Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1905-01-13

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Keep the lambs in clean quarters
and give them clean food and clean
troughs, then they will keep healthy
and thrive.
The man who tries to work in ill
fitting shoes knows how it is himself
when he tries to work horse with
| an Hitting collar on.
Sheep do not make the most persist
ent grubbers unless they get short of
grub. Well-fed sheep do not kill hazel
| brush, like half starved sheep do.
A wit of stockman is going to
save his cattle the trouble Of chewing
| their cud by providing them with pre-
digested hay and grain. Who'd "a
thought he cud do that?
A bull or ram can be made to
work for living by the use of tread
power Such animals would be all the
better for the exercise and the power
would be obtained without cost.
A good egg is alive The shell is
porous and the oxygen Of the air goes
through the shell and keeps up sort
of respiration. An egg soon becomes
stale in bad air or in dry air charged
with carbolic acid.
For early pigs well matured sows
should be mated. AS a rule, they will
take better care of their filters, will be
better suckers, and the danger Of par
turition will not be so great as with
the younger sows, while they will be
more readily managed by the feeder.
Reject a horse with toes turned in
or out The twist generally occurs at
the fetlock Toes turned out are more
Objectionable than toes turned in.
When toes are turned out the fetlocks
are generally turned in, and animals
so formed are very apt to cut or
bruise. Both, however, are weak for
nations.
Many a man has been called upon
to compute the profit in growing tim
ber Some have said by their actions
that it does not pay. This is in the
face of the fact that there seemed to
be plenty of natural timber. The nat
ural supply is fast going into COM
merce, and it may be good policy to
provide for future emergencies.
A Minnesota hog raiser has found a
good plan for keeping hen from sit
ting. She puts under her cheap
watch, which is wound every day and
kept ticking. AS the watch ticks the
hen begins to show signs of uneasiness
and stirs the noisy egg around with
her beak. She grows more and more
nervous as the noise continues, and
soon runs off to get cool. She finally
gives up the charge and abandons the
nest for good.
California fruit has long since had
distinguishing merit which has not al
ways been due to superior quality. a
good deal of the success has come
through the attractive packages and
method Of packing the fruit. By this
means they succeed in capturing the
fancy prices. Fruit men can afford to
take notes. Wrapping individual specl-
mems conserves favor and when not
wrapped the flavor escapes. With the
pear the longer the flavor escapes the
poorer it will become. The pear peach
and plum are better for being wrapped.
Iowa Homestead.
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we see men who have kept sheep for
years catch them by selling hold Of
their wool It is cruel, shamefully
cruel, and a man with any heart in
him would never do it second time
If he could see the red, blood-settled
looking flesh always found under such
a spot if the poor sheep is killed
shortly after the abuse. 1t Is almost
as easy to catch sheep by the neck
or leg, and If it were not 1t would be
no excuse, thus tearing, as 1t fire.
quently does, the skin from the flesh
Just beneath it. The sheep is so deli
cately made, and the skin is made so
tender by the close protecting fleece,
that it Is a much more serious thing
to pull the wool of sheep than the
hair on ones head.-Exchange
A prominent Long Island gardener
keeps vegetables very successfully by
storing in headless flour barrels which
are sunk in the ground near the house,
the barrel projecting about four inches
above the surface, after which the
earth is packed firmly around and even
with the top of the barrel, SO that
surface water will be kept out. The
barrels are filed about twOthirds full
of vegetables, then covered with hay
or straw to the top, over which boards
are placed to keep out the rain. 1t is
found that in this way the vegetables
keep until April uninjured by the cold
est weather, and are as fresh and crisp
as when gathered. The cabbages are
kept with particular success, the leaves