The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1898-02-18

there is no suddenness IN the cuause.
When they have reached full feed no
harm results. myself. last spring,
bought seven head of calves, yearlings,
which were so warty they looked hid
eous. commenced gradually and kept
1T up until they ate every ear they
could. The warts commenced to drop
off before grass came. Good pasture
finished making them smooth. My
opinion, after noticing calves for a
goodly number of years, is that black
leg is simply paralysis Of the surface
blood vessels. They fail to circulate
the blood. Exercise keeps up the cir
culation; lying down induces torpidity
OF the veins and paralysis. I am no
doctor, but them's my sentiments on
blackleg.
Cattle should not be fed on corn
alone. 1t is natural for them to chew
the cud, and roughness fed with corn
brings both up from the first compart-
ment of the stomach and all is digested.
Without roughness scarcely half the
corn goes through the process, and so
1t passes from them in whole grains.
Hence there Is waste, unless hogs fol-
low, and in any event the corn does
only part of its Office in the fattening
process.
The drouth in these ends Of the earth
was beneficial in making, not only
sound corn, but in maturing the young
wood on the fruit trees. It is true that
numbers of trees and plants set out in
the spring have persisted. Especially
Is this the case with cherry trees. which
seem more susceptible to drouth than
any other sort. Plums are all right and
80 are the young peach trees. Pears
have stood it we'll. Apples not so well.
Many ornamental shrubs persisted; no.
tably the hardy hydrangea and the Gle
mats. Among evergreens the Siber-
ian arbor vitae is the most susceptible
to drouth. The hydrangea and the
evergreen must be watered literally or
they will certainly perish. On many
plants drouth is more destructive than
cold weather.
Cooperation Is gaining ground
among farmers. Near me creamery of
this sort has been running now over a
year. and so we'll has 1t prospered that
13 per cent dividend has been declar-
ed. This and the fact they get the milk
back, minus the cream, has given cows
a boom. Properly and honestly man
aged, there is not the least doubt but
that 1t is good thing for the farming
community. and especially for the
stockholders. Another creamery run
on the same plan few miles farther
away, has done as well as the above.
and one year 1t did better, for the past
six years.
Men are hauling up to the house
great piles Of logs, which before long,
will be sawed by horse or steam power.
Half days saving will last round
year. To cut the wood for that length
OF time as 1t is needed with the axe is
no fool Of job, which I know by sad
experience. Cutting wood at the wood
pile in July and August is a watery
job. A man at the woodpile then
seems to be the subject Of continual
dissolution and thaw." I prefer the
steam power in the winter.
How cheerful the evergreens look
around the house when all the ground
is covered with snow. They are the
ideal windbreak. have a good many
Of various kinds, but prefer for the
rank and file the white pine. It grows
rapidly and, with room, very shapely.
There should be two rows twenty-four
feet apart. The outer row should break
Joints with the inner row. BY that
means a solid shelter is made.
Any quantity Of men don't seem t.
care copper whether their half Of the
line fence is kept up or not. Bad fences
make, as rule. bad neighbors. After
the fence is first made, ordinary care
will keep 1t in working order. I often
wonder why it is that farmers don't see
that it is much easier to be on the best
Of terms with their neighbors than to
be otherwise. Years ago when COM
menced farming on this prairie re-
solved that my stock should never trou-
BILE my neighbors, and they never have.
The sheep industry 10 looking up. A
near neighbor has now 1000 head. An
other 600, and both tell me that sheep
IRE very profitable. It il comfort to
see that diversified farming il better
than hogs. cattle and corn, or corn. cat
tie and hogs. and nothing else.-Ed-
ward B. Heaton In Farmers Review.
Tlinols Dairvnsn.
According to announcement the nli-