The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1889-04-19
THE FARM.
Good Pointers for Farmers,

1t may do you good long as you
live. Hear it: keep out of debt"
Take time to read and study about
your work and you will accomplish
more.
Don't have four or five worthless
dogs that have to DO fed enough to
keep fifty fowls.
Good blowing is necessary, but it
is not all. Good narrowing is quite
rs essential.
Have u supply of hard wood lum-
Der sawed and packed away to dry
for future repairs.
Don't take any chances on poor
seed. The seed is a small item, the
crop a big one,
a good way to save money is to
save the means of making it-your
implements, for instance.
Ii the whiftietree breaks, don't
throw it into II corner. Remove the
irons. They can he fitted to new
wood.
The farther you are from the
market the greater is your need of
condensing products by feeding grain
and stover to animals.
by keeping the cattle off the past
ure ono day longer in the Spring you
may keep them upon it two days
longer in the Fall.
A handy thing to have is a box
containing an assortment of
bolts, nuts, rivcts, nails, and o
hammer, pinchers and cold-chisel.
The paint brush that proved to DO
n bargain was cleaned in turpentine
each time it's work was done, dried,
and hung up by it's handle.
Keep few panes of window glass
and apaper OF tack sor some putty on
hand. When the window pane is
broken, don't make-shift; replace it
Switzerland produces seventeen
kinds of cheese for export. The
mich cattle arc celebrated for uni
form messes of rich milk,
1t costs something like $40 IL year
to maintain Il COW, and the profit
lies in what she yields above the
cost and maintenance.
The novel enterprise of raising
frogs for the Boston market is
about to be started at Manchester,
N. H., by Il New York party.
The cooperative diaries of Dem
mark have adopted the system of
paying their patrons for their milk
according to the quantity OF cream
contained init.
Don't send twenty-five cents for
twenty-five useful household articles"
unless You want Il paper of needles,
advices THE Michigan Farmer"
A thrifty farmer says so cents
worth of avis, punches, linen thread
and shoemalier's wax, will save $40
in harness repairs in - months.
In fact, if there we're not so many
blocklleads trying to farm, the ques-
ton would not be so often asked,
"Does Turning pay?"
Don'twork so hard that you won't
have time to read. If you read more
and profit by the experience of others
you won't have to work SO hard.
There are too many farms where
the soil is abundantly productive,
and the fields and granaries filled
with abundant harvests while the
home is u desert.
1t is II common mistake to nearly
fill the churn, and then churn for two
orthrce hours before the butter
comes-wllen it ought to come in
from 35 to so minutes.
1t has been casually observed that
u "Miller's Trust" might beexpected
to advance the price of -four when
ever wheat went up, and keep it up
when wheat went down.
A bill has been introduced in the
Illinois Legislature which prohibits
the clipping of names and tails of
horses in the Summer. The Chicago
Times regards thata positive cru
city to flies"
1t will pay handsomely to take I'M
usual cure of the pigs, for if we mis-
take not hogs are going to be in
greater demand, and consequently
better prices will prevail than has
been known for many a day. Then
save the pigs.-Exchange.
Good farmers are sticklers for i'm.
proving their hogs: cattle, horses,
poultry. etc., but will encourage
their sons and daughters in marry
ing any kind Of two-legged scrubs.-
Iowa State Register.
Prepare the soil and plant the
onions at the very first opportunity
in the Spring. They will stand cold
and do better than they will the
drouth and heat in August, and tho
best plan is to be ready to plant ut
the first opportunity.
If you have II little farm and are
out of debt, don't fret and work
yourself and your good wife into
premature graves, for the sake of
making more money. Youhavc but
one life to live and it is very brief at
best.
Every farmer should give more at
tention to saving and returning the
fertility of his fields than even to
carrying additions of manure to
them, because it will profit him far
more at far less cost.
The English coarse wooded breeds,
says the Cultivator, including the
various Downs, have been bred to
produce twins, SO that in many focks
it is not infrequent to have in the
summer more lambs than the owner
of the flock has of ewes. Breeds
which do this are naturally strong
and vigorous.
Experiments in feeding pigs, in
stituted by the Danish Agricultural
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