The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1894-05-18
General Farn Notes,

oeSuN STOWu On u very ClCu SOll urC
apt to be late in ripening.
Seeds matured ON very fine soil are
apt to lack vitality.
Look out for the physical welfare of
the flock, and especially the feet In wet
weather.
When it can be avoided it is not O
good plan to turn the young colts in
the same lot with the older horses.
Never give medicine to an animal
until 1t Is evidently necessary and there
is proper way and you will never feel
that you have doctored too much.
Very few farmers really learn to
properly care for manure until they
know Its full value.
Good sheep, good lands and good
roots generally go together, for with
good management with sheep land can
be gradually built up.
Tie up the horses tails whenever 1t
Is muddy, but don't leave them tied uD
over night. 1t Injuries their appearance
to say the least.
The two best foods with dairy COWS
are wheat bran and clover hay com.
bined with other materials sufficient to
make up II good variety.
By hauling out and scattering the ma
nure us fast as made during the VIM
ter, much time Is saved in the spring
after the seasons work begins.
With all classes of stock in breeding
especial care should be used to avoid
O cross where the same defects exist
on both sides.
Keeping the teams busy is one of the
best arguments for growing variety Of
crops, as otherwise it would often be
difficult to keep the team busy.
Desirable breeding qualities are fixed
In herd by long line of careful selec.
ton and breeding and not by the re-
suits of Indifferent work.
Chemical dell0rning we believe TO be
the better way Of getting rid Of the
stlpcrftuOus hOrlls. 1t is less painful
than the saw, a1ld with yolln. stock
is quick and sure III its effects.
Fertility in a breeding animal is an
inherited quality and cannot be too
well established, and like all desirable
qualities Is readily lost by unwise man.
agement.
Barley requires stronger soil than
wheat for its best development, and
there IL room for choice preference
should be given to clay soil. In nroper
conditions o heavier yield aa acre than
of wheat may be expected.
Three years Of experimenting Mt the
Vermont station have shown the s,lpcr.
iority of sour milk over sweet milk
for pig fesling in every case, but pig
feeding upon skim milk, is an adjunct
to the dairy, is pretty sure to be profit
able, whether you feed sweet or sour.
Do not forget that poultry is an i'm
portant branch Of farm stock and that
no farm IL well stocked without it.
Have good fowls, II you have any, and
have enough Of them 80 that you can
AFFORD to give some time and attention
to them.
II You let young stock shift for itself
you will, Of course, save the expense
of providing shelter. This is Cheap at
the outset, but pretty dear in the final
reckoning. 1t makes the production of
beef, butter, milk, wool. etc, pretty ex-
pensive.
There is no other plan by which pork
can be made 50 cheaply as by making
1t mainly from clover and other good
pasture, feeding some grain In cohnec.
ton toward the close of the season,
and then flnishing quickly with grain
before carrying 1t very deeply into the
severely cold weather Of midwlnter.
Cut oats when in the milk IL you
want them to feed In the dairy .or for
wintering horses. By permitting them
to rlpen and then separating the grain
from the straw you add to the expense,
but not at all to the value. Only by
cutting and curing Us hay can you pro-
cure anything like the full feeding
value of the straw.
A prevention Of parasitic diseases Of
cereals by treating them before sowing
or planting has been found useful by
many who have expert nanted along
this line. A slight coating of coal oil
given to peas in the autumn is said to
d. strOy the pea weevil. This causes
the crop of the following season to he
almost free from this pest. A some
what analogous remedy has been dis
covered Tor smut In wheat and oats by
Pr0f. Jansen Of Denmark, only that
heat seems to be the effective agent
In these cases. The remedy Is simply
to immerse the seed wheat or oats in
water ut q temperature of 135 to 14O
deg. The crops grown from seed thus
treated have been found to be entirely
free from smut. The remedy Inns the
merit Of being both cheap and simple.
Working Girl. ..a !AsiF R,.ss 70.
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