Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1904-12-02

Qulre a CnanRe OF 1OOu, ana tHlS Is cs-
! pecially true in the case of sheep.
It is important to remember that the
richness of the food given stock has
much to do with the value OF the ma
nure made from, them.
Handles off old dish pans will make
| good door pulls on screen doors AMI
| places where needed. These should be
| put away and saved until they can be
brought into use.
One advantage in using smooth plan
cd boards for the poultry house, is
that it is much easier task to keep
down lice and in keeping clean, while
the cost is very little more.
Free exercise for hogs develops mus
Gle and frame and adds to the value Of
the pork. Lack of exercise is the great
est of all Embellishments in the case of
all kinds of animals, including man
himself.
The season for tomatoes can be
heightened several weeks by pulling
up thrifty vines before killed by frost
and hanging them in the cellar The
fruit will continue to ripen much bet
ter and will keep longer than If picked
and laid away to ripen.
The successful dairy farmer to-day
is business mana manufacturer
who is producing q commodity in uni
versal demand. He is not in the bust
ness for his health, but for a profit
above his living. Therefore. careful
study of the marketing of his ,1.iiry
products is necessity with him.
If some farmers would only talk
clover instead of politics they'd be
much better off. Some farmers pro-
fess to know all about politics who
have not learned the first principles Of
the beneficial element Of clover. A
politician is always looking after his
fences-his political fences. Quit pol
itics and grow clover.
The old-fashioned "razor-back" hog,
which. ran wild and fed chiefly on
acorns, made the sweetest of all pork
and the most toothsome of breakfast
bacon. The trouble was the leanness
O: the carcass generally and the waste
in bone The thoroughbred hog renie-
dies these defects and, OF course, by
greater bulk and fattening qualities is
far more valuable for market purposes
than his uncivilized ancestor.
Apples should never be picked Wien
wet They should never be stored
when warm. Should be ripened in Il
dark. cool place. All should be sorted
into grades and labeled accordingly.
Two neighbors took apples to market.
Both had the Wealthy variety. One
of them sorted his apples and took
nothing but the best, and the other
took them as he gathered them. The
first sold his at a satisfactory price,
while the other could make no sale iD
glutted market
In comparing farm with cry life
it is well to state that where -,ile can
be successful and obtain enjoyment,
there is where he ought to reside.
Some enjoy the farm and others the
city. Many people have never known
the joys of farm life, and many
farmers are just in the same condition.
City and country have their respective
advantages. Wages are possibly better
in the city, but there are great many
opportunities for spending them.
There are better educational adval-
tages in the city which are obtained
at the expense of good health.
If your soil needs humus, pillow I'M
der all the coarse manure you can get
this fall. Every farmer realizes the
necessity Of having more manure, and
one way to secure it is by providing an
abundant supply Of absorbing material.
Even if there appears to be a large
proportion of this material in the ma.
nure, making it strawy and coarse, it
can be plowed under and will answer
an excellent purpose, as there is need
of more humus in most of our soils.
Every effort should be made to secure
all of the manure that may be outside
lost. This fine manure, properly ap-
piled on the meadows, should be worth
81 per two-horse load in the extra
amount of hay that will thus be Sc
cured from its use.
Occa sionally we meet man who
'knows it ALL You can speak of
nothing with which he has not had ex-
perience. This man usually has no
use for a farm paper and he has no
time to devote to farmers institutes.
He says he is $50 busy making liv-
ing that he can't take time to devote
to such interests. 1t requires all his
time to make a living and he even
makes a poor one at that. He works
hard to pay the interest on the mort
gage. He keeps the children home