The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1893-04-07
enough; the mistake is made in not
supplying needed variety
Farmers Voice.
Using an Incubator.

that incubatOrs need no care. The
best that can be made requires at
tentiOn, but as an incubator matches
out hundreds of chicks at once the
care bestowed is not great consider
ing the vast amount of work per-
formed. as compared with Matching
by the aid of hens. An incubator
can be made to hatch at any time,
but not SO with the hens. We are
aware that failures many times occur,
but then the hens often fail. They
break their eggs, abandon their
nests, trample their chicks and; do
many other things, which places
them at disadvantage also. The
incubator is an inanimate machine
and requires intelligence in it's
management, and if the operator is
unwilling to devote portion of his
time to supplying the brain work he
cannot expect to meet with success.
The hen is governed by natural IN
stinct, and yet she neees watching to
certain extent. 1t is only by in
telligent labor that results are to be
cted.-Poultry Keeper.
Variations in Litters OF Pigs.
It is never the case that the pigs
from the same litter will be uniform
through the lot. The difference can
be seen at birth, instead of the smaller
pigs catching up by extra feeding
they only grow less and less valuable.
If both are kept until fully grown the
difference between best and poorest,
each having the same chance, will
sometimes be more than 100 pounds,
usually more than fifty. At this rate
what is a runt pig worth at birth
We leave our readers to figure this
out for themselves. Our idea. is that
the poor, stunted pig is worth some.
thing less than nothing. American
CultivatOr.
Farm Notes.
Get every thing done as near the
right time as possible.
Careless, hasty seed sowing is often
the cause of failure.
Grow only such crops as are best
adapted to your soil and climate.
The fields that are tramped wet
never fully recover from the effects.
Have two shares to every pillow and
save time in keeping the plows sharp.
Test new varieties in small plots
before attempting to grow a general
crop.
Rolling the meadows will materially
help in harvesting the hay in a good
condition.
Mix kerosene and lamp black and
apply to steel surfaces to keep them
from rusting.
Narrowing thoroughly is a work
that pays, the finer the soil the bet
ter the generation.
1t is the difference in the cost OF
production and what is received that
determines the profit.
The first reason why farming does
not pay is the neglect to make, save
and apply the manure.
With a little forethought the
farmer can nearly always plan out 9
good system fo' himself.
1t will be good economy to go over
the meadows and pastures and SOW
grass seed in the vacant places. .1
The selections and planting of good
seed will aid materially in securing .
good growth and yield of potatoes.
Too much fat often means loss O
energy as we'll as health and vigor
Breeding and growing stock need the
latter.
BY applying the animal manures a.
fast as made there is but little, if any
loss OF nitrogen Or other valuable fer.
tilizing elements.
Wheat bran and oil meal will not
only increase the flow of milk, but in
crease rapid growth with young
stock and add to the value of manure
Home Hints.
Put your coffee grounds on your
house plants.
Leather mats are shown for pol.
ished tables.
O0O ~ oA1e11l, oOlO opOuS0 W apply
the backing to a stove.
Put a teaspoonful of salt into q
kerosene lamp once in awhile to pre-.
vent odOr.
Never wash raisins that are to be
used in sweet dishes. 1t will make
the pudding or cake heavy.
An excellent way to restore the
brightness of furnished brass is to
dissolve in saucer of ammonia lit
tie of any of the securing soaps sold.
Apply with a toothbrush and polish
with a bit of chamois.
Articles Of food that are damp or
juicy should never be left in papers.
Paper is merely a compound of rags,
glue, lime and similar substances,
with acids and chemicals intermixed,
and when damp is unfit to touch
things that are to be eaten.
Large squares of Turkish bath
toweling, almost sheets in size, are
much used instead of bath robes.
The loose cloth is manageable and
serviceable actually as drying
towel, while the robe is necessarily,
from it's fashioning, merely a cover
ing.