Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1904-12-09
Do not keep over small patches of
skim milk. Feed it while it is sweet

If you whip colt for being scared
you will soon develop chronic run
away.
When the butter sticks to the work
er, the latter was not scalded proper
ly. Rub it with salt and scald again
Never breed from a crooked breast
ed or deformed bird, no matter how
perfect in plumage or stand out points
There is no longer any question that
the earlier the calf is taken from It's
mother, the easier it will be to teach
it to drink.
1t does not pay to breed a COW or
horse with an ugly disposition. Sell
the horse to the government and the
cow to the butcher.
Fertility is to the farmer what capt.
tai is to the merchant. If the princi-
pal be drawn upon constantly without
replenishment both will soon be bank
rupt.
A crack in the barn stopped means
stopping leak in the feed bin. Warm
barns are feed savers. You believe
this; then act on your belief. Feed is
going to be worth saving this winter.
To make the most out of sheep they
must be kept for series of years,
some years they will return much
better profit than in others. but it is
hard to sell out and buy in always,
just at the right time.
Avoid using lard, oil or grease of
any kind about hen or nest during
incubation. A creased egg will not
hatch. The pores Of the skin are closed
by the grease, causing suspended &C
ton within. Under the influence of
the heat decomposition follows.
In order to make a success of raising
the calf on skim milk, the condition of
the milk must be Uniformly sweet.
Nothing, perhaps, will contribute more
to produce scours in calves than to
feed sweet milk one day and sour milk
the next.
w. \. Drake, a well-known lamb
feeder of Fort Collins, Colo, who last
season fed some 10000 head and mar
keted them in Chicago, says he has
never lost a dollar on feeding sheep.
although he has been in the business
good many years.
Happy is the man who has a salts
factory method of gathering and stor-
ing seed corn, and who will attend to
it. without fail. There has been too
much trusting to luck in the seed corn
business. Luck" like "Baal.' may
be a great ways off when most needed.
Don't let anything interfere with the
system of gathering seed corn.
Experience has taught that land out
of the semi-arid region does not take
kindly to irrigation. During dry
time it responds in the way Of heavy
crops but the soil construction seems
to be such, where rains come, that a
system of irrigation seems to run the
soil all together and it becomes as
hard as a brickyard when it gets dry.
In the semi-arid region it is said the
land will not bake after being irrigat-
ed
Machinery has increased the crea-
tive power of man ten fold and has
opened up boundless fields for expan-
sion i'll the realm of agriculture. Not
withstanding it's benefcent influences,
much of it is made short-lived by ne
glect. Where famine once existed
there is now no possibility of that
dread condition. That condition was
made possible then because mankind
could not produce enough for the
worlds consumption. There is now
occasionally an ovcr-prOduction, but by
means of excellent transportation this
is largely minimized. When a sula',
amount of capital represented the farm
machinery it was cared for diligently
but as this increases there seems to be
an utter lack of this care on the part
OF a great many which is evidenced
by the high priced machinery we-see
out in the open where it is exposed to
damaging elements.
Milk from Aged Cows.
According to some Wisconsin tests,
milk from cows decreases somewhat
in quality as the animals advance in
age. For one year results were about
as follows: Milk obtained from COWS
/ year old showed 4.49 per cent fat;
years old, 4.40 per cent; years old,
429 per cent; years old, Al per
cent.
Transp1anted the Gooseberry Bush.
One of the troubles nurserymen say
they meet with comes from customers
desiring large fruit bushes and trees.