Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1890-09-20
FOR THE FARMER.

vet how few farmers pay any ATTENTION
10 this in the breeding OF the mares.
THE highest prices for butter are OBJ
tanned through neat, attractive, conVe-
nient packages Quite otter butter SO
packed sells for an advance OF oO per
cent. over the best ordinary Market
prices.
ANOTHER fine plant for winter is I'M
patiens sultani. Its carmlne-coloTeq
flowers are produced all the time, ana
while the plant is yet bat few lnches
high. 1t belongs to the well known
balsam family.
The value of silage is that one COW, II
not two. can be fed a whole year from
the produce of one acre; the detrlment
of pasture is that five acres OF 1t keep
COW ONLY six months in year.
WHERE plants of clematis jackma mn
are in fresh, good soil they grow and
flower all summer. Unless the soil is
good they will not grow, and, OF course,
there must be growth before there can
be flowers.
WARM skinned milk, with the adj
dition of little ground meal of oats,
linseed and corn, in equal parts, just
enough to be digested BEAUTIFULLY, will
make as good veal calf as butter at ~
cents pound Will.
CHRYsANTHEMUMs in not over rich
ground should be supplied with little
not too strong manure water. 1t en-
riches the foliage and tends to the for
nation of fine flowers. These plants
are gross feeders when in good health.
No doubt farmers are unequally bur-
dened in some respects; but the great
est burdens they bear are self-inf1lcted
poor work, poor tools, poorly han
died; poor stock; poor care; poor feed
ing; and finally, poor business methods.
The COW is not mere machine for
the conversion of food into milk. She
is an animal whose natural functions are
as delicately organized as are those OF
human beings, and the first consider
alton should be given to the healthful-
ness of her feeding and lodging
FALL grass Injuries lawns because IT
spreads so much that it kills out all
other sorts and clover. Being but an
annual, it dies itself toward winter,
leaving the lawn entirely bare. keeplt
will prevent it from growing next year.
REMEMBER that no stream can be
poorer than it's source. If the spring
bad. And so if the COW is not in per-
feet health, or her food or water is not
perfectly pure, the milk cannot be
good, and all it's products will be tainted.
THERE is no certainty about tempera-
ture without thermometer. Heat and
cold are relative sensations to a person,
but the mercury is a certain test. And
the milk and cream are as sensitive as
the mercury is. Consequently every
dairy needs a thermometer as guide
for the work.
A MICHIGAN farmer tells contempo-
rary how he manages to conquer Cana
da thistles by the help of 200 sheep.
He put small handful of salt on each
thistle at the root The sheep eat the
thistle close to the ground. Repeat
sailing, and the thistle seldom appears
the next year.
For Towering in the house in winter,
genaniums are justly popular. They
are always in bloom If small plants in
pots can be mad now they should be
potted into a larger size at once. If
there are none, dig up a few from the
garden, and pot them as soon as posi-
BILE.
REGULARITY in feeding animals is es-
pecially needful for their thrift. When
will bleat loudly for their food, and
COWS and calves will worry Worry
wastes flesh and food. So it is an econ
~Qmy to observe regularity in feeding.
] If the clover is put away green in the
barn with layers of clean straw mixed,
the whole will come out in the winter in
excellent shape, and be as good as so
much hay. In the silo this mixture will
make the best of feed for winter and
turn the straw to the best use It is too
valuable to Me trodden under foot.
IT is the % 10 cent per pound butter
which drags down the dairy business.
No good dairyRan should hesitate to
help his poorer\ brethren by word or
act, lest perchanc& he might think there
might be more competition: There is
room enough for AN, especially at the
top, and more butter would be used if
it were all made good
If a colt has not Yet been halter
broken it should be Without delay.
The weakest twig is most easily bent,
and the youngest animals are most
easily brought under discipline and
training This applies to calves and
heifers, which should be educated in
early age to all the practices of the
dairy.
IT was a pertinent and wise Remark
made by DR.. Detmers at a recent\ lnstl--
tute, that the man who adulteTated
food should be in the penitentiary,Ab but
the man who adulterated milk shoNld
be hung. And this because the milk Us
used by the infants, the weak and the
sick, as we'll as by the well, and any ink
furious matter in the milk is sure deathS
to the person who drinks it.
SHOULD the ground in which potatoes
are growing be wanted for other crops.
there is no need to wait until eyerv Bit