Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1905-01-27

Chickens can be made to grow fast
er by feeding often.
Furnish as great variety Of diet
as possible and feed as much as the
fowls will eat.
Do not hatch bantams until late in
the summer If you would have them
beautiful and diminutive.
There should be a constant and per-
sistent culling of the flock, always
keeping the best at home.
The farther you are from market,
the greater is the need Of condensing
products by feeding grain and stores
to animals.
During the winter plenty of bedding
Is necessary in order to have the stock
comfortable and save the manure to
the best advantage.
Carelessness in the little details nee
essary to good management will soon
show in the condition, health and pro-
ductiveness Of the fowls.
Sheep are valuable for cleaning old
pastures and fields, not only because
they eat most varieties Of weeds, but
the seeds are digested SO thoroughly
that they do not terminate.
Leave apples in cool places until
danger of very cold weather. as they
will not freeze as readily as potatoes.
Cabbages and turnips will also with
stand very low temperature without
injury.
1t always pays to look for a hard
winter. If one is ready for a hard
winter and it does not come he will
be agreeably disappointed, but should
he be unprepared and it comes he will
be most woefully surprised.
The old cry that the silo is fit only
for the newspaper or pencil farmer is
fast going and will soon be gone. If
some Of the slow coach dairymen do
not soon plan. for silo their more
progressive neighbors will outstrip
them.
The man who owns a good dual pur-
pose cow flatters himself that he has a
good cow and that he is doing well,
and perhaps he is. But he is not doing
his best until he makes success by
reaching the highest degree of one or
the other branch of the cows useful
ness.
Wheat that is damp when threshed
will shrink more than that which is
dry. The shrinkage will be from one
to five cents per bushel in price. In
holding grain Of any kind it will al
ways be we'll to take into cOnsidera
ton the shrinkage that is sure to take
place.
The use of dwarf peas and beans
as a cultivated crop in orchards and
then turning under the vines after
picking the pods is recommended. The
orchard has the benefit of continuous
cultivation at the proper season; the
plants when plowed under enrich the
soil and the picked product pays the
bills.
Every year we have men who try to
farm more land than they can attend
to. Every year we hear them say they
will never do it again and yet they
keep at it. The man who lays out
more work than he can perform is
"crawfsh," for he is going backward
started. The man who is succeeding
is the man who has his work under his
control, no matter what the season.
The United States Supreme Court
has supported the ruling of the rev.
enue department. in regard to the use
of palm oil as a coloring matter for
cleo and thus this imitation has re-
ceived it's solar pleXus blow. OleO
will have to trot in a class by itself.
Certainly no one will desire to pre-
vent any person eating oleo if he
wishes, but the butter makers do OBJ
iect when it is sold as butter.
In answer to a question from
reader as to which is the best all
around breed of chickens for laying
and market the Poultry Advocate
says: THE general purpose breeds are
the Plymouth Rocks, Wyandottes and
Rhode Island Reds. II you handle
them properly you will certainly be
pleased with any one of them. The
Plymouth Rocks stand at the head as
fancier's fowl, with the Wyandottes
a close second 1t does not matter
which variety of these breeds you
choose, as that is only a matter of
feathers
The largest Iarm in the world is
probably a farm of $4,000 acres on
the northern boundaries of Oklahoma.
It belongs to the Indians and is leased