The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1894-01-12

over five or six weehs. ANU, a."
months of the year ought to represent
the time COW can BE- MIXED.
Corn kernels having q flinty, glazed
surface contains AT excessive amount Ut
starch while the tlull-colored, shrivelcd
grains have an excess Of sugar.
One million acres of oats were sown
in Scotland last spring and the value of
the crop Is estimated at SD, 000, 600.
Only 2SO, 600 acres were devoted to the
production Of other cereals.
Practicing rotation in the production
Of crops Is not only most excellent
course for preventing soil exhaustion,
but the best means for preventing the
multiplication Of weeds and insects.
Keep the cows indoors during the will
ter IL you are aiming for butter and
milk only. Except that short time
out of doors ought to he the cows
right when the weather Is warm.
When baling hay, don't employ
man with poor old press; get a good
machine. 1t don't cost any more TO
send your hay to market in an attrac-
tive manner.
The average price Of Irish butter in
the home market has advanced during
the past three years. and may be part
ly attributed to the introduction Of Sc
paratOrs and the creamery system OF
butter making.
1t IL estimated that under the most
unfavorable circumstances an acre OF
properly cultivated Willows during the
first three years will produce from 81
lHN to 5000 peeled willows, ready for
market.
The recent introduction of sO-called
self-bleaching varieties Of celery has
also very much reduced the work and
cost OF bleaching. high banking with
the spade and shovel now bcing I'M.
necessary with these varieties.
An easy and it Is claimed Il success
full way 10 oil harness Is to use crude
petroleum. Add q little lamp black
and apply without washing tho leather.
The oil will not only take on the dirt
hut will soak into the leather, softcning
1t and making 1t waterproof.
II the cattle are Sanctioned all day
do not neglect to give them IL brushing
or carling. When loose they can at
tend 10 1t themselves. either with their
tongue or by rubbing or by both. When
you change their surroundings do not
deprive them Of this health-giving
privilege.
Ice can be kept In the simplest kind
OF II structure. The essential conditions
are that 1t shall he packed in 81 mass,
that there shall he no air spaces at the
bottoln, that 1t shall he surrounded by
a n0n-cOntiucting material. and that it
shall have ventilation and he secure
from wet.
The rlllbarb and asparagus beds
should be well manfred now, SO that
the fertility can le sinking down to the
roots as the SHOWS of winter melt into
the soil The more generous yOu are
with the manure the more profitable
will you find these items Of Your gar
den.
Fertility tends to make fertility. Good
crops grown from the land, ftsl to good
stock upon the land. and the by prod
ucts returned 10 the land with due care,
will make better land, bigger crops,
and enable the feeding Of more stock.
Then You have more manure again.
:nd the same round goes OH and grows
more money as II does SO.
1t Is foolish business to plant seeds
without testing their ge:lnina ting low
or. 1t is so easily done that there IL no
excuse for emitting 1t. Place them be-
tween two cloths and keep them damp
and in warm room for few days.
Probably more will terminate thus than
in the earth. but il 80 per cent prove
good You may safely plant them.
Decaying matter Of any sort, even
piles Of rotten wood about the premises,
Is Il constant menace to health and !.
breeding place for insects that will do
damage to your crops. Do not think
that because the snow covers them up
that 1t prevents them from doing horn.
Get Ill such things cleared up before
you consider yourself ready for winter.
There is one thing that must be
avoided In buying a rundown farm.
That is, the effort to make it yield
good crops ut once, and to improve in
condition willie doing it. Such Il course
will only make the land poorer. BE con.
tent to do one thing at y time, and let
the first be the building up of the soil.
Then the good crops will come in their
own good time.
Roots drawing enormous quantities
Of moisture from the soil ana by this
means 1t Is discharged into the atm0s.
phere. For example, the common sun
flower was found to cxhalc twelve
ounces OF water In twelve hours, anu
an oak tree with an estimated number
OF I0O.OOO leaves. would in the snme
way give something like seven hundred
tons Of water during the five months 1t
carries foliage.