The Charles Mix new era. (Wagner, Charles Mix County, S.D.) 1???-1911, 1906-08-17

The chickens that eat the most grit
are usually In the best condition.
Sheep have excellent digestion, and
hence they utilize feed to the fullest
degree.
Grit, cracked oyster shells and char
coal are almost as essential for chick
ems as food.
Ventilation is best afforded the fowl
house at the top or through openings
near the caves.
Experience is good school, but there
Is no reason why one should spend
more than one term there.
The use OF a wheel hoe saves labor
In the care of a garden, even when
much of the tillage Is to be done with
q horse.
Cowpeas sown In midsummer, after
orchards have been cultivated, and
turned under are a good fertilizer. but
nothing IL better than barnyard ma
nure.
Too much haste should not be exer
cised In getting the calf upon skim milk.
1t should have a good start. and the
change from whole to skim milk should
be very gradual.
1t IL surprisingly how stubborn some
farmers cling 10 oldfashioned ideas
and methods of the dairy when they
can plainly see their neighbors coming
money right along with advanced dairy
science and improved methods.
1t will be necessary TO perform occa-
sional jobs in the rain, but rather than
make practice Of II one had better be
IN the house during rains brushing up
his ideas. Read while II rains, and
when dry work with Drawn and brains
An asparagus patch makes an ideal
summer retreat for chicks. Every poul.
tryman should have patch. In the
l early spring ii furnishes a most dell
cIous dish for the table, and later fur
nlshes cool shady place for the
chicks.
Seed corn should be so well cared
for that 1t will contain no ears that
will not terminate, and seed testing
should be employed as demonstration
of the fact that the seed has received
proper attention rather than as a screen
to separate the worthless from the poor
y preserved seed.
The cheese output Of the United
States for the last year. according TO
Secretary of Agriculture Wilson,
amounted to about 1000. 600 pounds.
worth approximately S3oo00,00o. Mr..
Wilson thinks the cheese making In
dustry Is ON a much better basis, more
scientific than ever before.
There Is not a sufficient number OF
geese grown TO meet the market de-
mand. Thousands OF them have been
shipped In from Nova Scotia and other
localities. The cultivation OF geese can
be readily carried on In almost every
locality where farming Is in vogue.
Geese are easily grown. cared for and
readily marketed at fairly good prices.
Most OF the differences between the
employer and the hired man on farm
are due to a lack OF n perfect under
standing of what is legally and justly
expected OF the latter. A verbal con
tract Is easily forgotten and is not al.
ways lived up to. A written agreement
will sometimes be salient reminder of
what Is due both parties.
Packing hogs are OF n poorer grade
than butcher hogs. They include old
brood sows and other hogs which are
heavy enough for this class and not
good enough for the butcher hog class,
except the very poor class. such as
bears, roughs and coarse stays. About
40 per cent OF the hogs that so 10 the
Chicago market annually are Of this
class. What the breeder wants TO do
Is to avoid raising such hogs.
Field beans often make n desirable
crop 20 plant on portions of the farm
which may be somewhat run down or
for one reason or another cannot be
got in shape In time for other crops.
The ground should be put In good con.
dltion and the beans drilled In wit
the corn planter. II the vines are not
Of variety or the ground Is not ~
rich as TO make rank growth Of
vine the Held may he gone over with
the planter a second time. which will
leave the rows about a foot and ten
inches apart. lf the Geld Is planted In
this way the custIyating viii have TO
be done with fine toothed single
horse cultiyator.
wesf-rn ssrn Planting.
Coed crop rotation IL a prominent
feature Of corn planting In the Central
Prairie states The crops differ. but
the Idea Is to use clover AZ least once
In four years. Corn scoring Is prom.
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