Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1904-11-25

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To have your cows milk long, milk
| them clean.
On account Of them lying so close
together the shelter for hogs need not
be as tight as for other stock.
A low knee Is desirable in horse,
1 enabling the animal to make long
stride more quickly than when the
| knee is set high up.
| Care and feed are essential factors
in making good stock. 1t will not
lust grow" like Topsy, but must be
game.
Arrange to put few windows in
that dark barn. But few stables are
we'll enough lighted. Proper SANTA
ton demands it. Sunlight is i great
germicide. See that your stable has
plenty of it.
Hens will eat eggs whenever broken
ones are placed within their reach.
It is natural for them to eat anything
that is good to eat and in proper shape
for them to eat. To stop them from
eating eggs, therefore, is to keep
broken eggs out Of their reach.
No one has actual knowledge or the
value of fall blowing in a garden until
he has tried it. When fall plowed the
soil can be prepared early in the spring
and much depends on early vegetables.
Make the garden rich and then ploW
it IN the fall, and note the beneficial
results next year. If you try this
plan once, you'll stay with it.
Frauds are still going the rounds
One of the last seen is an old one
which promises to increase the guam
tity of butter by adding something to
the milk. Those who take time to
think will readily see that butter can
not be added to milk The amount of
butter fat taken from milk depends
upon the amount it contains. 1t is
impossible to obtain something from
nothing.
A wind puff on a horse is a distend-
ed condition of a sack which contains
synoyia or joint oil. 1t is caused by
sprain. A wind gall is liable to
cause serious lameness at any time.
The trouble is durable, however, when
not due to a faulty conformation. and
when taken in it's incipiency. Treat
ment consists in rest, firing and bills
tering, and shoeing with high heel
shoe.
The scientific man can analyze the
food the COW eats, but the COW has to
rely on the taste or palatability. The
dairyman will feed q combination of
feeds such as he has, or will exchange
some of them for that which he does
not have, and he bases his reason on
results rather than analysis.
1t scarcely ever pays to economize
in feed. The animal that has been fed
literally is the first to get to mar
ket and will bring the best price.
When failure results, the best thing
to do is to see what was the cause
and remove it. Be reasonable about
such things.
In most Of our farm operations we
do not know what our products are
costing us. A very small percentage
of farmers know what products cost
them. They grow their feed, feed it
without stint, and when sale Is made
they feel that they have made some
money in the transaction. A very,
good friend of mine says he keeps a
system of books that is all right. He
counts his money OF the beginning of
the year and again at the close, and if
he has more at the close than he had
at the beginning he has made the diff
ference This is all right as far as it
goes, but it is not satisfactory-Iowa
Homestead.
Most people know that blowing is
done to loosen the soil, to reduce sods
and to admit air, to cover trash and
numerous other things. Sometimes
blowing makes soils too loose for a
| time and we need the harrow or field
roller to compact it, although some
times heavy rainfall will bring about
the desired result. We know that
original material near the surface is
| necessary, and land that is not rich
in this material is not benefited much
by deep blowing. Again, it is safe to
say that nothing robs land of moisture
any more than the stirring pillow. The
| five or six inches of surface soil is
| turned up and broken in the air and
moisture that may be needed very