Devils Lake inter-ocean and Devils Lake free press. (Devils Lake, Ramsey County, N.D.) 1905-1909, 1906-09-28

throwing fine cut litter or land
plaster into the gutter behind
cows, and all animals, to absorb
it. The cutters should be 18]
inches wide, and 7 inches deep,
made of cement, and all floors
should be cement.
A barrel swung between hand
cart wheels. is handy at kitchen
door, 10 put garbage, dishwater,
!etc., into, for fertilizing garden
and shrubbery.
Horse and sheep manure are
heating, and good for heavy soil
and clay land, also for alkali and
gumbo spots and wet places.
Cow and hog manure are cooler
and better for light soils, and for
sandy land.
Watch out for parts of farm
that may need special potash,
lime, or PHOSPHORUS; don't guess
at it,-tind out for sure.
! Phosphorus is eheaply applied
|. in steamed bone meal from Chica-
| &c or Omaha stockyards, or in
1 ground raw rock phosphate Of
| Robins Jones, Nashville, Tenn,
1orsof N, Y. d st. Il. Mining &
I. Mgf Co, St.s Louis, Mo-. or in
dried blood, or tankage, or other
1wise. Bone meal costs about $25.
Iper ton. Rock hosphate about
1873 per ton. When phosphorus is
needed in soil it is usually sup
piled by 800 lbs. bone meal, or
1890 lbs rock phosphate per acre
Eper year. LeguhAes Plowed under
increase tbs yield 81 wheat the
fnext year. but IL phosphorus also
| be plowed nhder Che increase is
augmented ZOE per cent. Legum-
go themselves consume phosphor-
Jus. % do others. Lime and po-
fash are not 80 soon exhausted,
but must be applied when needed
/ It's profitable to cut into / inch:
Lengths, all hay fodder, clover, al
falfa, etc, for feeding; also bedd-
ing cut the same length is better.
and handles easier. Cut up roots
into small pieces that will not
choke.
| Never keep coRs, or other ami
mails in barn sill day any day. let
them out in the open OH pleasant
days, and put them into covered"
runways or exercise sheds for a
few minutes at least, on bad days.
Cows confined in barns without q;
little gentle, fresh, outdoor sxer-
else, very day, can not give
i holesome milk for children any
idsy.
| A capable, active farmer Id al
ways a prominent and valuable
citizen. But when one .foolishlY
.lsells or rents his farm and moVes
to tewn, he usu sllg shrivels up in
ito q Mr. Nobody, and his wife
land children pity him, or are
ASHAMED Of him.
When a farmer gets rich, if he
i then adds improvements and home
comforts 10 the farm, instead Of
buy ing more land, he will find his
wife ard sons and daughters will
4 be the happiest and best people
lin the nation, and will not be at
tracted much by towns, corner
groceries. blind pigs, etc.
As soon as farmer gets able lie
q should have a large, light, mex
d pensiye work house, With forge,
y1se. drill, anvil, ample tools, work
benches, seats, etc. for mending
harness, shoes, tinkeripg, solder
ing, repairing, painting up, sharp
ening and oiling machinery, plows
Igarden tools, etc, doing carpenter.
ing, cabinet work. etc. And
Il placesin it where wife, and dsupl,t.
IeIs, and children could also an
Join In clay modelling, textiles,
drawing, GLAZING, kiln firing.
lsculptugin testing seeds fof
termination treating with formal
slassle to even sssast, starting
ek see 81 esI seed d.
Tor easly he beds lDea III
ilis Bait fE bld d chick
4 duekg and sfo SCH I'll
4 ia prices 'lhe werh lsosiSe!
hopld have plsIlty 81 sunni liieI