Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1905-01-06

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In q majority of cases the size of
the farm has less to do with success
than the management.
Leg weakness in chickens usually re-
suits from three causes, rapid growth,
bottom heat in breeders and the use
Of sulphur.
For mating, the pullet should be
year younger than the cock. This will
conduce to the strength and good
health of the offspring.
The campaign liar has folded his
tent and departed, but the crop liar is
still in our midst, and his activity
knoweth no bounds.
If the farm is not thoroughly
drained, commence at once. Drain the
worst places first, and the gain will
pay for the remainder.
| The man who thinks sheep Of chlef
value as scavengers and keeps them
mainly for that purpose and without
much regard to breed or feed, will
hardly find them profitable.
A fruit packer has found remedy
for bruising in packing his apples in
barrels He makes a pad of excelsior
and puts in each end of his barrels,
and when the press is brought into
reuuisition bruising is obviated.
The dairyman gives his calves away
SO that he may make money on the
milk from his cows. The beef producer
keeps his calves and feeds surplus milk
to pigs, and he also makes money. This
comes very near being case OF giving
away ones cake and eating 1t at the
same time.
No man can be his best in any one
feature of his labor unless labor is con-
centrated A COW cannot be her best
in two things: she is either good beef
or a good dairy COW. The dual COW is
a good animal, but she cannot attain
to her highest profit unless she is one
or the other.
There is a certain amount which
may vary under different circum-
stances which a horse can eat and
which will sustain him and keep him
in good, healthy condition. Anything
more than this is just as injurious as
ANYTHING less. This amount can only
be ascertained by experiment, as no
two horses require exactly the same
quantity of food.
For several years the consumer has
complained about the price OF pota-
toes. Now the shoe is on the other
foot, and the producer is entering q
complaint that prices are lower than
for some years. These things have to
come occasionally as a regulator or
trade. The man who sticks to potato
production year after year will make
it pay.-EXchange.
The nest is a great harbor for lice;
if there are not any on the fowls, there
are always some in the nests. There
is only one way to get clear of them,
and that is by changing the hay and
straw often. But this alone WI not
answer entirely. Either the mes boxes
should be thoroughly wpitewashed fire.
uuently or should be washed in coal oil
and then be burned off.
Barnyard manure not only provides
food for the plants, but it enables the
soil to retain more moisture without
which no plant food can be made avail
able. When rough and strawy manure
is plowed under the first effect Is to
dry the surface, and some damage may
come in this manner. When 1t is once
we'll wet and thoroughly settled, this
trouble disappears. 1t Is estimated
that well-manured land will hold from
eighteen to twenty tons more water
per acre than the same soil unma-
nured. Score one more point for barn
ward manure.--Iowa Homestead.
A woman's society Of Gothenburg,
Sweden, has adopted as regular de-
partment of work the task of seeing
that the babies of the city in districts
characterized by poverty and unhy-
gienic conditions are supplied with
pure nutritious milk. Forty-six babies
were thus provided for last year, and
with one exception, the result in re-
stored health and increased weight
was eminently satisfactory. The mem
bers of the union not only supervise
the premises from whence the milk
is distributed. but they keep general
oversight of the homes, and are able.
in most cases, to secure for them bet
ter sanitary conditions than would 9th
erwise exist. physician is in gen
eral charge. and the children are in
spected and weighed every two weeks.
This practical philanthropy should
commend itself to other unions in large
cities.
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