Milford chronicle., 1901-03-22

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Manure is always injured by heating nv
trough which process it loses its am .ei
lonia. ~
The best remedy for lice in the hen plc
Ouse seems to be to line the building pl'
With tarred paper. sa
The colored brother needs freezing W,
into cold stOrage-for T.
bout three months every year. He yo
would then get a hustle on himself.
There will always be some one to al
,reed the scrub COW, somebody to milk til
Ter, somebody to lose money feeding III
Ter steer calf, but it should not be you. II
At the present prices of the staple Oh
good cotton lands-thOse which Will tC
produce from three-fOurths of bale to 81
A bale per acre-are easily worth 500 n
per acre. is
The wolf bounty appropriation OF the n
state of South Dakota is short the sum Il
of $4,000. Range conditions always o
favor the multiplication of wolves. VINO V
find an easy living preying on the
young and helpless of the focks and
herds. {
If the oatfield is rank and black In ,
May and the field is level, turn the
sheep in for a short time; If the field is
rolling. do not do it, as the sheep will
Invariably feed on the higher portions
Of the land, just where their work is
not needed.
Good seed is the first step in securing
good crops. then Il proper and thorough
preparation of the seed bed. Ignoring
these things many men work and fret
and fail, it being the same sort of fool
ishness which makes man expect to
raise a good calf on sour separator
milk.
Neither an old boar nor an old bull Is
desirable adjunct Of the stock farm. |
They are very apt to be ugly and more /
or less Of Il nuisance, but just the same |
any man can well afford to keep such |
matured sires. Gagged up like wild |
beasts, If necessary, for the sake OF
their value as sires.
A friend wishes to know what he
can do to make his hired man content
ed. 1t depends upon the man, but if
he (Our friend) will do all the milking
and get good looking hired girl the
chances are the h. m. will be reasona-
bly, contented. If not, then he should
be fired at once.
We commend the red cedar for an
evergreen belt around the farm home.
II will not grow so fast as the white or
. Scotch pine, but is everywhere tough
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3 IRENE cold better than any evergreen
we have. 1t should be planted much
3 more extensively than It is.
/ How many sheep can be kept on the
n food required by one cOwT' we are
= asked. That depends altogether on the
breed of the sheep. Five 200 pound
d COtswolds will consume as much food
y as n thousand pound cow while eight
30 Shropshires and ten MerinOs would re-
quire about the same amount of food.
v A prominent railway official told us
n n lately that it will pay to build line OF
r. road anywhere in the west and north
~ ~ west where a belt of farm land si2
a miles wide on each side of the rOaC
can be depended upon for patronage
II this statement is true, we have no
got to the end of railway construction
. by a good deal.
IN. If capitalists can make good none
lss buying western range sheep and you
70 grain and hay to fatten them for mai
a ket, why in the name of common sens
q should not you? These men are mai
q ing close to dollar head, and 70
60 would have an additional 10 cent
g which they can't get in the matter
Z. fertilizing your land.
81 One ton OF commercial fertilize
10 worth sos. Is required for each acre 4
~ farm land on Long Island in order
81 insure a crop. And there are tho
inns sands of men in the fertile west wi
-, grow three tons Of worthless weeds
rtb each acre of their cOrnfelds who wOu
M. not know what a commercial fertile
8 g was if they were asked.
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3 e. Two million seven hundred thOusa
2 81 FrenchwOmen are reported by the Is
4s census Of that country as employed
20 outdoor work on the farms and g.
"a dens of France. This condition wOJ
is theoretically imply large families
10 children, but the same census disclOi
Ss the fact that the nation as a whole
l 81 barely holding its own in point of p
81 ulatiOn.
The dust and fine chaff from a I
chine thrashing fax were carried b
- strong wind over on to piece Of Ii
iuq, a quarter of an acre in extent wi
had never grown crop of fax. I
9Th field sowed to fax next year prOdu
a fine crop. with the exception Of
= One-quarter acre. which was so
Light sOned by the dust that the crop
llViS- died off when it was two inches hig
== We came across q public spir
ward. nan lately who had set a row of a
Exp. trees in the street outside the sidey
49, for shade trees. OF course the
a. N. will get all the apples, but no man
IL 2 " " lived in vain who has helped the
O5 of his town to have a good time.
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SO A late experiment conducted at
as e Kansas experiment station in the
ing of young calves showed til;
! q bunch of calves raised on sweet {
\ q ratOr skimmilk made a daily gal
!. $40 1.54 pounds at a cost Of S342 per
! So pounds of gain; bunch fed v
! SOS milk made gain of 1.95 pounds
! % dow Of a cost Of eG "a nor 1O0 moi