The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1906-09-01
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! Own your own farm or It will own
you.
What Is luck? II Is doing tho right
thing, at the right time, all the time
Experiment on q small scale, for
then IL 1t proves failure your loss
will not be great.
Long on production but short on
craftsmanship 10 true of the average
farmer.
Grub in the head" Yes, in sheep
sometimes. In the hired man when
waiting for his dinner.
Tired Of the alfalfa talk? Get a
crop growing on your farm and the
word will take on new charm and
meaning.
A small investment in paint will
improve the locks of many farm
house which has been allowed to be-
come unsightly.
What does the term neighbor mean
in your section? Has 1t a sort of a
mutual significance with cooperation
as its synonym?
The farmer that recognizes the
magnitude of the science of agricul.
ture is the one that is applying him
self to its study.
Some authorities maintain that the
best butter Is made from fresh
skinned cream, that more than II
hours old not being fresh.
Here is a good sheep story from
Miles City, Mont: One sheepman
there had 712 lambs from 715 ewes;
another, 5O7 from sos ewes.
Have you noticed that where the
hay Is cut late the farms are always
weedy, because the woods ripen and
the seeds fall before the grass Is cut.
A farmland OF IL years experience
| declares in the Rural New Yorker
that the average farm laborer is vir-
tually a slave, being fed and housed
poorly and worked to the limit Is he
right?
The weed known as 'live-forever"
Is we'll named When well established
on farm II is likely to become an
unwelcome legacy through many gen.
erations.
Egypt Is one of the Oldest agricul-
tural countries in the world and Is
now coming to be thoroughly up to
date in it's methods, and American
agricultural implements are largely a
factor in the now developments.
| Oleomargarine and butterine are
still sold under false labels and in
violation OF law IL the statement of
Daniel ]. Clifford, dairy commissioner
of Missouri, is reliable. He says that
| 100000 pounds of the pseudo-butter
are Sold each month in st. Louis.
The story of the golden fleece is
not altogether mythical. Near Wash
tucna, Wash, three bands of sheep
numbering 5000, $500 and 1900 head.
were recently sheared and averaged
IL pounds to the fleece, and two OF
the owners have sold their wool at
about 18 cents a pound.
Clean seed, rotation of crops and
eternal vigilance is the three-fold con
dition On which the farmer may hope
J to keep the weeds down and out.
The eTorts to grow alfalfa have EN-
phasized the importance of clean
land, for the young plants are very
tender and are easily smothered out
by lusty weeds. But after they are
thoroughly established the weeds
stand no show.
The query as to which is the best
equipment for business, money or
brains, is strikingly answered by the
story OF the editor OF a poultry
Journal, who tells OF man who in
! vested $4,000 in poultry farm near
, Niagara Falls and in less than two
J years he hadn't cent. Two young
/ farmer boys came along with few
dollars but much grit and good COM
mon sense and started In the Same
kind OF nm enterprise but at the small
snd, and to-day they are independent.
Moral: 90 slow and learn no you 80.
Tbs Missouri stats board OF agri-
egjtsfs hiss bssa inbocnlated with the
"sbSw me-" germ and has lnaugurated
y campaign which promises much TO
the farmers ~ the stats who want
"fs ~ shown" Lecturers are being
ssBt 0Bt 10 the country school houses
~ speak ~ children and parents upon
practical problems Of farming. Usual
" two lectures arc given NJ each
place. 0ne In the afternoon and one
st night. In many places rs to 100
farmers attended tho meetings, and
tho enthusiasm shown II most en-
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