The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1889-10-25
FOR THE FARMER.
Short xst.s for Bssy Readers.


sure to take the wrong one.
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Dakota has no mercy on the man
who allows foul weeds to grow ON
his premises. He is promptly fined
ny supervisor, who in turn 10 fined
II he fails to do his duty.
When we do not like neighbor,
and cannot tell exactly why, it is
very apt to be the case that the
neighbor is better than we are and
our dislike is plain clear, cut envy.
There is no use in planting dozen
varieties OF potatoes when one may
select two or three to meet every re.
9uirement, and 80 avoid extra labor
IN providing more places for storage.
A habit ofsaving must be formed
inyouth, or waste and penury will be
likely to embitter life. The small
savings OF the young grow into the
fine estates OF later years.
1t is suggested that in those sec.
tons where potatoes can he made
special crops, starch factories should
be operated on the co. operative plan,
as is done by dairymen with cream.
cries.
Next in Importance to the divine
profusion of water, light and air
those three physical facts which rem
der existance possible, may be reck-
oned the universal beneflcence Of
grass.
Many seem to think that by in.
stinct alone man may perform the
duties required on the farm, while the
TACT is it requires the brightest tai
ents to become O thrifty and pro.
gressive farmer.
We believe in good fences, good
barns, good farm houses, good
stock, good orchards, and children
enough to gather the fruit.-H. w.
Beecller.
1t is the hungry pig that is always
squealing, and it is the non-progrcss-
i've, unintelligent, lazy farmers who
insist that farming don'tpay"-Dr.
Hoskins.
The results of using frosted wheat
for seed last spring were generally
satisfactory. Where adverse reports
are made, it is probably that other
causes for light crops existed.
A large farmer in California is very
liberal to his hired hands, asking
them for only nine hours work per
day. But he demands that every
one of them shall be in bed by nine
o'clock.
1t is good rule to demand bills
for oil goods you may buy, whether
paid for ut the time or not. When
the goods are paid for, have the
bills receipted and file them away for
reference.
Rye straw is less porus than most
Others, and therefore most priced for
bedding for horses. AS it does not
absorb urine it can be used repeated
" before becoming soiled SO MS to bc
Objectionable. Yet the price of rye
straw is SO high that it makes expen-
sive bedding. When threshed by
hand and bound it sometimes brings
as much as$15 to SIS per ton.
The old Wilson strawberry has still
many friends, and, in spite of all
that is said against it, is much
grown. For fall planting for the
expe"tion of n crop the ensuing year,
it has NO equal. When dead ripe,
even, in flavor it is hard to beat. 1t
colors early, and is marketed half.
ripe. which accounts for it's acidity.-
Prairie Farmer.
A Maine farmer, vowing death to
foxes, placed a carcnss near his barn
and then connected it by wire under
the snow with q bell in his bedroom.
A fox could not do vigorous work
on that piece of meat without ring
ing that bell, whereat the schemer
would awake and go forth to the
slaughter. He killed 25 foxes by
that device during the Winter
Massachusetts Ploughman.
T.. S. Carman, of the Rural New
Yorker, says that for fifteen years he
has planted all the new Strawberries
he could hear of, and during these
years he has raised many new seed.
lings, mot one of which has ever
shown TINT it was worthy of intro
duction." He names three that in
the fifteen years have been some i'm.
provelnent over older varieties, of
such as have been originated in the
country ut large-the Sharpless.
Cumberland and Ba;mch.
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We raised the point that COWS
would not like the fodder from fields
that had been to heavily MANFRED,
and instanced their refusal to cut the
tall grass that grows from their
droppings in the pasture, our notion
being that they do not like the taste
of such grass. Cows will not eat
grass grown in the shade when it is
long and rank, if they can find any
growing out in the sunlight. This
item OF rank growth We found to be
the lion iu our path; when we tried
soiling mich COWS they would not
eat enough of it.-American Dairy.
man.
The potato bug is impartial in his
selection of members of the solanum
family, and so growers of tomatoes
and egg plant are often surprised by
the unexpected advent OF the we'll
known slugs feeding on the leaves OF
those plants. 1t is the old enemy
the potato bug, and to he deatrovad