The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1906-09-15

slaked In boiling water and strained
through moderately fine sieve to re-
move sediment. Add two pounds of
sulphate Of zinc, one pound Of COM
mon salt and one-half pound OF whit.
Ing, thoroughly dissolved. Mix to
proper consistency with SKINNED milk
II possible; II not, with hot water.
Stir In thoroughly one-half pint Of
liquid glue and apply the wash while
1t is hot. II color Is desired. yellow
ochre. ultramarine blue. lamp black,
etc., may be used.
A good method OF handling and
rearing calf Is to take 1t from the
COW after the third or fourth day and
to teach 1t to drink from a pail. This
can be easily done by putting the
finger in its mouth and gradually low
ering the hand until 1t Is beneath the
warm milk in the pail. Once or twice
trying and 1t will drink by itself. The
pure warm milk should be fed for a
week or SO, when 1t can be fed on
SKINNED milk, to which 1t will be well
cially II the calf does not run on pas
ture. After month or two it should
be fed good timothy or clover hay.
two quarts of water to boil, add to 1t a
teaspoonful of salt. Meanwhile mix
yellow cornmeal to good, smooth
paste in cold water; then put this into
the boiling water and 1t won't get into
Jumps. Stir in now until the whole
becomes thick enough to hold the
spoon upright. While doing this let
the fire be only sufficient to let 1t bub-
LIE softly. Il Ought to cook an hour.
Iurn it out into square bread pans
three or four inches deep, and in the
morning, IL to be fried for breakfast,
cut in slices an inch thick, dip into
-four to bind it, then fry in lard and
butter mixed, turning until golden
color.
Here Is another story, told by the
Detroit (Mich.) News, which shows
how invaluable the telephone has
come to be on the farm: The team OF
farmer near Sherwood sank in a
mire on his farm and the horses were
slowly going under when he thought
of his telephone. Soon he had a gang
Of dozen phone wire stretcEers, with
implements, on race for the farm.
Their arrival was timely, tho breath
ing apparatus o. the animals being still
above ground. By using the stretch
ing machinery the horses were
dragged from the bog. The rural tele-
phone is itself great thing for the
farmers, but this being provided with
a troop of roustabouts for emergencies,
all for the low price of the phone, Is
worth taking into the equation.
After careful chemical analysis for
the purpose of determining the value
of barnyard manure on soils, Prof.
Harry Snyer reports the following;
If applied to a worn-out soil at the
rate of eight tons per acre, the in
crease in corn the first year will be
20 to % bushels per acre. This woald
be worth 81. The next year the land
will produce six bushels more OF
wheat, worth, say. $3.50. II seeded to
clover 1t would yield at least ton
more of nay, worth S.. Following the
clover with wheat again, gain OF
eight bushels per acre, worth IS. will
follow. Then will come IL to Is BUSH
oIa 30 &c
crease in the five crops, due to the
dressing of eight tons of farm manure
and the production of clover, Is alone
worth $25, making the value of the
manure SO per ton distributed over
five acres, equivalent to 60 cents per
ton as the annual crop-producing value
of the manure.
A study of crop conditions in Europe
indicates that the United States will
find good market for her immense
crops of this year. The yield in
France promises to be of the average
quantity, probably reaching $4,000
900 bushels, and of exceptionally good
quality. But on the other hand in
Russia, the biggest Of the old-world's
wheat producers, with an average an
nual output of over 500,000,000 bush
els, the prospects are gloomy, the har-
vest being recorded as inferior In
quantity and quality. France and 9TH
er countries which have a surplus are
therefore counting on good prices for
their grain, which Is the natural ex-
pectation in view of the Russian
shortage. The latter is likely to have
serious consequences economically
and politically. A falling off in bread
stuffs means additional hardships for
the poor and discomfort among the
people, and Russia would seem to have
had enough of both.
The cooperation Of the farmers Is
always desired by the government In
It's research work, especially In the
direction of dealing with pests, and
Prof. II. w. Henshaw, Of the bureau
of biological survey Of the agricultural
department, makes the following re.
quest, to which we are certain our
farmer readers will cheerfully re.
spond: 1T Is well known that many
snaciaa NJ rodents which live in colo