000 to $1,000 for II creamery
which should not cost over 81. 500 to
$4,000, declares that their vi, tins are
J among the ill-informed. IGNORANCE
us TO real dairy truth is counted on
by the sharper us nine-tenths OF his
capital stock in trade"
a humane correspondent shares the
comforts OF animals well cared for;
he takes great pleasure this cold sea.
SON attending to their wants. while
the rude wind Just the othcrside OF the
window enhances the sense OF salts.
faction by force Of contrast. This is
an agricultural compensation not al
ways taken into account, and which
IN many intances perhaps there is not
capacity to appreciate ut its true
value.
J. A. Woodward, OF The Farm
Journal, mentions an instance of sue
cessful Use by friend OF pot atoes and
bran for horses, instead OF the usual
allowance OF grain: "rhe ration was
hall II peck OF raw potatoes and two
quarts OF bran twice day, to which
was added q small quantity OF clover
hay. They were as fat and sleek us
moles. They carried us five miles in
fifty minutes through stiff muddy
roads, and when we drove up to the
station they were as cool as cucu,n-
bers."
Col. Weld says. in the "Flower
Pot" that the farmer who does not
know enough not to kill or sell to q
butcher, a calf that will make a 20.
quart COW, needs to take lessons oil
somebody in the a.b-c OF his business.
Such u man has probably several
COWS Ill his herd, which never give ov.
err ten or twelve quarts OF milk, and,
very likely, poor at that.
Professor J. p. STEELE reminds farm
ers whose lands need fertili1iny that
they waste money by neglect to utilize
every bit OF refuse likely to have any
value, "mechanical or otherwise"
"lt is wonderful what a quantity of
manure may be got together by those
who keep this fact always before
Them"