The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1906-12-15
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/ >&A~hSAA SeSANNS'
Try the dairy thermometer. Don't
cost much and It is labor saver.
Ugly tempers in colts are devel-
oped by careless and harsh currying.
The automatic chicken farm Is only
a dream. You must work II you would
get eggs and healthy chickens.
Fall apples are good for the cows.
Put up and mixed with the grain rar
ton increases the value of both.
Secretary Wilson says give the
boys better training in agriculture and
they won't be so apt to leave the farm.
| Dry corn cobs make good starter
for fires. Try them. Don't forget, too,
that charred corn cobs are a good con-
dition feed for the hogs.
The title Of p. F. practical Farm
er)is one which can be earned only
by thought, time. study, hard work
and expenditure of some money.
Montana sheep growers have organ
lied the Montana Wool Growers asso-
citation, which includes a wool.selling
company with capital Of 100000.
The abandoned farm Is bad enough,
| but how about the abandoned or
chards and the abandoned gardens on
the farms that are not abandoned.
A windmill and system of under
ground pipes will lessen the work of
distributing water for the stock. Don't
do by manual labor what you can do
by machinery. 1t doesn't pay.
Lots of good seed corn, you say,
but 1t is still in the shock! Remem-
Der, that one good, selected seed corn,
hanging by the husks in a cool, airy
place Is worth nine in the shock.
Verify, one egg differeth from an
other in accordance with the differ
ence Of the food out of which the hen
has manufactured the egg. Quality Of
egg depends upon quality of food.
When you let firefang in the man
ure, caused by drying out and burn
Ing from the heat caused by fermen-
tation, you are losing part of the
nitrogen, a very valuable element
The two essentials to the success
full wintering of bees are plenty Of
naturally arranged stores and plenty
of young bees. Some protection to
the outside of the hive is desirable.
An English gardner writes that his
plot Of ground measures about 80 feet
| by 9 feet, and at cost of Is cents has
produced two pecks Of peas, 80 round
beets, 33 pounds of beans, and 80
pounds Of tomatoes (302 in number.)
II your horse is troubled with
heaves do not feed too much hay.
Give more oats and water before feed
ing. Do not work hard for an hour
after feeding, and do not expect too
much from such horse. Wet food Is
best-and keep the bowels open.
| Lumber even at the present high
prices Is cheaper than food. Lumber
put into sheds for cattle protection Is
permanent improvement, but IL you
depend on feed to keep them warm
you will have to keep giving it and
will have nothing to show for 1t In
the end.
Experiments in dry land farming in
the arid district near Caldwell, Idaho,
| will be made by Prof. H. T. French,
of the Idaho agricultural college at
Moscow. He has a tract of 800 acres
in the sage brush country, 80 acres Of
which is being plowed for dry farm
ing; the rest will be irrigated this
winter. The experiment will be in
grains, vegetables and ornamental and
forest trees.
A new method of killing tree borers
| Is mentioned by the American Agri-
culturist and may prove Of interest
and value to readers Of sMeadow-
brook Farm Notes: "Bisulphide of
carbon may be injected into holes
| where the insects are at work. The
| best injector is metal or small cheap
glass syringe. or a small machine-oil
can. About a teaspoonful of bisul-
phide Of carbon Is sufficient for each
hole, II injected with some force.
After injection, the holes should be
plugged with grating wax. 1t would
be difficult to treat an entire tree by
this method, but the trunks and low
er branches can be reached"
Next years weather accurately fore.
told presents an attractive idea to the
farmer, and II the aim Of the govern
meut is realized we may find the ag-
rlculturist of the future consulting his
weather time table to know Just what
kind Of crops to grow and Just when
the work can best be done. In an ar.
ticle in the Technical World Maya